Taking Too Many Prescription Drugs Can be Very Risky for Older People
The Washington Post June 29, 2025 [This article may require a subscription for access.]
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Slow and Patient Centered: A new Clinical Practice Guideline on Benzodiazepine Tapering
June 24, 2025 at 2PM ET | 11AM PT Presenter(s): Drs. Maureen Boyle & Donovan Maust Description: Benzodiazepines are critical medications, but they are often overused and challenging to discontinue. Ten medical and professional societies collaborated to develop the new Joint Clinical Practice Guideline on Benzodiazepine Tapering, which aims to help clinicians in diverse practice
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Discontinuation Categories Underlying Gaps in Dispensing for Six Medication Groups
Bayliss EA, Goodrich GK, Barrow JC, Harding B, Ripley CA, Kraus CR, Paolino V, Norton JD, Sheehan OC, Weffald LA, Green AR, Palen TE, Reeve E, Maciejewski ML, Boyd CM. Discontinuation Categories Underlying Gaps in Dispensing for Six Medication Groups. Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf. 2025 Apr;34(4):e70142.
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Personalized Medication Deprescribing for Older Adults: Leveraging AI and Building Trust in AI-Driven Clinical Guidance.
March 4, 2025 at 2PM ET | 11AM PT Presenter: Dr. Juliessa Pavon Description: This webinar highlighted an innovative approach to personalized medication deprescribing, using causal inference and AI/machine learning techniques to analyze multi-site EHR and Medicare claims data. It focused on developing AI-based individualized treatment rules to provide clinicians with tailored recommendations for medication
Research and Implementation on Deprescribing from the VA Center for Medication Safety in Aging
February 4, 2025 at 2PM ET | 11AM PT Presenter(s): Drs. Ken Boockvar & Amy Linsky Description: The VA Center for Medication Safety in Aging aims to 1) promote the development of novel deprescribing interventions and evaluate their impact on outcomes important to Veterans and providers, and 2) facilitate implementation of deprescribing interventions across VA. Learn
Designing randomised controlled trials of deprescribing: learnings from the OPTiMISE trial
December 10, 2024 at 2PM ET | 11AM PT Presenter: Prof. James Sheppard, Professor of Applied Health Data Science·University of Oxford, Nuffield Dept of Primary Care Health Sciences Description: In this webinar, Professor Sheppard discussed his experience of designing and running trials of antihypertensive deprescribing in UK primary care. The talk discussed the importance of doing RCTs in
USDeN-Funded Pilot Award Application Information Session (2025-2026 Cycle)
October 15, 2024 | 2:00 – 3:00 PM Eastern / 11:00 – 12:00 PM Pacific Presenter(s): Drs. Amanda Mixon & Sandra Simmons Description: This webinar covers the details of the application preparation and submission process for USDeN-Funded Pilot Awards for the 2025-2026 cycle. DOWNLOAD PRESENTATION POWERPOINT (PDF) »
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N-of-1 Trials to Promote Deprescribing
October 1, 2024 at 2PM ET | 11AM PT Presenter: Dr. Parag Goyal, Associate Professor of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine, Division of Cardiology and the Division of General Internal Medicine Description: This webinar outlined the potential value of N-of-1 trials as an innovative strategy to promote deprescribing (and more broadly, shared decision making). Suitability as
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RCCN Webinar: Stories of Successful K Awards
Speakers: Nicholas Chavkin, Lauren Ferrante, Abbi Hernandez, & Lauren Hunt July 18, 2024 Current and previous K awardees will share their experiences of applying and being funded. This webinar aims to be a useful resource for prospective applicants and their mentors to gain insight into the process, and to ask questions of awardees about their
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RCCN Webinar: NIH/NIA Grant Review Process
Presenter: Ramona Dumitrescu, Section Chief, Clinical Sciences Section, NIA Scientific Review Branch May 24, 2024 This webinar discussed the K award review process, including an overview of peer review and information on how grants are scored. The presentation also touched on how the review process has changed in recent years and may be particularly helpful
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