Accolades & Accomplishments

Carolyn Pickering, PhD, RN, director of the center's administrative core.

NIH Roybal grant funds country’s first elder mistreatment research center in Cizik School of Nursing at UTHealth Houston

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. Read more…

UTHealth Houston Institute on Aging collaborates with clinicians at the Center for Healthy Aging to deliver specialized care to older adults based on the latest research.

Institute on Aging brings renewed focus to specialized care for older adults

From their unique physiology, to illnesses that commonly affect them, to specific precautions required for their care, older adults are as distinct in their health needs as children. Yet while parents can readily find a pediatrician, older adults often struggle to find equally specialized care. In fact, older adults are projected to make up 25% of all Americans by 2050, yet less than 2% of practicing physicians are geriatricians. Read more…

Rex Paulino, MD

Rex Alvin Paulino, MD is recognized as an Emerging Leader in Hospice and Palliative Medicine

AAHPM reached out to the 2024 Emerging Leaders to gain insight into what motivated them to pursue leadership positions and what they find more fulfilling in their experiences. Rex Alvin Paulino, MD has been recognized as one of the exceptional individuals chosen as a 2024 AAHPM Emerging Leader in Hospice and Palliative Care. Read more…

Ana L. Leech, MD, MS

Ana Luisa Leech, MD, MS, FAAHPM is recognized as an Emerging Leader in Hospice and Palliative Medicine

AAHPM reached out to the 2024 Emerging Leaders to gain insight into what motivated them to pursue leadership positions and what they find more fulfilling in their experiences. Ana Luisa Leech, MD MS FAAHPM has been recognized as one of the exceptional individuals chosen as a 2024 AAHPM Emerging Leader in Hospice and Palliative Care. Read more…