Geriatrics faculty receive MSTAR Research Mentor awards

Dr. David Cook, research associate professor and Dr. Elizabeth Phelan, associate professor (Geriatrics) have been selected as the UW recipients of MSTAR's Research Mentor honor based on feedback by program directors and students. 

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.