| # | Name | Name of School | Comments |
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| 151 | Amit Saxena | MGM Medical College, Indore, India. | I support this initiative. |
| 152 | LINDA D BOBO | RESIDENCY PROGRAM: BAYSTATE MEDICAL CENTER-TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
MEDICAL SCHOOL: HOWARD UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE | AT LAST |
| 153 | Anonymous | Bronx lebanon hospital , NY | non |
| 154 | Oren Brody | NY College of Osteopathic Medicine (2005)
Baystate Medical Center-Tufts(2005-current) | Please support our elders, and those few commited to serving them |
| 155 | Alice Pomidor | Florida State University College of Medicine | We need to start more folks in the pipeline now if we want to receive state-of-the-art care ourselves! |
| 156 | pragathi saligram | Dr.B.R.Ambedkar Medical College, India | I am in favor of the loan forgiveness opportunities for physicians |
| 157 | Deborah Black-Rodes | Mt. Holyoke College, BA, SUNY at Old Westbury, Pre-Med. requirements as Post Bac. | I am interested in pursuing Internal Medicine and Geriatrics |
| 158 | Lena Heung | Baystate Medical Center | I support this petition. |
| 159 | Kathleen Soch, M.D. | Corpus Christi Family Medicine Residency Program affiliated with Texas A and M Health Science Center | We have a Geriatrics Fellowship that would benefit immensely from a loan repayment program. It is very difficult to recruit good Fellows to south Texas. There are only two Geriatricians in Nueces county, my partner and myself, so there is a great need to fill our training program. |
| 160 | Elizabeth Kwo | Harvard Medical School | Please support our nation's elderly! |
| 161 | Shivi Agrawal | Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine | We need to support our seniors! |
| 162 | Aaron Shmookler | The University of Toledo College of Medicine | I really hope this passes! |
| 163 | Jeff Lai | Albert Einstein College of Medicine | Without this financial support, who's is going to take care of America's elderly? |
| 164 | Benjamin Goldsmith | Mount Sinai School of Medicine | Please support this act. |
| 165 | Stephanie Urban | Ohio University College Of Osteopathic Medicine | This is a step in the right direction! |
| 166 | Edward Greenberg | University of Rochester School of Medicine | I definitely support increasing the support for gerontology among our nation's physicians. |
| 167 | Yu Lee | University of Texas Medical Branch @ Galveston | I support the Caring for an Aging America Act of 2008. |
| 168 | Katherine Kutney | Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine | Help us take care of our parents like they took care of us. |
| 169 | Anonymous | UTHSCSA | Loan repayment incentives are a great idea to draw future medical students to the geriatrics field. |
| 170 | C. Ariel Nason | Boston University | Unfortunately becoming a doctor is extremely expensive and many of us are in a huge amount of debt. We are committed to taking care of our aging patients but career decisions can't always be made based on our commitment to care if we can't pay our own student loans. Please help make providing geriatric care a viable financial option for dedicated physicians. |
| 171 | Sarah Sullivan | University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine | This is a serious issue! |
| 172 | Stephanie Nothelle | Indiana University School of Medicine | I support this notion. |
| 173 | Jacqueline Yuen | Weill Cornell SOM | N/A |
| 174 | Gerhardt Konig | University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine | This is a very important initiative considering our aging population |
| 175 | Felicia Skelton | Baylor College of Medicine | I wholeheartedly support this legislation. |
| 176 | Kharia | Morehouse School of Medicine | I am a 4th year medical student who before I started medical school has been committed to serviing the geriatric population. I would love to participate in the NHSC but one of the reasons why I didn't reapply after the first year I was declined was because for all that I was told I would not be able to serve my Geriatric population...Those of us who are committed to the geriatric population are out there and we are committed to serving. |
| 177 | Bethany Schroeder | University of Michigan Medical School | As a future provider for elderly patients, I think it is very important to encourage others to go into this field. |
| 178 | Anonymous | Weill Cornell Medical College | Due to the high costs of medical school, Increased incentives are going to be necessary to fill the need for Geriatrics and Gerontology field. |
| 179 | Anonymous | University of Texas Medical Branch | I would be interested to see what other incentives could be offered aside from loan repayment offers. I know that geriatricians regrettably earn smaller salaries than other doctors with less training -- this is something that should change. |
| 180 | Daphne Lo | Saint Louis University School of Medicine | This is one step towards retaining interest and physicians in the field of geriatrics. We must also move towards better insurance compensation for our services and strongly oppose cuts to Medicare/Medicaid physician compensation. |
| 181 | Bernadette S McKell, DO | University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine | I have been committed to geriatric medicine almost since I decided to attend medical school and despite the poor reimbursement rate for care of the elderly, As a first year resident, I have not changed my career plans. I just hope I am able to pay back my loans after I finish my training! |
| 182 | Helena Kirby | Recent graduate from AACC
Planning on continuing my education at Johns Hopkins University | I am a recent graduate from AACC with my Associates degree in nursing. Geriatrics is my passion, and I plan on continuing my education in the field of geriatrics. I want to help to improve in the area of geriatrics and if there is any way that I can help or be more involved, please contact me at the above email address. |
| 183 | Flo Nwagwu | UTHSCSA | N/A |
| 184 | Michelle Fujimoto | Touro University College of Osteopathic Medicine | I am hoping to enter the geriatric field after residency to help care for the elderly population and assist in training future doctors. |
| 185 | Dr Donald Rost Banik | Brown University | Currently, I'm a NHSC scholar and support the program's mission to treat underserved populations. One additional benefit to consider is allowing psychiatry residents the opportunity to pursue a geriatric fellowship prior to their service requirement post training. Out of the primary care fields, internal medicine and family practice residents are allowed to enter into a 1year clinical fellowship in geriatrics. Unfortunately, this opportunity is not extented to psychiatry residents who are required to enter directly into their repayment after completing their 4yr general adult residency. This is a disservice to the geriatric population by limiting a similar extension in specialty training to future geriatric psychiatrists who might otherwise stay in the community they are serving. |
| 186 | Anonymous | University of Missouri School of Medicine | This initiative would hopefully attract more physicians to the field. |
| 187 | Anonymous | Creighton University School of Medicine | None. |
| 188 | Rose Gomes | Creighton University School of Medicine | The government needs to recognize the importance of having an adequate number of physicians who are trained to care for the geriatric population. There is a shortage of primary care physicians, and incentives should be provided to decrease this deficit. This Act will increase the number of physicians who can provide preventative care, and this will have a positive influence on longevity and quality of life. |
| 189 | Anonymous | Creighton University School of Medicine | I support this initiative |
| 190 | Courtney Dobleman | Creighton University School of Medicine | .. |
| 191 | Kara Mackenzie | Creighton University School of Medicine | I fully throw my support behind anything that rewards and encourages physicians to take more of an interest in geriatrics! |
| 192 | Michele Peggs | Creighton University School of Medicine | This is important for our future |
| 193 | Lauren Sontag | Mayo Medical School | This bill would allow us the opportunity to pursue the field we are truly passionate about. Don't let mounting educational debt lead to a lack of quality health care for our nation's seniors. |
| 194 | Katherine Burton-Wang | Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine | Please help support our elderly--we have a moral and financial imperative to provide quality care for older adults. |
| 195 | nassly sales | columbia university | We need more physicians and allied healthcare PROFESSIONALS! |
| 196 | Min Deng | Case Western Reserve School of Medicine | Our elderly are certainly a vulnerable population in our society. I don't know what the solution to the problem is, but this seems like a step in the right direction. Good luck! |
| 197 | Nonna Kozlenko | Nova Southeastern University | Great opportunity |
| 198 | Boris korian | Nova Southeastern University | Great Cause |
| 199 | Anonymous | Nova Southeasten University | I support this cause |
| 200 | Halden Stefano | Nova Southeastern U | Need more Geriatricians |