Building the Foundation Together with Community Partners

2000 Holly Hall Street,Houston TX 77054

17 January, 2023

Description

Check-in and Networking Happy Hour: 5:30-6:30 (check-in closes at 6:30) Program and seat-down dinner start at 6:30. Registration Required. No walk-in. Dr. Aanand Naik, Nancy P. and Vincent F. Guinee, MD Distinguished Chair and executive director of The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth Houston) Consortium on Aging, will be the presenter, and we will have extra time for suggesting topics of interest that our membership would like for the Consortium on Aging to address. The Consortium on Aging was established to lead UTHealth in meeting the challenge of providing quality health care for the growing elderly population in Houston. The Consortium is a university-wide collaborative effort that leverages the existing strengths and expertise of all the UTHealth schools, including the Schools of Medicine, Nursing, Dentistry, Public Health, Biomedical Informatics, and Biomedical Sciences. Focusing on aging-related interdisciplinary care, education, research, and community outreach, the role of the Consortium is to foster collaboration among the schools and centers of UTHealth with the goals of: Enhancing the geriatric knowledge and skills of health care students and providers and promoting coordinated, patient-focused care by interdisciplinary teams Finding innovative strategies for training health care students and practicing providers in geriatrics Facilitating aging-related research and the advancement of gerontology. The Consortium on Aging is guided by the following principles: Interdisciplinary focus and outreach University-wide integration Service to a diverse community Best practices of geriatric care Mentoring of new geriatrics faculty members Collaboration with Houston agencies and organizations