Jugdeep Dhesi

💬 Biography
Jugdeep Dhesi, PhD FRCP
Jugdeep is a consultant geriatrician and has led the establishment of the innovative and award-winning POPS (Perioperative medicine for Older People undergoing Surgery) service at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust.
She is President of the British Geriatrics Society and Deputy Director at the Centre for Perioperative Care. Jugdeep is Honorary Professor at King’s College London and Associate Professor at University College London, with research interests including preoperative assessment and optimisation, health services research and postoperative delirium. She has extensive national and international experience in a variety of steering, advisory and guideline groups (NELA, RCoA, BGS, NICE, EuGMS, ANZCA) and has senior editor roles. Jugdeep has a wide education and training portfolio, having established the first Allied Health Professional, Foundation and Specialist Registrar training programmes in perioperative medicine, co-authored e-learning modules, MSc modules and multiple textbook chapters. She is a frequent invited speaker nationally and internationally.

🎤 Presentation: Surgery in an ageing population; innovation to implementation
Across the world increasing numbers of older people are considering and/or undergoing elective and emergency surgical procedures. However, the lifetime impact of social determinants and the accumulation of multiple long conditions and geriatric syndromes with age, results in the older population being at increased risk of adverse postoperative outcome. It is now apparent that a different model of perioperative care is required to deliver value-based perioperative care for older people. In this keynote lecture, we will consider the need for innovation and the barriers and solutions to implementation of age-attuned models of perioperative care.