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For Immediate Release
EMBARGO DATE:
May 15, 2003

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Pamela Ingham
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AMERICAN GERIATRICS SOCIETY NAMES NEW OFFICERS AT ITS
MAY 2003 ANNUAL SCIENTIFIC MEETING IN BALTIMORE, MARYLAND

New York, NY-Richard Besdine, MD will assume the role of President of the American Geriatrics Society and Meghan Gerety, MD has been voted President-Elect.

Dr. Besdine serves as Greer professor of medicine, director of the Center for Gerontology and Health Care Research, director of the Division of Geriatrics and interim dean of the Medical School at Brown University. Dr. Besdine replaces Dr. Johnson, who is interim chief of the geriatric medicine division and associate director for health services and education programs at the University of Pennsylvania's Institute on Aging. As dictated by AGS bylaws, Dr. Johnson will serve as Chair for 2003-2004.

The AGS Board of Directors has elected Meghan Gerety, MD, as President-Elect. Dr. Gerety is associate chief of staff and service line manager of geriatrics and extended care at South Texas Veterans Health Care System and a professor of medicine at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. David Reuben, MD, will serve another term as Secretary. Dr. Reuben is a professor of medicine and the director of the Multi-Campus Program in Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology, chief of the geriatrics division, and co-director of the Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Center at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.

The board has also elected Paul Katz, MD as Treasurer. Dr. Katz is a professor of medicine at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry. He also serves as medical director at Monroe Community Hospital, director of the Geriatric Fellowship Program at the University of Rochester, and director of the Finger Lakes Geriatric Education Center, sponsored by the Bureau of Health Professions.

Founded in 1942, the American Geriatrics Society (AGS) is a nationwide, not-for-profit association of geriatrics health care professionals dedicated to improving the health, independence and quality of life of all older people. The Society supports this mission in many ways through activities in clinical practice; professional education on the clinical care of older people; research; public education and information; public policy efforts; and by collaborative relationships with other organizations.