Consult Service
Consult Service
@ Memorial Hermann Medical Center
The division offers inpatient consultation services at Memorial Hermann Hospital and Lyndon B. Johnson General Hospital. The consult service cares for geriatric patients on other surgical and medical subspecialty services. They help manage both medical issues related to the older patient's care as well as geriatric issues, such as
- Delirium and dementia evaluation
- Polypharmacy
- Functional decline
- Functional falls
- Failure to thrive/malnutrition
- Elder abuse
- Pre-operative evaluations / post-operative medical management
The consult service is run by Dr. Kathryn Agarwal at Memorial Hermann.
News & Announcements
Dr. Nasiya Ahmed
assistant professor of Medicine-geriatrics, was accepted into the prestigious Summer Institute on Aging Research sponsored by the NIA. Read More
Palliative Medicine Visiting professor.
July 29-30, 2008. Dr. Weissman is Director of the Palliative Medicine Program and Professor of Medicine in the Division of Neoplastic Diseases & Related Disorders. Read More
Cheves Smythe Visiting Lectureship in Geriatrics.
This year’s lecturer is John Morley, M.B., B.Ch., Saint Louis University and will take place on May 14, 2008. His talk is entitled, “Memories are Made of This”. He will be speaking in MSB 3.001, at 4:00 p.m. Read More
