Reserve Tickets Now for This Year's "Evening with Friends" - And Support Student-Researchers in Geriatrics

More than 300 AGS members, friends and supporters enjoyed last year's sold-out "An Evening With Friends" benefit and raised $50,000 -- enabling 115 promising students to attend the Society's 2007 Annual Scientific Meeting and learn more about the opportunities the field of geriatrics affords.

Now's your chance to reserve tickets for this year's "An Evening With Friends" -- slated for May 1 during the 2008 Annual Scientific Meeting in Washington DC -- and help a new group of students attend the meeting and learn about the field.

A perennial highlight of AGS' annual meetings, "An Evening With Friends" benefits the AGS Foundation for Health in Aging's Student Researcher Fund. The fund offsets travel expenses for students invited to present their geriatrics research at a special student poster session during the meeting. (See related story)

Advance registration for the May 1 "An Evening With Friends," which runs from 8 to 10 p.m. -- is required. Admission is $85 and covers entertainment, an open bar, and an irresistible array of desserts.

If you can't attend but would still like to support student researchers, you can make a donation directly to the fund. For information about the event, the fund, and the students you can help support, to purchase tickets or to make a donation, visit http://www.healthinaging.org/about/events/evening_with_friends2008.php. For further information, contact Li-Chia Ong (long@americangeriatrics.org).

"By enabling talented student researchers to attend the annual meeting, we give them an opportunity to meet geriatrics healthcare professionals, learn about research and pressing issues in the field, and understand how vibrant and critically important geriatrics is," says FHA President Meghan Gerety, MD, Chief of Staff, New Mexico VA Health Care System and Associate Dean and Professor of Medicine, University of New Mexico. "This is just the kind of thing we need to do to recruit promising candidates into the field."