Session: GHS Leadership Award Presentations
3347.0: Monday, November 17, 2003: 4:30 PM-6:00 PM
Panel Discussion
GHS Leadership Award Presentations
Learning Objectives: Refer to the individual abstracts for learning objectives
See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.
4:30 PMAcknowledgement & Recognition: APHA Award for Excellence, Laurence G. Branch, PhD
4:30 PMLifetime Achievement Award, James G. Zimmer, MD
4:30 PMAward for Leadership in Aging and Long-term Care, Susan Hughes, DSW
4:30 PMArchstone Foundation Award for Excellence in Program Innnovation: Alzheimer's health education initiative: Bridging the consumer / physician communications gap, M. Plauche, MA; D. Cherry, PhD
4:30 PMNobuo Maeda International Research Award: Comparing Nursing Home Quality Between Short-Stay and Long-Stay Residents, S. C. J. Yeh, PhD, RN
4:30 PMRural Health Policy Research Award: Use of a health promotion approach to slow functional decline in a chronically ill Medicare population: Results from a randomized controlled trial, B. Wamsley, MSW; H. Meng, MPH; B. Friedman, PhD; T. F. Williams, MD
4:30 PMBetty J. Cleckley Minority Issues Research Award: Severity of Food Insufficiency is Greater Among Homebound Black Participants in Older Americans Act Nutrition Programs, J. R. Sharkey, PhD, MPH, RD; N. E. Schoenberg, PhD
4:30 PMRetirement Research Foundation Student Research Award: The Effect of Social Activity on the Psychological Well-Being of Elderly African Americans at a Metropolitan Washington, D.C. Church, Erika M. Symonette
4:30 PMLaurence G. Branch Doctoral Student Research Award, The Impact of Organizational and Environmental Variables on Subacute Care in Nursing Homes, Amir Qaseem, MD, PhD and Robert Weech-Maldonado, MBA, PhD
4:30 PMLaurence G. Branch Doctoral Student Research Award,Depressive Symptoms Increase The Risk Of Nursing Home Admission, Yael Harris, M.H.S., Ph.D.
4:30 PMRetirement Research Foundation Student Research Award: Reciprocity of emotional support: The impact on psychological well-being of Japanese older adults, Yoko Kawamura
Organized by:Gerontological Health
CE Credits:Pharmacy

The 131st Annual Meeting (November 15-19, 2003) of APHA