Recent Publications by Geriatric Faculty

1. Burnett JR, De Lima B, Wang ES, et al. How Are We Teaching Advocacy? A National Survey of Internal Medicine Residency Program Directors. J Gen Intern Med. Published online May 6, 2024. doi:10.1007/s11606-024-08753-3. PMID: 38710862
2. Vincenzo JL, Bergen G, Casey CM, Eckstrom E. Reframing Fall Prevention and Risk Management as a Chronic Condition through the Lens of the Expanded Chronic Care Model: Will Integrating Clinical Care and Public Health Improve Outcomes?. Gerontologist. 2024. doi:10.1093/geront/gnae035. PMID: 38666718
3. Winters-Stone KM, Stoyles SA, Dieckmann NF, et al. Can strength training or tai ji quan training reduce frailty in postmenopausal women treated with chemotherapy? A secondary data analysis of the GET FIT trial. J Cancer Surviv. 2024. doi:10.1007/s11764-024-01592-5. PMID: 38642204
4. De Lima B, Lindauer A, Eckstrom E. Age-Friendly Research: A Pilot Exploration of Tools to Facilitate Inclusion of Older Adults in Research. Gerontol Geriatr Med. 2024;10:23337214241236037. doi:10.1177/23337214241236037. PMID: 38435474
5. Edstrom KF, Fallah BD, Morgan EA. Age-Friendly Framework in Post-Acute and Long-Term Care: Implementing the 4Ms in Long-Term Care. J Am Med Dir Assoc. 2024 Mar;25(3):408-409. doi: 10.1016/j.jamda.2023.10.026. PMID: 38042174
6. Eckstrom E, Vincenzo JL, Casey CM, et al. American Geriatrics Society response to the World Falls Guidelines. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2024. doi:10.1111/jgs.18734. PMID: 38131656
7. De Lima B, Nohner M, Drago K. Improving dose-related drug events among hospitalized older adults using a geriatric prescribing context. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2024;1-7. doi: 10.1111/jgs.18754. PMID: 38240187
8. Patel N, De Lima B, Neukam S, Brown R, Eckstrom E. Prioritizing advance care planning in primary care clinics. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2024;72(2):613-615. doi:10.1111/jgs.18655. PMID: 37916656
9. Gould LJ, Alderden J, Aslam R, et al. WHS guidelines for the treatment of pressure ulcers –2023 update. Wound Repair Regen. 2024:32(1):6-33. doi:10.1111/wrr.13130. PMID: 37970711
10. Neilsen, L., Wilhelm, J. Mann, L., Neukam, S., Kraakevik, J. Implementing Extension of Community Healthcare Outcomes (ECHO) Framework to Educate Rural Populations in Complex Parkinson Disease Management (P12-2.001). Neurology. 2023;100(17). doi: 10.1212/WNL.0000000000202171
11. Kiyoshi-Teo H, De Lima B, Cohen DJ, Dieckmann N, Winters-Stone K, Eckstrom E. Motivational Interviewing for Fall Prevention (MI-FP) pilot study: Older Adults' readiness to participate in fall prevention. Geriatr Nurs. 2023;54:246-251. doi:10.1016/j.gerinurse.2023.09.017.  PMID: 37847939
12. Thiamwong L, Xie R, Park JH, et al. Levels of Accelerometer-Based Physical Activity in Older Adults With a Mismatch Between Physiological Fall Risk and Fear of Falling. J Gerontol Nurs. 2023;49(6):41-49. doi:10.3928/00989134-20230512-06. PMID: 37256756
13. Loewenthal J, Berning MJ, Wayne PM, Eckstrom E, Orkaby AR. Holistic frailty prevention: The promise of movement-based mind-body therapies. Aging Cell. 2024;23(1):e13986. doi:10.1111/acel.13986. PMID: 37698149
14. De Lima B, Lindauer A, Eckstrom E. Age-Friendly Research: promoting inclusion of older adults in clinical and translational research. J Clin Transl Sci. 2023;7(1):e200. doi:10.1017/cts.2023.627. PMID: 37830011
15. Salas A, Boanca K, Purdy J, et al. Resident-led research: a quality improvement project to improve serious illness conversations. Gerontol Geriatr Educ. 2023:1-6. doi:10.1080/02701960.2023.2246406. PMID: 37561638
16. Morgan, EA, Driving Evaluation: When and How to Take Away the Keys. Audio Digest Family Medicine 71:20 (May 28), 2023.
17. Thiamwong L, Tongsiri S, Suwanno J, Xie R, Ng BP, Park J, Li W, Eckstrom E. Cultural Adaptation and Pilot Testing of the CDC’s Stopping Elderly Accidents, Deaths, and Injuries (STEADI) Program for Older Adults in a Low and Middle-Income Country . Preprints.org 2023, 2023050842. doi: 10.20944/preprints202305.0842.v1
18. Eckstrom, E., Zauflik, M., & De Lima, B. Matching Enrolled Trial Participants to Disease Demographics: Using IRB Submissions to Identify Opportunities for Researcher Training. J Clin Transl Sci. 2023;7(1):e114. doi:10.1017/cts.2023.539
19. Thomas J, Eckstrom E, Lam WKK, et al. Recommendations for using the 5Ts Framework to support research inclusion across the lifespan. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2023; 1- 5. doi:10.1111/jgs.18359
20. Kakara RS, Lee R, Eckstrom EN. Cause-Specific Mortality Among Adults Aged ≥65 Years in the United States, 1999 Through 2020 [published online ahead of print, 2023 Mar 11]. Public Health Rep. 2023;333549231155869. doi:10.1177/00333549231155869
21. Winters-Stone KM, Horak F, Dieckmann NF, Eckstrom, E, et al. GET FIT: A Randomized Clinical Trial of Tai Ji Quan Versus Strength Training for Fall Prevention After Chemotherapy in Older, Postmenopausal Women Cancer Survivors [published online ahead of print, 2023 Mar 8]. J Clin Oncol. 2023;JCO2201519. doi:10.1200/JCO.22.01519
22. Rosenberg M, Eckstrom E. Factors that promote resilience for older adults and their informal caregivers during the COVID-19 pandemic [published online ahead of print, 2023 Feb 10]. Aging Ment Health. 2023;1-8. doi:10.1080/13607863.2023.2176819

Selected education projects

1. Geriatric Workforce Enhancement Program (HRSA)

   PI: Laura Byerly, MD

   Oregon GWEP’s goals are 1) offer Tribal and Rural practices training support that improves Oregon’s workforce capacity to provide age-friendly care including the development of AFHS designated primary care delivery sites; 2) develop and implement interprofessional age- and dementia-friendly education and training for Oregon’s health professions trainees and preceptors; and 3) develop and implement statewide training for supportive caregivers, direct care workers (particularly Community Health Workers), and primary care teams that highlights age-friendly and public health education that can improve the quality of life of older adults.
    

2. POCUS in SNF

   PI: Emily Morgan, MD

   Funding to procure ultrasound technology requisite to introduce Point-of-Care Ultrasound (POCUS) in the skilled and long-term care settings.
    

3. Enhancing Foundational Geriatric Confidence and Attitudes for Rural Oregon Trainees through a Virtual Tele-Monitoring and Educational Platform

   PI: Suvi Neukam, DO

   Develop and implement a pilot virtually-based telemonitoring and educational program for interprofessional trainees in rural Oregon. The goal is to increase geriatric expertise of interprofessional trainees and enhance their desire to pursue a career working with older adults.
    

4. A Novel Curriculum to Train Physician Assistant Students to Become Healthcare Leaders

   PI: Jessica Wright, PA

   Designed curriculum for PA students to receive an introduction to leadership skills and assessed the impact of the pilot on comfort engaging in difficult conversations with a significant power differential, comfort using tools for healthcare system change, and comfort in being and effective listener.

Selected Research Projects

1. Improving Adult Immunization Rates for COVID-19, Influenza and Other Routine Vaccinations
   PI: Elizabeth Eckstrom

   The goal of this project is to improve older adult immunization rates for routine vaccinations through quality improvement efforts.
    

2. PRagmatic EValuation of evENTs And Benefits of Lipid-lowering in oldEr adults (PREVENTABLE)

   PI: Karen Alexander. Co-I: Elizabeth Eckstrom

   PREVENTABLE tests the effectiveness of statins for the prevention of new dementia or persisting disability in adults 75 years and older.
    

3. Quality Metric Adherence of Parkinson’s Disease

   PI: Suvi Neukam

   This study compares the care of patients with Parkinson’s disease between general internists and geriatricians.
    

4. Aging with Purpose

   PI: Alexis Burke, Suvi Neukam

   This project aims to improve social and emotional loneliness experienced by older adults through shared intergenerational activities.
    

5. Burden of swallowing impairment on caregivers of persons with Alzheimer’s disease

   PI: Samantha Shune. Co-I: Elizabeth Eckstrom

   This proposed Phase 0 research study aims to integrate proactive dysphagia-related caregiver burden reduction into standard clinical practices.
    

6. Advancing Capacity to Integrate Exercise into Care of Older Cancer Survivors

   PI: Kerri Winters-Stone. Co-I: Elizabeth Eckstrom

   The goal of this project is to develop a research infrastructure to advance studies of exercise to improve functioning in older cancer survivors.

7. Age-Friendly Health System

   PI: Katie Drago, MD, Emily Morgan, MD

   Ensure continuing quality improvement related to 4Ms care with the goal that every older adult across OHSU receives high quality 4Ms care. Committed to Care Excellence status achieved 12/2020.
    

8. Dementia Diagnosis in Primary Care

   PI: Allison Lindauer, PhD, APRN and Emily Morgan, MD

   To build confidence of primary care clinicians in identifying and diagnosing dementia.
    

9. Optimizing anesthesia to prevent postoperative cognitive and functional decline in older adults

   PI: Katie Schenning, MD, MCR

   To determine which anesthetic agent, gas or IV, best preserves cognition and function in older adults.