Dr Grace Pearson (she/her)

Delighted to be representing @asmeofficial.bsky.social at #ANZAHPE2025 with idol and legend, Prof Alison Ledger - come and find us in the Exhibition Space 👋🏻

Wonderful 2 weeks in the beautiful land of the long white cloud #Aotearoa ☁️ exploring #Matariki lights ✨ and making lasting connections with lovely folks at @universityofotago.bsky.social 💕

Inspiring talk by @graceinvaders.bsky.social on the importance of #meded and #geriatrics #education @healthnz.govt.nz @universityofotago.bsky.social

A full house in the Pyrmont Theatre at the International Conference Centre Sydney for the ANZSGM 2025 Annual Scientific Meeting (“Illuminating Dementia”).

A full house at the ANZSGM 2025 Annual Scientific Meeting, Sydney.

#ANZSGM
#IlluminatingDementia
#ANZSGM2025

The baby we raised
Has grown up to meet the world.
Our conference starts.

The ANZSGM conference has started! ❤️ to Rihan Shahab and Fiona Tran. Couldn’t have had a better 2 peeps to work with on this thing.

#ANZSGM2025

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Marvellous start to my @vivensa.bsky.social travel fellowship in #Brisbane 🐨🦘 So many connections made with terrific folks at #UQ, #QUT, #Griffith, #Bond and #TPCH 💕🎉

We did indeed have a joyful, collaborative time w @lucypgeridoc.bsky.social
Whats our direction? Bringing humanity back to medicine through enquiry into what matters most 💕
How do we get there? Harnessing the potential of our ageing population by involving older people and caregivers as teachers 🍎

This is very exciting! We’re going to have a happy afternoon thinking about funny sad or important stuff - sometimes all 3 at once - about #GettingOlder and hearing from people who know what it’s all about 🥳❤️🐘❤️

Really looking forward to our first #Ageing Education Outreach Workshop next Tuesday, with all round wonderful human @lucypgeridoc.bsky.social - hosted by @bristoluni.bsky.social @amrg-bristol.bsky.social and endorsed by @gerisoc.bsky.social 💖

“Before going into CMOP, I had a very negative view on what aging is like … after CMOP I have a more positive outlook about what aging is like and can be, and what we can do for people to help them.” @gerismeded.bsky.social 👏🏻 @amrg-bristol.bsky.social

“There was one consultant [geriatrician] that I was like ‘I think I want to be like you’ … they were just incredibly knowledgeable … it was like magic … and I just wanted to be that person! I think they’re [role models] very important in driving your choice in specialty.” ✨🦄

“Geriatricians are walking encyclopedias, in my opinion, as they just do so much. And they’re also really kind, and they have the time to listen and you know, they’re happy to teach you. As a group of doctors, they just acknowledge your existence, so that’s always very nice.” ☺️

“They [geriatricians] took a lot more time thinking over the patients, and they look at the patient as a whole, which is so much more rewarding, because you feel like you’re actually making a difference that’s going to be one that lasts.” 💝

Inspiring tomorrow’s geriatricians: a qualitative exploration of the facilitators and barriers to medical students choosing geriatric medicine Education in the care of older people, beginning at undergraduate-level, will help to meet the needs of our aging population. Thus, we need to understand why and in what ways medical students have ...

There’s so many reasons to #ChooseGeriatrics - here’s a few more from my #MedicalStudents at @bristoluni.bsky.social - lots of food for thought for @gerisoc.bsky.social and beyond 💭 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

We’re going to have a happy time - sharing information, shifting power. What does the next generation of professionals working with older people need to know? Come and tell them! ❤️🐘❤️🌱❤️📚

Where? Wills Hall Conference Centre, Bristol
When? Tuesday 29th April, 12:30-16:30pm
Why? Have your say in the future of ageing education for healthcare professionals in open, reflective discussions

Sign me up! forms.office.com/e/VnLyJj3BHv or email Grace.Pearson@bristol.ac.uk

A reminder about our first #outreach workshop, bringing together the public, health professions staff and students, to discuss the future of #ageing education in healthcare 🥳 Featuring stories, readings, and Q+A with the marvellous
@lucypgeridoc.bsky.social 🌟🐘

Delighted to host the first of many #outreach workshops, bringing together the public, health professions staff and students, to discuss the future of #ageing education 🥳 Featuring stories, readings, and Q+A with the marvellous @lucypgeridoc.bsky.social 🐘 Email for more: grace.pearson@bristol.ac.uk

I’ve reached the career stage where my days are spent writing funding applications and barely tolerating unnecessary meetings 🤷🏻‍♀️ #academiclife #research

We're hosting our first AMRG academic writing day today! We've started the day off with some clear goals, and have a schedule planned of 4 (silent!) working blocks with built in breaks ! We're hoping that the group accountability and dedicated time will pay off in productivity!

Yet, these folks are often excluded from clinical research and health services are too siloed to care for older people comprehensively 😢 Our priorities must include ‘what matters most’ to older people, maintaining generalist skills, and multidisciplinary collaboration 🩵

#Ageing is largely invisible to researchers and policy makers because the experience of ageing varies hugely across the country 🤔 Burden of disease increases with age, and multimorbidity requires a ‘whole person’ approach 👵🏼

Another fab #earlycareerresearcher day run by Dunhill Medical Trust at @healthfoundation.bsky.social with the UK Ageing Research Funders Forum 🥳 fascinating talks bookended by tours de force Prof Sir Chris Whitty and Prof Cath Green 💪🏻

#PhDone with the help of these amazing folk along the way… and all important #DietCoke #BristolGrad @bristoluni.bsky.social @amrg-bristol.bsky.social

Day 12 of our 12 papers of Christmas !! It’s this protocol for our current RCT PRIME Parkinson - we’ve got a number of exciting projects in the works for 2025 in PRIME, so watch this space and make sure to follow us across our social media !! pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36849987/

The penultimate day of our 12 Papers of Christmas is this work by Professor Yoav Ben-Shlomo and AMRG Statistician Dr Anahita Nodehi on how dopamine responsiveness evolves over time in people with Parkinson's ! Read it online at : pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38898616/

I am from Ncl! But I was only driving home from work in Bath to home in Bristol on this occasion

On day 10 of the 12 papers of Christmas, it's another paper by Dr Emma Tenison @emmatenison.bsky.social - this time on predicting risk of hospital admission in people with Parkinsonism. Incredible work with such relevance to clinical practice! research-information.bris.ac.uk/en/publicati...

A festive background with a screenshot of a paper entitled 'Drug treatment of Parkinson's disease in older adults'

It's day 9 of our 12 papers of Christmas! This work by Dr S Haworth and Professor Henderson is a fantastic overview of the drug treatments available for Parkinson's and their specific considerations in older adults. Read it online at: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

My #birthday is also #NationalShortGirlAppreciationDay, and I cannot think of anything more appropriate… 💁🏻‍♀️