University of Louisville’s Department of Family and Geriatric Medicine has received the Kentucky Association of Homes and Services for the Aging (KAHSA), 2010 Chairman’s Citation Award. This award is not given annually, but only when there is an appropriate recipient.   

UofL’s Geriatrics was hand chosen by KAHSA’s chairman, Keith Knapp, for the partnerships and participation that UofL has offered to KAHSA and their mission of meeting the social, physical, and spiritual needs of the individuals they help.  Knapp recognized UofL as the only department that “accurately reflects its mission of achieving excellence in education, research, and practice in family medicine” and that UofL has been an “innovator in geriatric medical education by blending in its curriculum and learning experiences.”

Ken Holtzapple, M.D., chair of the Department of Family Practice from 1983-1994, accepted the award on behalf of UofL.  According to Knapp, Holtzapple “walked the talk” through his career in academic medicine and “in no small measure is responsible for the department's conscious decision to go in this direction [of geriatric care] nearly 30 years ago.”