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Hoh Receives Award from Pepper Center in Support of Research Related to Aging

Josephine Hoh, associate professor in the Division of Chronic Disease Epidemiology at the Yale School of Public Health, was presented with an aging-related research award from the Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Center at Yale.

Hoh was awarded $75,000 for her one-year methodological development study entitled, Phenotype and Genotype Diversity in Age-related Macular Degeneration, and will focus on genetic biostatistical issues in aging related research on a leading cause of blindness.

“The mission of the Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Center at Yale is to develop and test multi-disciplinary interventions aimed at maintaining or improving the functional ability of older persons,” said Mary E. Tinetti, M.D., the Gladys Phillips Crofoot Professor of Medicine (geriatrics) and Professor of Public Health. Tinetti is director of the Pepper Center.

“Yale Pepper Center activities focus on geriatric health conditions common among older persons that result from the accumulated effects of multiple diseases, impairments interacting with social, physical and environmental factors,” Tinetti added. “Building on the foundation laid over the last 13 years, we focus on identifying solutions to barriers impeding a more complete understanding of the causes, prevention, treatment and outcomes of multifactorial geriatric health conditions.”

Other Yale researchers who received Pepper Center awards are Joanne M. Foody, M.D., assistant professor of medicine (cardiology), Terri R. Fried, M.D., associate professor of medicine (geriatrics), Daniel R. Goldstein, M.D., assistant professor of medicine (cardiology), Insoo Kang, M.D., assistant professor of medicine (rheumatology), and Julie A. Sosa, M.D., assistant professor of surgery and epidemiology.

The Yale Pepper Center is made possible by a grant from the National Institute on Aging.

Contact: Karen Peart, 203-432-1326 or karen.peart@yale.edu