News Release

2009 Aging Exchange Poster Award Winners Announced

September 28, 2009

The Institute on Aging is pleased to announce the poster presentation winners from the 6th Annual Aging Exchange, held Tuesday, September 15th at the Friday Center, Chapel Hill. Over 200 people attended the event that featured a reception with poster presentations by 25 UNC Chapel Hill graduate students and faculty; presentations of the Gordon H. DeFriese Career Development in Aging Research Awards; and a keynote address by Larry Adelman, Co-Director of California Newsreel and Executive Producer of the award-winning PBS series, "Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making Us Sick?" This year's Aging Exchange was held in conjunction with the national Prevention Research Centers-Healthy Aging Research Network "Promoting Environmental and Policy Change to Support Healthy Aging" Conference.

Through the generous support of our co-sponsors, we were able to award first prizes of $250 and second prizes of $200 to University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill graduate students and postdoctoral fellows; a third prize of $150 was also given to a graduate student. A single prize of $250 was awarded for the best poster in the interdisciplinary research category (sponsored by the Interdisciplinary Center for Aging Research: Uniting Scientists or ICARUS) and the poster that best represents campus-community collaboration and/or care transitions (sponsored by Carol Woods Retirement Center).

The poster judges were John Cagle, School of Social Work and Institute on Aging; Mike LaMantia, School of Medicine and Institute on Aging; Mary Lynn Piven, School of Nursing; Susan Rathbun-Grubb, School of Information and Library Science and Institute on Aging; and Jen Wilson, Carol Woods Retirement Community.

POSTER WINNERS, GRADUATE STUDENTS
1st Prize, Amber Collins, MS, Biomedical Engineering. Co-authors: Troy Blackburn, PhD, ATC, Exercise and Sports Science; Chris Olcott, MD, Orthopaedics; Jodie Miles, MD, Orthopaedics; Douglas Dirschl, MD, Orthopaedics; Joanne Jordan, MD, Thurston Arthritis Research Center; Paul Weinhold, PhD, Orthopaedics. "Electrical Stimulation to Improve Proprioception in Knee Osteoarthritis".
2nd Prize, Monique D. Cohen, MPH, Department of Health Policy and Management and UNC Institute on Aging. Co-author: Peggye Dilworth-Anderson, PhD, Department of Health Policy and Management and UNC Institute on Aging. "Closing the Gap in Dementia Caregiver Knowledge in Diverse Populations".
3rd Prize, Emmeline Chuang, Institute on Aging and Health Policy and Management. Co-authors: Janette Dill, MA, Institute on Aging and Sociology; Jennifer Craft Morgan, PhD, Institute on Aging; Thomas Konrad, PhD, Institute on Aging and Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research. "Assessment of the Frontline Health and Healthcare Workforce and the Business Case for Employer Investment in Systems Change".

POSTER WINNERS, POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS
1st Prize, Kathryn Remmes Martin, PhD, MPH, Thurston Arthritis Research Center. Co-authors: Britta Schoster, MPH, Leigh F. Callahan, PhD, Thurston Arthritis Research Center. "Participant Perception of the Importance of Social and Built Environment Resources for Osteoarthritis Management (OA): Formative Work in a Rural, Southeastern County".
2nd Prize, Michael A. LaMantia, MD, MPH, Center for Aging & Health and Institute on Aging. Co-authors: Timothy Platts-Mills, MD, Department of Emergency Medicine; Christine Khandelwal, DO, Center for Aging & Health; Charles Cairns, MD, Department of Emergency Medicine; Jan Busby-Whitehead, MD, Center for Aging & Health and Institute on Aging; and John S. Kizer, MD, Center for Aging & Health. "Using Chief Complaint to Identify a Subset of Elderly Emergency Department Patients with a Very High Admission Rate".

ICARUS AWARD
This award recognizes the best interdisciplinary poster.
Ashley Leak, RN, MSN, School of Nursing; Gabe Byars, BS, MS, Division of Occupational Science; Joseph Hoyle, BSPH, MPH, School of Public Health and School of Medicine. Co-authors: Jena Ivey, PharmD, BCPS School of Pharmacy; Susan Coppola, MS, OTR/L BCG, Division of Occupational Sciences; Carol Giuliani, PT, PhD, Division of Physical Therapy; Sheryl Zimmerman, MSW, PhD, School of Social Work. "Drug Store Accessibility and Usability Project for Older Adults: Interdisciplinary Certificate in Aging, Fall 2008".

CAROL WOODS RETIREMENT COMMUNITY AWARD
This award recognizes the poster that best reflects campus-community collaboration and/or care transitions.
Carolyn Johnson, PT, DPT, Human Movement Science. Co-authors: Walter E. Palmer, MSCS, Human Movement Science; Carol Giuliani, PT, PhD, Division of Physical Therapy and Curriculum in Human Movement Science. "Cross Sectional Relationship Between Previous Falls and Functional Performance in Older Adults in the Community".

About the Aging Exchange:
The Aging Exchange is an annual research day on the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill campus, sponsored by the UNC Institute on Aging in collaboration with the Carol Woods Retirement Community; Center for Aging and Health; College of Arts and Sciences; ICARUS; and the Schools of Dentistry, Nursing, Medicine, Pharmacy, and Public Health.