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October 28, 2022

Angela Hanson receives MSTAR Best Research Mentor Award

Sponsored by the National Institute on Aging, the MSTAR program encourages medical students--particularly budding researchers--to consider a career in academic geriatrics by awarding short-term scholarships.
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Dr. Angela Hanson, assistant professor (Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine) has been selected to receive the 2022 UCLA MSTAR Best Research Mentor Award.

MSTAR (Medical Student Training in Aging Research) is a combined program (UCLA, UCSF and UW) that provides medical students short-term research training in aging and geriatrics with successful mentors in the field, with the goal of encouraging medical students to consider careers as physician scientists in aging research.

 
 
 

Dr. Hanson is a geriatrician who specializes in the care of older adults with dementia. She completed her training in internal medicine and geriatrics from the University of Washington.

Currently she is a part of the Memory and Brain Wellness Center care team at Harborview Medical Center. Dr. Hanson also works with the inpatient medicine service at Harborview, and enjoys teaching geriatric principles to medical students and residents.