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Bronx GRECC
Bronx GRECC
James J. Peters VA Medical Center
130 W. Kingsbridge Road
Bronx, NY 10468
Phone 718-584-9000 ext. 3800
Fax 718-741-4211
Acting GRECC Director
Kenneth Boockvar, MD
Associate Director, Research
Kenneth Boockvar, MD
Associate Director, Clinical
William Hung, MD
Associate Director, Education and Evaluation
Judith L. Howe, PhD
Administrative Officer
Valerie Menocal, BS
Valerie.Menocal@va.gov
Affiliations
- Population-based research in geriatric palliative care and dementia
- Enhancing team-based care and palliative care in older Veterans with serious or complex illness
- Improving care delivery to older Veterans in their communities by developing models of care that are coordinated across settings and regions (including rural access to geriatrics, telehealth and home-based care)
- Using implementation science to accelerate translation of research results into clinical practice and to implement safe and timely care
- Improving medication use and establishing infrastructure to support and disseminate interventions to improve medication safety in older Veterans
- Palliative care for people with hepatocellular carcinoma
- Building the Geriatric Emergency Care Applied Research (GEAR) network
- Family spending after hospice enrollment: a population-based study
- Pathway to detection and differentiation of delirium and dementia in the emergency department
- Goals of Care discussions in older adults with heart failure and their caregivers
- Rural interdisciplinary team training program enhances geriatric knowledge and skills of VA primary care clinicians and staff caring for older rural Veterans
- Geriatric Scholars virtual learning community provides web-based learning for VA and non-VA providers, staff and trainees
- Interprofessional Palliative Care Fellowship program provides a variety of clinical and leadership experiences to MDs, MSWs, NPs, and PharmDs over one year
- Providing geriatric consultation and support to rural providers and Veterans through use of telehealth modalities
- Improving medication use in older adults through deprescribing initiatives
- Supporting older Veterans across health care settings such as emergency department-based initiatives
- Comparing Outcomes Between Thiazide Diuretics and Other First-line Antihypertensive Drugs in Long-term Nursing Home Residents https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32229030/
- Medicaid Contributes Substantial Costs to Dementia Care in an Ethnically Diverse Community https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31425587/
- Implementation of Post-Acute Rehabilitation at Home: A Skilled Nursing Facility-Substitutive Model https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32343401/
- The VA and Non-VA Experience of Tracking Good Care https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31287771/
- Managing Older Adults with Presumed COVID-19 in the Emergency Department: A Rational Approach to Rationing https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32574404/
- The rural interdisciplinary team training program: a workforce development workshop to increase geriatrics knowledge and skills for rural providers https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29583103/
