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Press Release
Contact: Erika D. Tarver
Telephone: (202) 861-9351
Email: etarver@im.org
ASP Announces 2007 T. Franklin Williams Scholars
Program Aims to Integrate Geriatrics into the Specialties of Internal Medicine
The Association of Specialty Professors (ASP) is pleased to announce the 6th class of T. Franklin Williams Scholars. These scholars are recipients of 2- to 4-year career development awards funded by a generous grant from the Atlantic Philanthropies (USA), supported by the John A. Hartford Foundation, and co-sponsored by 12 partnering internal medicine specialty societies. The 12 new investigators funded under this initiative will join the 40 previously announced T. Franklin Williams Scholars to achieve the program goal of integrating geriatrics into the specialties of internal medicine.
Williams Scholars conduct a research project and pursue a career development plan focused on a geriatric aspect of their specialty. Recipients must meet several criteria to be eligible for the award, including completion of a subspecialty internal medicine fellowship and dedication of 75% of their time to medical research. The program provides the recipients awards of $50,000-$75,000 per year to support the early stages of their academic careers.
ASP Announces the 6th class of Williams Scholars:
| Neena S. Abraham, MD |
| Baylor College of Medicine |
| Shared Decision-Making for NSAID and Cardioprotective Drug Prescription Among Older Adults |
| American Gastroenterological Association Foundation-Sucampo-ASP Designated Research Award in Geriatric Gastroenterology |
| Lauren Brett Caram, MD |
| Duke University School of Medicine |
| Prospective Respiratory Epidemiologic Surveillance Study: Viral Infections in a Long Term Care Faciltiy Population |
| ASP-Infectious Diseases Society of America Young Investigator Award in Geriatrics |
| Harold R. Collard, MD |
| University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine |
| Dyspnea in Patients with Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis |
| ASP-CHEST Foundation of the American College of Chest Physicians Geriatric Development Research Award |
| Kathryn J. Eubank, MD |
| University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas |
| Effective Medication Management in Older Hospitalized Patients |
| ASP-American Geriatrics Society Foudation for Health in Aging Award |
| Carlos A.V. Fragoso, MD |
| Yale University School of Medicine |
| Establishing Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease in Older Persons |
| ASP-CHEST Foundation of the American College of Chest Physicians Geriatric Development Research Award |
| Manish Juthani-Mehta, MD |
| Yale University School of Medicine |
| Defining UTI in Nursing Home Residents |
| ASP-Infectious Diseases Society of America Young Investigator Award in Geriatrics |
| Tuhina Neogi, MD |
| Boston University School of Medicine |
| Bone Attrition in Osteoarthritis: Interplay of Cartilage Loss, Malalignment, and Bone Density |
| American College of Rheumatology Research and Education Foundation-ASP Junior Career Development Award in Geriatric Medicine |
| Jia Ruan, MD, PhD |
| Weill Medical College of Cornell Univeristy |
| Targeting Tumor Angiogenesis in Mantle Cell Lymphoma |
| American Society of Clinical Oncology-ASP Junior Career Development Award in Geriatric Medicine |
| Mara A. Schonberg, MD |
| Harvard Medical School Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center |
| The Psychological Impact and Decision-Making of Older Women after an Abnormal Mammogram |
| Society of General Internal Medicine-Association of Chiefs of General Internal Medicine-ASP T. Franklin Williams Schoalrs Award in Geriatrics |
| Andrew M. Smith, MD |
| University of Cincinnati College of Medicine |
| Asthma Risk Factors and Quality of Life in Elderly Adults |
| ASP-American Academy of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology Geriatrics Development Initiative Junior Faculty Development Award |
| Brian L. Stauffer, MD |
| University of Colorado at Denver Health Sciences Center |
| Metabolic Syndrome and Endothelials t-PA Release in Older Adults |
| Society of Geriatric Cardiology-ASP-American Heart Association Career Development Award in Geriatric Cardiology |
| Rachel M. Werner, MD, PhD |
| University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine |
| Evaluating Performance Measurement in Older CLinically Complex Patients |
| Society of General Internal Medicine-Association of Chiefs of General Internal Medicine-ASP T. Franklin Williams Scholars Award in Geriatrics |
Awards for the 2008 T. Franklin Williams grant cycle are available with the following partners:
- American Academy of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology.
- American College of Rheumatology Research and Education Foundation.
- American Diabetes Association.
- American Gastroenterological Association Foundation.
- American Geriatrics Society.
- American Society of Clinical Oncology.
- American Society of Hematology.
- American Society of Nephrology.
- CHEST Foundation of the American College of Chest Physicians.
- Infectious Diseases Society of America.
- Society of General Internal Medicine and Association of Chiefs of General Internal Medicine.
- Society for Geriatric Cardiology and the American Heart Association.
Please contact ASP Project Administrator Erika D. Tarver at (202) 861-9351 or etarver@im.org for more information about the T. Franklin Williams Scholars Program.
About the Association of Specialty Professors (ASP)
ASP is the organization of specialty internal medicine divisions at medical schools and community teaching hospitals in the United States and Canada. ASP is the only organization that focuses specifically on providing training and educational opportunities for internal medicine division chiefs and fellowship training program directors. The T. Franklin Williams Scholars Program is part of ASP’s Geriatrics Development Initiative.
About the Atlantic Philanthropies
The Atlantic Philanthropies are a group of Bermuda-based charitable foundations whose grant investments are focused internationally in 4 program fields: aging, disadvantaged children and youth, population health, and reconciliation and human rights. Atlantic's legacy outcome in aging is for older adults to be an integral part of society, living healthier, independent lives with dignity and meaning. For more information, please view www.atlanticphilanthropies.org.
About The John A. Hartford Foundation
Founded in 1929, the John A. Hartford Foundation is a committed champion of training, research and service system innovations that promote the health and independence of America’s older adults. Through its grantmaking, the Foundation seeks to strengthen the nation’s capacity to provide effective, affordable care to this rapidly increasing older population by educating “aging-prepared” health professionals (physicians, nurses, social workers), and developing innovations that improve and better integrate health and supportive services. The Foundation was established by John A. Hartford. Mr. Hartford and his brother, George L. Hartford, both former chief executives of the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company, left the bulk of their estates to the Foundation upon their deaths in the 1950s. Additional information about the Foundation and it programs is available at www.jhartfound.org.
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