SHM Converge Scientific Abstract ePoster Gallery-Launching Strive: Positioning Hospital Medicine at the Center of the Healthspan Revolution

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STRIVE (Stanford Resilience and Longevity Initiative) is a hospital medicine program designed to advance the science of physiological reserve and improve recovery, resilience, and healthy longevity after illness and hospitalization.

The initiative focuses on three main pillars:  
- <strong>Research:</strong> Identifying biological and functional predictors of recovery and resilience.  
- <strong>Education:</strong> Offering community lectures, student programs, and clinician education.  
- <strong>Advocacy:</strong> Translating clinical science into strategies that promote healthspan.

STRIVE emphasizes three types of reserve: <strong>physical, cognitive, and metabolic-immune</strong>. Its current study uses <strong>POCUS (point-of-care ultrasound)</strong> to assess physical resilience, with integration of radiology, rehabilitation, and AI tools.

The core idea is that <strong>hospitalization acts as a physiological stress test</strong> that can reveal vulnerability. By understanding a patient’s reserve during hospitalization, clinicians may be able to:
- Predict recovery trajectories
- Identify patients at risk of decline
- Guide targeted rehabilitation and preventive strategies

The presentation argues that while longevity medicine is growing in popularity, hospital care still tends to focus mainly on acute stabilization rather than longer-term recovery. STRIVE aims to change that by making hospital medicine central to the healthspan revolution.

Support for STRIVE comes from <strong>philanthropic funding, revenue from educational programs, and grants</strong>. Overall, the initiative seeks to expand interdisciplinary research into physiological reserve and healthy longevity, using hospitalization as a key opportunity to study how patients recover and how decline might be prevented.

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Sarita Khemani

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Author List Crystal Smith, Jason Hom, Sarita Khemani

Category Innovations

Concept STRIVE Initiative

Concept Physiologic Reserve

Concept Healthy Longevity

Concept Hospitalization

Concept Cognitive Reserve

Distinguished Non-Finalist

Presenter Organization Stanford University

Presenting Author Sarita Khemani

Track Geriatrics

Keywords

STRIVE

Stanford Resilience and Longevity Initiative

physiological reserve

hospital medicine

healthy longevity

recovery

resilience

POCUS

hospitalization

healthspan

STRIVE Initiative

Physiologic Reserve

Healthy Longevity

Hospitalization

Cognitive Reserve