Empowering Caregivers of Aging Loved Ones: Real Stories and Practical Strategies

FACILITATOR:   

Vatinee Y. Bunya, MD, MSCE

Harold G. Scheie Chair & Associate Professor of Ophthalmology

Co-Director, Penn Dry Eye & Ocular Surface Center

Committee Member, Penn Presbyterian WorkPlace Violence Committee

Director of Clinical Research, Scheie Eye Institute

Penn Cobalt Community Page Sponsor, University of Pennsylvania

SPEAKERS:

Rachel K Miller, MD, MSEd

Professor of Clinical Medicine

Vice Chief of Education, Division of Geriatrics, Department of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania

Physician – Geriatrics & Home-Based Primary Care, Philadelphia CMC-VA Medical Center

Jeanette Gallagher, MSW

Social Worker, Penn Geriatric Medicine

Lecturer, MSW Program

Field Liaison, MSW Program

Dr. Bunya is the Co-Director of the Penn Dry Eye & Ocular Surface Center. She cares for patients with dry eye, Sjogren's disease, and other disorders that affect the ocular surface.  Dr. Bunya has extensive experience in the study of dry eye and diseases that affect the ocular surface and eyelids. She also has a special interest in the study of Sjogren's disease, an autoimmune disease that classically causes dry eye and dry mouth. Dr. Bunya has been the principal investigator for several dry eye clinical trials. She currently is working to develop better ways to measure dry eye and to screen patients for Sjogren's syndrome.   She has personal experience caring for an aging family member and has a special interest in finding better ways to support faculty caregivers.   

Dr. Rachel K. Miller is Professor of Clinical Medicine and Vice Chief of Education in the Division of Geriatrics at the University of Pennsylvania. She is co-director of AGE SMART, the HRSA-funded Geriatric Workforce Enhancement Program (GWEP), and has practiced home-based primary care at the Philadelphia CMC-VA for over fifteen years. Her work centers on geriatrics education, including aging, home care medicine, care transitions, and interprofessional learning. She holds leadership roles on national committees focused on aging and home care medicine, presents invited workshops at national conferences, and contributes to the geriatrics and medical education literature.

Jeanette Gallagher, MSW, is a practicing social worker and expert in the field of Geriatrics and the Aging Community.  She currently works in the Geriatric Medicine Department at UPHS, and has also worked in the LIFE/PACE program. Jeanette’s background experience has also been in mental health both adult and young adults, hospice, HIV/AIDS, research and proposal writing, and working with students with disabilities in the Philadelphia School District.  Jeanette has been a guest speaker many times in the SP2 PAC course, Working with Older Adults and Families, and also teaches that course as an adjunct.  She has been a Field Supervisor for MSW students for 15 years and currently serves as a Field Liaison for one of the SP2 Macro courses. 

Zoom link:  https://pennmedicine.zoom.us/j/93391234952?pwd=Utvw49uwRnzxotZm80NZdMUmd1VA34.1  

Meeting ID: 933 9123 4952 & Passcode: 300114