Geriatrics Center of
Excellence News
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In July 2002, the Hartford/Jahnigen Center of Excellence in Geriatrics
awarded Assistant Professor Stipends to Michele Basche, MD, and Wendolyn
Gozansky, MD, MPH.
Through her project entitled An Age-Stratified, Phase I Study of
Capecitabine, ZD1839, and Oxaliplatin in Patients with Advanced Solid
Tumors, Dr. Basche is investigating the effectiveness of the combination
of capecitabine, ZD1839, and oxaliplatin as a second-line treatment of
colorectal cancer in both younger and older patients.
Dr. Gozansky's project entitled Estrogens, Cortisol, and Visceral Fat
in Menopausal Women aims to extend existing knowledge about the potential
mechanisms by which hormone replacement therapy may prevent cardiovascular
disease after menopause.
Drs. Michele Basche and
Wendolyn Gozansky have been
awarded Hartford/Jahnigen
Center of Excellence
Assistant Professor Stipend.
The Hartford/Jahnigen Center of Excellence also awarded a Fellowship
Stipend to Cari Levy, MD, Second-year Fellow in the Divisions of
Geriatric Medicine and Health Care Policy and Research, for her
project entitled Nursing Home vs. Hospital: Predictors of Site of
Death Among Nursing Home Residents. With her fellowship award,
Dr. Levy is comparing nursing home residents who die in the nursing
home with those who die in the hospital to consider ways of promoting
appropriate hospital transfer.
We are currently accepting applications on a rolling basis for
Hartford/Jahnigen
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Center of Excellence Assistant Professor and Fellowship Stipend awards.
Because the Center of Excellence funding will be ending in December 2003,
this is the final year for stipend awards. For further information, or
to receive an application, please contact Danielle Holthaus at
303-315-1023.
Dr. Cari Levy has
received a Hartford/Jahnigen
Center of Excellence
Fellowship Stipend.
Two new fellows, Kristina Stefka, MD, and Susan Bray-Hall, MD, joined the geriatric
medicine fellowship program in July 2002.
Dr. Stefka graduated from the University of Michigan Medical School, and went on
to complete her Internal Medicine residency at Northwestern. Under the
geriatric medicine fellowship program, she will investigate whether nursing
home care differs for residents who do and do not have advanced care directives.
Dr. Bray-Hall received her medical degree and completed her Internal Medicine
residency at the University of Colorado. Her primary research interest
relates to hospice care, and she plans to investigate the methods by
which physicians decide which medications are most beneficial for patients
in hospice.
Donna Regenstreif, PhD, Senior Program Officer at the John A. Hartford
Foundation, will visit UCD to conduct the annual site visit evaluation
of the Hartford/Jahnigen Center of Excellence program on January 8, 2003.
Current Hartford/Jahnigen COE Assistant Professor and Fellowship Stipend
award recipients will attend the visit to present and discuss their work
under the COE program.
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The Program for Care Improvement for Veterans in Long-term Care (CIVIL)
was established within the Denver Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)
Medical Center in October 2002 under the leadership of Evelyn Hutt, MD.
The purpose of CIVIL is to increase the health services research and
development (HSR&D) capacity at the Denver VA Medical Center by creating
a core program of physician and nurse investigators, statisticians,
economists, and other social scientists to support and facilitate the
development of HSR&D research projects in the area of long-term care
(LTC) for veterans.
CIVIL was established within
the Denver VA Medical Center
in October 2002 under the
leadership of Evelyn Hutt, MD.
CIVIL seeks to further understand how best to deliver high-quality,
cost-effective care to America's oldest and frailest veterans - those
who reside in nursing facilities.
The CIVIL Program Coordinator is Donna Burns. Current members of the
CIVIL research team, who are also members of the Division of Health
Care Policy and Research at UCD, include Angela Sauaia, MD, PhD,
Ron Fish, MBA, Elizabeth Frederickson, BA, and Debbie Liebrecht,
RN. Other affiliations exist between CIVIL and the School of
Nursing.
CIVIL's research has two foci: 1) improving quality of care for serious
acute and chronic medical illnesses that are common in LTC veterans,
such as
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