![[April Ehrlich, MD, a new geriatrics faculty member in the Department of Medicine at the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson, at the opening session of the Butler-Williams Scholars Program, a summer research institute hosted at the National Institute on Aging headquarters in Bethesda, Md.]](https://deptmedicine.arizona.edu/sites/default/files/styles/medium_image/public/dr.ehrlich-at-nia-scholars-retreat_2024-08_675x900px.jpg?itok=E1i9DKaK "April Ehrlich, MD, a new geriatrics faculty member in the Department of Medicine at the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson, at the opening session of the Butler-Williams Scholars Program, a summer research institute hosted at the National Institute on Aging headquarters in Bethesda, Md.")
April Ehrlich, MD, MHS, a new faculty member who joined the Division of General Internal Medicine, Geriatrics & Palliative Medicine this August, was chosen for the Butler-Williams Scholars Program – formerly the Summer Institute on Aging Research – at the National Institute on Aging.
“I am excited to share that Dr. April Ehrlich was picked for this prestigious honor,” said Mindy Fain, MD, GGP Division chief and co-director of the University of Arizona Center on Aging. “This year marks the 50th anniversary of the NIA founded by geriatrician Dr. Robert Butler and his successor, Dr. Franklin Williams, for whom this program is named. She has now joined the ranks of scholars who have completed this immersive weeklong program of research and career development for junior faculty in aging sciences.”
Established in 1986, with first graduating class in 1987, the Butler-Williams Scholars Program was renamed in honor of Drs. Butler and Williams in 2013. The weeklong program, which occurred earlier this month, takes place at the NIA’s headquarters in Bethesday, Maryland.
Dr. Fain said Dr. Ehrlich was the first to receive this recognition from the U of A.
Dr. Ehrlich is an assistant professor of medicine who returned to Tucson from Johns Hopkins University, where she completed her internal medicine residency training (2018-21) at the Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center and a Fellowship in Geriatric Clinical Research (2021-24) with the Johns Hopkins University Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology. She also earned a master’s of health sciences degree (2023) through the Graduate Training Programs in Clinical Investigation at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. In addition, she completed a National Institute on Aging T32 Training Program in Health Service and Outcomes Research for Aging Populations (2022-24).
Dr. Ehrlich started her medical training right here in Tucson earning both her bachelor’s degree (2014) and medical doctorate (2018) from the U of A College of Medicine – Tucson.
Her research focuses on ways to improve hospital care of older adults, particularly those with physical and cognitive frailty. She’s particularly interested in ways to prevent older adults from becoming delirious in the hospital with the hopes of helping them avoid accelerated cognitive decline.
Dr. Ehrlich currently sits on the American Geriatric Society Board of Directors as their early career representative. She’s passionate about increasing geriatric education and exposure to early career health care professionals.
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