Florida Geriatrics Society

11/11/2025

The Florida Geriatrics Society proudly honors our nation’s Veterans today and every day. 🇺🇸

To those who have served—and their families—thank you for your courage, sacrifice, and continued contributions to our communities.

The FGS is committed to advancing high-quality, compassionate geriatric care for older adults and aging Veterans in Florida.

11/07/2025

✨Discounted early bird registration for the 2026 Florida Geriatrics Society's Annual Symposium is now LIVE!✨

🗓️ Join us June 13-14 2026, at the Sheraton Clearwater Beach - Sand Key Resort and learn more about advancing the art & science of geriatric healthcare in Florida.

🏝️In addition to our impactful speaker and symposium roster, we welcome all registered attendees, speakers, and guests to attend a special networking reception on Saturday, June 13 - join us for an evening of fun, food, drinks, and camaraderie with geriatric healthcare professionals from around the state!

🌟CURRENT MEMBERS: to access special discounted pricing, please log into your account prior to registration.

☀️For sponsorship opportunities, email exec@floridageriatricssociety.org for more information.

 our annual networking reception. We encouraged you to join us for an evening of family fun and camaraderie.           

10/18/2025

The Florida Geriatrics Society was created by David T. Lowenthal, MD, on October 17, 1989, at the University of Florida, Gainesville.

Thank you to all of our past and present members for making the last 36 years so impactful and here's to many more! 🎉

10/09/2025

October 9th is National Ageism Awareness Day. Besides the amazing resources from the American Society on Aging (asaging.org), the National Center to Reframe Aging (reframingaging.org), and The American Geriatrics Society we also want to recognize Florida's very own Department of Elder Affairs and Florida Council on Aging, along with USF's Florida Policy Exchange Center on Aging (FPEC) located within the USF School of Aging Studies. The FGS is proud to help bring awareness and solutions to ageism in Florida through collaboration and education.

07/01/2025

🏅 🩺 Special shoutout to the Florida Geriatrics Society's first annual People's Choice winner Katherine Bui, DO, Psychiatry Resident Physician, University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences for her abstract titled, "Psychiatrists Advocate for Delirium over Dementia: Rare Case of Parathyroid Adenoma Induced-Delirium."

Pictured with co-author, and FGS Member, Peggy E. Chatham, MD, MHSA Diplomate, ABPN, Geriatrics Attending Inpatient Psychiatrist, James A Haley VA Hospital.

07/01/2025

🏆 🩺 Congratulations to the 2025 Dr. David T. Lowenthal Poster Session Founder’s Award winner, Navin Singh MS2, University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine, for his abstract titled "'Forgotten, But Not Gone' A Case of Hospice Graduation," pictured here with co-author and FGS member, Nupur Kroger, MD, PGY-5, University of South Florida, Morsani College of Medicine.

Each year in honor of our Founder, the Florida Geriatrics Society presents the Dr. David T. Lowenthal Founder’s Poster Session Award in Geriatrics to the author whose abstract has been judged to best exemplify excellence within a topic area pertinent to geriatric care. From among all abstract submissions, the FGS Lowenthal Award and Poster Session Committee also invites a small number of authors to present their research at the annual meeting as an oral presentation.

Thank you to all of our participants and a special recognition to our 2025 meeting oral presenters:

🔷 Katherine Bui, DO, University of South Florida, Morsani College of Medicine
🔷 Josué Cabán Álvarez, MD, University of South Florida, Morsani College of Medicine
🔷 Navin Singh, MS2, University of South Florida, Morsani College of Medicine
🔷 Elisabeth Smith, MD, Florida State University College of Medicine

Our deepest gratitude to our judges and Education Committee Lowenthal Poster Session Coordinators Dennis Mayeaux, MD and Jonathan Stewart, MD, DLFAPA, AGSF.

Stay tuned for more information on submissions for the 2026 FGS Annual Meeting!

06/08/2025

☀️ 📅 We are just TWO WEEKS away from the Florida Geriatrics Society's Annual Meeting and 35th Anniversary Celebration in Clearwater Beach on June 21-22nd! Will you be joining us? Meeting registration is available online. Exhibiting and non-exhibiting partnership opportunities are also available.

Visit https://bit.ly/43uJttH or email our Executive Director at Exec@floridageriatricssociety.org for more information.

Some topics being covered by our expert speakers include:
- Management of Dysphagia: Updates on Guidelines and Management
- End Of Life Capacity Considering Values and Biases
- Oncology: Use of Geriatric Surgery Verification Program
- Home-Bound Emerging Models of Care
- Pharmacogenomics+ to Help Manage Polypharmacy
- Department of Elder Affairs: Initiatives and Updates
- Medication Stewardship
Creating Age-Friendly Health Systems: 4Ms Care Description Level 1
- Advance Planning/Elder Law
and MORE!

Florida Geriatrics Society is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization devoted to improving the quality of life and advancing the health care of older adults through education, research, networking, and improving public awareness of the interdisciplinary healthcare professionals caring for older adults living in Florida. Become an FGS Member: https://lnkd.in/eRSPDw5y

05/21/2025

📅The countdown is on for the 2025 Florida Geriatrics Society's Annual Meeting and 35th Anniversary Celebration! Join us June 21-22 in beautiful Clearwater Beach, Florida for an unforgettable weekend connecting with your fellow geriatric healthcare providers.

Time is running out - register today: https://bit.ly/43uJttH or email our Executive Director at Exec@floridageriatricssociety.org for more information.

Some topic areas being covered by our expert speakers include:
- Management of Dysphagia: Updates on Guidelines and Management
- EOL Capacity -Values and Biases
- Oncology: Use of Geriatric Surgery Verification Program
- Home-Bound Emerging Models of Care
- Pharmacogenomic Testing
- Geriatrics Initiatives and Updates
- Polypharmacy
- Advance Planning/Elder Law and MORE!

10/04/2024

Implementation of delirium screening in the emergency department: A qualitative study with early adopters. https://agsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jgs.19188

10/03/2024

IMPORTANT UPDATE: In light of the impact of Hurricane Helene, we have cancelled our annual symposium for this weekend.

We hope you will join us when we return to Clearwater for our next annual symposium, June 20-22, 2025.

09/25/2024

Wishing everyone a Safe Passage of Hurricane Helena and hope to see our geriatric-focused healthcare professionals at our 35th Annual Symposium next week, on Oct 5th, in Clearwater Beach.

09/05/2024

Just under a month until our 35th annual meeting!

Come join us in beautiful Clearwater Beach, October 5th-6th. Register now at https://floridageriatricssociety.org/Annual-Meeting