Caregiving and Dementia -
involved in the adaptation, development, and piloting of the "cuidando con respeto program" a culturally appropiate program intended to help Spanish speaker latino family caregivers acquire skills for dealing with relatives with dementia. |
End-of-life communication -
To enhace communication skills of healthcare providers to facilitate End-of-life communication between patients, families and providers. |
Geriatric Education -
actively involved in the education of trainees such as medical students, residents (Medicine,Family medicine, psychiatry etc) clinical fellows and interdisciplinary learners in the proper delivery of geriatric care |
Geriatric Palliative Care -
Expertise in providing palliative care to frail older adults with uncontrolled symptoms |
| Date |
Description |
Institution |
# Students |
| 6/2007 - Present |
Ethics Clinical Sessions |
UTHSCSA/STVHCS |
20 students |
| Monthly sessions. These are case-based presentation activities in which participants apply ethics principles when solving a difficult clinical case presented by one of the trainees. |
| 4/2007 - Present |
Palliative care Fellowship Manual |
UTHSCSA/STVHCS |
10 students |
| leading author of the palliative care fellows manual in which I developed descriptions of the fellowship duties, competency-based objectives for rotations and competency-based evaluation forms. This manual has been adapted and modified to use in other fellowships including Geriatrics and Pain. |
| 3/2007 - Present |
Rotation Student Supervision |
UTHSCSA |
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| 3/2007 - Present |
Individual Instruction |
UTHSCSA |
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| 9/2006 - Present |
Medi-ambulatory Prim Care |
The University of Texas Health Science Center |
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| Serve as a clinical Faculty at the VA GEM clinic |
| 9/2006 - Present |
Geriatric Medicine |
The University of Texas Health Science Center |
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| Serve as clinical Faculty attending at the VA in the combined Geriatrics and palliative care service, GEM clinic and the Inpatient Hospice Unit. |
| 9/2006 - Present |
Interdisciplinary Palliative Care Team Meetings |
UTHSCSA/STVHCS |
20 students |
| These are weekly 1 hour sessions designed for medical and interdisciplinary palliative care fellows, palliative care faculty and rotating learners (medical students and residents). Atendees of the session will acquire knowledge to develop expertise in Hospice and Palliative care. |
| 9/2006 - Present |
Post-Doctoral Student Supervision |
UTHSCSA |
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| 9/2006 - Present |
Individual Instruction |
UTHSCSA |
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| 6/2006 - Present |
MSTAR students'' Program Seminar series |
UTHSCSA/STVHCS |
6 students |
| The Medical Student Teaching in Aging Research Program (MSTAR) is funded by the National Institute of Aging to facilitate aging research among medical students at early stages of their career at a national level. A curriculum has been implemmented at the UTHSCSA site during their summer rotation. Curriculum has two components: 1)Research (includes subject protection, research methods, presentation and publication skills) and 2)Clinical Education (Direct exposure to geriatric patients and syndromes through direct supervised patient contact). |
| 3/2006 - Present |
Rotation Student Supervision |
UTHSCSA |
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| 1/2006 - Present |
Pain Management Card Toolkit |
UTHSCSA/STVHCS |
100 students |
| A pocket-sized pain card tool has been designed to facilitate pain management to all learners rotating inthe geriatric palliative care service. Card includes pain assessment, medication management and aquivalences, complications and teaching points (Copyright: Sanchez-Reilly/Ross 2006). |
| 1/2006 - Present |
Hospice card Toolkit |
UTHSCSA/STVHCS |
100 students |
| This pocket-sized hospice card is designed to list the criteria for adequate hospice referral among terminally ill patients. It is given to all learners of the geriatric palliative care program. (Copyright Sanchez-Reilly/Ross 2006) |
| 9/2004 - Present |
Undergraduate Student Supervision |
UTHSCSA |
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Journal Article |
| Ross JS, Slodkowska EA, Symmans WF, Pusztai L, Ravdin PM, Hortobagyi GN. The HER-2 receptor and breast cancer: ten years of targeted anti-HER-2 therapy and personalized medicine Oncologist 2009 Apr;14(4):320-368.
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| Espino DV, Ross J, Oakes SL, Becho J, Wood RC. Characteristics of hip fractures among hospitalized elder Mexican American Black and White Medicare beneficiaries in the Southwestern United States Aging Clinical and Experimental Research 2008 Aug;20(4):344-348.
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| Hepburn Ken,Oakes SL, Talamantes MA, Ross J, Espino DV. Reaching the heart of the caregiver Clinical Gerontologist 2006 Jan;30(2):37-49.
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Abstract |
| Ross J, Sanchez-Reilly SE, Wittenberg-Lyles E, Lee S. Assessment of Geriatric Attitudes in Interdisciplinary Palliative Care Healthcare Providers; 2008 May. (Journal of the American Geriatrics Society).
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| Waters J, Ross J, Sanchez-Reilly SE, Wittenberg-Lyles E. Assesing Geriatric Education and Attitudes among Interdisciplinary Palliative Care Fellows: The AGE-PC Study; 2008 May. (Journal Of the American Geriatrics Society).
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| Naviwala T, Sanchez-Reilly SE, Sammel RB, Ross J. Prevalence of Advance Care Planning among Homeless Veterans; 2008 Jan. (American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine).
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| Villarreal D, Ross JS, Sanchez-Reilly SE, Wittenberg-Lyles E. Improving Palliative Care Education: An Interdisciplinary Educational Intervention in Pain Assessment and Management; 2008 Jan. (American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine).
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| Oakes, S. Liliana; Ross, Jeanette; Talamantes, Melissa; Hepburn, Ken W.; Espino, David V. Development and Evaluation of a Culturally Relevant Training Program for Spanish-Speaking Dementia Caregivers Puebla, Mexico: Fourth Panamerican Congress in Geriatrics & Gerontology; 2007 May.
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| Villarreal D, Ross J, Sanchez-Reilly SE, Wittenberg-Lyles E, Lee S. Breaking Barriers: An Interdisciplinary Educational Intervention to Improve Pain among Older Adults; 2007 Apr. (Journal of the American Geriatrics Society; vol. 55, no. 4S).
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| Ross J, Oakes SL, Talamantes MA, Hepburn, KW, Espino DV. Evaluation of a Culturally Relevant Pilot Training Program for Spanish-Speaking Dementia Caregivers Chicago, IL; 2006 Apr. (Journal of the American Geriatrics Society; vol. 54, no. 4).
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| Ross JS, Oakes SL, Dergance JM, Espino DV. Special Considerations regarding medical decisional capacity in a partially competent elder American Geriatric Society Meeting:Orlando, FL; 2005 Apr. (Journal of the American Geriatrics Society; vol. 53, no. 1).
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| Ross JS, Oakes SL, Wood, RC, Espino DV. Hip fracture cost and length of stay for hospitalized elder Mexican Americans Medicare beneficiaries in the southwestern United States; 2005 Apr. (Journal of the American Geriatrics Society; vol. 53, no. 1).
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