NIH Roybal grant funds country’s first elder mistreatment research center in Cizik School of Nursing at UTHealth Houston
Brad Cannell, PhD, MPH, Carolyn Pickering, PhD, RN, Ronald Acierno, PhD, are principal investigators.
Five-year, $5.3 million award is university’s first from prestigious program funded by the National Institute on Aging.
Decades of leadership in the field of elder mistreatment research has earned UTHealth Houston its first grant from the prestigious Edward R. Roybal Centers for Translational Research in the Behavioral and Social Sciences of Aging program, funded by the National Institute on Aging.
The five-year, $5.3 million award to Cizik School of Nursing at UTHealth Houston will fund the creation of the multidisciplinary Roybal Center for Elder Mistreatment Intervention Research, the first Roybal center to focus on elder mistreatment. The National Institute on Aging is part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Directing the center’s administrative core will be Carolyn Pickering, PhD, RN. Pickering is professor at Cizik School of Nursing, the Isla Carroll Turner Chair in Gerontological Nursing, and a noted expert in dementia family caregiving.