Winter 2004

The University of Colorado Denver

Volume 7, Number 2

The annual John A. Hartford Foundation site visit evaluation of the Hartford/Jahnigen Center of Excellence (COE) program will be held on January 19, 2005. Donna Regenstreif, Senior Program Officer with the Hartford Foundation, will be conducting the visit.

Current COE award recipients Stacy Fischer, MD, Cari Levy, MD, Heidi Wald, MD, Rebecca Brown, MD, and Wendolyn Gozansky, MD, MPH, will attend to discuss their accomplishments under the COE program and plans for future work in academic geriatrics. Also in attendance will be Andrew Kramer, MD, Principal Investigator of the Hartford/Jahnigen COE and Robert Schwartz, MD, Co-Principal Investigator of the Hartford/Jahnigen COE, as well as Geriatric Medicine Fellowship Director Larry Robbins, MD, Hartford/Jahnigen COE Project Administrator Danielle Holthaus, and Division of Health Care Policy and Research Administrator Mary Reuter.

The annual John A. Hartford
Foundation site fisit evaluation
of the Hartford/Jahnigen
COE program will be held
January 19, 2005

The 2005 Annual Scientific Meeting of the American Geriatrics Society will be held May 11-15, 2005 at the Swan and Dolphin Hotel in Orlando, Florida. The Annual AGS Meeting provides the latest information on clinical care, aging-related research, and care delivery models, and offers opportunities for clinicians, researchers, and educators to keep abreast of new developments in aging research. The theme of this year’s meeting is Improving the Health and Well-

Being of Older Adults. Further information about the AGS Annual Meeting can be found at http://www.americangeriatrics.org/.

The Dennis W. Jahnigen
Memorial Education Fund
promotes interest and knowledge
in geriatrics amoung students,
residents and fellows at UCD.

The Dennis W. Jahnigen Memorial Education Fund Annual Award Program was created in honor of UCD Center on Aging founder Dennis W. Jahnigen, MD, to promote interest and knowledge in the discipline of geriatrics among students, residents, and fellows at UCD. All UCD students who are in their clinical year(s), as well as residents and fellows, may apply for this award. The number and dollar amount of awards varies yearly dependent on applicant submissions, requests, needs, and committee determinations.

Letters of application for the Jahnigen Memorial Education Fund Awards are accepted twice per academic year, in mid-November and mid-February. Further details about this program can be found online at http://www.uchsc.edu/coa/jahnigen/program.htm.

We continue to accept applications on a rolling basis for Hartford/Jahnigen COE Assistant Professor Stipends, Fellowship Stipends, and grant awards. For further information about these awards, or to receive an application, please contact Danielle Holthaus at 303-724-2424 or .

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The Division of Health Care Policy and Research was established within the Department of Medicine at the University of Colorado Denver in January 2002. Under the leadership of Andrew Kramer, MD, the Division merged two nationally recognized programs: the health policy research and training program formed by Dr. Kramer within the Division of Geriatric Medicine, and the Center for Health Services Research, which was founded by Peter W. Shaughnessy.

Under the leadership of
Andrew Kramer, MD, the
Division merged two nationally
recognized research programs in
health services and health policy.

The mission of the Division is to improve health care services, organization, and policy through research and education. With a multidisciplinary staff of nearly 70 social scientists, physicians, nurses, research analysts, statisticians, and other professionals, the Division has influenced state and national policy through their research in a number of areas, some of which include: quality of care assessment, assurance and improvement; health care reimbursement and regulations; ethnic disparities in health care; cognitive and behavioral factors in health; and health information technology and telehealth.

Quality of Care Assessment, Assurance, and Improvement
With expertise in health care quality assurance and improvement strategies, Division faculty and staff conduct a number of studies that are designed to assess and improve care processes and outcomes. Selected studies currently

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