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LEADERSHIP Lipsitz Named the Head of Division on Aging Lewis Lipsitz, HMS professor of medicine and chief of the Division of Gerontology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, has been appointed director of HMS's Division on Aging, effective March 1, 2001. Lipsitz, who also serves as vice president for academic medicine at the Hebrew Rehabilitation Center for Aged, has spent most of his career in geriatrics and is an expert on fainting and falls among the elderly. In his new position, he seeks to improve the quality of life for the elderly through excellence in patient care, teaching, and patient-oriented research. Lewis Lipsitz, an expert in geriatric medicine, is the new director of the HMS Division on Aging; he seeks to expand the division's activities. "Effective long-term care of elderly people requires the integration of cutting-edge research, multidisciplinary medical expertise, psychosocial support, supportive housing environments, appropriate public policy, and comprehensive financing," Lipsitz said. "Leveraging the talents of multiple professionals to ultimately improve the health and well-being of elderly people is the approach I hope to bring to the division." The division brings together faculty from HMS, HSPH, the affiliated hospitals, and other Harvard Schools. "The School looks forward to Dr. Lipsitz' leadership of the Division on Aging," said Susanne Churchill, HMS associate dean for research. "Our mutual goal is to foster an environment of interinstitutional collaboration and support in research and teaching activities in geriatrics and gerontology." Churchill said the School is enhancing the division's infrastructure, adding associate directors for education and research (yet to be named), an executive committee composed of leaders of gerontology programs at affiliated hospitals and departments that will assist with the division's day-to-day operation, and an internal advisory committee of faculty leaders of aging-related clinical or research programs that will develop strategies to achieve the division's teaching and research mission and help plan its future course. —Tom Reynolds