Masternak set to receive the Geron Corporation - Samuel Goldstein Distinguished Publication Award
...enter Marriott Resort. The meeting is organized to foster interdisciplinary interactions among clinical, administrative, and research professionals in the field of gerontology. Established in 1994, the Geron Corporation - Samuel Goldstein Distinguished Publication Award is awarded to the best paper publishe...GSA confers 2005 Joseph T. Freeman Award to New York Medical College's Aronow
...enter Marriott Resort. The meeting is organized to foster interdisciplinary interactions among clinical, administrative, and research professionals in the field of gerontology. Aronow's contribution to the field of aging is unique. He is one of the leading geriatric cardiologists in the nation and is one of...University of Minnesota's Warner wins GSA's 2005 Donald P. Kent Award
...enter Marriott Resort. The meeting is organized to foster interdisciplinary interactions among clinical, administrative, and research professionals in the field of gerontology. Warner, a GSA fellow, currently serves as Associate Dean of Research in the University of Minnesota's College of Biological Science...The Gerontological Society of America confers 2004 Richard Kalish Innovative Publication Award
...enter Marriott Resort. The meeting is organized to foster interdisciplinary interactions among clinical, administrative, and research professionals in the field of gerontology. The duo was selected for their paper, "Personality Reconsidered: A New Agenda for Aging Research." The award committee chose this p...The Gerontological Society of America bestows Robert W. Kleemeier Award to Duke University's Blazer
...enter Marriott Resort. The meeting is organized to foster interdisciplinary interactions among clinical, administrative, and research professionals who specialize in the study of the aging process. Blazer currently holds the positions of J.P. Gibbons Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Vice ...GSA confers 2005 M. Powell Lawton Award to Yale University's Tinetti
...enter Marriott Resort. The meeting is organized to foster interdisciplinary interactions among clinical, administrative, and research professionals who specialize in the study of the aging process. Tinetti's commitment to translating her research into practice is evidenced by her many collaborative efforts ...GSA confers 2005 Distinguished Mentorship in Gerontology Award to USC's Bengtson
...enter Marriott Resort. The meeting is organized to foster interdisciplinary interactions among clinical, administrative, and research professionals in the field of gerontology. Bengtson has received four teacher-of-the-year awards from USC during his long tenure there. He has chaired 34 doctoral dissertatio...Jessie F. Richardson Foundation's Brown Wilson to receive GSA's 2005 Pollack Award
...enter Marriott Resort. The meeting is organized to foster interdisciplinary interactions among clinical, administrative, and research professionals who specialize in the study of the aging process. Brown Wilson's career spans a broad range of academic and professional activities in aging and long-term care,...UC San Francisco's Harrington wins GSA's 2005 Doris Schwartz Gerontological Nursing Award
...enter Marriott Resort. The meeting is organized to foster interdisciplinary interactions among clinical, administrative, and research professionals who specialize in the study of the aging process. Harrington's research has had a national inpact on long-term care policies. Her studies on staffing served as ...GSA confers 2005 Nathan Shock New Investigator Award to McGill University's Duque
...enter Marriott Resort. The meeting is organized to foster interdisciplinary interactions among clinical, administrative, and research professionals in the field of gerontology. Duque currently serves as an assistant professor in the Department of Medicine and Division of Geriatric Medicine at McGill. He is ...Womb needed for proper brain development
...and the optimal conditions and treatment needed to foster brain development for very premature infants who are treated in neonatal intensive care units early in life....Unrelated adults in the home associated with child-abuse deaths
...ed adult (cases - 10%, controls - 3%), 4. Step or foster parents (cases - 4%, controls - 2%), 5. One or two biologic parents and another unrelated adult (cases - 21%, controls - 1%). They found that comparatively few of the injured children lived with both biologic parents. While 72 percent of US childre...NIH grant to fund U-Georgia's doctoral student's innovative dietary research
... more cost-effective health promotion methods that foster long-term dietary changes." Della's study will attempt to identify whether a cross section of adults (males and females ages 18 to 74) living diverse lifestyles hold different attitudes toward their intake of fruit and vegetables. The knowledge gaine...Institute of Medicine news: Report on mental illnesses and drug addictions
... establishing a permanent, high-level mechanism to foster greater coordination across the department's mental, substance-use, and general health care agencies. A broad range of providers is licensed to diagnose and treat mental health and substance-use illnesses. Consequently, their training levels and the...APIA announces the distinguished Dr. Barry Uretsky as opening speaker
...nts precisely the goals of the APIA Conference: to foster scientific and technical interaction among regional workers in cardiovascular medicine and to create a strong dialogue between workers and experts around the world. Dr. Uretsky is the President of the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interv...Implementing European Space Policy: Key ESA/EC agreement on Earth Observation data signed today
...e services of the EC, the JRC is ideally placed to foster pre-operational and operational services, in support of the EU policies and services being developed through GMES. ESA is playing its role of leading agency in the development of space systems, particularly in support of the GMES initiative. A prop...17th annual medical ethics conference to focus on global and personal issues
...2 S. Ellis Ave., Room P117. The Center's aim is to foster a network of clinical scholars worldwide who use clinical ethics to improve the quality of patient care and patient outcomes. This year's conference remembers benefactors Dorothy Jean MacLean, who helped found the Center and was deeply committed to i...NSF grant to Children's Hospital of Philadelphia bridges academic research, child safety innovation
...to the hands of the industry members, who can best foster the necessary changes that will prevent these injuries. CChIPS research initiatives are already under way: Young Drivers: Traffic crashes occur disproportionately among new young adult drivers, who also are more likely than those in other age g...Innovate or perish? Helping developing countries fight neglected diseases
...o address how disadvantaged countries could better foster scientific and technology innovation to directly impact health issues. Conducted in Bellagio, Italy in April, the meeting led to development of the Science article. Participants concluded that the best approach for developing countries may be to po......blemakers from travelling is important, the way to foster incident-free events is a 'low profile', friendly-but-firm police presence, and dealing with fans on the basis of their behaviour not their reputation. The study, led by Dr Clifford Stott and Dr Otto Adang of the University of Liverpool School of P...