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Sanjay Suman

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Sanjay Suman

Job Title consultant geriatrician, clinical director of elderly care services, Medway NHS Foundation Trust, Kent
Biography

Sanjay has a special interest in frailty, sarcopenia, malnutrition, falls, and syncope in older individuals. As a subject matter expert, Sanjay has delivered a number of keynote lectures on these subjects at national and international conferences. He is passionate about improving the reversible components of frailty, such as nutritional status and polypharmacy reduction, contributing to improving clinical outcomes for frail individuals, both in primary and secondary care.

In his Clinical Director role, he has established a number of bespoke frailty focused assessment pathways such as acute frailty unit and an emergency access pathway for acute frailty, falls, and syncope clinic for the elderly. In the community, he has supported the development of a number of services including care home support services, geriatrician led MDT meetings in the community to name a few. He has been a recipient of the Academic Health Sciences Network (Kent, Sussex, and Surrey) Leadership and Innovation award for Excellence in Out of Hospital Care category 2017.