Sharon K. Inouye, M.D., M.P.H. ’89, Susan E. Hardy, M.D.

Sharon K. Inouye, M.D., M.P.H. ’89, professor of medicine (geriatrics), associate clinical professor of nursing and co-director of the Yale Program on Aging, received the Ewald W. Busse Research Award in Biomedical Sciences at the Gerontological Society of America’s 56th meeting in San Diego, Calif. Inouye was recognized for her contributions to advancing the scientific understanding of delirium and functional decline. At the same meeting, Susan E. Hardy, M.D., postdoctoral fellow in geriatric medicine and a Ph.D. candidate in investigative medicine, was awarded the Person-in-Training Award. Hardy was honored for her paper “Predictors of Recovery of Independent ADL Function Among Newly Disabled Community-Dwelling Older Persons.”