Kenneth Rockwood
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Kenneth Rockwood, MD, FRCPC, FRCP
Nova Scotia Health Authority |
Principal Investigator:
2015 Transformative Grant Program Pilot Study — Transforming primary health care for frail elderly Canadians (TG 2015-24-P)
2018 Catalyst Grant Program — The Breaking “Bad Rest” Study: Interrupting sedentary time to reverse frailty levels in acute care (CAT 2018-27)
2019 Interdisciplinary Fellowship Program — Samuel Searle
Dr. Kenneth Rockwood is a Professor of Geriatric Medicine and the Kathryn Allen Weldon Professor of Alzheimer Research at Dalhousie University. He is also a Canadian Institutes of Health Research Investigator, as well as a Staff Physician in the Department of Medicine at the QEII Health Sciences Centre and the Nova Scotia Health Authority Senior Medical Director (Acute Medicine). Dr. Rockwood obtained his MD from Memorial University of Newfoundland, and subsequently completed Internal Medicine Training at the University of Alberta and Geriatric Medicine at Dalhousie University. His research interests include clinical and epidemiological aspects of frailty, dementia and delirium, complexity of frailty and clinico-mathematical correlation.