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GeriMedRisk - Geriatric Clinical Pharmacology Rounds

GeriMedRisk offers free monthly webcast accredited educational rounds on topics related to safe prescribing for older adults. For more information please join our mailing list. Registration is required to attend.

GeriMedRisk April Rounds

April 1, 2025 | 12:00-1:00 PM EST

Title:
Why Treating Pain is Harder Than it Looks
Presenter:

Dr. David Juurlink, MD, PhD, FRCPC Scientist

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Objectives:

To view the treatment of pain as an experiment
To understand why “pain relief” isn’t the goal
To recognize some of the subtler harms of commonly-used analgesics

Presenter:

Dr. David Juurlink MD, PHD, FRCPC, FAACT, FACMT, Senior Scientist

Dr. Juurlink is a staff internist and head of the division of Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto. He is also a medical toxicologist at the Ontario Poison Centre at the Hospital for Sick Children and a scientist at the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences. He received degrees in Pharmacy (1990) and Medicine (1994) from Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and completed postgraduate training in Internal Medicine (1998) followed by residency in Clinical Pharmacology (2000), a fellowship in Medical Toxicology (2002), and a PhD in Clinical Epidemiology (2003), all at the University of Toronto. He has received certification from the American Board of Internal Medicine, the American Board of Emergency Medicine (Medical Toxicology), and the American Board of Clinical Pharmacology. He is presently the Sunnybrook site director for the program in Clinical Pharmacology & Toxicology and is Chair of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons Examinations Committee in Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology In addition to his clinical, teaching, and administrative activities, Dr. Juurlink maintains an active research program in the field of drug safety. His areas of particular interest include drug safety, adverse drug events, the consequences of drug-drug interactions in clinical practice, the safety of prescription opioids, and the epidemiology of suicide and deliberate self-poisoning.

Missing April 1st Rounds?

We will be hosting an additional webinar session that will broadcast a recording of Dr. David Juurlink's presentation: "Why Treating Pain is Harder Than it Looks". Please register to attend the replay session.

Replay session: April 16 at 7 pm EST

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Please note: this session will not be interactive

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Accreditation Statement:

GeriMedRisk- Geriatric Clinical Pharmacology Rounds is a self-approved group learning activity (Section 1) as defined by the Maintenance of Certification program of The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada.

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