Dear Fellows,
Thanks for tuning in to this issue of the FIT Newsletter. With the GSA meeting coming up next week and the deadline for AGS 2007 Annual Meeting abstracts on the horizon (hint, hint…) the year is already in full swing. With both 'care' and 'career' in mind, I've asked three friends of the fellows section to contribute articles for the current issue.
Richard G. Stefanacci, DO, Director of the Health Policy Institute at the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia and a former Health Policy Scholar at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), writes about the wide variety of career options open to young geriatricians, and the need to balance clinical care with advocacy or policy or both.
Judith Salerno, MD, currently a Deputy Director at the National Institute on Aging, updates us on the current funding situation at the National Institues of Health (NIH), and offers several suggestions for those thinking about grants or a career in academic geriatric research.
Leo M. Cooney, MD, Professor and Chair of the Geriatrics Department at Yale and an expert on musculoskeletal pain, reviews the plethora of medications available for pharmacological pain management, looking specifically at the properties which make them appropriate (or potentially harmful) in older persons.
If you're interested in working with us in the fellows-in-training section, please drop me a line at marc.rothman@yale.edu. We've taken several suggestions from the last fellows-in-training breakfast (in Chicago) to heart, but if you have more, fire away. I'll be in Dallas Tuesday through Thursday, so let me know if you'd like to meet and chat.
Best Regards,
Marc Rothman, MD
Chair, AGS Fellows-in-Training Section
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