Pfizer and the AGS Foundation for Health in Aging (FHA) are pleased to announce the 2003 recipients of the Junior Faculty Scholars Program for Research on Health Outcomes in Geriatrics. This program endeavors to help physician-scientists during the critical transition from junior faculty to independent researcher.

The 2004 Recipients are:

Susan E. Hardy, MD Yale University School of Medicine "Probability and Predictors of Transitions between Disability and Independence among Community-Dwelling Older Persons" Susan Hardy, MD will complete her fellowship training in Geriatric Medicine and PhD in Investigative Medicine at Yale in June 2004 and will join the faculty as an Instructor of Medicine. Dr. Hardy was a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar and has received the Merck/AGS New Investigator Award and the Gerontological Society of America Clinical Medicine Person-in-Training Award for her research on recovery from disability. Her primary research focus is prognosis in the frail elderly, and specifically understanding and predicting functional trajectories in older persons.

Julie P.W. Bynum, MD, MPH Dartmouth Medical School "Cognitive Impairment in the Elderly: Developing the Foundation for Population-Based Research on Health Care and Health Outcomes" Julie Bynum MD MPH is an assistant professor in medicine at Dartmouth Medical School. She completed her geriatric fellowship at Johns Hopkins where she was supported by the Hartford/American Federation for Aging Research Academic Geriatric Fellowship. Her research focus is the delivery of health care to people with dementia and its subsequent outcomes. For her early work in this area, she was a recipient of the Merck/AGS New Investigator Award in 2003.

The two recipients, selected by an academic advisory board composed of distinguished academic geriatricians, will receive a $130,000 grant over a two-year period to perform studies in outcomes research addressing clinical strategies, innovative outcomes measures and quality of life. Research findings are presented at the American Geriatrics Society Annual Scientific Meeting at the conclusion of the recipient's grant.

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