Arkansas native Cornelia Beck, PhD, RN, became the inaugural recipient of the Louise Hearn Chair in Dementia and Long-term Care at the UAMS Donald W. Reynolds Institute on Aging. The endowed chair was created by a $1 million donation - $500,000 from Hearn's estate and a $500,000 match from the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation in Las Vegas. The chair will allow Beck to continue her national award-winning research on behalf of the elderly, especially those with dementia and in long-term care facilities.

Beck serves as professor in the UAMS College of Medicine's Department of Geriatrics and adjunct professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and the College of Nursing.



December 2006