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Project Echo – Geriatrics
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Overview
Established in 2016, our ECHO program is based on the ECHO model© and uses a hub-and-spoke knowledge-sharing approach where expert teams lead virtual ECHO sessions, amplifying the capacity for providers to care for older adults. Our program’s didactics focus on covering the 4Ms of Age Friendly Care and Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias.
ECHO Model
The ECHO model© has evolved into a learning framework, All Teach, All Learn, that applies across disciplines for sustainable and profound change. ECHO participants engage in a virtual community with their peers where they share support, guidance and feedback. As a result, our collective understanding of how to disseminate and implement best practices across diverse disciplines continuously improves and expands. We adapted this model to target health sciences trainees and their faculty across the WWAMI (Washington, Wyoming, Alaska, Montana, Idaho) region.
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4Ms of Age-friendly care
Our didactics are organized around the 4Ms of Age-Friendly including helping patients with dementia and thier caregivers.
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Our Reach
We collaborate with clinics and training programs across Washington and Idaho.
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Our audience
Our participants include interprofessional trainees, faculty, and practicing clinicians.
How Our Sessions Work
Our Didactics
Our Project ECHO – Geriatrics didactics are easily digested at 15 minutes in length and cover a range of geriatric topics focusing on evidence-based practices useful for primary care healthcare providers. Search and watch our didactics online, anytime.
The ABCs of Leqembi
Associate Professor of Neurology, UW Medicine Director of Clinical Trials, Memory, Brain, and Wellness Center Co-Investigator, Clinical Core, Alzheimer’s Disease...
Our Impact At A Glance
Two-thirds of participants plan to change their practice as a result of our sessions.
89% of participants highly rate our didactics, cases, and virtual delivery.
Participants believe their geriatric knowledge increases from before to after our sessions.
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We have found it invaluable. The didactic and case-based learning is of the very highest quality and promotes true geriatric care consideration by our residents.
– Kevin Braun, MD, MPH, Program Director
Providence St. Peter Family Medicine Residency, Olympia, WA
Meet Our Panel
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Katherine Bennett, MD
Medical Director, Project ECHO – Geriatrics
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Leigh Ann Mike, PharmD, BCPS, BCGP
Geriatric Pharmacist
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Beth Labardi, MD
Geriatric Psychiatrist
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Thuan Ong, MD, MPH
Geriatrician
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Carol Crawford, PharmD
Geriatric Pharmacist
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Barbara Cochrane, RN, PhD
Geriatric Nurse
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Elizabeth Phelan, MD, MS
Geriatrician, NW GWEC Project Director
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Shannon McDonald, MSW, LICSW
Clinical Social Worker
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Mary Pat O’Leary, RN, BSN
ADS Nurse Planner
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Phung Nguyen, MPA
ADS Representative
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Breanne Swanson, MS
AAADSW Representative
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