Delirium: Past, Present and Future
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DECLARED 2020 is set to become one of the best delirium conferences thus far, with a number of the most passionate International and Australasian speakers lined up to present plenaries, keynotes and lead sessions.
Watch this space as we continue to release more inspiring speakers over time! |
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Christine Waszynski
Christine is currently the coordinator of Inpatient Geriatric Services, ADAPT (Actions for Delirium Assessment, Prevention and Treatment), Age Friendly HealthSystems inpatient project, the Hartford HealthCare System wide Fall Prevention Committee, and NICHE (Nurses Improving Care for Healthsystem Elders) Programs at Hartford Hospital in Hartford Connecticut where she functions in the role of geriatric nurse practitioner and clinical nurse specialist. She has received several awards for her innovative work in gerontological nursing and has published a book and numerous articles.
She is the principal investigator or co-investigator of several research studies focusing on interventions to improve the care of hospitalised older adults. She is the chairperson of the statewide Acute Care Geriatric Nursing Collaborative and is a sought after presenter at the local, regional, national and international level on topics involving geriatric nursing, delirium and falls prevention. She is currently President Elect of the American Delirium Society and currently serves on their Board of Directors as liaison for the education committee. She will be inducted as a fellow of the American Academy of Nursing in October 2019. |
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Liz Sampson
Liz is a Professor in the Marie Curie Palliative Care Research Department, Division of Psychiatry, UCL. She studied medicine at the University of Birmingham and gained her MD from the Institute of Neurology at UCL. Her research focuses on epidemiology and health services research on dementia and delirium in acute hospitals and on the interface of this with end of life care. She works clinically as a consultant in Liaison Psychiatry at North Middlesex University Hospital with Barnet Enfield and Haringey Mental Health Trust.
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Donna Marie Fick
Dr. Donna Marie Fick is a Distinguished Professor at The Pennsylvania State University College of Nursing, Elouise Ross Eberly Endowed Professor of Nursing and Director of the Penn State Centre for Geriatric Nursing Excellence. Her research has focused on two critical issues in older adults, inappropriate medication use and delirium and delirium superimposed on dementia (DSD). She has co-chaired the Beers Criteria since 2002 and has completed two NIH funded intervention trials on DSD. She also created the ultra brief 2-item (UB-2) delirium screener and is in the final stages of studying the cost effectiveness of this tool. Dr Fick has over 120 publications and actively works to train other clinicians in best practice delirium care, as well as serving on national initiatives and panels to improve delirium and DSD outcomes. She is Editor of the Journal of Gerontological Nursing and is board certified as a Gerontological Clinical Nurse Specialist through 2024.
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James L. Rudolph
Dr. Rudolph is a Professor of Medicine and Health Policy and Practice at Brown University. He is a clinician, researcher, and educator. His area of expertise is the relationship of functional (cognitive and physical) deficits as a predisposition to negative health events in older persons, particularly those who are hospitalised. He is an active clinician who works with interdisciplinary teams to identify at-risk patients, modify the risk, and provide medical care with a focus on function. He had developed innovative methods and programs to improve recovery during and after hospitalisation. Driven by his clinical work, his research assesses on thinking and recovery after hospitalisation using methodology that can be implemented into clinical practice. He has over 100 peer-reviewed scientific publications. Additionally, he was the founding President of the American Delirium Society (ADS) and serves on the ADS Board of Directors.
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Rakesh C. Arora
Professor – Dept. of Surgery, Anesthesia & Physiology and Physiology & Pathophysiology
University of Manitoba Cardiac Surgeon/Intensivist Section Head and Medical Director– Cardiac Surgery and Intensive Care Cardiac Sciences Cardiac Sciences Program, St. Boniface General Hospital Dr. Arora pioneered a national society, The CANadian CARdiovascular critical care (CANCARE) Society that aims to advance the care of critically-ill cardiovascular patients using interdisciplinary expertise in a cooperative model. In addition he is a Past-President of the American Delirium Society (2015) and a Co-Founder of the International Federation of Delirium Societies (iDelirium). More recently (2018) he has been appointed to the Executive of the Enhanced Recovery after Surgery Cardiac Surgery Society (ERAS-CS) and is the President-Elect for the Canadian Society of Cardiac Surgeons (2019). Dr. Arora’s current research has a specific focus on delirium and frailty in the older adult undergoing cardiovascular surgery. He has received funding from the CIHR, HSFC and the Canadian Frailty Network. Dr. Arora has over 150 peer-reviewed manuscripts and book chapters and is an internationally invited speaker for his team’s clinical and research endeavours. |
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Arjen Slooter
Arjen Slooter studied medicine at VU University Amsterdam. He was research fellow in Neuro-Epidemiology at Columbia University, New York and received a PhD in Epidemiology from Erasmus University, Rotterdam on a thesis on dementia. After a residency in Neurology (UMC Utrecht) and a fellowship in Intensive Care Medicine (AMC Amsterdam), he currently works as consultant neurologist-intensivist at the Department of Intensive Care Medicine of UMC Utrecht. His clinical focus is on neuro-ICU patients and on neurological complications of critical illness. Still fascinated by neuropsychiatry, his research focus is on delirium in ICU patients, more specifically, the development of an EEG-based monitor for delirium detection, drug side effects and delirium, functional connectivity in delirium and sedation, and long-term neuropsychiatric outcome after major surgery and critical illness. He chaired the delirium section of the Pain, Agitation/Sedation, Delirium, Immobility, and Sleep Disruption guidelines of the (American) Society of Critical Care Medicine. In 2016, he was appointed as Professor of Intensive Care Neuropsychiatry at Utrecht University. Since 2018 he is president of the European Delirium Association.
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