CSO Clinical Lecturer and Geriatric Specialist Registrar Dr Atul Anand CSO Clinical Lecturer and Geriatric Specialist Registrar Centre for Cardiovascular Science Deanery of Clinical Sciences College of Medicine & Veterinary Medicine Contact details Email: atul.anand@ed.ac.uk Background I am an academic geriatrician in training and have recently completed a PhD exploring clinical biomarkers in older patients with aortic stenosis. The cardiovascular care of frail older adults remains an ongoing interest. Through my research training I developed skills in the analysis of large health datasets and how these may be used to improve clinical care. My work in this area continues as part of the HighSTEACS clinical research group (led by Professor Nick Mills), delivering pragmatic cardiovascular trials through novel use of routine health data. Combining this with my clinical work as a geriatrician, my current CSO Lectureship is seeking to derive an automated hospital episode frailty index to aid identification of frail older patients in hospital. I believe this could improve targeting of specialist care and establish means to include frail patients in the representative recruitment of trial populations. This article was published on 2024-09-24
