The UNC School of Medicine 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 (UNC 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, ‘UNC Geriatrics for Primary Care Providers ECHO Series,’ which is open to all providers.

In a recent special article in the Journal of American Geriatrics Society, John A. Batsis, MD (Associate Professor, UNC Division of Geriatric Medicine) and Patrick P Coll, MD (Medical Director for Senior Health and Associate Director for Clinical Geriatrics at the UConn Center on Aging at UConn Health), and colleagues reviewed the need to redesign Medicare’s Annual Wellness Visits.

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 UNC 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 UNC faculty mentor that currently has funding in an aging-related research area. … Continued

From June 24–25, the Duke-UNC ADRC hosted the Symposium for Learning about Alzheimer’s disease-related Medical research at Duke and UNC (SLAM-DUNC). During this two-day event, former UNC 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 article and watch the videos … Continued

Andrea Valentino is an aspiring computer scientist who wants to design apps that increase older adults’ quality of life. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Valentino discovered a greater desire for a career that benefits older adults. As she says in her two-page essay for the Brown/Kraus Scholarship in Gerontology, “during the pandemic I realized how dangerous … Continued

Health news site Healio recently interviewed Dr. John Batsis about advantages and challenges of using telehealth for obesity management.