The John A. Hartford, Inc. Foundation of New York recently  named Baylor College of Medicine's Huffington Center on Aging as a "Center of Excellence" in geriatrics. These centers are the core of the Hartford Foundation's "Academic Geriatric Recruitment Initiative", which seeks to recruit and train physicians to be leaders in academic geriatrics in the United States. Increasing numbers of academic geriatricians are needed to train our physicians of the future so that they may appropriately treat and care for the burgeoning number of older adults in our society. What does this designation mean to Baylor and the Huffington Center?

The Hartford Foundation devotes the largest share of income derived from its assets to promoting academic geriatric programs in the United States. Center of Excellence awards are made on the basis of outstanding accomplishments in aging-related research, research training, education and service. This award is only one in a series of accolades the National Institute of Aging (NIA) and other organizations have extended to the Huffington Center. These add to the prestige of Baylor and honor the Center's faculty and faculty associates.

In January of 1998, the Baylor College of Medicine Center of Excellence in Geriatrics was funded and activities initiated under the leadership of Robert J. Luchi, M.D., who serves as principal investigator along with Anita Woods, Ph.D. who serves as co-principal investigator and program director.

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