Texas Consortium of Geriatric Education Centers

As one of 46 GECs in the country, the Texas Consortium of Geriatric Education Centers (TCGEC), established in October 1985, is comprised of nine leading academic institutions.  Members of the consortium and e-mail hyperlinks to their respective co-project directors are as follows:

They collaborate to advance the development of health professionals' capabilities to improve the lives of older Texans through better programs, service delivery activities, and resources in the field of aging. At the yearly average rate, by 2005 approximately 40,000 Texas health care professionals will have attended TCGEC offerings.  Contact Dr. Robert E. Roush at the TCGEC for a listing of CME programs.  Phone (713) 798-4611; Fax  (713) 794-7092; or e-mail him at rroush@bcm.tmc.edu. Other TCGEC staff at Baylor's Huffington Center on Aging are Nancy L. Wilson, LMSW, Assoc. Project Director -- nwilson@bcm.tmc.edu -- and the Coordinator for Distance Learning, Mehrnaz S. Gill, MS, (713) 798-5805 or mgill@bcm.tmc.edu. Ms. Gill can register you for distance learning credit by your clicking here.

The National Association of Geriatrics Education Centers (NAGEC)  is comprised of the national network of 46 GECs funded by HRSA's Bureau of Health Professions; Division of Associated, Dental, and Public Health Professions; Interdisciplinary, Geriatrics, and Allied Health Branch. GECs offer health professions educators and community practitioners professional development opportunities in aging that inure to the commonweal of older people now and those "future" older Americans.  For more information about how GECs can be of assistance to you or how you can apply to become a GEC, please call the GEC Coordinator, Dr.Joan Weiss, at (301) 443-0430. You may also visit the Directory of GECs at this URL: http://bhpr.hrsa.gov/interdisciplinary/gec.html.

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Summary of 2003 PDI held  in Galveston, Feb. 14-15

Minutes of TCGEC Executive Committee Meeting, May 22, 2003

25th PDI held April 7-8, 2004, Holiday Inn Crowne Plaza Hotel, Houston, Texas. Click above to read about this program or call Dr. Roush at (713) 798-4611
for follow-up on "Advances in the Care of Older Adults"  and information about the 2005 PDI.

The TCGEC is leading the way in Texas in designing  a curriculum on Bioterrorism and Emergency Preparedness in Aging (BTEPA) and teaching this statewide. For more information on this new resource, contact Dr. Robert Roush or Ms. Mehrnaz Gill at (713) 798-4611. 

rroush@bcm.tmc.edu

mgill@bcm.tmc.edu