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The International Neuropalliative Care Society (INPCS) honored Laura Hanson MD, MPH with its Outstanding Scientific Contribution Award. The November 2022 award recognized Dr. Hanson’s research in dementia palliative care. In addition, ´óÏó´«Ã½ Neurocritical Care faculty member Winnie Lau, MD received an INPCS seed funding award at this meeting.

Recently, ´óÏó´«Ã½ Geriatric Medicine personnel attended the Gerontological Society of America’s Annual Scientific Meeting, GSA22. Held from November 2-6 in Indianapolis, IN, GSA22’s theme was Embracing our Diversity, Enriching our Discovery, Reimagining Aging. Division Chief Dr. Jan Busby-Whitehead was joined at the conference by Dr. John Batsis (Associate Professor, Division...

The ´óÏó´«Ã½ Student Government honored Dr. Lindsay Wilson (Associate Professor of Geriatric Medicine) with the Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine Award.

Dr. David Lynch was recently selected for a Clin-STAR Pilot Grant. By encouraging junior and senior researchers from different disciplines and institutions to come together, these Pilot Grants can stimulate new areas of age-related research.

Caroline Buse (´óÏó´«Ã½ MSTAR ’21) recently received the James McKenney Travel Award from the Academy for Gerontology in Higher Education (AGHE) and The Gerontological Society of America (GSA).

From July to December, the CGWEP is hosting a monthly Project ECHO series, '´óÏó´«Ã½ Geriatrics for Primary Care Providers ECHO Series,' which is open to all providers.

More than one million Americans have late-stage dementia. Sadly, they suffer significantly from physical pain, neuropsychiatric distress symptoms, and medical complications. On top of that, these people also often deal with hospital and emergency room visits.

Since 2010, the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Medical Student Training in Aging Research (MSTAR)* Program, led by PI, Jan Busby-Whitehead, MD, has welcomed 148 medical and osteopathic students to Chapel Hill. These students all came to gain experience in aging-related research. Students are paired with an ´óÏó´«Ã½ faculty mentor that currently has funding...

From June 24–25, the Duke-´óÏó´«Ã½ ADRC hosted the Symposium for Learning about Alzheimer’s disease-related Medical research at Duke and ´óÏó´«Ã½ (SLAM-D´óÏó´«Ã½). During this two-day event, former ´óÏó´«Ã½ men’s basketball coach Coach Roy Williams and former Duke men’s basketball coach Michael Krzyzewski offered encouraging words for Alzheimer’s researchers. See the full...