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:
Emily Franzosa, Assistant Professor, Icahn School of Medicine
Jennifer Reckrey, Associate Professor, NYU Langone
Regina Shih, Professor, Emory University
Roy Thompson, Hunter-Bellevue School of Nursing
Huiwen Xu, Associate Professor, Emory University School of Nursing
Jarmin Yeh, Assistant Professor, Institute for Health and Aging, UCSF
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:
Cait Brown, MA, CCC-SLP, PhD candidate at University of Washington
Kira Ryskina, MD, MSHP, Associate Professor, UPenn School of Medicine
Roy Thompson, PhD, RN, Assistant Professor Hunter-Bellevue School of Nursing
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 Gerontological Society of America Conference in Boston, November 2025. If you would like to serve on the planning committee, please contact Laura Wagner.
Members for the 2025 Planning Committee were:
Laura Wagner, UCSF (Chair)
Huiwen Xu, Emory University School of Nursing
Jarmin Yeh, Institute for Health and Aging, UCSF
Mallory Johnson, University of California, Davis
Sherif A Olanrewaju, Penn State University
Katherine Kennedy, Health Fellow, Providence VA Medical Center
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
Yeonjung Jane Lee, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Moroni Fernandez Cajavilca, New York University
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, 2025
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)
Walter Dawson, Oregon Health Sciences University
Emerald Jenkins, PCORI
Kate Miller, Johns Hopkins University
Rachel Prusynski, University of Washington
Zahra Rahemi, Clemson University
Hari Sharma, University of Iowa
Karen Shen, Johns Hopkins University