Awards Announced for Top Papers and Posters Presented at the 2006 Aging Exchange
February 6, 2006
updated March 6, 2006
The Aging Exchange Awards Committee announced awards for papers and posters presented at its January 24, 2006 event.
The awards committee included: Susan Coppola, Clinical Associate Professor, Allied Health Sciences; Malcolm Cutchin, Associate Professor, Allied Health Sciences; Ann Johnson, Chairperson, Governor’s Advisory Council on Aging; Victor Marshall, Professor, Sociology Department and Director, UNC Institute on Aging; Jennifer Craft Morgan, Associate Director for Research, UNC Institute on Aging; and Sheryl Zimmerman, School of Social Work, Director of the Certificate in Aging Program, and Co-director of the Center for Aging, Disablement and Long Term Care.
In the Post-doctoral and Clinical Fellow Category
Papers
First Prize, Paper: Dr. David Warner, Postdoctoral Fellow, Carolina Population Center, for a paper, “Early Life Conditions and the Race Gap in Men’s Later-Life Mortality,” co-author, Mark D. Hayward, Population Research Center and Department of Sociology, University of Texas at Austin.
Second Prize Paper: Dr. Christopher Kelly, Carolina Program in Health and Aging Research Postdoctoral Fellow, UNC Institute on Aging, for a paper, “Nursing Home Quality: The Effect of Administrator Licensing Criteria on Regulatory Outcomes.”
Posters
First Prize, Poster: Dr. Matthew E. Dupre, Postdoctoral Fellow, Carolina Population Center, for a poster, “Educational Differences in Age-Related Patterns of Disease: Reconsidering Age-as-Leveler and Cumulative Disadvantage.”
Second Prize, Poster: Dr. Judie Svihula, Carolina Program in Health and Aging Research Postdoctoral Fellow, UNC Institute on Aging, for a poster, “Politics of Social Security Reform: An Analysis of Federal Legislative Testimonies.”
In the Graduate Student Category
Papers
First Prize Paper: Kathryn Remmes Martin, Carolina Program in Health and Aging Research Predoctoral Fellow, UNC Institute on Aging and Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, for a paper, “Comparison of Health Attitudes and Beliefs in Individuals with and without Arthritis,” co-authors, Leigh F. Callahan, Thelma Mielenz, Britta Schoster, and Robert DeVellis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Second Prize Paper: Elizabeth Wiley Exley, MPH, Department of Health Policy and Administration, for a paper, “The Effects of Medical Skepticism, Gender and Education on Use of Complementary and Alternative Medicines in Patients in North Carolina with Arthritis,” co-author, Leigh Callahan, PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Posters
First Prize poster: Janette Dill, Department of Health Policy and Administration, for a poster, “The Long-Term Care Workforce: Turnover Rates of Direct Care Workers in Home Care and Hospice Agencies in North Carolina.”
Second Prize Poster: Shuo-Hsiu James Chang, PT, MS, Curriculum in Human Movement Science, Department of Allied Health Sciences, for a poster, “Is Functional Mobility Status Associated with Poor Adherence in a Geriatric Exercise Program?” co-authors, Matthew J. Peterson, MS, Curriculum in Human Movement Science, Department of Allied Health Sciences; Miriam C. Morey, PhD, Geriatric Research, Education and Clinical Center, Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina.
First Prize Poster (Community Collaboration): Ted Hancock, School of Pharmacy, for a poster, “The Geriatric Interest Group: Learning through Serving Older Adults,” co-authors, G. Shell, J. Nonnemacher, A. Tuell, S. Gilmore, S. Herndon, and M. T. Roth, School of Pharmacy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Second Prize Poster (Community Collaboration):
Tie: Allison Conkey and Raheleh Tschoepe, Department of Occupational Science, for a poster, “Preventive Home Visits for Older Adults: Lessons from Denmark and a Pilot Project in North Carolina.”
Andrew McWilliams, MD-MPH Student, for a poster, “Education Through Service: A Program Partnering Interdisciplinary Health Professional Students with Older Adults,” co-author, Cherie Rosemond MS, PT, GCS, Program Advisor
Congratulations to the prize winners and thanks to all who participated.
About the Aging Exchange The Aging Exchange is an annual research day on the UNC at Chapel Hill campus, sponsored by the UNC Institute on Aging in collaboration with the Schools of Dentistry, Information and Library Science, Nursing, Pharmacy, Public Health and Social Work, the Program on Aging of the School of Medicine, the Interdisciplinary Certificate in Aging Program, the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research, the Program on Aging, Disablement and Long Term Care, and the Demography and Economics of Aging Research Program of the Carolina Population Center.
