Biological Sciences

Irving S. Wright Award and Terrie Fox Wetle Award Lectures

Award Lecturer(s)

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  Jeremy Walston, MD, FGSA (he/him/his)

  Raymond and Anna Lublin Professor of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology
  Medicine/Geriatrics
  Johns Hopkins University
  Baltimore, Maryland, United States
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  Megan Huisingh-Scheetz, MD, MPH, AGSF, FGSA

  Associate Professor
  Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine
  University of Chicago
  Chicago, Illinois, United States

The Irving S. Wright Award of Distinction Lecture will feature an address by the 2024 recipient Jeremy D. Walston, MD, FGSA, Johns Hopkins University. The Terrie Fox Wetle Award lecture will feature an address by the 2024 recipient Megan Huisingh-Scheetz, MD, MPH, AGSF, University of Chicago. The George M. Martin Lifetime Achievement in Mentoring Award will also be presented at this event to 2024 recipient Steven N. Austad, PhD, FGSA, University of Alabama at Birmingham. These awards are given by the American Federation for Aging Research, Inc.

Presentations:

• 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM PST

  Physical Frailty in Older Adults:  What Drives and Prevents It?
  

  Individual Symposium Abstract First Author: Jeremy D. Walston, MD, FGSA (he/him/his) – Johns Hopkins University
• 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM PST

  Harnessing Health Services Research to Fuel Frailty Implementation and Innovation
  

  Award Lecturer: Megan Huisingh-Scheetz, MD, MPH, AGSF, FGSA – University of Chicago