Orthogeriatrics

1 The multidisciplinary approach to fragility fractures around the world.- 2 Epidemiology of hip fracture and social costs.-3 Osteoporosis in the elderly patient.- 4 Frailty, sarcopenia, falls and fractures.- 5 Establishing an Orthogeriatric service.- 6 Multi Professional Team: Coordination and Communication.- 7 Hip Fracture in the Emergency Room.- 8 Pre-Operative Management.- 9 Hip Fracture: The Choice of Surgery.- 10.- Orthogeriatric anaesthesia.- 11 Post-operative management.- 12 The role of nursing.- 13 Rehabilitation Following Hip Fracture.- 14 Fracture Risk Assessment and how to implement a Fracture Liaison Service.- 15 Current and Emerging Treatment of Osteoporosis.- 16 How can we prevent falls?.- 17 The importance of Hip Fracture Audit.- 18 The Psychological Health of Patients and their Caregivers.

Paolo Falaschi was awarded a First Class Honours Degree in Medicine and Surgery in 1972, and he received Postgraduate Higher Medical Diplomas in Endocrinology and Pathology in 1975 and 1976 respectively. He was a Visiting Fellow at the Department of Endocrinology, St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London before completing a Postgraduate Course in Endocrinology at the University of London in 1977. From 1980 to 1981 he was a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Department of Medicine, Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, USA. From 1974 a 1988 he was researcher at Rome's "Sapienza" State University, and till 1999 he was an Associate Professor of Internal Medicine at Naples Federico II University.

From 2004 to 2017 he was coordinator of the Integrated Medico-Surgical and Geriatrics Course in Medicine and Surgery at the Faculty of Medicine and Psychology at "Sapienza" University. Further, he was the Director of the Master's Course in Case Management within the integrated network of services to the elderly; President of the Nursing Course at Rome's "Sapienza" University (from 2000 to 2010); and Vice-president of the degree course in Medicine and Surgery at the Medical Faculty of the same University (between 2000 and 2008). He has coordinated numerous research projects in the field of clinical geriatrics and published more than 500 papers in peer-review journals. He has now retired from clinical and university roles but  is actively involved in the field of osteoporosis and fragility fractures. He is past president and chair of education committee of the Fragility Fracture Network.






David Russell Marsh graduated in Medicine from Cambridge University in 1975 and was awarded his FRCS(Eng) in 1980.  He holds a research-based higher degree (MD) - on the subject of measuring peripheral nerve function in the upper limb - from the University of Cambridge 1990.