Beschreibung
Autorenporträt
José Luis Dinamarca-Montecinos is Medical Doctor (University of Valparaíso), Geriatrician (Viña del Mar - Quillota Health Service), PhD and MSc in Social Gerontology (University of Granada and University of León), and Graduated from the Latin American Academy of Medicine for the Older Adult (ALMA). He carries out his main academic activity as Associate Professor at the University of Valparaíso and other universities in Chile. As a clinician, he is Head of the Orthogeriatrics Program of the Adult Orthopedics and Traumatology Service, at the Dr. Gustavo Fricke Hospital in Viña del Mar. Dr. Dinamarca is a member of the Chilean Society of Geriatrics and Gerontology, and of the Chilean Society of Psychogeriatrics. Also, honorary member of the Chilean Society of Orthopedics and Traumatology, of the Paraguayan Society of Gerontology and Geriatrics and of the Colombian Society of Orthopedic Surgery and Traumatology. He is also Chair of the Scientific Committee of the Fragility Fracture Network (2023-2024), chief editor of BHVM, the indexed scientific journal of the Lucas Sierra Foundation in Chile, and associated editor of Geriatrics, Gerontology and Aging, the indexed scientific journal of the Brazilian Society of Geriatrics and Gerontology. Dr. Dinamarca is the author and introducer of the concept of "Dysmobility", a practical reconceptualisation of the Immobility Geriatric Syndrome. He presented his work in 2002 in the Latin American Network of Gerontology, and in 2004, he published the book 'From Immobility to Dysmobility in Geriatrics' (Chilean Society of Psychogeriatrics). Over the following 20 years, this work deeply influenced clinical practice in Latin America and Spain, modifying the nomenclature and methodology in multiple scientific and academic publications, and also influencing public health policies in several countries.
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