2024 GSA Health Sciences Award Recipients Spotlight
Includes a Live Web Event on 02/27/2025 at 2:00 PM (EST)
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This webinar will feature three recent Health Sciences Section Award recipients. You will learn about their careers and their prestigious awards—just in time for the 2025 Award Call for Nominations, now open through March 31. The award recipients talk about their backgrounds and how GSA and the Health Sciences Section have played a role in their professional development. They will offer advice to aspiring award recipients and share how receiving their award has bolstered their careers. This webinar will hopefully encourage you to nominate yourself or a colleague!
Mo-Kyung Sin, PhD, FGSA, FAAN (Moderator)
Seattle University
Ali Ahmed
Roger Fielding
Megan Huisingh-Scheetz, MD MPH
Assistant Professor, Associate Director, Aging Research Program Section of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine
University of Chicago
Megan Huisingh-Scheetz, MD MPH is an Assistant Professor in the Section of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine at the University of Chicago. As a clinician investigator and NIA K23 recipient, her research has focused on understanding how objectively measured activity and sedentary behavior patterns, resting metabolic rate, and body composition relate to frailty progression and frailty-related outcomes. Through her work, she analyzes accelerometry data to assess and trend activity patterns as markers of frailty. In partnership with NORC and Orbita, Inc, Dr. Huisingh-Scheetz also developed and is studying the impact of EngAGE, a technology-based tool utilizing a voice assistant to deliver exercise programming to older adults in their home to reduce frailty. The program leverages caregivers to provide social motivation to the older adult to simultaneously combat loneliness. She also helped establish and now co-directs the Successful Aging and Frailty Evaluation™ (SAFE) clinic in which she assesses and manages frail older adults in consultation.