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Online registration is available for the #AAGP2019 Annual Meeting. Go to http://www.aagpmeeting.org/ for information about the meeting agenda and registration.
| #AAGP2019 Annual Meeting — Hotel Reservation deadline is February 5!
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One month left to make your hotel reservation for the #AAGP2019 Annual Meeting, click here for more information.
| AAGP 2019-2020 Board Election Results
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The AAGP Board of Directors is pleased to announce the election of the following individuals to the Board of Directors. They take office on March 1, 2019, at the adjournment of the AAGP Annual Business meeting in Atlanta, GA. Welcome and Congratulations to All!
- President-elect: Brent P. Forester MD, MSc (automatically transitions to president 2020-2021)
McLean Hospital, Belmont, MA and Partners HealthCare, Boston, MA
- Treasurer-elect: Elizabeth J. Santos, MD, MPH, DFAPA (automatically transitions to treasurer 2020-2021)
University of Rochester School of Medicine & Dentistry, Rochester, NY
| 2019 ACPH call for abstracts now open through March 29, 2019
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Showcase your work at the American Conference on Physician Health (ACPH)! The conference, which is being hosted by the American Medical Association, Mayo Clinic and Stanford University School of Medicine, is being held September 19-21, 2019 at the Sheraton Charlotte Hotel/Le Meridien in Charlotte, NC.
Authors are invited to submit abstracts for consideration as part of the 2019 ACPH. Submissions will be accepted from December 10, 2018 to March 29, 2019.
Submit your abstract in one of two categories:
- Research: submitted as either a poster or oral presentation
- Workshop: submitted as an interactive session
*research and non-research workshops considered
Be sure to visit the conference website physician-wellbeing-conference.org to review important details in our “Call for Abstracts” section, as well as the instructions for submitting abstracts. Submissions for all abstracts must be made electronically via the abstract submission form, information available at the ACPH 2019 Call for Abstracts website.
Deadline: All abstracts must be submitted online by March 29, 2019 (11:59 pm Central Standard Time) for consideration!
Healio
In a nationwide cohort study of Swedish older adults, researchers observed a link between antidepressant use and hip fracture in the year before and year after treatment initiation.
The investigators evaluated the connection between treatment with antidepressant medication and incident hip fracture from data collected from 1 year before to 1 year after the date of prescription being filled in a Swedish cohort of 204,072 adults aged 65 years and older.
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Psychiatric Annals
IV ketamine demonstrated similar efficacy in patients with anxious and nonanxious treatment-resistant depression, according to findings from a pilot study.
Though these exploratory results suggest that ketamine has potential for the treatment of patients with or without anxious treatment-resistant depression, future research is needed, according to researchers.
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The New York Times
In "cognitive rehabilitation," therapists train patients in simple tasks that can make daily life much easier.
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MD Linx
A new study found that elderly individuals with age-related hearing loss had more symptoms of depression; the greater the hearing loss, the greater the risk of having depressive symptoms. The findings suggest that treatment of age-related hearing loss, which is under-recognized and under-treated among all elderly, could be one way to head off late-life depression.
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PatientEngagement HIT
The key to serving an aging population with changing healthcare needs is creating patient trust, according to Louis Levitt, an orthopedist.
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By Scott E. Rupp
 When it comes to getting more good news into the electronic health record case file, the following story is not among them if the source and the research are to be believed. The following might also fall at the feet of providers, who may be at the heart of this hairy tale. Per the findings of a recent study published in the December issue of the peer-reviewed journal Quality of Life Research, primary care physicians "do not routinely put patient-reported symptoms regarding sleep, pain, anxiety, depression and low energy or fatigue into electronic health record systems."
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