Jeannette Guerrasio MD - Embrace Aging: Conquer Your Fears and Enjoy Added Years

Jeannette Guerrasio, MD, is a primary care internal medicine physician in private practice in Denver, Colorado. She graduated from Albany Medical College and completed her residency at the University of Connecticut and a mini-geriatrics fellowship through the Reynolds Foundation at the University of California Los Angeles. While practicing at the University of Colorado, in the Department of Medicine, for thirteen years, she became a Professor of Medicine and was inducted into the Academy of Medical Educators. She is committed to the clinical care of patients, with expertise in both adult medicine and geriatrics, having done research to improve geriatric assessments and to decrease delirium, functional decline, and urinary tract infections.

Dr. Guerrasio is also an internationally known teacher and educator. She pioneered an approach to improve the educational experience of medical students and residents. She is the author of Remediation of the Struggling Medical Learner, editions 1 and 2, Remediation Case Studies, and countless book chapters and journal articles.

Visit her online at www.jeannetteguerrasiomd.com.

M y sincerest thank you to my biggest fan, who has supported my personal and professional development in innumerable ways. Lara Juliusson gets full credit for drawing and digitizing all of the illustrations, which I then labelled. She also managed our small zoo of dogs and cat in the evenings so that I could have less interrupted time to complete this writing project. Every moment with you is a treasure, and I want to thank you for sharing our time for the benefit of others.

I am deeply grateful to all of my patients who I truly enjoy and from whom I have learned so much. You have been so generous in your sharing over the years. Special thank you to my friends: David Mellman, MD, who is the best colleague to collaborate with and human being to spend every day with; photographer Sarah Pollock who not only took my headshot while standing precariously on a windowsill but for also helping me manage my practice of patients at the same time; poet and editor Max Regan, MFA, who sparked my interest in writing and who has been a great guide; Ethan Cumbler, MD, who helped foster my love of geriatrics and has a solution to every problem; Nancy Novosad Bader for reviewing all of my writing and engaging me in the most stimulating conversations; and Barbara Stanton for reviewing my very rough first draft and for your ever thoughtful comments that have made this book so much better. Of course, thank you to my mom and dad who also helped review the first draft and, as the proud and supportive parents that they are, commented Everyone should get a copy! Thank you to them for my sense of humor, my love of people and medicine. Thank you to nephew and niece, Jared and Hailey, and cousin Janice (one of my many amazing cousins) for letting me use some of their personal stories.

With much gratitude, I wish to thank my literary agent, Joan Parker from Parker Literary Agency, LLC, who has worked tirelessly to guide me through the publication process (yet again!) and to find the perfect publisher to represent this work. Its been a pleasure working with Suzanne Staszak-Silva and the entire crew at Rowman & Littlefield, and I am honored to be working with such a great publishing company.

The information in this book is comprised of years of study. To stay current on the latest medical discoveries and innovations, I read:

For Medical Professionals

The New England Journal of Medicine : www.nejm.org

New England Journal Watch, which alerts me to thousands of the most influential scientific studies that come out each year across all of the medical journals: www.jwatch.org

Up-to-date medical resource: www.uptodate.com

For a General Audience