Speakers
Professor Nazir Lone
Plenary
Day-to-day practice in Intensive care is becoming more complex, facing the challenges of increasing prevalence of frailty and multimorbidity. In this opening plenary, Prof Kenneth Rockwood, a global research leader in the field of aging and frailty, will provide practical insights into the impact of frailty in clinical practice, from understanding who is at risk, admission decision-making, treatment trials and ongoing clinical management. Prof Nazir Lone will follow this by an overview of the current state of knowledge in the related, but distinct field, of multimorbidity through the lens of intensive care.
Nazir is a Professor of Critical Care and Epidemiology and one of the Intensive Care Society's Directors of Research. Nazir’s programme of research focuses on health services research and health care quality improvement for acutely ill patients. His research aims to directly improve the quality of care for patients before, during and after an episode of acute or critical illness through rigorously conducted research and engagement with key stakeholders. He has a particular research interest in epidemiological methods and using linked 'big' data, multimorbidity and end-of-life care in acute and critical care settings.
His current programme of work includes NIHR-funded work to apply artificial intelligence (AI) methods in the context of multimorbidity (AIM-CISC) in which he co-leads work to develop AI tools to reduce adverse events. Furthermore, he leads Innovate UK funded work to improve multimorbidity recognition in emergency care settings using data analytics.
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Kenneth Rockwood is Professor of Medicine (Division of Geriatric Medicine and Neurology) and Clinical Research Professor of Frailty and Aging at Dalhousie University and an active staff physician. A native of Newfoundland, he received his MD from Memorial University, and completed training in Internal Medicine at the University of Alberta and in Geriatric Medicine at Dalhousie University.
He is a leading authority on frailty, Professor Rockwood has more than 600 peer-reviewed publications and nine books to his credit. His original definition of frailty, The Rockwood Clinical Frailty Scale (CFS), first described in 2005 as a semiquantitative tool used to estimate an individual’s degree of frailty on a scale of 1 to 9, is used extensively across the world. Ken has many collaborations internationally, including work on younger people with frailty in the UK, a deprescribing clinical trial, an intergenerational dementia prevention trial, and a large multi centre study of frailty, all in Australia. He is also working with Cape Breton University on healthy aging and dementia prevention.