Dr. David Hogan

Dave Hogan took his undergraduate and postgraduate education at St. Francis Xavier University, Dalhousie University (MD 1977), University of Alberta, University of Ottawa (Internal Medicine), and the University of Western Ontario (Geriatric Medicine). From 1984 till 1990 he was a member of the Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University. While there he served as the Associate Dean for Undergraduate Medical Education. In 1990 he moved to the University of Calgary where he founded the Division of Geriatric Medicine, Department of Medicine (currently he is the Interim Head of the Division). David is a Professor and holds the Brenda Strafford Foundation Chair in Geriatric Medicine at the University of Calgary. This was the first Chair of Geriatric Medicine in Canada and he has been its first (and to date only) holder. He has served as Chair of the RCPSC Specialty Committee in Geriatric Medicine, Chair of the RCPSC Examination Board in Geriatric Medicine, and President of the Canadian Geriatrics Society. David has authored over 300 publications (160+ peer-reviewed). He and his wife Janet have four children. David is particularly proud of his children, the People First Award that the Calgary Health Region graced him with in 2005 and the Distinguished Service Award he received from the Canadian Geriatrics Society in 2007.

Peer Reviewed Publications (2007)

  1. Hogan DB: The History of Geriatrics in Canada. Canadian Bulletin of Medical History 2007, 24(1):131-150.
  2. Hogan DB: Improving Drug Trials for Mild to Moderate Alzheimer’s Disease. Can J Neurol Sci 2007, 34 (Suppl 1): S97-S102.
  3. Blair M, Kertesz A, Davis-Faroque N, Hsiung G-YR, Black SE, Bouchard RW, Gauthier S, Guzman DA, Hogan DB, Rockwood K, Feldman H: Behavioural measures in frontotemporal lobar dementia and other dementias: The utility of the Frontal Behavioural Inventory and the Neuropsychiatric Inventory in a national cohort study. Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders 2007, 23(6):306-15.
  4. Wodchis WP, Maxwell CJ, Venturini A, Walker JD, Zhang J, Hogan DB, Feeny DF: Study of Observed and Self-reported HRQL in Older Frail Adults Finds Group-level Congruence and Individual-level Differences. J Clin Epidemiol 2007, 60:502-11.
  5. Jang RW, Man-Son-Hing M, Molnar FJ, Hogan DB, et al: Family Physicians’ Attitudes and Practices Regarding Assessments of Medical Fitness to Drive in Older Persons. J Gen Intern Med 2007, 22:531-43.
  6. Vik SA, Jantzi M, Poss J, Hirdes J, Hanley DA, Hogan DB, Maxwell CJ: Factors Associated with the Pharmacologic Treatment of Osteoporosis in an Older Home Care Population. J of Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci 2007, 62A: 872-78.
  7. Bergman H, Ferrucci L, Guralnik J, Hogan DB, et al: Frailty, an Emerging Research and Clinical Paradigm: Issues and Controversies. J of Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci 2007, 62A: 731-37.
  8. Rockwood K, Moorhouse PK, Song X, MacKnight C, Gauthier S, Kertesz A, Montgomery P, Black S, Hogan DB, et al: Disease progression in vascular cognitive impairment: Cognitive, functional and behavioural outcomes in the Consortium to Investigate Vascular Impairment of Cognition (CIVIC) cohort study. J Neurol Sci 2007, 252: 106-12.
  9. Hogan DB, Clarfield AM: Venerable or Vulnerable: Ageing and Old Age in J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Lord of the Rings”. Medical Humanities 2007, 33: 5-10.
  10. Middleton LE, Kirkland SA, Maxwell CJ, Hogan DB, Rockwood K: Exercise: A Potential Contributing Factor to the Relationship between Folate and Dementia. J Am Geriatr Soc 2007, 55:1095-98.
  11. Rockwood K, Howlett S, Fisk J, Darvesh S, Tuokko H, Hogan DB, Wolfson C, McDowell I: Lipid lowering agents and the risk of cognitive impairment that does not meet criteria for dementia, in relation to apolipoprotein E status. Neurolepidemiology 2007, 29:201-7.
  12. Hogan DB, Bailey P, Carswell A, et al: Management of Mild to Moderate Alzheimer’s Disease and Dementia. Alzheimer’s & Dementia 2007, 3:355-84. Hogan DB: Progress Update: Pharmacological Treatment of Alzheimer’s Disease. Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment 2007, 3(5): 569-78.
  13. Peters KR, Rockwood K, Black SE, Hogan DB, et al: Neuropsychiatric Symptom Clusters and Functional Disability in Cognitively-Impaired – Not-Demented Individuals. Am J Geriatr Psychiatry 2007, 16:136-44.
  14. Hogan DB: Proceedings and Recommendations of the 2007 Banff Conference on The Future of Geriatrics in Canada. Can J Geriatrics 2007, 10(4): 133-48.
  15. Hogan DB: Review – Our Current Understanding of the concept of frailty in later life. Aging Health 2007, 3:767-76.
  16. Dalby DM, Hirdes JP, Hogan DB, et al: Potentially Inappropriate Management of Depressive Symptoms among Ontario Home Care Clients. Int J Geriatr Psychiatry 2008 Jan 30 [epub ahead of print].Heckman GA, Demers C, McKelvie RS, Hogan DB: Heart Failure in Older Adults. Can J Gen Intern Med 2007, 2(4): 24-26.