Center for Aging and Health

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The John A. Hartford Foundation, Inc. Carolina Center of Excellence
in Geriatric Medicine

John A. Hartfound Foundation logo used with permission
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In 2005, the Center for Aging and Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH) was tendered the prestigious honor of becoming a John A. Hartford Foundation Carolina Center of Excellence in Geriatric Medicine, one of 24 Hartford Centers of Excellence in the United States.

The primary goal of this category of Hartford Foundation grants is to increase qualified medical schools' funds to train physicians and physicians-in-training in geriatrics.

The UNC-CH Center for Aging and Health, led by Jan Busby-Whitehead, MD, is using grant monies: one, to recruit second- and/or third-year geriatrics or related specialty fellows into research projects; two, to develop a shared research support core consisting of personnel in research, biostatistics, data management, and administration and to pilot funding for fellows; and three, to recruit additional faculty members for the Center for Aging and Health/Division of Geriatric Medicine, one of whom would lead the Hartford Center of Excellence in future projects.

The team of UNC-CH physicians and specialists who work on the Center's projects come from the following areas of expertise: geriatrics, family medicine, internal medicine, public health, social medicine, nursing, allied health, rheumatology, biostatistics, and curriculum design and implementation.

Current John A. Hartford Fellows

Anthony Caprio, MD, Division of Geriatric Medicine, Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
anthony_caprio@med.unc.edu

Amanda Nelson, MD, Department of Rheumatology, Thurston Arthritis Research Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
aenelson@unch.unc.edu

From the John A. Hartford Foundation webpage on their Centers of Excellence Program:

The Hartford Foundation’s Centers of Excellence in Geriatric Medicine and Training is a $36 million initiative to help medical schools prepare faculty to ensure that future doctors are able to meet the needs of older patients. Currently, 24 Hartford Centers of Excellence are operating across the country.

The strategy of the Centers of Excellence initiative is to identify medical schools with the necessary components for training academic geriatricians—including research infrastructure, advanced training opportunities, and academic mentoring—and provide grant funds to increase the number of future faculty members in training.

View John A. Hartford Foundation webpage at http://www.jhartfound.org/

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Last updated 8/6/2007.

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