Healthy Aging Symposium

What: First Annual Healthy Aging Symposium

Where: Fisher Colloquium, Hariri Building

When: 10 am – 4 pm, July 14, 2022

The GUMC Center for Healthy Aging, the Aging and Alzheimer’s Research Training Program, the Georgetown Aging and Health Program, and the Georgetown Lombardi Institute for Cancer and Aging Research are pleased to sponsor our first annual symposium focused on aging.

This symposium is open to the entire Georgetown University community and its community partners. Presenters will be addressing critical issues in aging research, policy and care from cells to society and include transdisciplinary researchers from several Georgetown Schools, cross-campus programs, community groups, MedStar Health and the NIH.

Our goal is to have attendees get to know others interested in aging, describe resources, and stimulate people coming together to form new teams to address challenges of an aging society.

The symposium will include:

Panel discussions
Research talks
Posters
Networking time
Lunch

Please use this link to register. The symposium is offered at no cost and is open to all members of the Georgetown community and our community collaborators and partners.

Abstract Instructions

Please submit an abstract for consideration for the poster sessions. Topics can include a program related to aging (e.g., describing a community service program, training program, fellowship programs), resources available to support aging or research across any field relevant to aging.

Please organize the abstract using the following sections as applicable: background, objectives, methods/program, results, conclusions, implications for aging activities at GU and beyond.

Use 12 point font and a maximum of 350 words. Please include your poster title, collaborators, and organizations/affiliations.

Please use this link to submit your abstract before midnight June 23, 2022.

Selections will be made by June 30th and information sent with the poster board dimensions.