Volume 4, Issue 2
December 14, 2007

In This Issue

1. Hartford Trustees Award New Grants, Expand Medicine Training Centers Program (December 2007)
2. Chief Resident Initiative Adds Five New Sites
3. New Social Work Doctoral Fellows Selected
4. AMIA 2007 New Investigator Award Presented to Hartford Grantee
5. Nursing Institute at NYU Launches www.ConsultGeriRN.org
6. Upcoming Hartford Program Deadlines
7. Communications Tip: Data Resources on Bandwidthonline.org

1. The trustees of the JAHF recently approved the following grants:

To increase the number of physician faculty dedicated to geriatrics, the Foundation awarded grants for three new Centers of Excellence in Geriatric Medicine and Training. This funding will support the training of at least 30 advanced fellows and junior faculty members to prepare them for careers in aging research and teaching. Since 1997, the Foundation has awarded over $38 million to create 24 Centers of Excellence.

Brown University/Rhode Island Hospital, Providence, RI
Richard W. Besdine, MD
Grant amount: $450,000 over three years

University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
Sanjay Asthana, MD
Grant amount: $450,000 over three years

Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC
Jeff D. Williamson, MD, MHS
Grant amount: $450,000 over three years

2. Chief Resident Initiative Adds Five New Sites

Five medical schools at the universities of Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, Rochester, and South Carolina, selected through a peer-reviewed application process, will participate in the Chief Resident Immersion Training program as part of a $2 million grant to the Association of Directors of Geriatric Academic Programs (ADGAP) and Boston University. Four more schools will be chosen in 2008 and an additional four in 2009. Each institution will receive a 30-month grant of $114,000 to conduct two intensive CRIT training retreats and follow-up training for their chief residents.

CRIT aims to familiarize chief residents with geriatrics syndromes, the functional assessment of older patients, assessing decision making capacity, preoperative and postoperative evaluation, and management and discharge planning. It's also designed to encourage positive attitudes toward caring for the aging, foster leadership and teaching skills, and improve collaboration among the various specialties and subspecialties involved in elder care.

For more information about CRIT, go to: www.americangeriatrics.org/newsletter/2007Q4/program.asp

3. New Social Work Doctoral Fellows Selected

4. AMIA 2007 New Investigator Award Presented to Hartford Grantee

David Dorr, MD, Hartford grantee and assistant professor of medical informatics and clinical epidemiology at the Oregon Health & Science University School of Medicine, received the 2007 New Investigator Award at the annual symposium of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) in Chicago. The award is given annually in recognition of an individual’s early informatics contributions and significant scholarly contributions on the basis of scientific merit and research excellence.

Dorr’s work at OHSU is focused on collaborative care, chronic disease management, and quality enhancement, as well as the clinical information systems required to support them. He is the principal investigator for Care Management Plus, a technology-intensive, innovative primary care model that reduces hospitalizations, lowers costs, and improves health outcomes for older adults with chronic illnesses.

To read more about Dr. Dorr’s award, visit: www.ohsu.edu/ohsuedu/newspub/releases/111307amia.cfm or: www.caremanagementplus.org.

5. Nursing Institute at NYU Launches ConsultGeriRN

The Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing at New York University has launched a new Web site, www.ConsultGeriRN.org, to provide clinical content on the care of older adults, including:
·  Evidence-based geriatric content by topic, symptoms, and specialty nursing practice;
·  The Try This assessment tools series;
·  Hospital competencies;

6. Upcoming Hartford Program Deadlines

The newest feature of The Hartford Foundation Report is a listing of Hartford programs’ upcoming grant application deadlines. We hope this addition to the newsletter is helpful!

January 11, 2008
T. Franklin Williams Scholars Award www.healthinaging.org/franklin_Williams/index.asp

January 15, 2008
Building Academic Geriatric Nursing Capacity (BAGNC) Scholarships
BAGNC Claire M. Fagin Fellowships
BAGNC MBA Scholarships
www.geriatricnursing.org/applications

January 29, 2008
Chief Resident Immersion Training Program (CRIT)
www.americangeriatrics.org/adgap/crit/default.asp

February 1, 2008
Hartford Faculty Scholars in Geriatric Social Work
www.gswi.org/programs/hfs.html

Hartford Doctoral Fellows in Geriatric Social Work
www.gswi.org/programs/hdf.html

March 2, 2008
Geriatrics Education for Specialty Residents curricula enrichment grants
www.americangeriatrics.org/specialists/gsr_program.shtml

April 14, 2008
Curriculum Development Institutes for Geriatric Social Work
depts.washington.edu/geroctr/Center2/sub2_1_3CDIApplication.html

May 1, 2008
Hartford Pre-Dissertation Awards in Geriatric Social Work
www.gswi.org/programs/predissertation.html

August 1, 2008
Hartford Doctoral Fellows in Geriatric Social Work
www.gswi.org/programs/hdf.html

7.Communications Tip: Data Resources on Bandwidthonline.org

Bandwidthonline.org, the new, online communications resource for Hartford grantees, offers a wealth of information and tools to help you create message-driven communications materials—everything from PowerPoint presentations, posters, news releases, brochures, and more—just in time.

One section of the site that can really help you drive home your message is the Data section, which is found in the left hand navigation bar. In this section, you can learn how to determine which data points and infographics will best support your message, improve your ability to display data effectively, and find examples of relevant data points on aging and geriatrics in the form of facts, graphs, tables, PowerPoint slides, and data sets. We encourage you to spend a few minutes exploring the site to get a good sense of how it can help you enhance your communications.

And, if you have data points, graphs, tables, or other data-related resources that you’d like to share with the Hartford network, please send them to us at cgherst@aboutscp.com. We’re always looking for content to add to the site and are counting on you, the grantees, to help us accomplish this.

The site is available to all participants at Hartford-funded sites. If you would like passwords for your fellows, staff, or coworkers, please email Chris Gherst at cgherst@aboutscp.com.

Important Note: You should have received an email from Bandwidthonline.org with your password for the site. If you did not, please contact Chris Gherst at cgherst@aboutscp.com or 610.687.5495.