About the Clin-STAR Visiting Professor Travel Fund

Interested in bringing a clinical researcher in geriatrics/gerontology to your institution for Grand Rounds or other training activities?

The Clin-STAR Visiting Professor Program is designed to expose clinician-scientists and other faculty and trainees, especially those at institutions lacking robust aging/geriatrics research programs, to leaders in aging research.

Up to $3,000 may be requested to cover travel in the U.S., meals, accommodations, honorarium of up to $1,000, and other Visiting Professor activities.

At this time, travel must be completed by 4/30/26.

Search the Clin-STAR Database to identify researchers across disciplines, specialties, and expertise. Clin-STAR has also identified leaders in aging research across disciplines and specialties who are willing to visit your institution to provide education, training and mentoring.

Eligibility

• Any faculty or trainee may submit an application; applications from institutions lacking robust aging/geriatrics research programs are encouraged..
• Visiting Professors must have a faculty appointment and are expected to have attained recognition in their field of research.
• Institution and travel must be within the US.

Activities and Duration

This Visiting Professor would be asked to participate in a range of activities at the host institution.

Planned activities could include:

• Grand rounds
• Faculty and fellow interactions
• Participation in a research conference/presentation
• Interactive clinical rounds with trainees.

Examples to date have included:

• UCSD’s Success with the Clin-STAR Visiting Professor Travel Fund
• Grand rounds presentations, a workshop with Geriatrics and Palliative Care Fellows, multiple hosted social events with faculty, staff and trainees to share about Visiting Professor’s work in the field of justice-engaged individuals and prison reform, career advice, and opportunities for collaboration on current research projects.
• Grand Rounds presentation on Cognitive risk factors for Black and White older adults; lunches with selected faculty, staff and trainees; scheduled one-on-one meetings with faculty; workshop and discussion with scholars and leadership team.
• Geriatric Grand Rounds presentation, titled “Psychotropic Prescribing to Older Adults: Less is (Probably) More,” along with 18 one-on-one and group meetings with interdisciplinary faculty and fellows, including individuals from the School of Nursing, School of Medicine (including the Departments of Medicine, Ethics and Health Policy, and Psychiatry), and the Wharton School. Shared research interests were discussed and potential research collaborations.
• Cardiovascular Grand Rounds lecture entitled "Bridging Data & Decency: A Mentored Path Through Geriatric Cardiology", individual meetings with senior institutional leaders in geriatrics, population health, and cardiovascular medicine, session with cardiology fellows provided an interactive forum to discuss career development in geriatric cardiology, grant writing, and building multidisciplinary mentorship teams.

Please note:

• Duration of the travel and visit should be 1–3 days.
• Group meals, even if educational, will not be funded.
  
  

Report and Evaluation

A short report should be submitted to AFAR within 60 days after the visit. The narrative report should describe the nature and quality of the Visiting Professor’s activities, including the number of participants attending the organized activities, and formal or informal evaluation of the experience. Please share any other materials such as photos, handouts, etc.

How to Apply

Please submit your application as one pdf with materials in the following order:

1. Description of expected contribution of the Visiting Professor to the applicant’s institution. Including schedule of events over the visit, objectives, and audience.
2. Proposed budget and budget justification. Allowable cost includes travel, meals, accommodations, honorarium of up to $1,000, and other and Visiting Professor activities. Total budget may not exceed $3,000. Group meals, even if educational, will not be funded.
3. Current NIH-style bio for the Visiting Professor
4. Letter/confirmation from the Visiting Professor to participate
5. Approval letter from a division head, department chair or other authorized institutional official hosting the visiting professor.

Applications may be submitted at any time. Questions may be directed to andrea@afar.org.

Requests for support should be submitted here.

Visit Funding Opportunity FAQ for more information.

Sandra Aleksic, MD, MS
Assistant Professor of Medicine (Endocrinology and Geriatrics)
Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center
Keywords: discoveries in aging biology from animal models to human studies, endocrinology and aging research, age-related hormonal changes in the functional decline

Alicia I. Arbaje, MD, MPH, PhD, FACP
Associate Professor of Medicine, Director of Transitional Care Research, Medical Director of Adult Home Healthcare Services
Johns Hopkins University
Keywords: integrating geriatric medicine and human-factors-engineering principles into healthcare delivery redesign, optimizing hospital-to-home transitions, AI research

Scott Bauer, MD, ScM
Associate Professor of Medicine, Urology, Epidemiology & Biostatistics
UCSF and San Francisco VA
Keywords: age-related urinary symptoms and dysfunction, geriatric syndromes, geroscience

Courtney Balentine, MD, MPH
Associate Professor of Surgery
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Keywords: surgery, implementation science, clinical trials, causal modeling & observational data, thyroid cancer, hyperparathyroidism, inguinal hernias, surgery and anesthesia, acute appendicitis

Miles Berger, MD, PhD
Professor; Adjunct Faculty
Stanford University; Duke University
Keywords: postoperative delirium and neurocognitive disorder, anesthetic brain sensitivity, prodromal/preclinical neurodegenerative disease pathology, novel roles for APOE4 in AD

Cynthia Boyd, MD, MPH
Director and Professor
Johns Hopkins University
Keywords: multimorbidity, deprescribing, person and family-centered care, outcomes research

Rebecca Brown, MD, MPH
Associate Professor of Medicine (Geriatrics)
University of Pennsylvania
Keywords: housing and health; homelessness; functional status; implementation of functional status measurement

Nathan E. Brummel, MD MSCI
Associate Professor of Medicine
Ohio State
Keywords: aging critical care, disability and frailty in those with critical illness, post-ICU syndrome

Kate Callahan, MD, MS
Professor of Internal Medicine, Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine, and Implementation Science
Wake Forest University School of Medicine
Keywords: frailty; implementation science; electronic health records as data source; health systems science

Andrew Cohen, MD, DPhil
Assistant Professor
Yale School of Medicine
Keywords: Unrepresented patients; guardianship; social isolation; surrogate decision-making for persons with dementia.

Cathleen Colon-Emeric, MD, MHS
Professor of Medicine, Chief Division of Geriatrics and Palliative Care
Duke University
Keywords: Physical resilience, osteoporosis/fracture prevention, skilled nursing facility research, models of care development

Thomas Cudjoe, MD, MPH
Associate Professor of Medicine
Johns Hopkins University
Keywords: social connection, isolation, loneliness, subsidized housing, community-based research, human centered design

William Dale, MD, PhD
Vice Chair, Academic Affairs, Supportive Care Medicine; Director, Center for Cancer & Aging
City of Hope National Medical Center
Keywords: cancer & aging, geriatric oncology, medical decision making, supportive care, value-based care

Stacie Deiner, MS, MD
Professor and LeRoy Garth Vice Chair for Research
Dartmouth Health
Keywords: postoperative neurocognitive disorders, delirium, frailty, anesthesia

Sascha Dublin, MD, PhD
Senior Investigator
Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute
Keywords: pharmacoepidemiology, medication safety, EHR data, early detection and diagnosis of dementia

Elizabeth Dzeng, MD, PhD, MPH, MPhil, MS
Associate Professor
University of California, San Francsico
Keywords: palliative care/end of life care/serious illness care, structural racism, equity, community engaged research, human centered design, qualitative research, bioethics, medical sociology, institutional culture and policies

Jason Raymond Falvey, PT, DPT, PhD
Assistant Professor and Director, Center for Disability Justice
University of Maryland School of Medicine
Keywords: neighborhoods and health, aging in place, rehab and recovery after fall-related trauma, dementia and recovery after trauma, community participatory research

Adam Faye, MD, MS
Assistant Professor of Medicine & Population Health, Director of Clinical Research NYU IBD Center
New York University
Keywords: GI-IBD/geriatrics, frailty and sarcopenia-- risk stratification tools, surgery risk factors, polypharmacy

Lauren Ferrante, MD, MHS
Associate Professor of Medicine
Yale School of Medicine
Keywords: functional outcomes/disability after critical illness, post-ICU outcomes, early mobilization, ICU delirium, social isolation, applying geriatric models of care in the ICU, integrating aging into your specialty

Terri Fried, MD
Humana Foundation Professor of Medicine
Yale School of Medicine
Keywords: advance care planning, complex medical decision making, goals of care

Katherine Gifford, PsyD
Associate Professor of Anatomy and Neurobiology
Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine
Keywords: Alzheimer's disease, mild cognitive impairment, neuropsychological assessment, digital technology in aging, brain aging, subjective cognitive decline

Elizabeth Goldberg, MD, ScM
Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine & Geriatrics
University of Colorado
Keywords: improving ED care in falls management and prevention, wearables and technology to improve older adult independence

Todd Golde, MD, PhD
Professor of Pharmacology and Neurology, Director CND
Emory University
Keywords: Alzheimer's disease and aging, HPA axis in aging and health span

Parag Goyal, MD, MSc
Associate Professor of Medicine
Weill Cornell Medicine
Keywords: HFpEF, cardiac amyloidosis, polypharmacy in heart failure, deprescribing in heart failure, geriatric conditions

S. Duke Han, PhD, ABPP-CN
Professor of Psychology, Family Medicine, Neurology, and Gerontology
University of Southern California
Keywords: cognition, cognitive aging, financial decision making, neuroimaging, early dementia, financial vulnerability, neuropsychology

Joshua M. Hare, MD
Professor of Medicine
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
Keywords: aging frailty, Alzheimer's disease, congestive heart failure, regenerative medicine

May Hua, MD, MS
Associate Professor of Anesthesiology (In Epidemiology)
Columbia University
Keywords: mixed-methods research, population-level effectiveness of specialist palliative care, with critical illness and patients with metastatic cancer

Alison Huang, MD, MAS, MPhil
Professor of Medicine, Urology, and Epidemiology & Biostatistics
University of California San Francisco
Keywords: aging and women's health, genitourinary aging, challenges/ innovations in clinical trials, menopausal syndromes, complementary and integrative health

Biren B. Kamdar, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine
University of California, San Diego
Keywords: outcomes in critically ill adult patients, eg, delirium, restraint use, and longer LOS, interventions to optimize detection and prevention practices.

Sikandar Khan, DO, MS
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care
Indiana University School of Medicine
Keywords: ICU delirium and aging, post-ICU aging, plasma biomarkers associated with ICU delirium, outcomes after critical illness

Elissa Kozlov, PhD
Assistant Professor, Director of Population Aging Concentration
Rutgers School of Public Health
Keywords: mental health and aging, serious illness, medical aid in dying, palliative care, technology and AI and mental health interventions

Daniel B. Kramer, MD, MPH
Associate Professor of Medicine
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center / Harvard Medical School
Keywords: cardiovascular disease/cardiac electrophysiology, cardiac implantable electrical devices, end-of-life care, shared decision-making

Sara LaHue, MD
Assistant Professor of Neurology
University of California, San Francisco
Keywords: crosscutting mechanisms to improve lives of hospitalized older adults. delirium and dementia, the role of aging mechanisms in these conditions

Sei J. Lee, MD, MAS
Professor of Medicine
University of California, San Francisco
Keywords: diabetes in frail older adults, individualizing prevention, time to benefit, prediction

Richard Frank Loeser, Jr., MD
Distinguished Professor and Director, Thurston Arthritis Research Center
University of North Carolina
Keywords: aging and osteoarthritis, aging, oxidative stress and osteoarthritis

Brendan Lucey, MD, MSCI
Professor of Neurology
Washington University School of Medicine
Keywords: relationships between sleep, aging, and Alzheimer’s disease; proteins, hormones, and metabolites affected by sleep-wake cycle

Dan Matlock, MD, MPH
Professor of Medicine
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Keywords: implementation science, shared decision making

Kelly McConnell, PhD
Associate Attending Psychologist
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Keywords: nature and predictors of distress in older patients with cancer and caregivers, end-of-life care, interventions to reduce distress and increase rates of ACP

Donovan Maust, MD, MS
Professor
University of Michigan
Keywords: psychotropic and opioid use among older adults with and without dementia, workforce care to older adults with dementia, psychotropic prescribing

Brienne Miner, MD, MHS
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Yale University
Keywords: sleep and aging; self-reported vs. objective sleep measures; sleep and Alzheimer's disease

R. Sean Morrison, MD
Professor and Chair, Brookdale Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Keywords: palliative medicine, models of care delivery, aging and exposome, health policy

Michael Nanna, MD, MHS
Assistant Professor
Yale School of Medicine
Keywords: ischemic heart disease treatment & outcomes in aging, heart-mind connection considerations, risk stratification for CVD interventions

John Newman, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor
Buck Institute for Research on Aging
Keywords: geroscience applied to delirium and frailty, ketone body biology in aging, ketone body signaling in Alzheimer's disease and aging brain, biomarkers in clinical studies

Sarah Nouri, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor of Medicine
University of California, San Francisco
Keywords: equity in access to high quality palliative car

Anna L. Parks, MD
Assistant Professor
University of Utah
Keywords: venous thromboembolism in older adults

Thomas Perls MD, MPH, FACP
Robert D. Evans Distinguished Professor of Medicine
Boston University Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine
Keywords: determinants of healthy longevity, healthspan, exceptional longevity

Jenny Portz, PhD, MSW
Associate Professor
University of Colorado
Keywords: social work, caregiving, digital health, and palliative care

Sarah P. Psutka, MD, MS, FACS
Associate Professor of Urology
University of Washington/Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
Keywords: surgical risk stratification in older and medically complicated patients, frailty/sarcopenia/adiposity, geriatric risk assessments, prehabilitation/functional movement

Carmen Quatman, MD, PhD
Associate Professor with Tenure Departments of Emergency Medicine and Orthopaedics
The Ohio State University
Keywords: geriatric orthopaedics/musculoskeletal care, fall prevention, worker wellness/ resiliency, QI, EMS research, surgical outcomes research

Anaïs Rameau, MD, MS, MPhil
Associate Professor
Weill Cornell Medicine
Keywords: geriatric swallowing, AI in voice and swallowing

Danny Roh, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Surgery
Boston University
Keywords: wound healing, senescence, scarring, aging and tissue repair, senolytics, wound care, plastic & reconstructive surgery

Caterina Rosano, MD, MPH
Professor of Epidemiology
University of Pittsburgh
Keywords: neural control of mobility, muscle-brain crosstalk as a source of neuroprotection, cognitive aging in Caribbeans, population neuroscience of age-related brain aging.

Tony Rosen, MD, MPH
Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine, Associate Director of Research
Weill Cornell Medicine/New York-Presbyterian Hospital
Keywords: elder mistreatment, geriatric emergency medicine

Nancy Schoenborn MD, MHS
Associate Professor of Medicine
Johns Hopkins Medicine
Keywords: cancer screening, prognosis, de-implementation, deprescribing, high-value care, decision making, communication, personalized care, reducing overuse, messaging

Mara Schonberg, MD, MPH
Professor of Medicine
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Keywords: shared decision-making around cancer screening or breast cancer treatment in older adults

Dorry Segev, MD, PhD
Professor of Surgery and Population Health
NYU Langone
Keywords: frailty, prehabilitation, cognitive decline, ESKD and aging, organ transplantation and aging; data science, risk prediction, artificial intelligence, cohort studies, clinical trials

Daniel Shalev, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine and Medicine in Psychiatry
Keywords: intersection of behavioral health and serious illness care, interface of mental health, substance use disorders, and palliative care

Michael Steinman, MD
Professor of Medicine (Geriatrics)
University of California, San Francisco
Keywords: deprescribing; polypharmacy; pharmacoepidemiology; multimorbidity; research program development; mentorship

Nadia Sutton, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Keywords: interventional cardiology, vascular aging, targets for intervening on the degenerative processes of aging

Jasmine Travers, PhD, MHS, RN
Assistant Professor
New York University Rory Meyers College of Nursing
Keywords: nursing home research engagement, outcomes specific to residents/staff, workforce issues, access to services and supports, disrupting aging, LTC policy