ASP Announces 2009 T. Franklin Williams Scholars
The Association of Specialty Professors (ASP) is pleased to announce the eighth class of T. Franklin Williams Scholars. These scholars are recipients of two- to four-year career development awards funded by a generous grant from the Atlantic Philanthropies (USA) Inc. and the John A. Hartford Foundation, and co-sponsored by 12 internal medicine specialty societies. The 11 new investigators funded under this initiative will join the 64 previously announced T. Franklin Williams Scholars to achieve the program goal of increasing the capacity of internal medicine subspecialists to care for the aging population.
T. Franklin Williams Scholars Program Principal Investigator Kevin P. High, MD, stated that "After 7 years, the impact of the Williams Scholars Program on Internal Medicine and its subspecialties is undeniable. With more than $20 million dollars in extramural funding from the NIH, foundations, and other funding agencies has been acquired by the scholars to support their research in Geriatrics; TFWS are being promoted to higher ranks within academic medicine - some already reaching the rank of Full Professor; and their publications (insert rough # here) and efforts at curriculum development and mentoring of numerous students, residents and fellows has had a profound influence of their subspecialties and attracted a large number of physicians to the field of Geriatrics."
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