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Volume 35, No. 1 January 2004



Expanding geropsychology training

  Geropsychology award winners
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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.

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