Advances in Aging Lecture Series
New updates on CMS Age-Friendly Measures for the Hospital Setting
Date: May 11, 2026
Time: 12-1 pm MST
Speaker: Karen Parker, MD, PhD
Bio
Dr. Parker is a Geriatrician and a Hospitalist. She is the director of the BUMC-T Inpatient Geriatrics Consult Service. Her first career was as a PhD scientist doing molecular biology and biophysics. In midlife she retrained as an MD at Case Western Reserve University, and since then has become a geriatrician, was director of the house calls program at University Hospitals of Cleveland, and then joined the Division of Hospital Medicine at the Cleveland Clinic where she worked for 8 years. She worked as a hospitalist, an Internal Medicine consultant to Orthopedics and other surgical services, did outpatient preoperative assessment and management, developed the curriculum for the training of NPs and PAs to work as hospitalists with the Division’s physicians, and helped to develop the Cleveland Clinic system-wide Delirium Protocols and Order Set, and their Hip Fracture Care Pathway with the Orthopedic surgeons. She moved to Tucson in late 2020 to develop an Inpatient Geriatric Consultation program here, is a teaching attending on Internal Medicine Teaching Team 1 at BUMCT Main Campus, and is loving being back in the West.
Learning Objectives
- Coming soon
Accreditation Statement:
The University of Arizona College of Medicine - Tucson is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
The University of Arizona College of Medicine - Tucson designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)TM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Disclosure Statement(s):
All faculty, CME planning committee members, and the CME office reviewers have disclosed that they have no financial relationships with commercial interests that would constitute a conflict of interest concerning this CME activity.
Additional Resources:
For more information on aging-related topics please see our Elder Care Interprofessional Provider Sheets and Care Partner Information Sheets.