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Dr. Peggye Dilworth-Anderson Elected President of the Gerontological Society of America Rebecca Wells Elected Academic at Large HPAA Associate Professor delivers 40th Annual Fred T. Foard Jr. Memorial Lecture Dr. Peggye Dilworth-Anderson Elected President of the Gerontological Society of America From the UNC Institute on Aging: Dr. Peggye Dilworth-Anderson, UNC Institute on Aging Associate Director for Aging and Diversity and Director of the Center for Aging and Diversity (CAD), has been elected to the presidency of the Gerontological Society of America (GSA). She will initially serve as president-elect and assume the presidency in 2009. The Gerontological Society of America is a sixty-three year-old association with a mission to promote the scientific study of aging, to encourage exchanges among researchers and practitioners from various disciplines related to gerontology, and to foster the use of gerontological research in forming public policy. Dr. Dilworth-Anderson joined the University of North Carolina's faculty as Professor of Health Policy and Management in the School of Public Health, and as the Associate Director of Aging and Diversity in the Institute on Aging at Chapel Hill. On July 1, 2003, she was appointed Director of the Institute's Center for Aging and Diversity. She completed her undergraduate training in sociology at Tuskegee Institute in 1970, and earned her master's and doctorate degrees in sociology from Northwestern University in 1972 and 1975, respectively. She received further training in family therapy (1983-85) from the Family Institute of Chicago, Institute of Psychiatry, Northwestern University, and in 1989 she received additional training in family issues and Alzheimer's disease from the Harvard Geriatric Education Center. Her research and publications have included both theoretically and empirically-based topics on ethnic minority families, with emphasis on older African Americans. In addition to being cited in professional journals, Dr. Dilworth-Anderson's work has been cited in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, the Christian Science Monitor, and numerous local and regional newspapers. She has received funding to support her research from the National Institute on Aging, the Administration on Aging, and the March of Dimes Birth Defect Foundation. She also served as a delegate to the 2005 White House Conference on Aging. Posted 6/17/08  back to top Rebecca Wells Elected Academic at Large Rebecca Wells, Assistant Professor in HPAA, was elected Academic at Large for the Health Care Management division of The Academy of Management. As one of six elected officers, Rebecca will assist in overseeing the Health Care Management division for a one-year term. The Academy of Management is a leading professional association for scholars dedicated to creating and disseminating knowledge about management and organizations. Founded in 1936 by two professors, the Academy of Management is the oldest and largest scholarly management association in the world. The Health Care Management division is dedicated to understanding the role of professionals and organizations in providing health care both locally and internationally. Major focuses of research by divisional members include: the performance of health care workers and organizations; public policy issues, such as access to care, competition, cost control and quality of care, and their implications for managing health care organizations; health care finance and marketing; and empirical or conceptual application of theory to the study of health care organizations, even on topics that might also fall within another division's domain.  Posted 5/23/08 back to top HPAA Associate Professor delivers 40th Annual Fred T. Foard Jr. Memorial Lecture Jonathan B. Oberlander, associate professor of health policy and administration, UNC School of Public Health, and associate professor of social medicine, UNC School of Medicine, gave the 40th Annual Fred T. Foard Jr. Memorial Lecture last week on the topic of Health Care Reform and the 2008 Presidential Candidates. Dr. Oberlander is author of The Political Life of Medicare (University of Chicago Press, 2003) and co-editor of a three-volume series (The Social Medicine Reader, 2nd ed.) published by Duke University Press in 2005. His research interests include Medicare, health politics, health care reform both nationally and at the state level, and American public policy. Before coming to UNC-Chapel Hill, Dr. Oberlander was Robert Wood Johnson Visiting Scholar in health policy at the University of California-Berkeley and a Research Fellow in governmental studies at the Brookings Institution. He holds a Ph.D. and a M.A. in political science from Yale University, and a B.A. in political science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dr. Oberlander currently has a Greenwall Foundation Faculty Fellowship in Bioethics and in 2003 and 2004 received Teaching Excellence Awards from the UNC School of Medicine. He is a recipient of the 2006 Phillip and Ruth Hettleman Prize for Artistic and Scholarly Achievement by Young Faculty at UNC-Chapel Hill. See a full webcast and slides of his presentation. Posted 4/22/08  back to top Content for this page provided by the Department of Health Policy and Management. Please contact the webmaster with any questions or comments.

Last updated August 06, 2008