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Project Echo – Geriatrics
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Overview
Established in 2016, our ECHO program is based on the ECHO model© and uses a hub-and-spoke knowledge-sharing approach where expert teams lead virtual ECHO sessions, amplifying the capacity for providers to care for older adults. Our program’s didactics focus on covering the 4Ms of Age Friendly Care and Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias.
ECHO Model
The ECHO model© has evolved into a learning framework, All Teach, All Learn, that applies across disciplines for sustainable and profound change. ECHO participants engage in a virtual community with their peers where they share support, guidance and feedback. As a result, our collective understanding of how to disseminate and implement best practices across diverse disciplines continuously improves and expands. We adapted this model to target health sciences trainees and their faculty across the WWAMI (Washington, Wyoming, Alaska, Montana, Idaho) region.
4Ms of Age-friendly care
Our didactics are organized around the 4Ms of Age-Friendly including helping patients with dementia and their caregivers.
Our Reach
We collaborate with clinics and training programs across Washington state with a focus on underserved and rural settings.
Our audience
Our participants include interprofessional trainees, faculty, and practicing clinicians.
Our Partners
How Our Sessions Work
Our Didactics
Our Project ECHO – Geriatrics didactics are easily digested at 15 minutes in length and cover a range of geriatric topics focusing on the 4Ms of Age-Friendly Care. Search and watch our didactics online, anytime.
Introduction to Project ECHO and Age-Friendly Care
Assistant Professor of Medicine Geriatric Medicine Fellowship Director Division of Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine
Our Impact At A Glance
Two-thirds of participants plan to change their practice as a result of our sessions.
89% of participants highly rate our didactics, cases, and virtual delivery.
Participants believe their geriatric knowledge increases from before to after our sessions.
We have found it invaluable. The didactic and case-based learning is of the very highest quality and promotes true geriatric care consideration by our residents.
– Kevin Braun, MD, MPH, Program Director
Providence St. Peter Family Medicine Residency, Olympia, WA
Meet Our Panel
Katherine Bennett, MD
Medical Director, Project ECHO – Geriatrics
Leigh Ann Mike, PharmD, BCPS, BCGP
Geriatric Pharmacist
Beth Labardi, MD
Geriatric Psychiatrist
Ruru Wang, MD, MPH
Geriatrician
Carol Crawford, PharmD
Geriatric Pharmacist
Barbara Cochrane, RN, PhD
Geriatric Nurse
Elizabeth Phelan, MD, MS
Geriatrician, NW GWEC Project Director
Shannon McDonald, MSW, LICSW
Clinical Social Worker
Mary Pat O’Leary, RN, BSN
ADS Nurse Planner
Phung Nguyen, MPA
ADS Representative
Breanne Swanson, MS
AAADSW Representative
