Dr. Pamela Elfenbein, who has worked at UNG since 2006, has earned the Hiram J. Friedsam Mentorship Award from the Gerontological Society of America. Elfenbein is the director of UNG's Insitute for Healthy Aging.
Article By: Clark Leonard
Dr. Pamela Elfenbein, director of the University of North Georgia's (UNG) Institute for Healthy Aging, has been named the winner of the 2021 Hiram J. Friedsam Mentorship Award from the Gerontological Society of America (GSA).
The award is presented annually to an individual who emulates Friedsam's mentorship. He was a professor, co-founder, and director of the Center for Studies in Aging and dean of the School of Community Service at the University of North Texas.
Elfenbein has worked at UNG since 2006. In 2018, she helped open UNG's Center for Healthy Aging, which became an institute in 2020.
"Receiving a mentorship award really validates the kind of work I have always done. I enjoy spreading my passion for gerontology with students and faculty," Elfenbein said. "It brought to mind all of my mentors who shaped me as the director of the Institute for Healthy Aging."
The awardee receives an engraved plaque and delivers a lecture on mentoring at the GSA Annual Scientific Meeting, as well as recognition in GSA's Gerontology News and AGHExchange publications. The annual meeting is Nov. 10-14 in Phoenix, Arizona.