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Geri Spotlight: Izabel Pisikyan and Regina Zamboukos
The Geriatrics Spotlight initiative fosters community building within the Division, especially during this age of hybrid/remote work where it can be challenging to find ways to interact with colleagues outside of your immediate teams. This is a way for Division members to learn more about all the wonderful work we’re doing!
This week, we get to know our division staff, Izabel Pisikyan and Regina Zamboukos.
Role: Program Coordinator
Joined Division: 2022
Work site: Mission Bay and from home in Daly City, CA
Email: [email protected]
Interviewed by Regina Zamboukos over zoom
About Izabel’s Role/Ongoing Projects
Izabel currently serves as a Program Coordinator with the Dementia Care Aware team. Her primary responsibilities revolve around monitoring and maintaining training metrics while also contributing to the planning of the 2024 conference. Izabel feels her team is incredible in training providers for dementia care. One of her favorite aspects of her role is her involvement in the development of a new program.
What is a professional goal you would like to accomplish by the end of this year?
Izabel would like to facilitate meetings and work on public speaking skills.
More about Izabel
What is a “fun fact” about you that not many people know?
Izabel can say the alphabet backwards!
Role: Program Assistant
Joined Division: 2013
Work site: SFVAHCS and from home in Pacifica, CA
Email: [email protected]
Interviewed by Izabel Pisikyan over zoom
About Regina’s Role/Ongoing Projects
Regina serves as a Medical Program Assistant at the VA, where her primary responsibilities involve orchestrating interviews for the prospective 2024 fellows. She enjoys being part of this onboarding process because she likes to engage with incoming students, guide them through the onboarding process, and provide them with the necessary resources to seamlessly integrate into the division.
Regina’s favorite aspect of her role is the opportunity to problem solve any issues that may arise during the onboarding process.
What is a professional goal you would like to accomplish by the end of this year?
Regina would like to acquire a new skill and advance in her career.
More about Regina
What are you happiest doing in your free time?
Regina is happiest when traveling!
John Newman Contributed to an Article in Aging Medicine
John Newman, MD, PhD contributed to an article in Aging Medicine about ethical perspectives on advances in geroscience. The work was a collaboration between geriatricians, researchers, ethicists, and philosophers who met at a workshop sponsored by the Chinese University Hong Kong’s Centre for Bioethics and Jockey Club Institute of Aging to explore key ethical challenges around the aging population and the development of treatments and technologies that might ameliorate effects of aging.