The Aging Exchange

About the Event

The Institute on Aging hosted the Seventh Annual Aging Exchange, an event dedicated to promoting aging research at UNC Chapel Hill, on April 7, 2011 from 3:00 to 6:00pm at the Friday Center.

The program featured:

Poster presentations by UNC-CH graduate students and faculty
Presentation of the Gordon H. DeFriese Career Development in Aging Research Awards
A reception with light hors d'oeuvres
A presentation featuring aging research on campus

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Guest Lecture

American Indian Aging Policy and Research
Margaret Moss
Associate Professor and Director of the Nursing Management, Policy, and Leadership Specialty, Yale University School of Nursing

Margaret Moss is Associate Professor and Director of the Nursing Management, Policy, and Leadership Specialty at Yale University School of Nursing. Dr. Moss received her PhD in Nursing from the University of Texas at Houston, Health Sciences Center in 2000 and subsequently received a distinguished alumni award in 2002. She is one of only 17 doctorally-prepared American Indian nurses in the country and the only one to focus solely on aging. Dr. Moss is an enrolled member of the Three Affiliated Tribes of North Dakota: The Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara Nation. She completed a two-year post-doctorate fellowship at the University of Colorado's Native Elder Research Center, a Resource Center for Minority Aging Research. Concurrently, she entered and completed law school and received her Juris Doctorate from Hamline University School of Law in Saint Paul, Minn. She is the first and only American Indian to hold both nursing and juris doctorates. In 2008 Dr. Moss was named a Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellow, and staffed the Senate Special Committee on Aging under the ranking Senators Mel Martinez and Bob Corker. She was inducted as a Fellow into the American Academy of Nursing in 2008.

The Aging Exchange

About the Event

Guest Lecture

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Aging Exchange Award Winners