

2009 Beeson Scholars
Cynthia M. Boyd, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine: "Treatment Burden in Older Adults with Diabetes and Multimorbidity"
Dena B. Dubal, MD, PhD, Assistant Adjunct Professor, University of California, San Francisco: "Collagen VI: Novel Mechanisms and Functions in Alzheimer's Disease"
Christiane Reitz, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Neurology, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons: "Mapping Causative Factors in the Sortilin-related Pathway in Alzheimer's Disease"
Mara Schonberg, M.D., Instructor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School/Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center: "Benefits and Burdens of Screening Oldest-old Women: The Case of Mammography"
Dorry Segev, MD, Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine: "Access to Kidney Transplantation in Elderly Patients"
Edmond Teng, MD, PhD, Clinical Instructor, University of California, Los Angeles: "Assessment of Biomarkers and Behavior in a Transgenic Rat Model of AD"
Heidi L. Wald, MD, MSPH, Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of Colorado Denver: "Reducing Urinary Tract Infections in the Hospitalized Older Patient"
Jonathan Wanagat, MD, PhD, Clinical Instructor, University of California, Los Angeles School of Medicine: "Mitochondrial Genetics in Skeletal Muscle Aging"
2009 Beeson Ireland Scholars
Chie Wei (Mimi) Fan, MD, RCPI, Clinical Director of Technology Research for Independent Living (TRIL), St. James's Hospital: "Age-related Autonomic Dysfunction and its Impact on Cognition, Gait and Falls"
Ronan R. Mullan, PhD, Specialist Registrar in Rheumatology and Internal Medicine, University College Dublin: "Acute Phase Serum Amyloid-A (A-SAA) in Ageing, Arthritis and Obesity - Potential Common Mechanism for Cardiovascular Disease"