Title: GHS Lifetime Achievement Award -- Congratulations to Pearl German!!
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Section/SPIG: Aging & Public Health
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The GHS Lifetime Achievement Award recognizes individuals who have made a significant contribution to public service, scholarship, or science in the areas of geriatrics and gerontology. This year's award will go to Pearl German, ScD, Professor Emeritus at Johns Hopkins University.
Pearl S. German, ScD has devoted her career to health services research and teaching, primarily in the areas of aging, chronic illness, medication use, and health promotion. She taught at Johns Hopkins University for over 30 years. German advised and counseled a majority of Hopkins students interested in Gerontology and Geriatrics for more than three decades. Author or co-author of more than 100 articles, book chapters and monographs, German was the co-principal investigator on the Women's Health and Aging Study (1991-1998) and co-investigator on the Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey (1989-1994). She has served on many advisory panels, including the Maryland Governor's Commissions on Women's Health and on Long Term Care, in addition to being a member of the Institute of Medicine's Panel "Prevention and Elderly: The Second Fifty Years." She was GH Section Chair in the mid '80s and received the Key Leadership Award from the GH Section in 1989.
** Note: Dr. German will talk during the awards session about her observations concerning gerontological health research over her career, and about the early days of the Gerontological Health Section.