Volume 3, Issue 5
May 15, 2007
Special Edition

100 New Geriatric Academic Career Awards Available:
Calling All Hartford Foundation Physician and Psychiatry Grantees and Colleagues

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) has agreed to fund 100 new Geriatric Academic Career Awards (GACA). This is a unique opportunity for Hartford grantees and their colleagues to demonstrate to HRSA the necessity and importance of funding geriatric-focused educational research. It is essential that as many applicants as possible apply in order to show HRSA that this program is needed and to help ensure that it will be funded in the future.

The John A. Hartford Foundation is supporting a number of GACA application webinars, which will not only help applicants learn how to apply for a GACA but also offer tips on how to craft a high-quality application.

Due to the short notice for these grants, we are urging Hartford grantees to forward this information to your colleagues in the field as soon as possible. GACA applications are due June 18, 2007.

The application webinars will be conducted by past GACA recipients and the senior leaders at their institutions. The first two will focus on academic geriatrics careers and will be led by the University of Oklahoma with presenters Dr. Marie A. Bernard, Donald W. Reynolds Chair in Geriatric Medicine & Professor and Chairman, Reynolds Department of Geriatrics, and former GACA recipients and assistant professors Drs. Karen Ross and Bryan Struck. The third webinar will focus on academic geriatric psychiatry careers and will be led by the University of Pittsburgh with presenters Dr. Jules Rosen, Professor of Psychiatry, and former GACA recipient Dr. Lalith Solai, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry. The first three webinars are scheduled as follows:

Wednesday, May 16, 2007 at 3:00pm CST/4:00pm EST
Academic Geriatrics
Led by the Oklahoma Team
To register for this webinar, go to: www.readytalk.com/ev.php?id=jdlq7ez3

Monday, May 21, 2007 at 12:00pm CST/1:00pm EST
Academic Geriatrics
Led by the Oklahoma Team
To register for this webinar, go to: www.readytalk.com/ev.php?id=6w14adee

Thursday, May 31, 2007 at 9:00am CST/10:00 am EST
Academic Geriatric Psychiatry
Led by the University of Pittsburgh Team
To register for this webinar, go to: www.readytalk.com/ev.php?id=y98o4xzw

More webinar dates will be announced soon. The Geriatric Academic Career Award Program Guidance and Form are available at: www.hrsa.gov/grants. Please feel free to contact Lauren Kahn at the American Geriatrics Society (lkahn@americangeriatrics.org) with any questions.