Dr. Howard Bergman

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ergman, Howard, MD - is the first Dr. Joseph Kaufmann Professor of Geriatric Medicine and is Director of the Division of Geriatric Medicine at McGill University. He is a Professor in the Departments of Medicine, Family Medicine and Oncology. Dr. Bergman is also Director of the Division of Geriatric Medicine of the Jewish General Hospital and an investigator at the Centre for Clinical Epidemiology and Community Studies and at the Bloomfield Centre for Research in Aging of the Lady Davis Institute at the Jewish General Hospital in Montreal.

Dr. Bergman was recently elected a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences. He is Scientific Director of the Quebec Network for Research in Aging funded by the Fonds de la Recherche en Santé du Québec (FRSQ). He is also Chair of the Advisory Board of the Institute of Ageing of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR).

In the area of frailty and health services, Dr. Bergman is co-Director of Solidage: the McGill University/Université de Montréal Research Group on Integrated Services for Older Persons (www.solidage.ca). In 1999-2001, Solidage developed and evaluated in a randomized controlled trial the SIPA model of integrated care for the frail elderly population with major grants from both the Federal and Quebec Governments. As well, Dr. Bergman presently leads a group of Canadian and international investigators in the Canadian Initiative on Frailty and Ageing and in the International Database Inquiry on Frailty (FrData).

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