June 13-15, 2021 | Virtual
Program Co-Chairs:
Babar Khan, MD, MS
2021 Program Co-Chair
Immediate Past President, American Delirium Society
Noll Campbell, PharmD, MS
2021 Program Co-Chair
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Pre-Conference (PC) pricing is for Sunday, June 13, 2021. Full Conference (FC) pricing includes the Pre-Conference and is for Sunday, June 13 - Tuesday, June 15, 2021
PC ONLY (ADS Member or Non-Member) | $100.00 |
FC (ADS Member) Physician | $250.00 |
FC (ADS Member) Non-Physician | $250.00 |
**FC (Non-Member) Physician | $350.00 |
**FC (Non-Member) Non-Physician | $350.00 |
FC (ADS Member or Non-Member) Resident | $100.00 |
FC (ADS Member or Non-Member) Fellow | $100.00 |
FC (ADS Member or Non-Member) Trainee | $100.00 |
FC (ADS Member or Non-Member) Student | $100.00 |
**Includes one-year membership (January 1-December 31, 2021)
Welcome to the American Delirium Society (ADS) 2021 Virtual Annual Conference! We are pleased to host a 3-day meeting experience, which is expected to draw more than 400 investigators, educators and clinicians from all spectrums of healthcare and around the globe! #ADS21Virtual is the destination for professionals dedicated to improving delirium care at every level of their career.
The ADS conference focuses on learning with a diverse group of attendees across many disciplines and countries – each and every one striving to learn together as we improve delirium care across all healthcare settings.
The conference offers more than 20 symposia, workshops and roundtables, multiple abstract sessions, a virtual poster session and a robust all-day pre-conference. Internationally recognized faculty will deliver cutting edge clinical and research presentations encompassing all aspects of delirium care. We are proud to say that there will be something for everyone!
Don’t miss the following important events:
Finally, we wish to acknowledge the hard work and outstanding efforts of the Conference Planning Committee. A full list of committee members can be found below.
We welcome you to the ADS 2021 Virtual Annual Conference and hope you take advantage of all ADS has to offer.
Identify evidence-based best practices for recognizing and assessing delirium among patients in hospital, outpatient, and long-term care settings.
Discuss evidence-based preventative and therapeutic strategies for reducing the prevalence and duration of delirium across the continuum of care.
Review novel and innovative strategies to develop, implement, evaluate and sustain health system delirium reduction efforts.
Explain emerging and high-impact research focused on delirium epidemiology, pathophysiology, diagnosis, prevention and treatment.
Babar Khan, MD, MS
Noll Campbell, PharmD, MS
Andrew Auerbach MD, MPH
Leanne Boehm, RN, PhD, ACNS-BC
Sikandar Khan, DO, MS
Heidi Lindroth, PhD, RN
Kerri Maya, MSL, RN, PHN
Esther Oh, MD, PhD
Mark Oldham, MD
Pratik Pandharipande, MD, MSCI, FCCM
Phillip Vlisides, MD
Christine Waszynski, DNP, APRN, GNP-BC
10:00-10:20am
Delirium: The Lived Experience
10:20-10:40am
Delirium: The State of the Science and Considerations for COVID
10:40-11:10am
Pathophysiology of Delirium and Associated Symptoms
11:10-11:30am
Outcomes Associated with Delirium
11:30am-12:00pm
Break
12:00-12:30pm
Delirium Nonpharmacologic and Pharmacologic Prevention and Management Strategies
12:30-1:00pm
Delirium Prevention and Management Breakout
• Pediatric
• ICU/Ward
• Long-term care
1:00-1:30pm
Break
1:30-3:30pm
Tools of the Trade: Delirium Assessment
• 1:30 PM Pediatric (pCAM-ICU) • 2:00 PM ICU (CAM-ICU)
• 2:30 PM Ward (3D-CAM)
• 3:00 PM Long-term care (FAM-CAM)
3:30-4:00pm
Bringing it all Together - Delirium Implementation & Strategy Breakout Session
4:00pm
Closing Comments and Adjournment
9:00-10:00am
ADS Committee Meetings
10:00-10:30am
Welcome: Presidential Address & Meeting Announcements
10:30-11:15am
Plenary: Leveraging Agile Implementation of Delirium Care Malaz Boustani, MD, MPH
11:20am-12:05pm
Plenary: Preclinical Delirium Models: Beauty and the Beast Roderic Eckenhoff, MD
12:05-12:35pm
Break
12:35-1:35pm
Workshop: Stats Part 1 - Improving the Design and Analysis of Delirium Trials
12:35-1:35pm
Symposium: Delirium and Serious Mental Illness
12:35-1:35pm
Symposium: Animal Models of Delirium: What Are We Measuring and is it Delirium?
12:35-1:35pm
Oral Abstracts 1
1:40-2:40pm
NIDUS Updates
1:40-2:40pm
Workshop: Delirium Management in the ICU
1:40-2:40pm
Anticholinergics and Delirium: Harmonizing Assessment
1:40-2:40pm
Symposium: Bundling Care: More than Cuddling in Pediatrics
2:45-3:45pm
NIDUS Pilots 1
2:45-3:45pm
Process Improvement in the ICU: Delirium Assessment and Management to Empower Bedside Caregivers
2:45-3:45pm
Symposium: Tackling Medication Management in the ICU and Beyond: Improving Patient Care Through Integration of Clinical Pharmacy Services
2:45-3:45pm
Delirium Monitoring and Management in the Busy Emergency Department
3:50-4:50pm
Optimizing Brain Health and Preventing Delirium Throughout the Perioperative Journey
3:50-4:50pm
Symposium: Novel Approaches for Managing Pain, Anxiety, Delirium and Sedation in the ICU
3:50-4:50pm
Symposium: Developing Current Clinical Phenotypes to Better Understand the Relationship Between Delirium and Dementia
3:50-4:50pm
Oral Abstracts 2
4:55-5:55pm
Symposium: Pain, Sleep and Cognition - Feasible Targets to Prevent Postoperative Delirium
4:55-5:55pm
Workshop: Statistical Consultation for Junior Clinical Investigators
4:55-5:55pm
Roundtable: Discussion of Cognitive and Behavioral Measurements in Delirium and its Relationship to Dementia
4:55-5:55pm
Oral Abstracts 3
8:00-10:00am
Thematic Poster Discussion
10:00-10:30am
Announcements and Abstract Awards
10:30-11:15am
Plenary: New Horizons in Delirium Research Sharon Inouye, MD, MPH
11:20am-12:20pm
Delirium and COVID-19: State of the Science
12:20-12:50pm
Break
12:50-1:50pm
NIDUS Pilots 2
12:50-1:50pm
Symposium: Palliative Care and Delirium
12:50-1:50pm
Workshop: Delirium Pharmacoepidemiology: Application to Practice and Research
1:55-2:55pm
NIDUS Abstracts
1:55-2:55pm
Symposium: Perioperative Delirium: Pathogenesis, Screening and Management
1:55-2:55pm
Workshop: Delirium and Care Transitions: Delirium in the Nursing Home
3:00-4:00pm
NIH Updates
3:00-4:00pm
Symposium: Exploring the Relationship Between Sleep and Delirium in Critically Ill Patients and Examining the Results of a Two-Phase Study Assessing Implementation of a Sleep Protocol and a Validated Sleep Questionnaire
3:00-4:00pm
Roundtable: Expanding Delirium from the Binary to the Spectrum; the Importance of Severity Measurement in Future Delirium Research
4:05-5:05pm
Symposium: Stats Part 2 - Improving the Design and Analysis of Delirium Trials
4:05-5:05pm
Symposium: Unlocking the Network: Understanding Delirium Through Biomarkers of Neuroinflammation, Proteomics and DNA Damage
4:05-5:05pm
Definitions, Measures and Intervention Outcomes for Agitation During Illness and Medical Treatment
5:05-5:10pm
Closing Remarks
In support of improving patient care, this activity has been planned and implemented by the American Delirium Society and Sutter Health. Sutter Health, 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.