picture: Claire Ok. Ankuda, MD, MPH, MSc acknowledged with the AFAR 2023 Terrie Fox Wetle Rising Star Award in Well being Providers and Growing old Analysis.
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Credit score: picture courtesy of Mount Sinai NYC
New York, NY – The American Federation for Growing old Analysis (AFAR), a nationwide non-profit group whose mission is to assist and advance wholesome ageing via biomedical analysis, is proud to acknowledge the excellent contributions of Claire Ok. Ankuda, MD, MPH, MSc with the 2023 Terrie Fox Wetle Rising Star Award in Well being Providers and Growing old Analysis.
This award honors a well being providers researcher in an early or center part of his/her profession who has already made vital contributions with work that respects the worth of multidisciplinary well being providers science and that’s possible to be extremely influential inshaping apply and analysis for many years to come. The award is a framed quotation and carries a money prize of $5,000.
Dr. Ankuda is a hospice and palliative drugs doctor and Affiliate Professor on the Icahn Faculty of Drugs at Mount Sinai within the Brookdale Division of Geriatrics and Palliative Drugs. As a clinician-investigator, Dr. Ankuda goals to enhance Medicare insurance policies to higher assist older adults with useful incapacity and critical sickness, lots of whom have Alzheimer’s illness or associated dementias. Her analysis focuses predominantly on the Medicare Benefit program, given its rising function in insuring older adults, in addition to different insurance policies that affect home-based assist, together with Medicare dwelling well being and hospice. She has first- or senior authored greater than 20 publications included in main journals, equivalent to Well being Affairs, the NEJM, JAMA, and JAMA Inside Drugs. Herscientific work has been acknowledged with an American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Drugs Rising Chief Award and anAmerican Geriatrics Society New Investigator Award. Her analysis on the Medicare Benefit program has been cited in Authorities Accountability Workplace investigative stories. She is a 2020 Paul B. Beeson Rising Leaders Profession Improvement Award in Growing old (K76) scholar.
Established in 2019, the award is known as to honor Terrie Fox Wetle, PhD, who has devoted her skilled profession to bettering the lives of older individuals and advocating for the inclusion of aging-related well being providers analysis in Public Well being. Dr. Wetle has served because the inaugural Dean of the Faculty of Public Well being at Brown College, and Deputy Director of the Nationwide Institute on Growing old on the Nationwide Institutes of Well being, in addition to former board president and present board member of AFAR.
“The wants of America’s rising older inhabitants demand revolutionary well being providers,” notes Stephanie Lederman, EdM, AFAR Government Director. “The visionary work of Dr. Ankuda and Dr. Wetle exemplify making use of analysis to bettering the wellness of seniors and communities. AFAR is proud to assist the way forward for well being providers and ageing analysis with this award.”
The Wetle Award is one in all AFAR’s three annual Scientific Awards of Distinction, along with the Irving S. Wright Award and Vincent Cristofalo Rising Star Award in Growing old Analysis. Nominations for the awards are judged by an impartial panel of main ageing researchers. Up to now, AFAR has offered 44 Wright Awards,16 Cristofalo Awards, and 4 Wetle Awards.
Dr. Ankuda will obtain the award and current a lecture on the Annual Scientific Assembly of the Gerontological Society of America in November 2023.
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About AFAR The American Federation for Growing old Analysis (AFAR) is a nationwide non-profit group that helps and advances pioneering biomedical analysis that’s revolutionizing how we stay more healthy and longer. For 4 many years, AFAR has served as the sphere’s expertise incubator, offering greater than $193 million to almost 4,350 investigators at premier analysis establishments nationwide. A trusted chief and strategist, AFAR additionally works with private and non-private funders to steer top quality grant packages and interdisciplinary analysis networks. AFAR-funded researchers are discovering that modifying fundamental mobile processes can delay—and even forestall—many persistent illnesses, typically on the similar time. They’re discovering that it’s by no means too late—or too early—to enhance well being. This groundbreaking science is paving the best way for revolutionary new therapies that promise to enhance and prolong our high quality of life—at any age. Study extra at www.afar.org.
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