Organizations: Geriatric Education Centers (GECs) (44)
Alaska Geriatric Education Center (AKGEC)
Works to enhance, improve, and expand the accessibility of geriatric training opportunities for health professionals. Provides geriatric training opportunities and curriculum for Alaska Native Elder issues.
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Contact:
afrmr@uaa.alaska.edu
907.272.8270
University of Alaska Anchorage - College of Health & Social Welfare
3211 Providence Drive, PSB 212 L
Anchorage, AK 99508-4614
Tagged keywords: Alaska, Geriatrics |
Arizona Geriatric Education Center
Provides health professions educators, students, and community practitioners opportunities to learn about providing health care to older adults and their families including academic programs and continuing education.
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Contact:
mfain@aging.arizona.edu
520.626.5812
University of Arizona, College of Nursing
1807 E. Elm Street
Tucson, AZ 85719
Tagged keywords: Arizona, Geriatrics |
Arkansas Geriatric Education Center (AGEC)
Provides continuing education and training for those who provide geriatric care throughout Arkansas, including practicing health professionals, faculty who teach in the health professions, and students pursuing health careers in Arkansas.
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Contact:
AGEC@uams.edu
501.257.5543
University Arkansas Medical Sciences
4301 W. Markham St. #798
Little Rock, AR 72205
Tagged keywords: Arkansas, Geriatrics |
California Geriatric Education Center (CGEC)
Offers both short and extended education and training opportunities for health professions faculty, practitioners, students and others to enhance the quality and availability of health care for older adults.
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Contact:
310.312.0531
UCLA School of Medicine
10945 Leconte Ave Suite 2339
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1687
Tagged keywords: California, Geriatrics |
Carolina Geriatric Education Center
Works to improve the health and well-being of North Carolina's older adults by offering interdisciplinary training in geriatrics, promoting programs, and through the development of leaders in the field of aging.
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Contact:
cjmiller@med.unc.edu
919.966.5945 ext. 273
Center for Aging and Health, UNC-CH School of Medicine
5003 Old Clinic Bldg., CB #5003
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7550
Tagged keywords: Geriatrics, North Carolina |
Central Plains Geriatric Education Center
Provides geriatric training, resources, and continuing education programs to health and human services professionals who care for geriatric patients in long-term care, home health, and other settings.
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Contact:
gec@kumc.edu
913.588.1464
3901 Rainbow Boulevard MS 1005
Kansas City, KS 66160
Tagged keywords: Geriatrics, Kansas |
The Consortium of New York Geriatric Education Centers (CNYGEC)
Serves a wide range of health and human service professionals and interdisciplinary faculty throughout New York State. Offers a geriatric scholar certificate, and faculty development courses.
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Contact:
cnygec@mssm.edu
718.584.9000 ext. 3836
JJ Peters VAMC, GRECC/526
130 West Kingsbridge Road, 4th Floor
Bronx, NY 10468
Tagged keywords: Geriatrics, New York |
Duke Geriatric Education Center
Works to ensure coordination and continuity of health care for effective and safe health care for older adults. Trains physicians in Geriatrics and Gerontology and offers a Physician Fellowship Program in Geriatric Medicine.
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Contact:
mclref@mc.duke.edu
919.660.7577
Duke University Medical Center
P.O. Box 3003
Durham, NC 27715-3003
Tagged keywords: Geriatrics, North Carolina |
East Texas Geriatric Education Center
Provides enhanced geriatric education and training to health professionals, faculty and students in health professions.
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Contact:
409.772.5367
University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
301 University Blvd RTE 0460
Galveston, TX 77555
Tagged keywords: Geriatrics, Texas |
Eastern Pennsylvania-Delaware Geriatric Education Center
Addresses interprofessional geriatric education needs in three regions: Southeastern Pennsylvania, Northeastern Pennsylvania, and the State of Delaware. Dedicated to improving the health care of underserved rural and African American elders, and in educating current and future health professionals to provide culturally sound care for these special populations
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Contact:
215.955.0638
Thomas Jefferson University
1015 Walnut Street, Suite 401
Philadelphia, PA 19107
Tagged keywords: Delaware, Geriatrics, Pennsylvania |
Finger Lakes Geriatric Education Center of Upstate New York (FLGEC-UNY)
Works to improve the public health of the region's older adults through the education of its health and allied health practitioners and faculty.
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Contact:
Diane_Rehse@urmc.rochester.edu
585.760.6377
Monroe Community Hospital
435 East Henrietta Rd.
Rochester, NY 14620
Tagged keywords: Geriatrics, New York |
The Florida Coastal Geriatric Resources, Education and Training Center (GREAT GEC)
Offers health professions educators, students and community practitioners opportunities to learn more about providing health care to older adults and their families.
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Contact:
gec@nsu.nova.edu
954.262.1078
3446 South University Drive
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33328-2018
Tagged keywords: Florida, Geriatrics |
Georgia Institute of Gerontology (GGEC)
Coordinates and conducts education, research, and outreach services associated with the study of aging. Offers online training modules, conferences and workshops, and supervised on-site clinical training. Special emphasis will be placed in the training of minority faculty and health professionals in the State of Georgia.
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Contact:
ggec@geron.uga.edu
706.425.3222
University of Georgia
255 E. Hancock Avenue
Athens, GA 30602-5775
Tagged keywords: Georgia, Geriatrics |
Geriatric Education Center of Michigan (GECM)
Provides education and training opportunities for health professions faculty, practitioners, and students who provide health care to older adults in primary care offices, foster care, assisted living, nursing homes, and the community.
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Contact:
gecm@msu.edu
517.353.7828
Michigan State University
B-215 West Fee Hall
East Lansing, MI 48824-1315
Tagged keywords: Geriatrics, Michigan |
Geriatric Education Center of Pennsylvania (GEC/PA)
Maintains and improves the health and well-being of Pennsylvania’s elderly population. Works to increase the level of geriatric expertise health care professionals through various training programs.
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Contact:
sea33@pitt.edu
412.624.9190
121 University Place
Suite 201A
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
Tagged keywords: Geriatrics, Pennsylvania |
Houston Geriatric Education Center (HGEC)
Works with community and healthcare systems by offering educational opportunities which focus on the treatment of elders for practitioners and students.
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Contact:
Adinarayana.Kadapa@uth.tmc.edu
713.500.9170
University of Texas Health Sciences Center at Houston
P.O. Box 20036, 6901 Bertner Avenue - 6th Floor
Houston, TX 77030
Tagged keywords: Geriatrics, Texas |
Iowa Geriatric Education Center (IGEC)
Located at the University of Iowa. Offers resources for teaching students, residents, and fellows in medicine, nursing, psychiatry, dentistry, pharmacy, and other health disciplines.
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Contact:
geriatric-education@uiowa.edu
319.353.5756
2153 Westlawn
Iowa City, IA 52242
Tagged keywords: Geriatrics, Iowa |
Johns Hopkins Geriatric Education Center Consortium (JHGECC)
Disseminates geriatric-oriented medical education for health professionals working primarily in eastern Maryland. Includes those working in nursing, health care administration, medicine, and physician assistants.
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Contact:
jburton@jhmi.edu
410.550.4645
5505 Hopkins Bayview Circle
Baltimore, MD 21224
Tagged keywords: Geriatrics, Maryland |
Live Oak GEC
Focused on serving those that provide care to rural and urban underserved and minority elders in and around the Florida panhandle. Provides training in geriatrics for community-based health care providers. A collaborative effort between departments of Florida State University, Florida A&M University and the University of South Alabama.
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Contact:
LiveOakGEC@med.fsu.edu
850.645.2993
Department of Geriatrics: FSU College of Medicine
1115 W. Call Street; Suite 3140-S
Tallahassee, FL 32306-4300
Tagged keywords: Alabama, Florida, Geriatrics |
Long Island Geriatric Education Center (LIGEC)
Works to address the healthcare needs of an aging population by providing educational opportunities to healthcare professionals and social service providers in the areas of geriatrics and gerontology.
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Contact:
LIGEC@stonybrook.edu
631.444.8279
Health Sciences Center-Medicine
Level 2, Room 155
Stony Brook, NY 11794-8228
Tagged keywords: Geriatrics, New York |
Meharry Consortium Geriatric Education Center (MCGEC)
Works to improve the quality of healthcare for the elderly by training those professionals who serve them.
Helps identify statewide geriatric needs, reviews plans to implement professional geriatric training and monitors effectiveness of training.
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Contact:
rgarrett@mmc.edu
615.327.6000
Meharry Medical College
1005 D.B. Todd Jr. Blvd, Campus Box 69A
Nashville, TN 37208
Tagged keywords: Geriatrics, Tennessee |
Miami Area Geriatric Education Center (MAGEC)
Provides a coordinated interdisciplinary program of geriatric education for all health-care professionals serving the elderly in South Florida. Offers multidisciplinary education on elder abuse, neglect and exploitation to healthcare professionals.
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Contact:
magec@med.miami.edu
305.355.9123
PO Box 016960 (D-101)
1400 NW 10th Ave, Suite 916
Miami, FL 33101
Tagged keywords: Care Coordination, Florida, Geriatrics, Interprofessional Training |
Minnesota Area Geriatric Education Center (MAGEC)
Provides educational and innovative programs on a regional and local basis through partnerships with institutions and organizations involved in aging.
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Contact:
coa@umn.edu
612.624.1185
420 Delaware St, SE
MMC 197
Minneapolis, MN 55455
Tagged keywords: Geriatrics, Minnesota |
Montana Geriatric Education Center (MTGEC)
Provides geriatric education and training for Montana health professionals, higher education faculty, and health professions students.
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Contact:
montana.GEC@umontana.edu
406.243.2453
The University of Montana
32 Campus Dr - SB 317
Missoula, MT 59812-1522
Tagged keywords: Geriatrics, Montana |
Nebraska Geriatric Education Center
Works to improve the health care of Nebraska's older population residing in rural areas and nursing homes, those with mental health problems, and minority older adults, through enhanced training of health care professionals in geriatrics.
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Contact:
402.559.4000
University of Nebraska Medical Center
42nd and Emile
Omaha, NE 68198
Tagged keywords: Geriatrics, Nebraska |
Nevada Geriatric Education Center (NGEC)
Works to improve the health care delivered to older adults by providing education, information and resources to health professionals and faculty.
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Contact:
775.327.2285
411 West 2nd Street
Reno, NV 89503
Tagged keywords: Geriatrics, Nevada |
New Jersey Geriatric Education Center
Provides continuing education programs, faculty development, technical assistance and consultation in program design, curriculum development, and serves as a resource network in the field of aging.
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Contact:
somadm@umdnj.edu
856.566.6764
School of Osteopathic Medicine
One Medical Center Drive
Stratford, NJ 08084-1501
Tagged keywords: Geriatrics, New Jersey |
New Mexico Geriatric Education Center (NMGEC)
Works to improve the health care of American Indian elders through the education and training of health care providers.
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Contact:
505.272.4934
Dept. of Family and Community Medicine
1001 Medical Arts Ave. N.E. Room 244
Albuquerque, NM 87102-2708
Tagged keywords: Geriatrics, New Mexico |
Northern California Geriatric Education Center (NorCal GEC)
Works to improve the quality and availability of health care for older adults in Northern California. Addresses faculty and curriculum development in geriatric education and training, and provides clinical training of health professions students.
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Contact:
info@norcalgec.org
415.514.0720
3333 California Street
Suite 380
San Francisco, CA 94118
Tagged keywords: Geriatrics |
Northern New England Geriatric Education Center (NNEGEC)
Improves health and quality of life for older adults in New Hampshire and Vermont. Provides interdisciplinary education and training in evidence-based geriatrics to healthcare professionals.
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Contact:
nnegec@hitchcock.org
603.653.3435
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical School
One Medical Center Drive
Lebanon, NH 03756
Tagged keywords: Care Coordination, Geriatrics, Interprofessional Training, New Hampshire |
Ohio Valley Appalachia Regional Geriatric Education Center (OVAR/GEC)
Provides education and training opportunities for health professionals. Works to enhance the availability and the quality of health care for older adults.
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Contact:
arleen@uky.edu
859.257.8314
College of Public Health
658 S Limestone
Lexington, KY 40506-0442
Tagged keywords: Geriatrics, Kentucky |
Oklahoma Geriatric Education Center (OkGEC)
Works to train health professions faculty, health care trainers, health care providers, and health care students throughout the state of Oklahoma using evidence-based education specific to gerontology and geriatrics.
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Contact:
Sheryl-Mapes@ouhsc.edu
405.271.8199
940 NE 13th St
Suite 1B-1419
Oklahoma City, OK 73104
Tagged keywords: Geriatrics, Oklahoma |
Oregon Geriatric Education Center (OGEC)
Works to improve care of older adults through the interdisciplinary education and training of health care providers.
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Contact:
ogec@ohsu.edu
503.494.3886
3455 SW U.S. Veterans Hospital Road
Mail Code SN-6S
Portland, OR 97239-2941
Tagged keywords: Care Coordination, Geriatrics, Interprofessional Training, Oregon |
Palmetto State Geriatric Education Center
Part of the South Carolina Center for Gerontology. Promotes and strengthens instructional activities, research in gerontology and geriatrics, and collaborations among those with gerontological and geriatric interests.
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Contact:
judy.baskins@palmettohealth.org
803.434.1244
Carolina Medical Plaza
3010 Farrow Rd, Suite 300A
Columbia, SC 29203
Tagged keywords: Geriatrics, South Carolina |
Rhode Island Geriatric Education Center
Works to improve knowledge and skills in geriatrics and gerontology and to foster interdisciplinary training for health care and human service professionals.
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Contact:
rigec_info@uri.edu
401.874.2689
Quinn Hall, Room 100
55 Lower College Road
Kingston, RI 02881
Tagged keywords: Care Coordination, Geriatrics, Interprofessional Training, Rhode Island |
Stanford Geriatric Education Center (SGEC)
Provides programs and curriculum resources to educate health care professionals on the cultural issues associated with aging and health.
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Contact:
stanfordgec@stanford.edu
650.721.1023
1215 Welch Road, Modular B
Room 27
Palo Alto, CA 94304-5403
Tagged keywords: California, Geriatrics |
Texas Consortium Geriatric Education Center (TCGEC)
Works to improve the lives of older Texans through better programs, service delivery activities, and resources in the field of aging.
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Contact:
rroush@bcm.edu
713.798.5804
Baylor College of Medicine
One Baylor Plaza, Stop MS230
Houston, TX 77030-3498
Tagged keywords: Geriatrics, Texas |
University of Alabama at Birmingham Geriatric Education Center (UAB GEC)
Focuses on improving health care quality for older adults. Trains health professionals in advanced illness, frailty, care coordination, symptom management, medication management, ethnogeriatrics, and health literacy/self management.
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Contact:
cfa@aging.uab.edu
205.934.9261
University of Alabama at Birmingham
1530 3rd Ave South; CH-19, Room 201
Birmingham, AL 35294-2041
Tagged keywords: Alabama, Geriatrics |
The University of Hawaii Department of Geriatric Medicine
Includes the Pacific Islands Geriatric Education Center. Provides strong educational, clinical, and research programs.
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Contact:
808.523.8461
University of Hawaii, Dept. of Geriatric Medicine
347 N Kuakini St, HPM-9
Honolulu, HI 96817
Tagged keywords: Geriatrics, Hawaii |
University of New England Maine Geriatric Education Center (UNE-MGEC)
Works to improve the education/training, supply, distribution and quality of health care professionals through strong community-academic partnerships.
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Contact:
jmetcalf@une.edu
207.221.4459
University of New England Center For Community Health Innovation and Research
716 Stevens Avenue
Portland, ME 04103-2670
Tagged keywords: Geriatrics, Maine |
West Virginia Geriatric Education Center (WVGEC)
Provides training of health professional faculty, students, and practitioners in the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease, disability and other health problems of the elderly.
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Contact:
mnewbrough@hsc.wvu.edu
304.347.1208
3110 MacCorkle Avenue
Charleston, WV 25304
Tagged keywords: Geriatrics, West Virginia |
Western Reserve Geriatric Education Center (WRGEC)
Enhances the knowledge and skills of professionals in primary, long-term, and community-based care of older adults.
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Contact:
kondus@metrohealth.org
216.778.2303
2500 Metro Health Drive
R243
Cleveland, OH 44109-1998
Tagged keywords: Geriatrics, Ohio |
Wisconsin Geriatric Education Center (WGEC)
Provides multidisciplinary, geriatric training to health professionals. Hosts conferences, develops and disseminates curricula, conducts geriatric research, develops and disseminates educational materials, compiles resources, and publishes newsletters.
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Contact:
wgecnet@marquette.edu
414.288.3712
Marquette University
PO Box 1881
Milwaukee, WI 53201-1881
Tagged keywords: Geriatrics, Wisconsin |
Wyoming Geriatric Education Center (WyGEC)
Provides geriatric education programs and training of health professionals, faculty, students, and clinicians to meet the health care needs of older adults in Wyoming's rural areas.
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Contact:
wygec@uwyo.edu
307.766.2829
1000 E. University Avenue
Dept. 3432
Laramie, WY 82071
Tagged keywords: Geriatrics, Wyoming |
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