Scientist-in-Training Research Award

This year's recipient is Dr. Christina Reppas, an early-career geriatrician and PhD student in clinical epidemiology and health care research at the University of Toronto. Her research is focused on improving delirium care for older adults and improving health care delivery to older adults whose preferred language is not English. In her recent study, “Association of non-English language with surgical wait time and post-operative outcomes among older adults with hip fracture”, Dr. Reppas conducted a population-based, retrospective cohort study to see whether non-English preferred language was associated with prolonged surgical wait time and post-operative outcomes in older patients undergoing hip fracture repair. She has authored 23 peer-reviewed publications (13 as a first author) in high impact journals including JAMA Network Open, the Journal of the American Geriatric Society, Age and Ageing, and BMJ Open. She co-authored a book chapter in “Hazzard’s Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology” and has been awarded several honors including the prestigious Canadian Institutes of Health Research Vanier Graduate Scholarship. She is well positioned to lead a successful and productive career as a clinician scientist in Geriatric Medicine promoting functional and cognitive well-being and advancing the quality of aging for older adults.