Title: 2003 APHA GH Lifetime Achievement Award
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Section/SPIG: Aging & Public Health
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| James G Zimmer, MD, DTPH (Lond.), winner of the APHA GH Lifetime Achievement Award |
James G. Zimmer, MD, DTPH (Lond.), has devoted his career to health services research, primarily in aging, chronic illness and long-term care. He directed the Masters of Public Health Program and has advised and taught undergraduate, graduate, medical students, and fellows for over 30 years at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, NY. He has witnessed and assisted in the growth and development of many young investigators. Dr. Zimmer is Professor Emeritus at the University of Rochester and remains an active member of Gerontological Health Section.
Zimmer is the author of more than 225 articles and book chapters in peer reviewed medical literature, and numerous presentations, reports, etc. He was a founder and the President of the Genesee Valley Medical Foundation (GVMF) in Rochester. The Genesee Valley Medical Foundation performed many nationally recognized quality assurance studies in upstate nursing homes in the 1970s and 1980s.
He has received numerous awards, including the Okeke Prize and the William Simpson Prize in 1966 from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. In 1989 he received the Key Pharmaceutical Award for Leadership in Health and Long Term Care from the Gerontological Health Section. In 1994, the Gerontological Health Section initiated its New Investigator Award, called the “James G. Zimmer Award for Excellence in Research in Aging and Disability” at its 122nd Annual Meeting.
Zimmer received his BA from Cornell, his MD from Yale, and a Diploma in Tropical Public Health (DTPH) from the London School of Hygiene and Public Health.
Zimmer was a founder of the Gerontological Health Section. He is being honored for his many years of mentoring, teaching and research as well as for his many contributions to growth and development of the Gerontological Health Section.