New AGS Officers

Barbara Resnick, PhD, CRNP, FAAN, FAANP Named President-Elect at AGS Annual Scientific Meeting; AGS Board Appoints Secretary and Reappoints Treasurer

The American Geriatrics Society named three officers during AGS' Annual Scientific Meeting in May.

Members of the Society elected Barbara Resnick, PhD, CRNP, FAAN, FAANP -- Associate Professor at the University of Maryland in Columbia, MD -- President-Elect. Dr. Resnick will begin her term as President in May 2011.

AGS' Board of Directors appointed Keela Ann Herr, PhD, RN, FAAN, AGSF -- Professor and Chair of Adult Gerontological Nursing at the College of Nursing at The University of Iowa in Iowa City -- Secretary.

The Board also reappointed James T. Pacala, MD, MS -- Director of the Family Medicine and Community Health Medical Student Education program at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis -- to a second term as Treasurer.