As a consortium, the Geriatric Education Center of Michigan (GECM) at Michigan State University (MSU) has formal partnership arrangements with other academic institutions and health systems within Michigan.
These collaborative relationships afford the GECM an opportunity to deliver its geriatric education programs more widely throughout our large state. Each of the following six GECM goals represents combined efforts of the Michigan State University (MSU) GECM faculty and one or more of its partners.
The GECM faculty and staff work collaboratively to improve health care to older adults by focusing on the following currently-funded objectives:
- Expand GECM educational modules on functional assessment and provide 40 hours of comprehensive geriatric training to a minimum of regional 8 interdisciplinary trainings teams with a minimum of 4 health professional per team across Michigan utilizing multiple educational modalities.
- Support the above-named geriatrics training teams to provide 12 hours of interdisciplinary geriatric training within their geographic areas to a minimum of 15 health professionals per team.
- Modify current curricula focused on outpatient settings and building on existing relationships with the VA-VISN 11 to deliver inpatient primary care geriatrics, team-building and CQI training to a minimum of 5 facilities over 3 year period.
- Develop and implement a 25-hour interdisciplinary geriatric health literacy program emphasizing the training/retraining of health professions faculty, with a goal of at least 10 completers per year from public four-year universities throughout Michigan
- Deliver annual CME/CEU approved educational offerings to disseminate interdisciplinary geriatric and gerontological training information to a minimum of 500 multidisciplinary health professionals annually
- Provide geriatrics clinical training to 250 health professions students per year
| Department of Veterans Affairs Ann Arbor Geriatric Research, Education and Clinical Center
James T. Fitzgerald, PhD
Associate Director of Education and Evaluation
GRECC 11G
VA Medical Center
2215 Fuller Road, Ann Arbor, MI 48105
Phone 734-845-3047
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| | WSU Institute of Gerontology Peter A. Lichtenberg, Ph.D., ABPP
Director, IOG, Interim Director MPSI & Professor of Psychology, Psychiatry and
Behavioral Neurosciences, and Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
87 East Ferry Street, Detroit, MI 48202
Phone: 313-577-2297
Fax: 313-875-0127
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| | Michigan Public Health Institute Micki Horst, MA
Senior Community Health Consultant
Michigan Public Health Institute
2436 Woodlake Circle, Suite 300
Okemos MI 48864
Phone: 517-324-7318
Fax: 517-381-0260
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|  | Michigan Dementia Coalition Peter Lichtenberg, PhD, ABPP, Chair
Michigan Dementia Coalition
Phone: 313-577-2297
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Micki Horst, MA, Coordinator
Michigan Dementia Coalition
Phone: 517-324-7318
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| | Grand Valley State University Priscilla J. Kimboko, Ph.D.
Dean of Graduate Studies & Grants Administration
Grand Valley State University
336 C DeVos, 401 W. Fulton
Grand Rapids, MI 49504
Phone: 616-331-7105
Fax: 616-331-7317
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|  | University of Michigan School of Dentistry Elisa M. Ghezzi, DDS, PhD
Adjunct Clinical Assistant Professor
University of Michigan School of Dentistry
Department of Cariology, Restorative Sciences, and Endodontics
1011 North University Room
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1078
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Domenica "Nikki" Sweier, DDS, PhD
University of Michigan School of Dentistry
1011 North University Avenue, Room 3205
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1078
Phone: 734-647-3888
Fax: 734-936-1597
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