AFAR is pleased to announce the recipient of our 2022 Terrie Fox Wetle Rising Star Award in Health Services and Aging Research recipient, Benjamin Han, MD, MPH.
Established in 2019 in honor of AFAR Board Member Terrie Fox Wetle, PhD, the award recognizes a health service researcher in an early or middle phase of his/her career who has already made important contributions with work that respects the value of multidisciplinary health services science.
Dr. Han's work focuses on the intersection of chronic medical disease and substance use with a career goal to improve the health of older adults with substance use disorders. Currently, his National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)-funded K23 grant aims to deliver evidence-based geriatric interventions into opioid treatment programs. A nationally recognized expert on psychoactive substance use among older adults, he has given multiple oral presentations at national meetings and his research has been showcased in national media interviews with The Today Show, NPR, CNN, and The New York Times. Dr. Han has published 54 papers in major journals including JAMA Internal Medicine, Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, and The Journal of General Internal Medicine.
Dr. Han is a geriatrician, addiction medicine physician, and clinician-researcher in the Division of Geriatrics, Gerontology, and Palliative Care in the Department of Medicine at UC San Diego School of Medicine, and a primary care physician at the San Diego VA Medical Center.
The awards will be presented at the Annual Meeting of the Gerontological Society of America in November 2022, where Dr. Han will present a lecture.
Learn more about Dr. Han and the Wetle Award here.
