Charlotte Paolini and Judith Metcalf give webinar address for Geriatric Faculty Development Collaborative

Medical Director of UNE’s Maine Geriatric Education Center (GEC) and Geriatrician, UNE Mature Care Charlotte Paolini, DO, CMD; and Director of UNE’s Maine Geriatric Education Center and Nurse Practitioner, UNE Mature Care Judith A. Metcalf, APRN, BC, MS, gave a webinar address for the GEC Faculty Development Collaborative, sponsored by the New Jersey Geriatric Education Center and the Gateway Geriatric Education Center of Missouri and Illinois, on September 4, 2012.

Paolini’s and Metcalf’s presentation was titled “University of New England Maine Geriatric Education Center:  Evidenced Based Practice (EBP) for Improving the Quality of Falls Care for Older Adults.”

The audience was comprised of Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) funded geriatric education centers throughout the nation.

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The University of New England is Maine’s largest independent university, with two beautiful coastal campuses in Maine, a one-of-a-kind study abroad campus in Tangier, Morocco, and an array of flexible, accredited online degrees. In an uncommonly welcoming and supportive community, we offer hands-on learning, empowering students to make a positive impact in a world full of challenges. The state’s top provider of health professionals, we are home to Maine’s only medical college, Maine’s only dental college, a variety of other interprofessionally aligned health care degree programs, as well as nationally recognized programs for marine science degrees, natural and social sciences degrees, arts and humanities degrees, and business degrees.