The Terrie Fox Wetle Rising Star Award in Health Services and Aging Research

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The award is named to honor Terrie Fox Wetle, PhD, who has devoted her professional career to improving the lives of older persons. She has been a tireless advocate for inclusion of aging-related health services research in Public Health. She has mentored hundreds of new investigators in a broad array of disciplines. As inaugural Dean, she built a thriving School of Public Health at Brown University, while leading efforts to improve aging-relevant content in public health curricula. Professor Wetle sets an example of visionary leadership, mentoring and administrative excellence.

In her honor, AFAR established the Terrie Fox Wetle Rising Star Award in HealthServices and Aging Research in 2019.

Award
  • The award is a framed citation and carries a cash prize of $5,000.
  • The winner will have an opportunity to present research findings at the Annual Scientific Meeting of the Gerontological Society of America.
Criteria for Selection
  • The Fox Wetle awardee will be a health services researcher in an early or middle phase of his/her career.
  • The candidate should have already made important contributions with work that respects the value of multidisciplinary health services science and that is likely to be highly influential in shaping practice and research for decades to come.
  • Collaborative work with community partners will be given special consideration.
  • The typical candidate would be at the level of late Assistant Professor or early Associate Professor.
  • The selection committee should cite a series of published, scholarly papers that are influencing research and practice in the area of health services and aging.
  • The candidates' work should have acquired sufficient momentum to convince the selection committee that contributions of prominence and influence will continue for many years to come.
NOMINATION INSTRUCTIONS
  • You may only propose one candidate, we do not allow self-nomination.
  • There is no form. Send a letter of nomination highlighting aspects of the candidate’s career that relate to the selection criteria, and the nominee’s NIH-style biosketch to grants@afar.org. Indicate that you are nominating a candidate for the Fox Wetle Award.
  • Deadline: December 1, 2023

2024 Terrie Fox Wetle Rising Star Award in Health Services and Aging Research:

Megan Huisingh-Scheetz, MD, MPH, AGSF
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

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Past Wetle Rising Star Award Recipients:

2023: Claire K. Ankuda, MD, MPH, MSc

2022: Benjamin Han, MD, MPH

2021: Andrea Gilmore-Bykovskyi, PhD, RN

2020: Kali Thomas, MA, PhD