Events & Save the Dates:
Geriatrics Grand Rounds: The Impact of Trauma and How Trauma-Informed Care Helps Create a Healing Environment – Paige Hector
Monday July 24, 12pm-1pm
Retirement Party! Celebrating Aging Center Statisticians Carl, Rick & Jane
Thursday July 27, 5pm-6:30pm
Gizmo Brew Works Durham Taproom – 3109 Shannon Rd, Suite 201, Durham 27707
Save the Date! Aging Center & Geriatrics Popsicle Picnic Sunday 9/10, 3-5pm
Join your colleagues and friends from the Aging Center and Geriatrics for a casual afternoon of LocoPops and lawn games at Sandy Creek Park in Durham! Outlook invitation with details and directions will hit your inbox this week. Families welcome!
Stead Tread 5K run/walk 2023 – Benefitting Lincoln Community Health Center
Saturday September 23, 9am
Solite Park, 4704 Fayetteville Rd, Durham 27713
Registration is $35 per person age 13+ and free for 12-and-under. Follow this link to register and join Team Geriatrics at this fun and important event! You can run or walk, and strollers are welcome. Register by September 1 to get a Stead Tread 2023 t-shirt. Dr. Colon-Emeric will be happy to pat for any Geriatrics fellows who want to participate!
Current Funding & Other Opportunities:
REACH Equity/Jones Endowment RFA - Funding is available from the Robert Randolph Jones III Memorial Fund to support and mentor an early-stage investigator (fellow or junior faculty) to contribute to an on-going REACH Equity research project by adding a focus on hypertension control. Applications due 7/31/23
ADRC RFP for innovative neurodegeneration-related discovery research in Basic Brain Science – One $100,000 award. Open to Duke SOM Faculty, LOI Due 9/15/23
What’s new at NIA? June 2023 NOFOs and announcements roundup
Be a facilitator at the Fall 2023 Foundations of Learning in Interprofessional Practice (FLIP) Workshop – Duke IPEC Center is recruiting facilitators for the September 13 workshop. Please see attached flier for details, compensation, and registration links.
AAMC Mid-career Women Faculty Career Development Seminar – December 5-7, 2023 in Atlanta, GA. Women associate professors are eligible to apply. Applications open in August and remain open for three weeks. Click here for more details and to sign up for event updates.
In the News:
Congratulations to Cathleen Colon-Emeric and team on their $7.5MIL PCORI Grant Award! The interdisciplinary team, spanning five institutions, will study models of post-acute care in complex older adults with fractures. Read the full article from the Department of Medicine HERE.
Aging Center Senior Fellows recognized among Best Scholars in the World – Research.com has produced a new set of rankings, and Aging Center Senior Fellows Dr. Terrie Moffitt, Dr. Avshalom Caspi, and Dr. Harold Koenig were named among the top in the world in their fields. Read the whole article HERE.
Literature Round-up:
- Demographically-adjusted normative data among Latinos for the version 3 of the Alzheimer's Disease Centers’ Neuropsychological Test Battery in the Uniform Data Set – published in Alzheimer’s & Dementia: The Journal of the Alzheimer’s Association – lead author, Dr. Maria Marquine
- Machine Learning Model Identifies Mild Cognitive Impairment from Retinal Scans – published in Ophthalmology Science – research team includes numerous ADRC faculty
- Assessment and Management of Older Adults Undergoing PCI, Part 1: A JACC: Advances Expert Panel – published in JACC: Advances – Geriatric Cardiology Research Team, including Aging Center Senior Fellow Karen Alexander, MD, proposes geriatric syndromes as a 4th pillar of risk assessment for older adults undergoing PCI
- What could go wrong? Reflections and roadmap for successfully engaging with public media – in press in JAGS – authors include Dr. Heather Whitson and recent visitor to Duke, Dr. Louise Aronson
Doing Good in the Neighborhood:
Dr. Nathan Boucher appointed to Health Aging Durham board of directors – Geriatrics faculty member and Aging Center senior fellow Nathan Boucher has been appointed to the Board of Directors of Aging Well Durham, a new non-profit whose mission is built on our work for the Durham municipal Master Aging Plan (for which Dr. Boucher is also a committee member) https://healthydurham.org/cms/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Durham-MAP_FINAL.pdf Shelisa Howard, the Executive Director of Aging Well Durham, area government/nonprofit leaders, Duke stakeholders, and Dr. Boucher have worked on housing, food insecurity, and caregiving issues for Durham County older adults for some time. This effort is at the forefront of older adult care and support in the Triangle and a model for the state and beyond. Congratulations, Nathan!
Duke Dementia Family Support Program is collecting incontinence products drive for older adults in need in our community – DDFSP is a sponsor at the 2023 Duke Caregiver Community Event and this year the organizers have asked the sponsors to host donation drives to acquire incontinence items that can be given to families in need at the in-person September conference. Please see the attached flier for details. There is a container in the 1st floor hallway to drop off any donations for the drive!