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ForwardAGE-LEAD Kick-Off Retreat (June 11-12, 2026)
The West Health Champions program will provide participants with education and training in the fundamentals of delivering Age-Friendly care to older patients, focused on the 4Ms of Medication, Mentation, Mobility, and What Matters. West Champions will learn quality improvement and leadership techniques to enable the spread of evidence based geriatric care throughout MGB.
Target Audience
This activity is intended for physicians, nurses, pharmacists, dieticians, psychologists, physician assistants, social workers & other members of the healthcare team within Mass General Brigham.
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this activity, participants will be able to:
- Describe the 4Ms of an Age-Friendly Health System.
- Identify potentially inappropriate medications for older adults.
- Recognize & screen for dementia and delirium among hospitalized older adults.
- Identify strategies to elicit “what matters” to older patients.
- Develop a mobility care plan to maintain or improve mobility during a hospitalization.
- Distinguish the difference between aging and frailty and assess strategies to identify & mitigate frailty.
- Describe the “current state” for a quality improvement project.
- Implement diagnostic data to identify a target area for a quality improvement project.
- Develop a SMART Goal for a quality improvement project.
- Summarize change data from a quality improvement project.
- Assess team dynamics & evaluate how to best team with, from, and about eachother.
Additional Information
Day 1: Thursday, June 11, 2026
| 12:30pm | Welcome & Overview of WHA | Andrea Schwartz, MD, MPH & Rachelle Bernacki, MD |
| 12:45 | Module 1 Moderated by Matthew Russell, MD Hazards | Andrea Schwartz, MD, MPH Delirium | Amy Bulger, RN, MPH |
| 2:15 | Break |
| 2:30 | Introduction to Patient Interview | Rachelle Bernacki, MD |
| 2:40 | Patient Interview | Sharon Levine, MD |
| 3:15 | Break |
| 3:30 | QI Presentations |
| 5:30pm | Adjournment |
Day 2: Friday, June 12, 2026
| 9:00am | Welcome & Overview | Andrea Schwartz, MD, MPH, Rachelle Bernacki, MD & Matthew Russell, MD |
| 9:15 | Module 2 What Matters | Elizabeth Lindenberger, MD Pain Management | Matthew Russell, MD |
| 10:45 | Break |
| 11:00 | Module 3 Medications | Lynne O'Mara, PA-C, BA Mobility | Andrea Schwartz, MD, MPH |
| 12:30pm | Wrap Up & Next Steps | Andrea Schwartz, MD, MPH & Rachelle Bernacki, MD |
| 1:00pm | Adjournment |
Rachelle Bernacki, MD - Course Co-Director
Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Director of Quality Initiatives, Psychosocial Oncology & Palliative Care – Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Andrea Schwartz, MD, MPH - Course Co-Director
Associate Professor in Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Amy Bulger, MPH, RN, GERO-BC, CPHQ
Director of Geriatrics Operations, Center for Geriatric Surgery & Department of Nursing – Brigham & Women’s Hospital
Sharon Levine, MD
Section Head, Geriatric Medicine – Division of Palliative Care & Geriatric Medicine – Massachusetts General Hospital
Elizabeth Lindenberger, MD
Interim Division Chief, Palliative Care & Geriatric Medicine – Massachusetts General Hospital
Director, Continuum Project – Massachusetts General Hospital
Lynne O'Mara, PA-C, MBA
Clinical Program Manager, Center for Geriatric Surgery – Brigham & Women’s Hospital
Senior Administrator of Inpatient Operations, Brigham & Women’s Hospital
Matthew Russell, MD
Medical Director, Senior Health Clinic - Massachusetts General Hospital
In support of improving patient care, Mass General Brigham is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
Credit Designation Statements
AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM
Mass General Brigham designates this live activity for a maximum of 9.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Nursing
Mass General Brigham designates this activity for 9.50 ANCC contact hours. Nurses should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Available Credit
- 9.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
- 9.50 Nursing Contact Hours
- 9.50 Participation