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Iceland - University of Iceland, Reykjavi璳 |
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IS 101
Reykjavik
phone: +354 525 4000
fax: +354 552 1331
http://www.hi.is |
Within University of Iceland there are now three teaching positions within gerontology. There are associate professors of geriatric medicine and geriatric nursing and an assistant professor of sociology.
The University and the university hospital are linked in gerontology through the Gerontological Research Institute. The teaching is at the undergraduate level and in addition there are several studies carried out at any point in time.
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Landspitali University Hospital
Landakot
101
Reykjav铆k
phone: +354 543 9891
fax: +354 543 9918
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P谩lmi V. J贸nsson, MD, FACP. Currently 50 years of age and a married father of four children. He serves as Associate Professor of Geriatric Medicine at the University of Iceland, and is also Chief of Geriatrics at Landspitali University Hospital.
Education, Training:
University of Iceland, School of Medicine, 1979, Cand med. Et. Chir.
1979-1983; Internship and Residency in internal medicine in Iceland (Reykjavik Hospitals)
1983-1986; New Britain General Hospital, Ct., USA, Resident and Chief Resident (1985-86) in Internal Medicine.
1986-1988; Fellowship in Geriatric Medicine at Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA.
1988-1989; Research Fellow in Geriatric Medicine and Instructor of Medicine. Harvard University.
1986; American Board of Internal Medicine,
1990; added qualifications in geriatric medicine
Positions
1989-1990 Reykjavik Study.
1990-1994 Department of Medicine, Reykjavik City Hospital.
1994-1996 Administrative Chief of Medicine, Neurology and Rehabilitation, Reykjavik City Hospital.
1994-1996 Chief of Geriatric Medicine, Reykjavik City Hospital.
1996-2000 Chief of Geriatric Medicine, Reykjavik Hospital.
1994-... Associate Professor, Geriatric Medicine, University of Iceland, School of Medicine.
2000-... Chief of Geriatrics, Landspitali University Hospital.
Societies, Committees:
Executive Committee of the AGES study by the Icelandic Heart Association and NIA,responsible for the brain part of that study.
American Colleague of Physicians, Fellow 1996.
Fellow Inter-RAI, 1996. Centers around the use of the Resident Assessment Instrument.
Chairman of the committee for specialty licensing in medicine in Iceland.
The Nursing Home Pre-admission Committee, The Ministry of Health, since 1989
The Ice-RAI Committee, The Ministry of Health, since 1993
Various other committees.
Recent Publications:
Carpenter, GI; Teare, GF; Steel, K; Berg, K; Murphy, K; Björnsson, J; J贸nsson, PV; Hirdes, JP.
A new assessment for elders admitted to acute care: reliability of the MDS-AC. Aging (Milano).
2001 Aug:13(4):316-30.
Thjodleifsson, B; J贸nsson PV.
Management of gastroesophageal reflux disease in the elderly. Clinical Geriatrics.
2001 May:9(6) 50-57.
J贸nsson, PV
Syncope in Ekerdt, David J., Robert A. Applebaum, Karen C. Holden, Stephen G. Post, Kenneth Rockwood, Richard Schulz, Richard L. Sprott, and Peter Uhlenberg, (Eds.). Encyclopedia of Aging.
2002: New York: Macmillan Reference USA.
J贸nsson, PV.
Disability and access to care of the elderly in Iceland. In Biotechnology and Healthy Aging. Policy implications of new research.
2002, OECD Publications, 2,(00 2002 42 1 P) No. 81857 2002, page 155-9.
J贸nsson, PV; P谩lsson, H.
Towards Informed and Evidence based elderly care- The RAI experience in Iceland. A special report by the Milbank Foundation.
2003: http://www.milbank.org/reports/interRAI/030222interRAI.html can be found here>.
J贸nsson, PV; Gustavsson, Y; Rönholt Hansen, F; Saks, K; Pitkala, KH.
Challenges of current geriatric education. Notes from the Nordic geriatric professors麓 meeting. Accepted for publication in Gerontology and Geriatrics education.
2003; 24, 1; pp pending. |
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