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the Mayo Clinic, and the Veterans Administration. Many international teaching activities (Costa Rica, Chile, Turkey, Argentina) were curtailed this year because of COVID; but he presented virtually at the annual conferences for the European Society of Emergency Medicine and American College of Emergency Physicians. After four years as the chair of the Geriatric EM Committee at the International Federation of Emergency Medicine, he has been appointed the chair of its Clinical Practice Committee, responsible for coordinating educational material and projects across all areas of practice, including geriatric care, to support EM systems around the world. With an American co- author, Dr. Melady has a contract with Cambridge University Press to write a book: Creating a Geriatric ED, the practical guide. It is scheduled for publication in August 2021.
Dr. Melady would like to thank Ms. Penny Rubinoff and Bill and Cathy Graham for their generous support towards the Geriatric Emergency Medicine Program at SREMI.
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