Miles Witham
Academic geriatrician; NIHR Newcastle BRC and CRF; BGS vice-president for research. Ageing, Sarcopenia, MLTC, better trials for and with older people, big data and a dash of global health.
- Reposted by Miles WithamThank you @gerisoc.bsky.social for The Kate Granger Poster Prize at the Geriatrics for Juniors conference 2025 for dedication to improving standards of care for older people! #BGSconf @pops-sup.bsky.social @nhselect.bsky.social @jkdhesi.bsky.social @jsmhoughton.bsky.social @lbeishon.bsky.social
- Reposted by Miles WithamWe’d like to introduce Dr Maria Panourgia as the new #NHFD orthogeriatrics clinical lead elect👏 Maria is a consultant orthogeriatrician whose leadership and clinical practice focuses on orthogeriatrics, fragility fractures and falls prevention. 🔗 ow.ly/n5Ke50XS31r
- Reposted by Miles WithamProfessor Mumtaz Patel joins @thelancet.com podcast to discuss the urgent challenges facing the UK medical workforce & training. From staff shortages & career development to clinical academia and ensuring the voice of resident doctors is heard loud and clear. 🎧Listen now: ow.ly/1FJ350XSkL0
- Reposted by Miles Witham🏆Honoured to win the Dorothy Robson prize for #PalliativeMedicine at @hyms.ac.uk for an abstract -from my #PhD research on #Inequalities in access to #PalliativeCare in lung disease - thank you ☺️ 🫁 @wolfsonpallcare.bsky.social @jonathankoffman.bsky.social @flissmurtagh.bsky.social
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- Reposted by Miles WithamLiz Orton introduces FLEXI study about implementation of FAME - physical activity programme for #olderpeople @gerisoc #bgsconf @arc-em
- Professor Elizabeth Orton will speak in the House of Commons this week on how physical activity can boost the health and wellbeing of older adults. She will present evidence on the Falls Management Exercise (FaME) programme and its impact. Read more: 🔗 arc-em.nihr.ac.uk/news/notting...
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- Reposted by Miles WithamCathal McCrory presents keynote #BGSconf on social aspects of ‘hallmarks of ageing’ - & his research: The Irish Longitudinal study of Ageing (TILDA) introduced by @jkdhesi.bsky.social president of @gerisoc.bsky.social tilda.tcd.ie
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- Delighted to share details of @nihr.bsky.social James Lind Alliance research priority setting survey for delirium. For completion by UK health/social professionals and those with personal experience of delirium. Complete the survey and have your say. More details 👇 www.qmul.ac.uk/wiph/centres...
- Reposted by Miles Witham📰Weekend read! BSRA & Dutch Society for Research on Ageing sign collaboration agreement of 1. Mutural speaker exchange 2. Reciprocal meeting benefits 3. Joint policy work 4. Joint initiatives 5. Future plans, watch this space... Read more - bsra.org.uk/dusra-collab...
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- Through the purple door today for BGS Trustees Board meeting. @gerisoc.bsky.social
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- Interested in improving how we can improve delivery of resistance exercise for older people with sarcopenia or frailty? Come and hear from some of the teams who participated in BEPOP wave 2!
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- @donnawakefield.bsky.social any ideas?
- Reposted by Miles WithamMany thanks to contributions from all authors and others who provided valuable feedback on drafts. @amergeriatrics.bsky.social #geriatrics #DEImatters
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- Reposted by Miles Witham@oldertrialsprof.bsky.social @gerisoc.bsky.social this aligns with some of the things we were talking about earlier
- 💡 Research strengthens practice. It drives real improvements for people, patients & policy. This plan lays foundations for better, evidence-informed care across Wales. 🔗 www.gov.wales/improving-re... @researchwales.bsky.social @ukcrc-ctu.org.uk @cardiffuni.bsky.social 🏥🧠
- Reposted by Miles WithamDo you work in or with care homes? The NIHR HealthTech Research Centre for Community Healthcare are collecting perspectives, opinions and ideas about how technology can support and shape the care delivered in care homes. Please take 10 minutes to give your thoughts: forms.office.com/e/4tnrpKhLgy
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- Reposted by Miles WithamThe winner of the Senior Leader Award, Professor Vicki Goodwin MBE from the University of Exeter, receiving her Excellence Award. “If I can see it and believe it, then I can be it.”
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- Reposted by Miles WithamWe've launched our new report 🎉 Led by @proflizsampson.bsky.social, 'Delirium Matters: priorities and opportunities for health and social care policy in England’ has 5 urgent recommendations to improve delirium care in England. 📕 Full report: shorturl.at/pio7T 📝 Policy brief: shorturl.at/khrCT
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- Interested in how we can improve resistance exercise training for older people with #sarcopenia or #frailty? Our national BEPOP benchmarking project team will be presenting results from the second wave of data collection at the AGILE conference in May! Sign up here: www.tinyurl.com/AgileConf2025
- @newcastleage.bsky.social team at @gerisoc.bsky.social conference - showcasing our work on #sarcopenia intervention selection. Help shape our research on what a good sarcopenia intervention looks like! forms.office.com/e/HN1F1tGGhc
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- Reposted by Miles Witham📻 Podcast! 📻 The Lancet Healthy Longevity in conversation with our very own @oldertrialsprof.bsky.social discussing the findings from our MET-PREVENT #clinicaltrial and the importance of designing clinical trials for #olderpeople @nihrnewcastlebrc.bsky.social www.thelancet.com/multimedia/p...
- Our NIHR Newcastle BRC funded MET-PREVENT trial now published - no improvement in physical performance or quality of life with 4 maths of metformin in older people with sarcopenia and frailty (but lots of side effects) @nihr.bsky.social @medicalsciencesncl.bsky.social @nihrnewcastlebrc.bsky.social
- Reposted by Miles WithamUkraine: Some disparate thoughts on a horrifying day... This is basically a scream of hatred and anguish, which gradually develops into something marginally more positive. I'm going to have a drink. It's not too early. iandunt.substack.com/p/some-dispa...
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- Give us a Christmas gift by completing our national sarcopenia survey - your responses will help keep Santa fit and active in old age bit.ly/4heSey6. @gerisoc.bsky.social @age-and-ageing.bsky.social
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- Prof Colin McCowan discussing gaps in methodological knowledge that the cross #NIHR collaboration on #MLTC will address @nihr.bsky.social
- Kickoff for our cross- #NIHR collaboration on #MLTC launch event in London - Profs Sayer and Khunti presiding! @gerisoc.bsky.social @nihr.bsky.social
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- Cross-NIHR collaboration on MLTC colleague Peter Hanlon discussing adverse impacts of hospital admission for people with MLTC at #BGSConf. @gerisoc.bsky.social
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- Nearly full house for our #BGSConf Presidents Round, showcasing some of the best abstracts in quickfire 3 min presentations. Well done to all the presenters! @gerisoc.bsky.social
- Prof Peter Buckle (NIHR HRC) talking at #BGSConf - diagnostics are just as much about the people and care systems as they are about the tech @gerisoc.bsky.social @nihr.bsky.social
- Tim Hicks from NIHR Newcastle HealthTech Research centre discussing unmet needs for care home diagnostics at #BGSConf. Lot of suggestions, but also lots of valuable context on the human side of testing in care homes. @gerisoc.bsky.social @nihr.bsky.social
- Prof Gail Hayward at #BGSConf explaining the role of NIHR HealthTech Research Centres - helping develop better diagnostics and health tech for older people. @gerisoc.bsky.social @nihr.bsky.social
- Dr Oly Todd - our BGS Rising Star lecturer for 2024. Rehearsing evidence on BP management for older people wirh frailty and his research contribution to this important area @gerisoc.bsky.social
- Una Clancy at #BGSConf discussing the wide spectrum of clinical consequences of small vessel disease - delirium, stroke, falls, apathy. Microinfarcts underdiagnosed as a cause for acute deterioration? @gerisoc.bsky.social
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- The Dragons (and the audience) have decided! Everyone's a winner, but large language models get the most... @gerisoc.bsky.social
- And we are off... @gerisoc.bsky.social
- The money is here for our @gerisoc.bsky.social Dragons to disburse to the winner of our AI and healthtech Dragons Den event today...
- BGS conference going to be popular by the look of the queue for registration!
- UK colleagues involved in caring for older people: Please complete our short NIHR Newcastle BRC survey which aims to describe current UK clinical practice around sarcopenia diagnosis and management; your responses will help us to improve research and practice in this crucial area. bit.ly/4heSey6
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[Not loaded yet] - Fantastic Harveian oration tonight at RCP London, given by our very own Professor Avan Sayer. First Harveian oration given by a geriatrician in the 400+ years since the event was established. We are all tremendously proud of you Avan!
- Slightly after the event, but here's our new AGE Research Group comment on what Olympic sport and geriatric medicine have in common - and how that might help older people that we serve. doi.org/10.1093/agei...
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- 📢Delighted to announce the publication of a Nature Reviews Disease Primer on #Sarcopenia, led by members of the AGE Research Group and the Ageing, Sarcopenia and Multimorbidity Theme within the NIHR Newcastle BRC nature.com/articles/s41...
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