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Geffen, Leon

Dr Leon Geffen

Physician, Honorary Senior Lecturer, Geriatric Medicine, University of Cape Town; Medical Director, Agewell
MBChB, FCFP(SA) Leon Geffen is a family physician in general practice in Cape Town. He is an Honorary Senior Lecturer in the Division of Geriatric Medicine at the University of Cape Town (UCT) and conducts sessions in the Groote Schuur Hospital/UCT Memory Clinic. He actively teaches and examines Registrars in Family Medicine at the university. He is a member of the the South African Geriatrics Society (SAGS), the South African Academy of Family Physicians (SAAFP), the South African Medical Association, the Allergy Society of South Africa and the Southern African HIV Clinicians Society (SAHCS). Geffen is the president and honorary medical superintendent of Highlands House, a Jewish Aged Home in Cape Town. Geffen has published on stroke, the management of infective endocarditis, ageing and sexuality, ageing and immunology, the management of patients in a memory clinic and research in general practice. His current research interests include improved quality of long-term care and the use of quality indicators and assessment instruments in community-dwelling older persons. He is currently engaged in a public-private partnership programme with the Western Cape Department of Health to provide medical services at a primary care level. He is the Medical Director of Agewell, an international multi-centre project being implemented at two sites in Cape Town to develop and evaluate support services for older persons in the community. Geffen recently completed an evaluation of oral health in older persons in Cape Town as part of an international collaborative study. He was appointed a Fellow of interRAI.

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