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Department of Family Medicine

Associate Professor Vincent DelaGarza, MD
Family Medicine Section of Geriatrics
Morgantown, WV

PRESENTATIONS

  • Pain in the Elderly, Geriatric Pharmacology, and Nursing Home Medicine. AAGES meeting. Shepardstown, West Virginia. March 2008
  • Herpes zoster in the elderly. West Virginia Geriatrics Society, Huntington, WV. January 2006.
  • Pain in the Elderly. October 2005. Morgantown, West Virginia. Annual West Virginia Geriatric Society meeting
  • “A description of a rotavirus outbreak in a long-term care facility.” September 2005. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Merck advisory Council on rotavirus vaccine.
  • “Infections in the elderly.” July 2005. Health Sciences Center. Morgantown, WV.
  • “Pain in the elderly.” November 2004. Advance certificate in geriatrics course. Stonewall resort, West Virginia .
  • “Pharmacotherapy in the elderly.” November 2004. Advance certificate in geriatrics course Stonewall resort, West Virginia.
  • “Pain and other symptoms at the end of life.” September 2003. Veterans Administration hospital, Clarksburg.
  • “Geriatric assessment.” June 2003. Health Sciences Center. Morgantown, WV.
  • “Pain at the end of life.” July 2002. Canaan Valley resort, West Virginia.
  • “Age related physiologic changes.” October 2001. Health Sciences Center. Morgantown, WV.
  • “Elder mistreatment.” September 2001. MDTV presentation. Morgantown, WV.
  •  “Issues in Aging.” July 2001. Health Sciences Center.
  • “Current treatments of Alzheimer's disease.” October 2000. Marion County medical Society meeting.
  • “Geriatric assessment.” September, 2000. Allegheny College of Maryland. Cumberland, Maryland.
  • “Doctors on call” Healthy Aging and Men’s health. September, 2000. West Virginia Public television.
  • Falls in the elderly. Department of Obstetrics, West Virginia University, School of Medicine.
  • “Incontinence.” October, 2000. Health Sciences Center. Morgantown, WV.
  • “Evaluation and treatment of dementia.” 1999. Health Sciences Center. Morgantown, WV.
  •  “Clinical pathological conference: A case of Becker muscular dystrophy.” October 1997 Hal Wanger conference, West Virginia University.
  • Moderator West Virginia Pennsylvania geriatric Society Continuing medical education meeting. May 1997. Pittsburgh Pennsylvania.
  • “Disturbed behaviors in Alzheimer's disease.” May 1996. West Virginia University. Update in Geriatrics, CME meeting.
  • “Inflammatory bowel disease.” October, West Virginia University school of medicine, second year medical students. Health sciences Center. Morgantown, WV.
  • “Pharmacotherapy in the elderly.” March, West Virginia University school of medicine, second year medical students, Health sciences Center. Morgantown, WV.
  • “Nursing home medicine.” Each third year medical student block. Sundale or Madison nursing facilities, Morgantown, West Virginia.
  • “Nursing home medicine.” July. First-year family medicine residents. Health sciences Center. Morgantown, WV.
  • “Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.” July. First-year family medicine residents. Health sciences Center. Morgantown, WV.
  •  “Dementia.” October 1996. Committee of retired faculty. Alumni center. Morgantown, WV.

PUBLICATIONS

  • Reactivation of Herpes Zoster associated with an increased risk of death in older persons. VW DeLaGarza, et al. West Virginia Medical Journal. 2008; 14(5):22-24.
  • Chapter: Pharmacotherapy in the Elderly. VW Delagarza.
    AAGE syllabus. Copyright 2004, West Virginia Geriatric Society
  • Delagarza, VW. Chapter: “Pain in the elderly.” AAGE syllabus. Copyright 2004, West Virginia Geriatric Society.
  • Delagarza, WV., Anderson, RA., Mach, J., Bennett, RG., “Improving Advance Directives discussions in nursing homes.”  Journal of the American Medical Directors Association. 2001; 2:105-109.
  • Meit, SS., Delagarza, VW. “Elder Mistreatment.” Primary Care Reports 2001: 7(18): 153-160.
  • Meit, SS., Delagarza, VW. “Elder Mistreatment.” Primary Care Reports 2001: 7(17) 145-152.
  • Gonzalez, I. M, Karron, R. A.Eichelberger, M.Walsh R, Delagarza, V, Bennett R,.Chanock R ,Murphy, B. Clements-Mann, M. L.Falsey, A. R.
  • “Evaluation of the live attenuated cpts 248/404 RSV vaccine in combination with a subunit RSV vaccine (PFP-2) in healthy young and older adults.” Vaccine 2000 Mar 6;18(17):1763-72.
  • Delagarza, VW., Anderson, RA., Mach, J., Bennett, RG.“Advance Directive Discussions and Preferences Among EverCare Enrollees.” Abstract, American Geriatric Society meeting. May, 1999.