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Don Melady

Don Melady MD, MSc, CCFP, FCFP

Emergency Medicine
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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Dr. Don has been a staff Emergency Physician for 25 years, both in community hospitals and currently at Mount Sinai Hospital. He is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of Toronto. For the past ten years, he has focussed his academic activities on Geriatric Emergency Medicine (GEM), the care of older people in acute care.

Dr. Don has created a curriculum in GEM for EM residents, in Geriatric Mental Health for Emergency nurses, and an online accredited continuing medical education resource for practicing clinicianswww.geri-em.com . He is the author of the Emergency Medicine chapters in the new Oxford Textbook of Geriatric Medicine and collaborated in creating a two-day workshop for the American College of Emergency Physicians on implementing the Geriatric ED Guidelines. He is the recipient of two Innovation Fund grants, the most recent to develop training material to further the goal of creating senior-friendly EDs.
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