News Release

IOA to host research retreat

Updated April 25, 2001

The Institute on Aging will host a one day research retreat for UNC Chapel Hill faculty interested in aging. The retreat will be held May 3, 2001 at the William and Ida Friday Center for Continuing Education from 9:30am-2:30pm.

The goal of the retreat is to encourage proposal development in aging research at UNC-CH. At the retreat, participants will hear information from funding organizations, hear presentions of work of experienced, funded investigators, and begin building community and interdisciplinary linkages.

Retreat attendees will hear from many distinguished speakers. External guest speakers at the retreat will include:

• Marcia Ory, PhD, MPH, Chief, Social Science Research on Aging, National Institute on Aging
• John Feather, PhD, Director, AARP Andrus Foundation; President, Grantmakers in Aging
• Ilene Siegler, PhD, MPH, Professor of Medical Psychology, Duke University; member, Advisory Council, National Institute on Aging
• William Applegate, MD, MPH, Professor of Medicine, Chairman, Department of Internal Medicine, Wake Forest University School of Medicine; Editor-in-Chief, Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 1993-2000

The retreat also includes several UNC-CH faculty talking about their research experience:

• David Blau, PhD, Professor, Department of Economics, and Director, Demography and Economics of Aging Research (DEAR), University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
• Robert DeVellis, Research Professor, Health Behavior and Health Education, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• Jean Kincade, PhD, RN, Research Associate Professor, School of Nursing, and in the Program on Aging in the School of Medicine, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
• Philip Sloane, MD, MPH, Elizabeth and Oscar Goodwin Distinguished Professor Family Medicine, and Co-Director, Program on Aging, Disablement, and Long-Term Care at the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research

Please join us for this exciting retreat! A light lunch will be provided at no cost for all who register by phone (966-9444) or email with Diane_Wurzinger@unc.edu by Monday, April 30.