Late Breaking Abstracts Due August 21; Recognizing Our Vice Chairs
As we are in the midst of our late-breaking paper and poster submission period (deadline: August 21) for the 2025 Annual Scientific Meeting in Boston, I’ve been reflecting on all the hard work it took to bring us to this point.
From abstract submission to peer review and final decision-making, it takes a village. Our GSA village includes over 800 abstract reviewers who consider the thousands of abstracts submitted, and 70 members who serve on one of our seven Annual Scientific Meeting Working Groups.
These working groups are led by the vice chairs of each of GSA’s member sections. Vice chairs (listed below) have the enormous responsibility of organizing the scientific programming all of us will benefit from this November. I appreciate their dedicated service to GSA, giving so generously of their time and expertise, to make the GSA Annual Scientific Meeting the premier meeting for cutting-edge scholarship advancing research, practice and education in the aging field.
- Laura Donorfio, PhD, FGSA, FAGHE, Academy for Gerontology in Higher Education vice chair
- Chivon Mingo, PhD, FGSA, Behavioral and Social Sciences Section vice chair
- Sean Curan, PhD, FGSA, Biological Sciences Section vice chair
- Sohyun Kim, PhD, RN, Emerging Scholar and Professional Organization vice chair
- Pamela Cacchione, PhD, RN, NP, FGSA, FAAN, Health Sciences Section vice chair
- Howard Degenholtz, PhD, FGSA, Social Research, Policy, and Practice Section vice chair
- Ronica Rooks, PhD, FGSA, Interdisciplinary Annual Scientific Meeting Working Group chair
The GSA 2025 website has a full roster of our Annual Scientific Meeting Working Groups, in additional to all the information you need to submit a late-breaking abstract by August 21.