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The CAN seeks to advance aging-related community partnerships, education, and research at 黑料网-Chapel Hill and in the community. Described as “a grassroots, cross-campus collaborative,” CAN has three primary focus areas: Community Partnerships, Education, and Research. Since the first discussions, the Center for Aging and Health has been one of the key organizers for the newly formed resource network.
CAH Director Dr Jan Busby-Whitehead says, “One of the goals of CAN is to promote cross-campus collaboration to advance aging-related community partnerships, education, and research.” Denis茅 Dews is also a member of the CAN Coordinating Team. Dews serves as the Associate Director of the Carolina Geriatric Workforce Enhancement Program (CGWEP) in the 黑料网 Center for Aging and Health.
The CAN website lists “building organizational capacity, exploring financial sustainability, and creating a state-wide aging advisory board” as priorities. In addition, one of the CAN’s action steps includes developing a database of shared tools and resources. To that end, the newly launched has many aging-related resources. In addition, it also has a directory of aging-related initiatives and programs at 黑料网-Chapel Hill. Any individual, program, initiative, or center at 黑料网-CH who is interested in assisting in this effort can .
The Carolina Aging Network isn’t the first aging initiative at 黑料网. In fact, CAN is a successor to several previous initiatives. From the early 2000s until 2014, the 黑料网 Institute on Aging housed educational, research, and community engagement initiatives focused on aging. Indeed, the Institution on Aging’s collaborative spirit is a great inspiration to the CAN.
Subsequently, the 黑料网-CH Office of the Provost established the Partnerships in Aging Program (PiAP) in 2016. The PiAP sought to build both cross campus and University-Community collaborations. That initiative ended in 2024. However during it’s lifespan, the PiAP started the first Partnerships in Aging Consortium Think Tank (PACTT) in 2019. This program brought together over 30 campus-community partners to discuss aging-related initiatives at 黑料网.
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]]>This past year, the Center for Aging Health received a $5 million endowment from the 黑料网 Health Foundation in support of the McNeil Family Program for Long-term Care. The Program under the leadership of Jan Busby-Whitehead, MD will build on and sustain our shared efforts to expand the geriatric workforce.
Dr. Jan Busby-Whitehead and The Center for Aging and Health received a five-year grant for five million dollars from HRSA (the Health Resources and Services Administration). With this grant, the Center for Aging and Health at 黑料网 seeks to integrate geriatrics into primary care and expand interprofessional education in geriatrics via the Carolina Geriatric Workforce Enhancement Program (CGWEP).
The CGWEP will also continue expanding geriatric education to the primary care workforce through residency training, Interprofessional team education, and expanded IHI Age Friendly Healthcare system work amongst other educational enhancements. This program will allow the Center for Aging and Health to continue to provide training to first year Internal Medicine and Family Medicine residents in the AGES program (Advanced Geriatric Evaluation and Skills).
The program was originally developed by Dr. Gregg Warshaw and now includes a number of Geriatric Medicine fellows and faculty as teachers. In addition, several faculty were engaged in writing book chapters for the next edition of Ham’s Principles of Geriatrics.
Drs. Batsis, Busby-Whitehead, Umegaki and Hanson met in spring 2024 to discuss collaboration with Nagoya University鈥檚 Department of Community Health and Geriatrics.
In February 2024, Nagoya University in Japan invited Associate Professor of Geriatric Medicine Dr. John Batsis to visit their institution. While there, the aging specialist gave lectures, toured facilities, met with researchers, and visited classrooms.
A couple of weeks after Dr. Batsis鈥� visit to Japan, Nagoya University鈥檚 professor Hiroyuki Umegaki (Department of Community Health and Geriatrics) reciprocated, visited the 黑料网 Division of Geriatric Medicine.
Currently, researchers at both institutions are pursuing ways to collaborate and advance opportunities for aging research.聽Following the success of the previous exchange, the two institutions will host a second exchange program later this year.
Dr. John Batsis presented at the National Institute on Aging鈥檚 Research Centers Collaborative Network (RCCN) Workshop on Nutrition and Aging Biology in San Francisco. He spoke on GLP-1 Receptor Agonists鈥� Effect in Older Adults at the June gathering. Also, Dr. Batsis鈥� 黑料网 colleague Danae Gross gave presentation at the conference. Her talk was entitled Diet, Sarcopenia, and Obesity.
The Geriatric Medicine Eastowne Clinic scored in the top 10 of all outpatient clinics for our patient satisfaction in September and October 2024.
Key faculty hires in 2024 were Dr. Hillary Spangler in Clinical Research and Dr. Rachel Eliach in Clinical Geriatrics and Palliative Care. In addition, Kayla Wilkerson, NP was hired to join the Geriatric Medicine Division in August 2024.
The study, entitled Telehealth vs In-Person Early Palliative Care for Patients with Advanced Lung Cancer, was funded by a PCORI grant to Dr. Jennifer Temel at the Massachusetts General Hospital, and conducted at 22 major US cancer centers. Palliative Care specialists are concentrated in major medical centers, and results support Palliative Care telehealth as a feasible, acceptable alternative to in-person visits, with equivalent benefits for quality of life.
In addition, Dr. Hanson will join the lead investigators in a plenary presentation of findings at the Annual Assembly of the American Academy of Hospice & Palliative Medicine in February 2025. Details are available in the .
Also, Dr. Niznik was first author of a paper examining concordance of dementia indicators across Medicare datasets: Published in the Journal of the American Geriatric Society in August 2024, the paper is entitled
Additionally, Dr. Niznik was appointed as Faculty Mentor to the .
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]]>Drs. Jan Busby-Whitehead and John Devlin welcomed attendees to the 2024 NIDUS Delirium Boot Camp on October 27, 2024.
Since 2013, experts in delirium research and mentees have gathered for the annual Delirium Boot Camp. As co-leader of the Dissemination and Communication Core, Center for Aging and Health director Dr. Jan Busby-Whitehead has co-lead the alongside (PharmD, Northeastern University) since 2021. And 黑料网-CH has been the host site for Boot Camp during these years.
This year, 12 mentees from Canada, Ghana, Taiwan, Uganda, and across the USA gathered at 黑料网’s Rizzo Conference Center for this three-day NIA-funded training event. They were led and mentored by 16 faculty from Australia, Canada, and the USA whose research focuses on delirium. Each year, the faculty present their insights on various topics. In addition to their talks, Boot Camp faculty led networking sessions and offered both formal and informal mentoring to mentees.
The 2024 Boot Camp theme was Delirium and ADRD: Research Gaps and Opportunities. This year’s keynote presenters were . In addition, renowned delirium expert led a workshop on assessing delirium using various Other presenters covered delirium-related topics like biomarkers, animal models and research methodologies. These included 黑料网 faculty Dr. Casey Olm-Shipman and Dr. C. Adrian Austin.
Faculty and mentees participating in a NIH-style mock study session.
For many mentees, a major Boot Camp highlight is the NIH-style mock study sessions. Prior to each Boot Camp, faculty train mentees to review their fellow mentees’ research proposals. Then during the Boot Camp grant reviewing sessions, one mentee and two faculty members review a mentee proposal. So not only do mentees have their own proposals critiqued, but they also have the opportunity to learn about critiquing others’ proposals.
Boot Camp alumni all learn a great deal from their three days of training and mentoring. They also connect with other mentees who may become their future research collaborators. And a number of them successfully receive pilot grants or other awards which help them further their delirium research.
(Network for Investigation of Delirium: Uniting Scientists) is a collaborative research network dedicated to spurring innovation and new advances in delirium research through development of new research and measurement resources, training opportunities, pilot funding and dissemination of information. It is funded through an award from the National Institutes of Health/National Institute on Aging (grant no. R33AG071744, PI: Inouye).
Boot Camp History
Dr. Sharon Inouye (MD, MPH, Harvard University) founded the Delirium Boot Camp in 2013 through a career development award. With this grant, she established CEDARTREE (the Center for Excellence for Delirium in Aging: Research, Training and Educational Enhancement). From 2016 to 2020, the Delirium Boot Camp was funded by an NIA R24 Network Grant under leadership of Donna Fick (PhD, MSN, Penn State) and Wes Ely (MD, MPH, Vanderbilt University). Presently, the 2021-2025 NIDUS II Delirium Boot Camp is funded by an NIA R13 Conference Grant and is led by Jan Busby-Whitehead, MD and John W. Devlin, PharmD.
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]]>Several Center for Aging and Health faculty and staff contributed to the 2022 publication which discussed the Geriatrics IPE experience. CAH co-authors included Center Director Dr. Jan Busby-Whitehead; Research Professor Dr. Ellen Roberts; former CGWEP Director Chris Henage; and Denis茅 Dews, CGWEP Associate Director.
The article was selected for the award through a peer review process. It was officially announced at the AGHE Presidential Symposium and Recognition Event on Friday, November 15 at GSA鈥檚 Annual Scientific Meeting in Seattle, Washington.
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