Geriatrics Fellowship News

Five teams from the Department of Medicine have received 2017 Innovation awards from Duke Institute for Health Innovation.

Duke Department of Medicine and School of Medicine investigators, under the leadership of Kenneth Schmader, MD, chief, Division of Geriatrics and professor of medicine, and Miriam Morey, PhD, professor of medicine (Geriatrics), successfully competed for a 5-year renewal of the highly prestigious National Institute on Aging P30, $5.4 million, Claude D.

Duke medical students Kelly Ryan Murphy and Daniel Goltz and mentor Heidi White, MD, associate professor of medicine (Geriatrics), were recently recognized with a 2016 AMDA Foundation Quality Improvement and Health Outcome Award, which recognizes innovative programs that make a distinct impact on the quality of long-term care.

Duke Institute for Health Innovation has announced the recipients of its 2016 Innovation Awards, and among them are many Medicine faculty and trainees.

The Duke Center for the Study of Aging and Human Development celebrated its 60th Anniversary on Sept. 25, 2015, at the Trent Semans Center. The celebration combined a Maddox keynote lecture by Stephanie Studenski, MD, PhD, with presentations of the 2015 Busse Awards.

Studenski, who is Chief of the Longitudinal Studies Section of the National Institute on Aging, spoke on “A Longitudinal Perspective on the Longitudinal Studies of Aging.” 

Mitchell Heflin, MD, associate professor of medicine (Geriatrics) and Eleanor McConnell, RN, PhD, associate professor of nursing, have received a 2015 Geriatric Workforce Enhancement Program grant from the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services. The Duke award, for $2.5 million over 3 years, will support the Duke Geriatric Workforce Enhancement Program: Communities Caring for Seniors, a program to improve community based care for older adults.

In a recent article the Association of American Medical Colleges reports that by 2025, the number of Americans over the age of 65 will nearly double, but as of 2014, there were fewer than 7,500 geriatricians in the United States, only eight of the country's 145 academic medical centers have full geriatrics departments and only 44 percent of the nationals' 353 geriatric fellowship positions are filled.