Dear
Louise
March 2008 Volume 4, Number 1
A publication of the University of Utah Center on
Aging
phone: 801.585.9540
email:
aging@hsc.utah.edu
News and Events
Highlights from Research Retreat held February 28 and 29,
2008The Second Annual Research Retreat was a huge
success. Thanks to all who submitted and presented their research
poster boards and other materials. The poster presentations gave
faculty and students a chance to interact and discuss various
aspects of aging research and health care.
Jeffrey Halter,
MD, Professor and Chief of the Division of Geriatrics and Director
of the Geriatrics Center and Institute of Gerontology at the
University of Michigan, (pictured below) delivered the keynote
address, “Diabetes, Aging, and Longevity: The Insulin Paradox,”
followed by presentations by the recipients of the 2007 CoA pilot
grants.
Water bottles and mugs with the CoA logo are still
available to CoA faculty members. Please contact Louise Tonin at
585-9540 or louise.tonin@utah.edu to
make arrangements to receive one. We encourage you to use the CoA
logo on handouts, posters, papers and powerpoint presentations. It
is available in pdf and jpg formats on our website at http://aging.utah.edu
2008 Pilot Grant Program Call for ProposalsA
reminder that the application deadline is May 1, 2008. The complete
request for proposals with detailed application information may be
downloaded from the Center's home page, http://aging.utah.edu
Center on Aging Faculty Member Sonia Salari Receives the
2008 Distinguished University Teaching AwardDr. Salari
is an Associate Professor in the Department of Family and Consumer
Studies in the College of Social and Behavioral Science at the
University of Utah. She joined the faculty in 1995 after she
received her Ph.D. at the State University of New York at Albany and
completed a 2 year NIA Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of
North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Her research interests are in
mistreatment and quality of life in family relationships and formal
organizations, institutions and services.
Dr. Salari has
examined social inequality based on race gender and ethnic status
and one publication was written in response to 9/11/01 which pointed
to the lack of gerontological research on Middle Eastern
elderly:
Sonia Salari (2002) Invisible in Aging Research:
Arab Americans, Muslims and Middle Eastern Immigrants in the United
States. The Gerontologist. Vol. 42( 5) 580-588. October.
In
a recent publication it was noted that gender socialization patterns
have varied across historical periods and have been examined to
determine how psychological well-being of men and women differ by
birth cohort. Younger cohorts were shown to be more androgynous in
the predictors of well-being than the older cohorts:
Sonia
Salari & Wei Zhang (2006) “Kin keepers and good providers:
Gender socialization effects on well-being among birth cohorts”
Aging and Mental Health Vol. 10 (5) 485-496.
She recently
contributed to a volume about Utah Demographics:
S. Salari
(2006). The Elderly in Utah: Small proportions with rapid growth. In
Zick, C. & Smith, K.R. (Ed.) Utah at the Beginning of the New
Millennium: A Demographic Perspective. University of Utah
Publishers: Salt Lake City, UT.
Dr. Salari has served as a
domestic violence victim’s advocate, works with the Utah Domestic
Violence Council Professional Education Committee and regularly
teaches a course in Family Violence (FCS 5370). Her other courses
include FCS 2400 Family Across the Life Course, FCS 5240 Mid/Later
Life Adult Development and FCS 3430 Family Policy. Dr. Salari has
won the College of Social and Behavioral Science Superior Teaching
award 2004-5 and the Distinguished University Teaching Award
2008.
Health and Aging Policy Fellows 2008-2009 May
1, 2008, is the deadline to apply for the 2008-2009 Fellows Program.
More information can be found at http://healthandagingpolicy.org
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Jeffrey Halter, MD
and Mark Supiano, MD
pictured together before keynote
address.
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 About our logo: The bristlecone
pine tree (Pinus longaeva) -
the earth’s oldest inhabitant
with a life span of 4,000 years -
is found only in Utah and
five other western states.
Its extraordinary longevity and
ability to adapt and
survive in extremely harsh
environmental conditions
above 10,000 feet embodies the
investigative spirit
and mission of the Utah Center on
Aging.
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If you
have questions about the University of Utah Center on Aging, please
visit us online at http://aging.utah.edu
801-585-9540 or aging@hsc.utah.edu
Best,
Mark
A. Supiano, MD
Executive Director - Center on
Aging
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