Center of Excellence
In January 1998, The John A. Hartford, Inc. Foundation
of New York 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.
Since inception of the Baylor College of Medicine Center
of Excellence in Geriatrics, continued funding has been
maintained and activities overseen under the leadership of
George E. Taffet, M.D., Chief, Section of Geriatrics,
Department of Medicine, who serves
as principal investigator along with Anita Woods, Ph.D. who
serves as co-principal investigator and program director.
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