Thom Ringer, JD
The Edward Henderson Student Award is presented to a student pursuing a career in geriatrics with unique distinction. Thom Ringer, our 2017 awardee, is currently completing his medical degree at the Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine at McMaster University in Canada, and has been working within the Geriatric Education and Research in Ageing Sciences (GERAS) Centre at St. Peter’s Hospital/Hamilton Health Sciences in Ontario since 2014. A Rhodes Scholar with a juris doctorate from Yale Law School, Mr. Ringer has been recognized as one of McMaster University’s “most accomplished and productive medical students,” with a true passion for geriatrics and older adult well-being. Mr. Ringer’s scholarly work has focused on caregivers and frailty. He recently published a cross-sectional study of caregivers for frail older adults, as well as a related systematic review of evidence regarding the relationship between frailty and caregiver burden. He will be joining the family medicine residency program at the University of Toronto in July 2017. In Mr. Ringer’s own words: “In clinical training, I was struck not just by the vulnerability of older adults, but of their families…I believe there is no sustainable future for ageing societies that do not care for caregivers.”
Past Recipients of the Edward Henderson Student Award
2016 Marielle Bolano, BS
2015 Meng Ni, PhD
2014 Ravi B Parikh
2013 Jason Liebowitz
2012 Vivien Sun
2011 Mark Fitzgerald, BS
2010 Carolyn P. Horney, MS-IV
2009 Elizabeth Kwo, BA
2008 Shayna Rich
2007 Andrew D. McWilliams, MPH, MS-III
2006 Juliesa Pavon, MS-3
2005 Christopher Allen Jones, MS
2004 Thomasina Lynn Bailey
2003 Kathleen Tschantz Unroe
2002 Katherine S. Garman
2001 Joy E. Cuezze
2000 Amit A. Shah
1999 Lillian Chiang
1999 Sonja L. Talvi
1998 Alayne Kulvicki
1998 James L. Rudolf
1997 Tim R. Willingham, BS
1996 Pamela Kirschner
1995 Janelle Marie Nantkes
1995 Laura Bodin