Prof. Simon Conroy & Dr. James van Oppen (GEM)

In this episode, Edel talks to Professor Simon Conroy and Dr. James van Oppen about Geriatric Emergency Medicine (GEM). They discuss their respective career paths to the specialty, changes and opportunities in the area, frailty screening, patient reported outcome measures and much more. To learn more about this topic, don’t miss the Geriatric Emergency Medicine session at this year’s IGS Annual Scientific Meeting in Killarney October 2nd-4th. For more information from discussion points:  •BGS Silver Book II: https://www.bgs.org.uk/resources/resource-series/silver-book-ii •Prof Simon Conroy more information and publications https://profiles.ucl.ac.uk/84336-simon-conroy/publications •Dr. James van Oppen more information and publications https://www.researchgate.net/profile/James-Van-Oppen •PROM discussed by James https://jpro.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s41687-024-00796-8 •More information on this year’s IGS Annual Scientific Meeting ⁠https://www.irishgerontology.com/events/72nd-annual-and-scientific-meeting⁠Feedback, questions, suggestions always welcome to [email protected]