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Geropsychology award winners

January 2004, Vol 35, No. 1

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Program	Program Director	Project Title	Award Amount	Disciplines	Purpose
Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Yeshiva University	Richard A. Zweig, PhD	Doctoral Geropsychology Training in a Primary-Care Setting	$197,496	Clinical psychology (doctoral), internal medicine	Provide externship training to clinical psychology doctoral students at Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology with education and clinical experiences in geropsychology.
University of Rochester Medical Center	Deborah A. King, PhD	University of Rochester Geropsychology Education Program	$200,209	Psychology, medicine (family medicine, internal medicine), psychiatry	Provide doctoral training to two fellows the first year and three fellows in the second and third years to prepare them to work in community-based elder-care services.
University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School	Leon A. Hyer, EdD	Training in Geropsychology for Underserved Elders	$91,608	Psychology, psychiatry, family medicine, public health	Create an integrated training program for three geropsychology interns and three graduate students and develop geriatric programs.
University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC)	Susan Labott, PhD	Geropsychology Education Program at UIC	$158,690	Psychology (clinical, consulting, health, neuropsychology), medicine (psychiatry, physical medicine, rehabilitation), nursing (rehabilitation, oncology), social work	Develop a distance-learning program with interactive case consultation and demonstrations, and support intern stipends and an interdisciplinary seminar.
University of South Florida	Victor A. Molinari, PhD	Postdoctoral Public Sector Interdisciplinary Training	$226,281	Psychology (postdoctoral fellows, graduate students), geriatric nurse practitioners, public health, gerontology	Train three geropsychology postdoctoral fellows each year for three years in diverse long-term care and primary-care settings.
University of Alabama	Forrest R. Scogin, PhD	Training Geropsychologists for an Aging America	$103,117	Psychology, nursing, social work, medicine	Expand practicum sites in underserved communities to train clinical geropsychology students and fund three geropsychology graduate students and an interdisciplinary course on health and aging.
Veterans Affairs Black Hills Health Care System	Michael J. Fellner, PhD	Frontier Geropsychology Training Enhancement Project	$239,488	Psychology/psychiatry, medicine, nursing, social work, master's-level counselors	Develop a geropsychology component within the Internship Training Program to provide training experiences with elderly Native American clients in frontier and rural areas.