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Congratulations to all AAGP 2025 Awardees!
AAGP
Jeanne Jackson Siegal Clinician of the Year Award – Shilpa Srinivasan
Images of Aging Award – Deborah Kan
Diversity Award in Honor of Dr. Iqbal "Ike" Ahmed Award – Kirsten Wilkins
Barry Lebowitz Early Career Scientist Award – Nili Solomonov
Member-in-Training Research Award – Nicholas Ainsworth
Distinguished Scientist Award – David Steffens
Educator of the Year Award – Erica Garcia-Pittman
Member-in-Training Future Clinician-Educator Award – Brian Donley
Distinguished Fellow – Sandra Swantek
Elliott M. Stein Award for Lifetime Service to AAGP and the Field of Geriatric Psychiatry – Sanford Finkel
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2025 AAGP Election Results:
Informing the membership of our officer election results is always a wonderful task. It's a celebration of the democratic process and a way of looking into the future of AAGP.
The voting members of AAGP recently voted on a wonderful slate of candidates. It is with great pleasure we announce the results of our recent election:
President Elect – Shilpa Srinivasan
Secretary/Treasurer Elect – Jordan Karp
Directors at Large – Erica Garcia-Pittman
Alex Threlfall
Prasad Padala
Breno Diniz
Ali Abbas Asghar-Ali
Denise Feil
MIT Director – Joanna Georgakas
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Innovative stress management program helps seniors' emotional health
University of Montreal via Medical Xpress
A Canadian research team has released the results of a study on stress resilience in seniors. Their findings were published on Jan. 5, 2025 in Frontiers in Psychology. The study involving 170 seniors with an average age of 76 found that O'stress, a six-week stress management program, had beneficial effects on the emotional health of participants. Read More
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Study reveals health and economic impact of air pollution in aging societies
University of Tokyo via News Medical
Air pollution is a growing health issue worldwide, and its impacts are often underestimated in aging societies like Japan. A new study led by researchers from the University of Tokyo highlights how fine particulate pollution, or PM2.5, not only worsens health outcomes, but also creates significant socioeconomic challenges in regions with aging populations and limited medical resources. The researchers hope these findings motivate policymakers to tackle the interrelated issues behind this problem. Read More
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Omega-3s can slow down aging process
UZH News
A daily intake of one gram of omega-3s can slow down biological aging by up to four months, according to an analysis of clinical data from the international DO-HEALTH study led by the University of Zurich. For the first time, epigenetic clocks were used to measure the aging process. Read More
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