Kenneth Rockwood is Professor of Geriatric Medicin
e at Dalhousie University\, a Canadian Institutes of Health Research Inves
tigator and an active staff physician in the Department of Medicine at Cap
ital Health\, Halifax.
As the Kathryn Allen Weldon Professor of Al zheimer Research\, he has a longstanding interest in dementia and delirium . He is also a leading authority on frailty\, focusing his investigations on the complexity of frailty\, and what can be termed as ‘clinico-mathemat ical correlation’. He has published six books and more than 250 peer-revie wed scientific publications. Currently\, he is co-editor of the 7th editio n of Brocklehurst’s Textbook of Geriatric Medicine & Gerontology. He is th e principal investigator of the Research to Action Program in Dementia (RA PID)\, a national\, multicentre project to provide better care for people with dementia by facilitating and carrying out translational research and knowledge translation.
\nIn addition to his work as a scientist\, pr ofessor and physician\, Professor Rockwood established the Artist-in-Resid ence Program at the Memory Disability Clinic in the QEII Health Sciences C entre. Started in 1998\, this unique partnership with artists in Halifax i s meant “to instil more humanity into the clinical world of medicine.” Eac h year a local artist is invited to help describe the treatment of Alzheim er’s disease by experiencing the struggle alongside patients\, their famil ies\, caregivers and physicians. The art helps bring out the human stories behind the disease as well as allowing the clinicians to see themselves t hrough their patients’ eyes.
\nKenneth Rockwood is a native of Newfo undland and became a Doctor of Medicine at Memorial University in 1985. He is married to Dr. Susan Howlett\, Professor of Pharmacology at Dalhousie. They have two sons\, Michael and James.
\nA lot happens at the molecular and cellular levels as we age. A recent revie w in Cell identified nine hallmarks of ageing\, including genomic instabil ity\, mitochondrial dysfunction\, cellular senescence and stem cell exhaus tion. Ageing is also associated with the accumulation of macroscopically v isible deficits across the lifespan\, typically manifesting as the frail o lder person with multiple co-morbidities who presents to the emergency dep artment with falls.
\nThis seminar considers how changes at the leve l of the cell scale up to what we see as symptoms\, signs\, diseases and d isabilities. Ken Rockwood and Susan Howlett are internationally recognised for both their frailty research and for their expertise in knowledge tran slation. The presentation is therefore guaranteed to be informative\, ente rtaining and highly relevant across lab-based and clinical specialties.
\nDTSTART;TZID=Australia/Brisbane:20131126T120000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Brisbane:20131126T133000 LOCATION:Translational Research Institute @ 37 Kent Street\, Woolloongabba QLD 4102\, Australia SUMMARY:TRI Seminar Series – Dr Kenneth Rockwood and Prof Susan Howlett URL:http://www.diamantina.org.au/ai1ec_event/tri-seminar-series-dr-kenneth- rockwood-and-prof-susan-howlett/?instance_id= END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR