A total of 147 Geriatric Education Centers (GECs), clinician educators, and medical schools (make this a click through link to attached document which should be posted as a pdf) were awarded Fiscal Year (FY) 2007 Title VII Geriatrics Health Professions Program funds, the Health Resources and Services Administration confirmed in mid-October.

Title VII geriatrics program funds finance the nation's GECs, geriatric academic career awards (GACAs), and geriatric faculty fellowships. Congress cut all FY 2006 funding for the programs, but restored FY 2007 funding totaling $31.5 million on the heels of numerous advocacy campaigns led by the American Geriatrics Society (AGS), the Association of Directors of Geriatric Academic Programs (ADGAP), their members, and other advocates of quality elder healthcare.

Forty-eight Geriatric Education Centers received FY 2007 GEC awards. The GEC program is designed to enhance the training of health professionals in the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease and other health concerns of the elderly.

Eighty-eight clinician educators received GACAs, which aim to increase the number of junior faculty in geriatrics at medical schools and promote the development of their careers as academic geriatricians who emphasize teaching, including the teaching of interdisciplinary geriatrics teams.

Eleven institutions were awarded Geriatric Training for Physicians, Dentists, and Behavioral/Mental Health Professions Program awards. This program provides support, including fellowships, to train physicians, dentists and behavioral and mental health professionals who plan to teach geriatric medicine, geriatric behavioral or mental health, or geriatric dentistry.

List of 2007 Title VII Geriatrics Health Professions Awardees by State