University Times

Pitt's division of geriatric medicine has been designated a national Center of Excellence in Geriatric Medicine by the John A. Hartford Foundation. The designation is accompanied by a grant of $500,000.

"With this designation, the division joins the ranks of a select group of centers, including Harvard, Johns Hopkins, Yale and UCLA," said Neil Resnick, professor of medicine and chief, division of geriatric medicine and gerontology at the University and UPMC Health System. "This designation allows us to build on the already excellent clinical training in geriatric medicine, which has led to more University of Pittsburgh medical students receiving summer American Federation for Aging Research scholarships than from any other school and more UPMC residents entering geriatrics fellowships than from any other U.S. program."

This also will allow the division to add a "clinician scientist" training track to the program, which will train division fellows to become future leaders in geriatric investigation, according to Resnick.

The geriatric division's research is known nationally for its work in medical ethics, nutrition, home care, urinary incontinence, epidemiology of aging, osteoporosis, the evaluation and management of chronic pain, the epidemiology and implications of cardiac disease, and dementia and behavior management.