Dr. Don Melady is an Emergency Physician at Mount Sinai Hospital, one of the teaching hospitals of the University of Toronto where he is an Associate Professor.  He has a particular interest in excellent ED care of older people.  He is the director of a fellowship in Geriatric Emergency Medicine.   He’s the founding chair of the Geriatric Emergency Medicine Committees at both the Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians and the International Federation of Emergency Medicine.  He sits on the board of the Geriatric ED Accreditation program of American College of Emergency Physicians.  He has an accredited FOAMed website – www.geri-EM.com -- and recently co-authored a book, Creating a Geriatric Emergency Department: A Practical Guide, published by Cambridge University Press.