2026 Geriatric Psychiatry Half Day Event

Geriatric Psychiatry Half Day Event

No cost to attend - FREE

 

Wednesday, November 26, 2026

9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.

Register in advance Here

Featuring:

Dr. Heather Keller

Heather H. Keller is Professor and Schlegel Research Chair in Nutrition and Aging at the University of Waterloo. An international leader in nutrition and aging, her research focuses on malnutrition, nutrition risk screening, and mealtime experiences across hospital, long-term care, and community settings. She is a Fellow of Dietitians of Canada, the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences, and the Canadian Nutrition Society.

Dr. Heather Keller is a Professor at the University of Waterloo and the Schlegel Research Chair in Nutrition and Aging. Her research focuses on improving nutrition, health and quality of life for older adults, including people living with dementia and those in long-term care. She studies factors that influence food intake, nutrition and the mealtime experience develops practical approaches and interventions to improve food intake, the experience of eating and overall well-being as we age.

Dr. M. Kathleen Pichora-Fuller

Kathy Pichora-Fuller is a Canadian audiologist licensed in British Columbia, a cognitive psychology researcher whose career has connected clinical practice with the study of auditory and cognitive aging. She worked as a clinical audiologist and Audiology Supervisor at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto before completing a PhD in psychology at the University of Toronto. After ten years on faculty at the University of British Columbia’s School of Audiology and Speech Sciences—where she also directed the Institute for Hearing Accessibility Research—she joined the University of Toronto Mississauga in 2002. Now Professor Emerita in Psychology at the University of Toronto and Adjunct Professor in Gerontology at Simon Fraser University, Dr. Pichora-Fuller’s has held research affiliations with Toronto Rehabilitation Institute, Baycrest’s Rotman Research Institute and Linköping University and Orebro University in Sweden. She is the audiology expert for the Canadian Longutitunal Study on Aging and the Canadian Consortium on Neurodegeneration in Aging. She has served in leadership roles across Canadian and international audiology organizations, contributed to the World Health Organization’s World Report on Hearing and the World Report on Ageing and Health, and continues to serve on WHO committees. Her honours include the American Academy of Audiology’s 2014 International Award, Speech-Language & Audiology Canada’s 2021 Eve Kassirer Lifetime Achievement Award, election as a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences in 2022, delivery of the American Auditory Society’s Carhart Memorial Lecture in 2025, and the International Society of Audiology’s Aram Glorig Lecture in 2026.

 

 Geri Half Day Agenda May 2026

The CPD Psychiatry Academic, Clinical and Educational Round Series (PACERS) are a self approved group learning Activity (Section 1) as defined by the Maintenance of Certification program of The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. (3 Credits).  

Each participant should claim only those hours of credit that he/she actually spent participating in the educational program.

This program has no commercial support.
 
Contact: Kate Hayes