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American Geriatrics Society Awards 20 US Residency Programs Geriatrics Education for Specialty Residents Grants; John A. Hartford Foundation Grant Program Expands, Awarding 4 Previous Recipients Additional Funds to Further Disseminate Training Materials They've Developed
The American Geriatrics Society (AGS) recently awarded 20 Geriatrics Education for Specialty Residents (GSR) grants to medical school and hospital residency programs in the surgical and related medical specialties. The two-year grants are aimed at better preparing specialty residents to care for the nation's ever increasing population of older adults. The Society also awarded four previous GSR grant recipients its inaugural GSR Dissemination Grants (GSR-DG), to enable them to further disseminate the training tools and materials they developed with support from the GSR program. Adults 65 and older make up a growing share of the patients seen by medical specialists.
The John A. Hartford Foundation has funded the GSR program since its inception in 2001. Program grants support collaborations between surgical and related medical specialty faculty and geriatrics faculty at medical schools and hospitals in ten targeted specialties. The faculty members work as a team to develop, initiate, and evaluate model programs that integrate geriatrics into surgical and related specialty residency training. Each two-year GSR grant of $40,000 supports curricular innovations at each team's home institution. GSR-DG grants range up to $25,000 each.
"These programs are essential to ensuring that surgical and other specialists are prepared to care for aging patients, who have very different medical needs than younger adults," said AGS President John B. Murphy, Professor of Medicine and Family Medicine, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, VP for Medical Affairs and Chief Physician Officer at Rhode Island Hospital. "We're extremely pleased to be able to provide these awards to these residency programs and support initiatives that will improve specialty care for older people."
The GSR is part of the AGS' larger Geriatrics-for-Specialists' Initiative (GSI), also funded by the John A. Hartford Foundation, which aims to help prepare surgeons and other medical specialists provide healthcare tailored to the unique needs of older adults. The AGS' Section for Surgical and Related Medical Specialties oversees the GSI, which targets ten specialties - anesthesiology, emergency medicine, general surgery, gynecology, ophthalmology, orthopedic surgery, otolaryngology, physical medicine and rehabilitation, thoracic surgery and urology.
Since the GSR was established in 2001, the initiative has supported 66 collaborations that have enhanced training for surgical and related specialty residents in medical schools and hospitals throughout the country. Many U.S. medical training programs, however, still lack necessary curricula specific to the care of older patients. The goal of the GSR is to fill this void in medical training and improve the quality of care for older adults. The GSR does this in two ways. It fosters the development of geriatric education curricula for specialty trainees, thereby enabling these trainees to acquire the knowledge and skills necessary to provide quality care for older patients. By focusing on these trainees, it also ensures that their knowledge is disseminated further when these individuals forge ahead in the medical field and teach colleagues, faculty and students in the future.
To apply for a 2009 GSR grant, go to http://www.americangeriatrics.org/specialists/gsr/default.asp.
New Geriatrics Education for Specialty Residents Grants Recipients
2008-2010 GSR award recipients, their specialties, their home institutions, and the geriatrics faculty members with whom they will collaborate are:
| Anesthesiology |
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Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA |
| Program Director: |
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Reuben J. Azocar, MD |
| Geriatrician: |
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Serena Cho, MD, MPH |
| Program: |
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Maimonides Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY |
| Program Director: |
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Kaplana Tyagaraj, MD / Dennis Feierman, MD, PhD |
| Geriatrician: |
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Jennifer Breznay, MD, MPH |
| Emergency Medicine |
| Program: |
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Boonshoft School of Medicine, Wright State University, Kettering, OH |
| Program Director: |
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John Michael Ballester, MD |
| Geriatrician: |
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Gordana Gataric, MD |
| Program: |
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CHRISTUS Spohn Memorial Hospital, Corpus Christi, TX |
| Program Director: |
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Thomas McLaughlin, DO |
| Geriatrician: |
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Kathleen Soch, MD |
| Program: |
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SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY |
| Program Director: |
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Jessica Stetz, MD, MS |
| Geriatrician: |
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Joel R. Gernsheimer, MD |
| Program: |
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Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN |
| Program Director: |
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Lee Wilbur, MD |
| Geriatrician: |
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Glenda Westmorland, MD |
| General Surgery |
| Program: |
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Duke University, Durham, NC |
| Program Director: |
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Sandhya Lagoo-Deenadayalan, MD, PhD |
| Geriatrician: |
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Mitchell T. Heflin, MD |
| Program: |
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University of Nevada School of Medicine, Reno, NV |
| Program Director: |
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Patricia May, MD |
| Geriatrician: |
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Diane Chau, MD |
| Program: |
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MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX |
| Program Director: |
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Nancy D. Perrier, MD |
| Geriatrician: |
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Holly M. Holmes, MD |
| Program: |
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University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX |
| Program Director: |
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Taylor S. Riall, MD, PhD |
| Geriatrician: |
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Anita C. Mercado, MD |
| Program: |
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Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Balitmore, MD |
| Program Director: |
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Dorry Segev, MD |
| Geriatrician: |
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Grace Cordts, MD, MPH |
| Gynecology |
| Program: |
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University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA |
| Program Director: |
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Harrison G. Ball, MD |
| Geriatrician: |
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Sarah McGee, MD, MPH |
| Ophthalmology |
| Program: |
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Summa Health System, Akron, OH |
| Program Director: |
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Nancy E. Awender, MD |
| Geriatrician: |
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Kyle R. Allen, DO |
| Program: |
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Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT |
| Program Director: |
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C. Robert Bernardino, MD |
| Geriatrician: |
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Leo M. Cooney, MD |
| Program: |
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MetroHealth Medical Center, Cleveland, OH |
| Program Director: |
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Kimberly Cingle, MD |
| Geriatrician: |
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Hans Geho, MD |
| Orthopaedic Surgery |
| Program: |
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University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA |
| Program Director: |
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Neil Segal, MD |
| Geriatrician: |
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Paul Mulhausen, MD |
| Otolaryngology |
| Program: |
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University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AK |
| Program Director: |
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Paul M. Spring, MD |
| Geriatrician: |
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Vinay Kutagula, MD |
| PM&R |
| Program: |
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Emory University, Atlanta, GA |
| Program Director: |
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Dale C. Strasser, MD |
| Geriatrician: |
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Thomas Price, MD |
| Urology |
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The University of Texas Health Science Center
at San
Antonio, San Antonio, TX |
| Program Director: |
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Joseph Basler, MD |
| Geriatrician: |
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Elizabeth Glazier, MD |
| Program: |
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University of Florida, Gainsville, FL |
| Program Director: |
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Philipp Dahm, MD, MHSc |
| Geriatrician: |
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Ron Shorr, MD, MS |
The GSR-DG program offers support to past recipients of GSR grants in order to disseminate their work to their colleagues in residency programs in other institutions, in other disciplines within their own institutions, or both. In so doing, successful GSR Dissemination Grant awardees will serve as leaders in their specialties, utilizing their experiences in program development and implementation to disseminate workable educational models to other specialty training programs. The GSR-DG grant recipients, their specialties, their home institutions, the geriatrics faculty members with home they will collaborate and are:
| Emergency Medicine |
| Program: |
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North Shore University Hospital, Manhasset, NY |
| Program Director: |
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Michael Cassara, DO |
| General Surgery |
| Program: |
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MetroHealth Medical Center, Cleveland, OH |
| Program Director: |
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Joel R. Peerless, MD |
| Program: |
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Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT |
| Program Director: |
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Melissa Perkal, MD |
| Gynecology |
| Program: |
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University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL |
| Program Director: |
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Holly Richter, PhD, MD |
The new GSR-DG program offers support to past recipients of GSR grants to enable them to further disseminate their work to their colleagues in residency programs in other institutions, in other disciplines within their own institutions, or both. The GSR-DG grant recipients, their specialties, their home institutions, the geriatrics faculty members with home they will collaborate and are:
| Emergency Medicine |
| Program: |
North Shore University Hospital, Manhasset, NY |
| Program Director: |
Michael Cassara, DO |
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| General Surgery |
| Program: |
MetroHealth Medical Center, Cleveland, OH |
| Program Director: |
Joel R. Peerless, MD |
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Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT |
| Program Director: |
Melissa Perkal, MD |
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| Gynecology |
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University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL |
| Program Director: |
Holly Richter, PhD, MD |
For more information about the GSR, visit http://www.americangeriatrics.org/specialists/gsr/default.asp. For more information about the GSR-DG, please contact Rachael Edberg Silverman at redberg@americangeriatrics.org.
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