2015 Beeson Scholars
Stacie Deiner, MD, MS, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai: Optimizing Postoperative Cognition in the Elderly
Raquel Gardner, MD, University of California, San Francisco: Traumatic Brain Injury and The Aging Brain: Predictors of Clinical Trajectories
Katherine Gifford, MA, PsyD, Vanderbilt University Medical Center: Cognitive Complaints in Aging Adults
May Hua, MD, Columbia University: Determinants of Critical Care Intensity for Hospitalized Older Adults: The Effect of Hospital-Based Palliative Care Services
Makoto Ishii, MD, PhD, Weill Cornell Medical College: Pathobiology of Hypothalamic and Metabolic Dysfunction in Normal Aging and Alzheimer's Disease
Dae Hyun Kim, MD, MPH, ScD, Brigham and Women's Hospital: Development and Validation of a Frailty Index Using Claims Data for Pharmacoepidemiologic Studies in Older Adults
Sofiya Milman, MD, Einstein College of Medicine: Effect of longevity genomes on the GH/IGF-1 phenotype and disease-free survival
2014 Beeson Scholars
Kumar Dharmarajan, MD, MBA, Yale University School of Medicine: Geriatric Conditions and Readmission after Acute Myocardial Infarction
Anne Hiniker, MD, PhD, University of California, San Francisco: Chemical-Genetic Approaches to Define Lrrk2 Kinase Function in Parkinson Disease
Jennifer Lai, MD, MBA, University of California, San Francisco: Frailty and Functional Status in Older Liver Transplant Patients
Kasia Lipska, MD, Yale University: Predicting Severe Hypoglycemia among Older Adults with Diabetes
Donovan Maust, MD, University of Michigan: Preventable Hospitalization in Dementia: The Impact of Neuropsychiatric Symptoms
John Newman, MD, PhD: University of California San Francisco: Epigenetic regulation of healthspan and longevity by ketone bodies
Kelly Trevino, MD, Weill Medical College of Cornell University: Anxiety with Cancer in the Elderly (ACE): A Cognitive-Behavioral Intervention
Kathleen Unroe, MD, Indiana University: Delivering Hospice and Palliative Care Services to Nursing Home Patients
2013 Beeson Scholars
Marian Betz, MD, MPH, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Denver: Physician Screening of Older Drivers: Decision Rules for Geriatric Injury Prevention
Constance Fung, MD, MSHS, University of California, Los Angeles: Improving Older Adults' Decision Making for Obstructive Sleep Apnea Treatment
William Hu, MD, PhD, Emory University: Early CSF detection of FTLD
Daniel Kramer, MD, Hebrew Rehabilitation Center for Aged: Patient-Center Outcomes of Implantable Defibrillator Therapy in Older Patients
Ozioma Okonkwo, PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison: Early Detection of Asymptomatic Middle-Age Adults at Risk for AD
Janey Peterson, EdD, MS, RN, Weill Cornell Medical College: INSPIRE: Intervention to Support Participation in Regular Exercise in the Elderly
Vivek Prabhakaran, MD, PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison: Stroke Plasticity
2012 Beeson Scholars
Pavan K. Auluck, MD, PhD, Massachusetts General Hospital: Vesicle Trafficking Defects and Mitochondrial Dysfunction Related to a-Syn Toxicity
S. Duke Han, PhD, Rush University Medical Center: Neural Correlates of Impaired Financial and Health-Care Decision-Making in Old Age
Amy Steves Kelley, MD, Mount Sinai School of Medicine: Improving Care For Older Adults with Serious Illness
Geoffrey A. Kerchner, MD, PhD, Stanford University: Hippocampal Structure and Function in Cognitive Impairment
Gerardo Moreno, MD, MSHS, Department of Family Medicine, University of California Los Angeles: Health IT Decision Support to Improve Medication Management Safety and Quality
Alexander Panda, MD, MPH, Yale University: Age Associated Defects in Localization and Trafficking of Toll-Like Receptor 1
Steven J. Prior, PhD, University of Maryland School of Medicine: Effects of aerobic exercise on EPCs and vascular dysfunction in aging and T2DM
Alexander Smith, MD, University of California, San Francisco: Late life disability: epidemiology, symptoms, quality of life
2011 Beeson Scholars
William J. Ehlenbach, MD, MSc, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health: Cognitive Outcomes and Neuropathology in Older Adults Following Critical Illness
Adit Ginde, MD, MPH, University of Colorado Denver: Vitamin D and Immunosenescence in Older Long-Term Care Residents
Alison Huang, MD, University of California, San Francisco: A Multidimensional Approach to Urogenital Aging in Older Women
Richard King, MD, PhD, University of Utah: Cortical Complexity Changes in Normal Aging and Alzheimer's Disease
Heidi Klepin, MD, Wake Forest University Health Services: Minimizing Physical Function Decline in Older Adults Receiving Chemotherapy
Sei Lee, MD, University of California, San Francisco: Individualizing Treatment for Nursing Home Residents with Diabetes Mellitus
Dan Matlock, MD, University of Colorado Denver: Implanted Defibrillators and Older Adults: A Model of Decision and Technologies
Keith Vossel, MD, MSc, University of California, San Francisco J. David Gladstone Institutes: Mechanisms and Treatment of Network Dysfunction in Alzheimer's Disease
2010 Beeson Scholars
Jeffrey Caterino, MD, Ohio State University: Expanding Antimicrobial Stewardship for Long Term Care Facility Patients
Anna Csiszar, MD,PhD, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center: Resveratrol Confers Endothelial Protection Via Induction of NF-E2–Related Factor-2-Driven Antioxidant Genes: Implications for Microvascular Aging
Leora Horwitz, MD, Yale University School of Medicine: Heart Failure Readmissions in Older Adults: A Systems Perspective
Amy Kind, MD, Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison: The Hospital Discharge Summary’s Impact on Sub-Acute Care Patient Outcomes
Michael McWilliams, MD, PhD, Harvard Medical School: Reforming Medicare: Beneficiary Choice, Plan Payment, and Accountable Care
Timothy Miller, MD, PhD, Washington University School of Medicine: Changing tau Protein Levels and tau Protein Isoforms in Mouse Models of Dementia
Thomas Robinson, MD, University of Colorado at Denver Health Sciences Center: A Placebo Controlled Trial of L-Tryptophan in Post-Operative Delirium
Stephen Thielke, MD, MSPH, MA, University of Washington: Development and Evaluation of a Depression Risk Calculator
2009 Beeson Scholars
Cynthia M. Boyd, MD, MPH, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine: Treatment Burden in Older Adults with Diabetes and Multimorbidity
Dena B. Dubal, MD, PhD, Assistant Adjunct Professor, University of California, San Francisco: Collagen VI: Novel Mechanisms and Functions in Alzheimer's Disease
Christiane Reitz, MD, PhD, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons: Mapping Causative Factors in the Sortilin-related Pathway in Alzheimer's Disease
Mara Schonberg, MD, Harvard Medical School/Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center: Benefits and Burdens of Screening Oldest-old Women: The Case of Mammography
Dorry Segev, MD, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine: Access to Kidney Transplantation in Elderly Patients
Edmond Teng, MD, PhD, University of California, Los Angeles: Assessment of Biomarkers and Behavior in a Transgenic Rat Model of Alzheimer's Disease
Heidi L. Wald, MD, MSPH, University of Colorado Denver: Reducing Urinary Tract Infections in the Hospitalized Older Patient
Jonathan Wanagat, MD, PhD, University of Washington: Mitochondrial Genetics in Skeletal Muscle Aging
2008 Beeson Scholars
Sarwat Chaudhry, MD, Yale University School of Medicine, Comorbidity and Functional Outcomes in Older Patients with Heart Failure
Stephanie Cosentino, MD, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, Awareness of Deficit in Alzheimer’s Disease
XinQi Dong, MD, Rush University Medical Center, Consequences of Self-Neglect in a Biracial Population of Older Adults
Susan Hardy, MD, University of Pittsburgh, Functional Recovery in Post-Acute Care
Paul Rosenberg, MD, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, PET Imaging of Microglial Activation in Alzheimer’s Disease
Joseph Ross, MD, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Impact of Publicly Reporting Hospital Outcome Measures for Older Adults
Steven Russell, MD, Harvard Medical School/Joslin Diabetes Center, Adipocyte Insulin Signaling in Metabolism and Aging
Arthur Simen, MD, Yale University School of Medicine, Epigenetic Factors in Vulnerability to Aging and Stress
Farzaneh Sorond, MD, Harvard Medical School/Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Hypoxia-Inducible Transcription Factor 1 (HIF-1) in Vascular Aging
Michael Steinman, MD, University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine, Guideline Adherence in Elders with Multiple Comorbidities
Douglas White, MD, University of California, San Francisco, A Randomized Trial to Improve Surrogate Decision-Making for Critically Ill Elders
Heather Whitson, MD, Duke University School of Medicine: Developing Interventions to Improve Function in Seniors with Comorbidity Conditions
2007 Beeson Scholars
Randall Bateman, MD, Washington University School of Medicine: A-beta and Proteomic Analysis of CSF in AD and Aging
Julie Bynum, MD, MPH, Dartmouth Medical School: Improving the Quality of Health Systems for the Very Old
Sascha Dublin, MD, PhD, University of Washington School of Medicine: Pharmacoepidemiology in the Elderly: Medications, Pneumonia Risk and Confounding
Roee Holtzer, PhD, Albert Einstein College of Medicine: Predictors of Gait and Falls in Aging: Linking Cognitive Control to Genes
Angela Jefferson, PhD, Boston University School of Medicine: Cardiac integrity and the Aging Brain
Kimberly Johnson, MD, Duke University Medical Center: Organizational Variability and Racial Disparities in Hospice Use
Kejal Kantarci, MD, Mayo Clinic Rochester: ¹H MRS markers of MCI Syndromes and Common Dementias
Manjula Kurella, MD, MPH, University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine: Mechanisms of Cognitive Impairment in Chronic Kidney Disease
Nicolas Musi, MD, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio: Role of IKK/lkB/NFkB Signaling in Insulin Resistance in Aging Muscle
Neil Segal, MD, University of Iowa College of Medicine: Optimizing Mobility in Elders with Knee Osteoarthritis: Gait and Power Training
Lihong Wang, MD, PhD, Duke University Medical Center: FMRI: Prediction of Mild Cognitive Impairment in Geriatric Depression
2006 Beeson Scholars
Katrin Chua, MD, PhD, Stanford University: Regulation of Cellular Senescence and Proliferative Capacity by Mammalian SIRT1
Margaret Fang, MD, MPH, University of California, San Francisco: Risks of Warfarin for Elders with Atrial Fibrillation
Alex Federman, MD, MPH, Mount Sinai School of Medicine: Health Insurance Navigators for the Low-Income Elderly
Emily Finlayson, MD, University of Michigan: Functional Outcomes After Major Surgery in Nursing Home Residents
Stacy Fischer, MD, University of Colorado Health Science Center: Improving Care at the End of Life for Latinos: A Cultural Navigator Intervention
Alfred Fisher, MD, PhD, University of Pittsburgh: Dopamine, Tyrosine, and their Metabolites in Aging in Neurodegenerative Disease
Sean Leng, MD, PhD, Johns Hopkins University: Vaccine-Induced Immunity against Influenza in Frailty
Ann O'Hare, MD, University of California, San Francisco: Targeting Nephrology Referral Among Elderly Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease
Caterina Rosano, MD, MPH, University of Pittsburgh: Novel Brain Neuroimaging Markers of Age-Related Mobility Impairment
Manish Shah, MD, University of Rochester: Screening and Interventions in an Acute Care Setting
Consuelo Wilkins, MD, Washington University: Vitamin D in Older Adults: Cognition, Mood and Hippocampal Volume
2005 Beeson Scholars
Liana Apostolova, MD, University of California, Los Angeles: Structural MRI outcome predictors in MCI
Malaz Boustani, MD, MPH, Indiana University: Enhancing Care for Hospitalized Older Adults with Cognitive Impairment
Jennifer Brach, PhD, University of Pittsburgh: Gait Variability: Epidemiology, Assessment and Management
Arleen Brown, MD, PhD, University of California, Los Angeles: Neighborhoods and the Management of Chronic Conditions
Cynthia Carlsson, MD, University of Wisconsin: Effect of Statins on Pathobiology of Alzheimer's Disease
Daniel Goldstein, MD, Yale University: Strategies to enhance immunity in aging
Wendolyn Gozansky, MD, MPH, University of Colorado Health Science Center: Cortisol Metabolism & Central Adiposity After Menopause
Leanne Groban, MD, Wake Forest University: Growth, Angiotensin II, and Cardiac Aging
Arti Hurria, MD, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center: Can Geriatric Assessment Predict Oncology Outcomes?
Pearl Seo, MD, MPH, Duke University: PPARgamma: Biomarker for Breast Cancer in Older Women
Dellara Terry, MD, MPH, Boston University: Centenarian Offspring and Vascular Disease Resistance
2004 Beeson Scholars
Sandy Chang, MD, PhD, MD Anderson Cancer Center: Telomere Induced Genomic Instability in Premature Aging
Cathleen Colon-Emeric, MD, Duke University Medical Center: Evidence-Based Medicine in the Skilled Nursing Facility
William Dale, MD, PhD, University of Chicago: Emotions in Medical Decision Making in Older Adults
Lee Goldstein, MD, PhD, Harvard Medical School/Brigham and Women's Hospital: Alzheimer's Disease Beta-Amyloid in the Lens
Cary Gross, MD, Yale University: The Impact of Comorbidity on Older Cancer Patients
John Lehman, MD, Washington University: Mitochondria Control by PCG-1a in Young and Aging Hear
Andrew Lieberman, MD, PhD, University of Michigan: Modifiers of Polyglutamine Toxicity
Atul Malhotra, MD, PhD, Harvard Medical School/Brigham and Women's Hospital: Aging Influence on the Development of Sleep Apnea
Marcin Sadowski, MD, New York University School of Medicine: Blocking ApoE/ABeta Binding as a novel AD therapy
Catherine Sarkisian, MD, University of California, Los Angeles School of Medicine: Intervention to Raise Octogenarians' Walking Levels
Clemens Scherzer, MD, Harvard Medical School/Brigham and Women's Hospital: Genomic and Genetic Analysis of Parkinson's Disease
Lisa Silbert, MD, Oregon Health Sciences University: White Matter Change and CNS Process in the Elderly
Joe Verghese, MD, Albert Einstein College of Medicine: Latent Mobility Abnormalities and Disability