AFAR is pleased to announce the recipient of our 2021 Terrie Fox Wetle Rising Star Award in Health Services and Aging Researchrecipient, Andrea Gilmore-Bykovskyi, PhD, RN.
The award honors 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. Gilmore-Bykovskyi is the Deputy Director, UW Center for Health Disparities Research (CHDR); Informatics Lead, Care Core, Wisconsin Alzheimer's Disease Research Center; and an Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Nursing. She is also Affiliate Faculty, Division of Geriatrics, Health Service Care Research Program, in the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.
Established in 2019, this award is named in honor of AFAR Board Member Terrie Fox Wetle, PhD, who has devoted her professional career to these related domains. She has been a tireless advocate for inclusion of aging-related health services research in Public Health. 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.
The award will be presented at the Annual Meeting of the Gerontological Society of America in November 2021, where Dr. Gilmore-Bykovskyi will share a lecture about her research exploring progress in investigating social and behavioral communication patterns among individuals with moderate to advanced dementia, particularly in minority and diverse populations.
Learn more about Dr. Gilmore-Bykovskyi and the Wetle Award here.
