Deprescribing: Integration into Daily Practice

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WEBINAR DESCRIPTION:
In the third webinar in the ‘Managing Meds and Minimizing Risk: What you can do’ webinar series, Denise Beaton, Senior Policy Analyst, will provide an overview of deprescribing from the British Columbia Public Health viewpoint. Then Cheryl Sadowski, Professor, will take a deeper dive into medication contributions to falls and deprescribing considerations. Finally, Pam Howell, pharmacist, will speak to the interdisciplinary approach and the steps all allied health professionals can take to support medication safety and deprescribing.

PRESENTERS:
Denise Beaton is a Senior Policy Analyst at the BC Ministry of Health and a member of the BC Injury Research and Prevention Unit. She is currently developing BC’s first Fall and Fall-Related Injury Prevention Strategy and helped to develop BC’s Fall Prevention: Risk Assessment and Management for Community-Dwelling Older Adults Guideline (September 2021). Denise is a member of BC’s provincial fall prevention community of practice and is a BC representative for two national fall prevention communities of practice. She is also a Board of Directors and Society member at Yaletown House, a non-profit long-term care home in downtown Vancouver.

Cheryl Sadowski is a pharmacist who has specialized in geriatrics for over 20 years. She works in an interprofessional outpatient clinic as part of the geriatric assessment team. She is also a Professor at the University of Alberta, primarily teaching pharmacy students about geriatrics. She has worked with the Canadian Deprescribing Network since its inception in 2015, and has collaborated on deprescribing guidelines and is currently involved in deprescribing studies.

Pam Howell is a pharmacist working for 20 years with older clients and clients with complex chronic conditions at Bruyère Continuing Care, Ottawa. From 2018 to 2020, her role with the Bruyère Deprescribing Guidelines team focused on knowledge mobilization, community engagement and research efforts to highlight the importance of deprescribing as part of good prescribing. More recently, her passion to help her patients has led her to join GeriMedRisk, an interdisciplinary virtual consult service supporting clinicians caring for older adults with complex physical, mental health and medication needs. She also serves as the GeriMedRisk liaison collaborating with clinicians and geriatric services within the Champlain region.