March 2015 Issue | Volume 9, Number 3
A publication of the University of Utah Center on Aging
Research Retreat April 2-3
Our 9th Annual Research Retreat will be held next week, April 2-3, 2015. We encourage all to attend!Visit our Retreat web page here: www.aging.utah.edu/2015retreat
Member Awards
Shaida Talebreza, MD has received her second major award of the year, chosen as one of five for the 2015 Hastings Center Cunniff-Dixon Physician Award.
Leaders who advance palliative care in underserved areas and forge ties with various medical specialists to help people with cancer receive the 2015 Hastings Center Cunniff-Dixon Physician Awards Financial prizes are given to those physicians, young and old, who have shown their care of patients to be exemplary, a model of good medicine for other physicians, and a great benefit in advancing the centrality of end-of-life care as a basic part of the doctor-patient relationship.
Shaida is a geriatrician and palliative care specialist at the George E. Wahlen Salt Lake City Veterans Affairs Medical Center and medical director of Inspiration Hospice, a hospice and palliative care teaching site for the University of Utah. The selection committee praised her work with home-based primary care for veterans.
More information about this award can be found here.
Congratulations Shaida!
Member Spotlight
Satoshi Minoshima, MD, PhD
Professor and Chair
Department of Radiology, University of Utah
Dr. Minoshima completed his M.D. at Chiba University School of Medicine (Japan) and
Residency at the Chiba University Hospital in Radiology. He received his Ph.D. from
Chiba University School of Medicine in Radiological Science, with a Post-Doctoral
fellowship at the University of Michigan in Nuclear Medicine.
We welcome Dr. Minoshima to Utah from the Washington University as new Professor and
Chair of the Department of Radiology. His research interests include neuroimaging
in cognitive disorders.
Keith Diaz Moore, PhD
Professor and Dean - College of Architecture and Planning
Dr. Moore joined the U from the University of Kansas, where he had been a faculty
member of the department of architecture since 2006. In August 2014 he was named as
the new Dean of the College of Architecture + Planning at the Univeristy of Utah.
He has an interest in the issues of aging adult community planning. One of his research
projects was Neighborhood Spatial Configuration and Metabolic Function in Older Adults
with and without Alzheimer’s Disease.
Caring Connections Telecast
Caring Connections will again be hosting the Annual Hospice Foundation of America: Living with Grief Telecast. This year’s presentation will be “The Longest Loss: Alzheimer’s Disease and Dementia" the morning of Friday, April 24th at the University of Utah College of Nursing Annette Poulson Cumming Building (10
south 2000 East, Salt Lake City).
Kathie Supiano, PhD, LCSW, Director of Caring Connections: A Hope and Comfort in Grief Program will be joining
Peter Rabins, Charles Corr, Nancy Pearce and Kenneth Doka on the National HFA panel.
There will be no cost for registration. 3 CEUs are available. Please save the date. For
more information call 801-585-9522.
Meetings of Interest
Grand Rounds - Rothstein Endowed Lectureship
Thursday, April 2 • 8:00 - 9:00 am
“How frailty impacts modern healthcare”
Ken Rockwood, MD,
Kathryn Allen Weldon Professor of Alzheimer ’s Research
Professor of Geriatric Medicine at Dalhousie University
Dalhousie University, N.S., Canada
Health Sciences Education Building (HSEB) Room 3515C
Interdisciplinary Seminar Series on Aging
Monday, April 6 • 12:00 – 1:30 pm
“Aging as an LGBTQIA* Issue”
C. Kai Medina-Martinez, MSW
Director, University of Utah Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Resource Center
Monday, April 20 • 12:00 – 1:30 pm
Capstone Lecture: “American Indian Health Disparities”
Franci Taylor, PhD
Director, University of Utah American Indian Resource Center
These seminars are free and open to the public, held on Mondays from 12 PM – 1:30
PM (refreshments served) at the Goodwill Humanitarian building; Okazaki Community meeting room (155 B), beginning Monday, January 12, 2015
DOWNLOAD THE FULL SCHEDULE HERE
NIH Grant Opportunity
The National Institute on Aging invites researchers to submit innovative R01 research grant applications on aging and the family. The objective of this research program is to expand understanding of the role of families and interpersonal relationships in the health and wellbeing of older people. Go To PA-11-128
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AGING GRANT OPPORTUNITIES
NOTE: This is not necessarily a comprehensive list. Please Search for additional opportunities at Grants.nih.gov.
| Dated | Title and Link to More Information | Funding |
|---|---|---|
| Expires 5/8/2015 | Family and Interpersonal Relationships in an Aging Context (R01) | PA-11-128 |
| Posted 1/5/2014 | Advancing the Science of Geriatric Palliative Care (R01) also R03 and R21 | PA-13-354 |
| Posted 1/5/2013 | Pain in Aging (R01) also R03 and R21 | PA-13-058 |
| Posted 5/5/2013 | Alcohol Use Disorders: Treatment, Services and Recovery Research (R01, also R03, R21) | PA-13-160 |
| Posted 1/5/2014 | Advancing the Science of Geriatric Palliative Care (R01) also R03 and R21 | PA-13-354 |
| Posted 4/28/2014 | Network and Infrastructure Support for Development of Interdisciplinary Aging Research (R24) | PAR-14-081 |
| Posted 5/5/2014 | Early Stage Development of Technologies in Biomedical Computing, Informatics, and Big Data Science (R01) | PA-14-155 |
| Posted 5/5/2014 | Alzheimer's Disease Pilot Clinical Trials (R01) | PAR-14-089 |
| Posted 5/5/2014 | Translational Research to Help Older Adults Maintain their Health and Independence in the Community (R01) | PA-14-161 |
| Posted 5/16/2014 | Translational Research to Help Older Adults Maintain their Health and Independence in the Community (R21) | PA-14-159 |
| Posted 5/23/2014 | Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Centers (P30) | RFA-AG-15-003 |
| Posted 7/04/2014 | Research Supplements for Aging Research on Health Disparities (Admin Supp) | PA-14-256 |
| Posted 7/05/2014 | Lab to Marketplace: Tools for Brain and Behavioral Research (R43/R44) | PA-14-250 |
| Posted 8/23/2014 | Design and Development of Novel Technologies for Healthy Independent Living (R21) | PAR-14-119 |
| Posted 8/23/2014 | Technologies for Healthy Independent Living (R01) | PAR-14-118 |
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The bristlecone pine tree (Pinus longaeva) - the earth’s oldest inhabitant with a
life span of almost 5,000 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.Best,
Mark A. Supiano, MD
Executive Director - Center on Aging
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