Reynolds Foundation Awards $10 Million for Geriatrics Training
The Donald W. Reynolds Foundation announced that its board of trustees has approved 10 grants, totaling $9,998,731, to strengthen physicians’ geriatrics training at medical schools across the United States. The grants under the foundation's Next Steps in Physicians’ Training in Geriatrics initiative will support comprehensive projects in academic health centers to train medical students, residents and faculty in geriatrics. Four of the ten institutions funded by the Reynolds Foundation are also Hartford-funded Centers of Excellence in Geriatric Medicine and Training.
The Donald W. Reynolds Foundation announced that its board of trustees has approved 10 grants, totaling $9,998,731, to strengthen physicians’ geriatrics training at medical schools across the United States. The grants under the foundation's Next Steps in Physicians’ Training in Geriatrics initiative will support comprehensive projects in academic health centers to train medical students, residents and faculty in geriatrics. Four of the ten institutions funded by the Reynolds Foundation are also Hartford-funded Centers of Excellence in Geriatric Medicine and Training.
The institutions selected and the grant amounts are as follows:
- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center / Harvard University, Boston, MA – $1,000,000 (and Hartford-funded Center of Excellence)
- Brown University Medical School, Providence, RI – $1,000,000 (and Hartford-funded Center of Excellence)
- Rowan University School of Osteopathic Medicine (formerly University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-School of Osteopathic Medicine), Stratford, NJ - $998,895
- University of Arizona School of Medicine, Tucson, AZ – $1,000,000
- University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA – $1,000,000 (and Hartford-funded Center of Excellence)
- University of Kansas School of Medicine, Kansas City, KS – $1,000,000
- University of North Texas, College of Osteopathic Medicine, Fort Worth, TX – $999,857
- University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX – $1,000,000
- University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT – $1,000,000
- Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC – $999,979 (and Hartford-funded Center of Excellence)
Read the Reynolds 06/07/13 press release here.