Join AFAR at the GSA 2024 Annual Scientific Meeting on November 14th for an awards ceremony and lectures for the Inaugural George M. Martin Lifetime Achievement in Mentoring Award as well as as the 2024 Terrie Fox Wetle Rising Star Award in Health Services and Aging Research and 2024 Irving S. Wright Award of Distinction.

The ceremony will start at 6:30pm with presentation of awards to the honored experts and lectures by the Terrie Fox Wetle Rising Star Award in Health Services and Aging Research and Irving S. Wright Award of Distinction Recipients.

Please join AFAR in celebrating:

Inaugural George M. Martin Lifetime Achievement in Mentoring Award:
Steven N. Austad, PhD
Distinguished Professor, Protective Life Endowed Chair in Healthy Aging Research, University of Alabama at Birmingham

2024 Terrie Fox Wetle Rising Star Award in Health Services and Aging Research:
Megan Huisingh-Scheetz, MD, MPH, AGSF, "Harnessing Health Services Research to Fuel Frailty Implementation and Innovation"
Associate Professor, Associate Director - Aging Research Program, Co-Director of the Successful Aging and Frailty Evaluation Clinic Section of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine, University of Chicago

2024 Irving S. Wright Award of Distinction:
Jeremy D. Walston, MD, "Physical Frailty in Older Adults: What Drives and Prevents It?"
Raymond and Anna Lublin Professor of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology, Director -The Johns Hopkins Human Aging Project, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine