Dr. Steven Cohen has received an Erickson Foundation Research Award in Positive Aging from the Aging and Public Health Section of the American Public Health Association.

The Erickson award is given in recognition of contributions to the understanding of positive aging, as exemplified by Dr. Cohen’s paper Geographic variation in rural-urban obesity rates in older adults: Evidence from a national survey (co-authored with Lauren Kelley, MPH, CHES, Sarah Cook, MPH, Julia Foutz, MPH, and Trisha Sando, DPT, CWS).

Dr. Cohen has received four teaching awards this year from the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine:

• Outstanding Departmental Teacher Award in Health Sciences Education
  Division of Epidemiology, Department of Family Medicine and Population Health, Virginia Commonwealth University
• Outstanding Teaching Award for Best Teacher, Population Health and Evidence-Based Medicine (Applied Medical Sciences A)
  Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine
• Outstanding Teaching Award for Best Teacher, Population Health and Evidence-Based Medicine (Applied Medical Sciences B)
  Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine
• Outstanding Teaching Award for Best Teacher, Population Health and Evidence-Based Medicine (Scientific Foundations of Medicine)
  Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine

Congratulations Dr. Cohen!

Congratulations to GREMAP member Julia Foutz, MPH on her new position as a Research Analyst with the DC office of the Kaiser Family Foundation!

The Kaiser Family Foundation is a non-profit organization that focuses on national health issues, as well as the U.S. role in global health policy. The foundation serves as a non-partisan source of facts, analysis and journalism for policymakers, the media, the health policy community and the public. As a research analyst Julia will contribute to the foundation mission to develop and conduct policy analysis, journalism and communications programs.

Endocrine Today has written an article about Dr. Jeannie Concha’s paper Culture-centered approaches: the relevance of assessing emotional health for Latinos with type 2 diabetes. This paper examines whether medical doctors are asking Latinos with diabetes about emotional problems, an important comorbidity in diabetes care.

The work of several GREMAP members will be presented at the 2015 American Public Health Association annual meeting in Chicago (October 31 – Nov 4). Presentations will include:

 

November 1

Sociodemographic disparities in informal caregiving intensity in the United States: Results from the new National Study of Caregiving
Steven A. Cohen, Sarah Cook, Lauren Kelley and Lindsey Hall

 

November 2

Predictive Factors of Diabetic Foot Screening Rates in the United States
Trisha Sando and Steven A. Cohen

Do functional mobility and activity of daily living deficits after a cerebrovascular accident influence the referral to physical and occupation therapy?
Trisha Sando and Steven A. Cohen

Geographic variation in rural-urban obesity rates in older adults: Evidence from a national survey
Steven A. Cohen, Lauren Kelley, Sarah Cook, Julia Foutz and Trisha Sando

Diabetes Causation Beliefs among Latinos with Type 2 Diabetes: “That’s the key to a little bit of understanding between the doctor and the patient”
Jeannie Concha, Sallie Mayer, Danielle Avula, Briana Mezuk and Karen Bunn

 

November 3

Ethnic Identity, Education, and Diabetes in Adult Latinos: Evidence of Ethnic Identity as an Underlying Mechanism of the Latino Health Advantage
Jeannie Concha, Briana Mezuk and Kristen Kelly

 

Doctoral student Trisha Sando will be presenting her research “Patient Reports of Post-CVA Functional Impairments are the Driving Force Behind Post-Acute Therapy Referrals” (created in collaboration with Dr. Steve Cohen and Scott Ratliff) and “Psychiatric Medication Use is Associated with Increased Impairments in the Vestibular and Proprioception Systems” (created in collaboration with Natalie Bareis and Scott Ratliff) at the Combined Sections Meeting of the American Physical Therapy Association, February 2016 in Anaheim, California. Additional conference details can be found at http://www.apta.org/CSM/Overview/

Dr. Mezuk has been awarded the Busse Research Award in Social & Behavioral Sciences by the Duke University Center on Aging.

This award, given in honor of Duke Aging Center founding director Edwald W. Busse, is awarded in recognition of significant contributions to research on aging.

Dr. Mezuk will receive the award and give a presentation on her work on September 25.

Dr. Briana Mezuk will be a keynote speaker at McGill University’s Conference on Prediabetes and Mental Health.

This conference, which will be held November 12-13 in Montreal, Quebec, will bring together researchers, policy-makers, and other stake-holders to share knowledge on the role mental health may play in the transition from prediabetes to type II diabetes, and to identify future research priorities in this area.