The Geriatrics Practice and Teaching Program

Photo of Rani Snyder, Donald W. Reynolds Senior Program Officer, at the 2007 AAMC convention in St. Louis, Missouri, USA, July 2007, with (to the far left) UNC's Ellen Roberts, PhD, MPH, Research Assistant Professor of Medicine, Academic Coordinator for Geriatric Education, Center for Aging and Health and Office of Educational Development, and (on the right) Jan Busby-Whitehead, MD, Professor & Chief, Division of Geriatric Medicine and Director of UNC's Center for Aging and Health. They stand next to Dr. Roberts' poster designed for the event titled "Training and Assessing Medical Students in Falls Risks for Geriatric Patients."

In 2003, the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation selected the Center for Aging and Health at UNC-Chapel Hill to receive a $2 million grant to enhance medical school and physician geriatric education in North Carolina. When applying to the Reynolds Foundation for the grant, Center for Aging and Health Director Jan Busby-Whitehead, MD, said, "It represents an ambitious, comprehensive 4-year program that will address all levels of physician education." The university matched the Reynolds money with $1 million.

View training modules created at UNC-CH with Donald W. Reynolds Foundation funds...

Why the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation gives money to institutions that train doctors to treat elderly patients:
"The Foundation launched its Aging and Quality of Life Program in 1996.  Its goal remains improving the quality of life for America’s elderly by preparing physicians to provide better care for them when they become ill.  Most physicians today lack adequate training to meet the needs of the frail elderly patient.  Such patients typically suffer from interacting physical, social and psychological conditions –both acute and chronic – that limit their independence and threaten their capacity to function in daily life."
Donald W. Reynolds webpage, accessed 12/20/2006

To meet rapidly expanding health care needs in aging, the Center for Aging and Health (CAH) trains students and practitioners in health and human services to provide excellent clinical care to older adults and to serve as leaders in geriatrics education and program development. Through training initiatives, the CAH works closely with a number of community organizations to improve the health of North Carolina’s older adults.

Division of Geriatric Medicine's Laura Hanson, MD, MPH, Researches the Phenomenon that Affects 100% of the Population:
Click on the photo to view her research.

Our UNC-CH Geriatric Division and Center for Aging and Health faculty members have saved documents in this section of our website for their own frequent use. The documents will be of varying size and professional level. Click on the faculty member's name to see their archive.

Busby-Whitehead, Jan, MD

Bynum, Debra, MD

Caprio, Anthony, MD

Coward, Holly Jean, MD

Hanson, Laura, MD, MPH

Erdem, Nurum, MD, MPH

Greganti, Andrew, MD

Gregory, Patricia, MD

Halpern, David, MD

Helton, Margaret, MD

Hill, Michael, MD

Holt, Terrence, MD, PhD

Hoole, Axalla, MD

Hunter, Rebecca, MEd

Khandelwal, Christine, DO

Kizer, Stephen, MD

LaMantia, Michael, MD

Madry, Sarah, MEd

Roberts, Ellen, MPH, PhD

Roth, Heidi, MD

Roth, Mary, Pharm D, MHS, FCCP

Shubert, Tiffany, PhD, MPT

Sloane, Philip, MD, MPH

Watson, Lea, MD

Williams, Bernadette, PT, ScD, GCS

Winzelberg, Gary, MD, MPH

Last updated 11/13/2007.