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Session 4 | Medication Matters: Safer Prescribing for Healthy Aging

Presented by Dr Tatyana Gurvich

Understand how medications affect aging bodies, how to reduce medication-related risks, and how thoughtful prescribing can improve safety, cognition, energy, and overall well-being.

Tatyana Gurvich, PharmD., BCGP is an expert in geriatric pharmacotherapy. She has over 30 years’ experience in geriatric pharmacology. During the 1^st part of her career, she taught in a family practice residency program where she taught pharmacology to physicians in training. She is now an assistant professor at USC School of Pharmacy where she teaches didactic and experiential courses. Her primary clinical practice site is a multi-disciplinary primary care geriatric practice at UCI Medical Center Senior Health Center where she provides care to geriatric patients with multiple comorbidities and very long medication lists. She participates in two Geriatric Workforce Enhancement Program (GWEP) projects, at USC Dept of Family Medicine and UCI Dept of Geriatrics where she develops geriatric education curricula for primary care providers and other health care professionals. She is a co-chair of Geriatric Pharmacy Care Council at CHSP. This group promotes geriatric pharmacy at the state level and to all the California pharmacy schools.

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