Leadership Council
The AWARD Network Leadership Council consists of three people who work with the Leadership Team to guide Network activities. Each member is appointed for a one-year renewable term. If you’d be interested in serving, please email Joanne Spetz.
Members:
Jennifer Craft Morgan, Director of Gerontology Institute & Associate Professor, Georgia State University
Robert Lucero, Associate Dean of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion & Adrienne H. Moseley Endowed Chair, UCLA School of Nursing
Regina Shih, Professor, Emory University
Jennifer Reckrey, Associate Professor, Icahn School of Medicine
Huiwen Xu, Associate Professor, Emory University School of Nursing
Webinar Committee
We hold monthly webinars, which include research, education, and networking presentations. Committee members are appointed for one-year renewable terms. If you’d like to serve on this committee, please contact Bianca Frogner.
Members:
Emily Franzosa, Assistant Professor, Icahn School of Medicine
Madeline Sterling, Assistant Professor, Weill Cornell Medical College
Huiwen Xu, Associate Professor, Emory University School of Nursing
Jarmin Yeh, Assistant Professor, Institute for Health and Aging, UCSF
Shirin Vellani, Toronto Rehabilitation Institute
Megan Gately, Boston University & New England Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center
Jin Jun, The Ohio State University
Planning Committee for 2023 Annual Conference
We held our first AWARD Network conference in conjunction with the 2023 American Geriatrics Society conference in Long Beach. Our next conferences will be in conjunction with the AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting in Baltimore, June 2024, and the Gerontological Society of America Conference in Seattle, November 2024. If you would like to serve on the planning committee, please contact Laura Wagner.
Members for the 2023 Planning Committee were:
Laura Wagner, UCSF (Chair)
Roy Thompson, University of Missouri
Regina Shih, Professor, Emory University
Katherine Kennedy, Health Fellow, Providence VA Medical Center
Sumedha Gupta, Indiana University
Sung S. Park, University of Massachusetts, Boston
Sherif A Olanrewaju, Penn State University
Elham Mahmoudi, University of Michigan
Summer Training Institute Planning Committee, 2023-2024
The AWARD Network will hold a Summer Training Institute in San Francisco in summer 2024.
Members:
Susan Chapman, UCSF (Chair)
Lei Chen, UCSF
Jennifer Craft Morgan, Georgia State University
Robert Lucero, UCLA
Zainab Osakwe, Adelphi University
Karen Shen, Johns Hopkins University
Laura Wagner, UCSF
Research Fellowship Selection Committee
The AWARD Research Fellowship Program is intended to enable emerging researchers to initiate or work on a collaborative research project with an experienced research mentor. If you are interested in serving on the selection committee, contact Kezia Scales.
Kezia Scales, PHI (Chair)
Angela Perone, University of California, Berkeley
Katherine Wen, Vanderbilt University
Frances Hawes, University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire
Taylor B. Rogers, UCSF
Pilot Grant Selection Committee, 2023
The AWARD Network will seek applications for pilot grants for early-stage research on the direct care workforce for people living with dementia in fall 2023.
Members:
Joanne Spetz, UCSF (Chair)
Marie Boltz, Penn State University
Hannah James, Brown University
Robert Lucero, UCLA
Katherine Ornstein, Johns Hopkins University
LaTonya Trotter, University of Washington
Huiwen Xu, Associate Professor, Emory University School of Nursing