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Fellowship

Fellowship — the highest class of membership within the society — is an acknowledgment of outstanding and continuing work in geriatrics and gerontology.

Fellowship recognition can come at varying points in a career and can acknowledge a broad scope of activity; research, teaching, administration, public service, practice, and notable participation within the CGS. CGS Fellows are a specially recognized group of healthcare providers or aging researchers who are dedicated to education, clinical care, and research, in geriatrics and aging sciences as well as to their own continuing professional development. Fellows have distinguished themselves among their colleagues, as well as in their communities and in the Society by their service. Their dedication and longstanding commitment to CGS is particularly recognized by this mark of distinction.

Fellowship designation carries a certificate commemorating your status and achievements. Certificates are presented at the Society's Annual Scientific Meeting, during the Awards Session.

CGS encourages its fellows to use the “FCGS” designation — which stands for Fellow of The Canadian Geriatrics Society — when listing their academic credentials after their name.

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Current Fellows

CORNELIA VAN INEVELD — LANA ALHALASEH — BARRY GOLDLIST — ALLEN HUANG — ANGELA JUBY — JOSE MORAIS — ALEXANDRA PAPAIOANNOU — PAULA ROCHON — ADRIAN WAGG — ROGER WONG

Frequently Asked Questions

    • Prestige and national recognition by their peers under the umbrella of scientific society

    • For people in academics streams, fellowship designation helps in future endeavors as it demonstrates national influence and recognition

  • Involvement in a CGS committee/SIG is voluntary and not a criteria of maintaining fellowship status.  

  • Yes, FCGS will continue to pay their regular annual membership dues.

  • Applicants not accepted may reapply without paying the fee again, if they reapply within 3 years.  

  • FCGS status will expire if membership lapses or is termination of membership is requested as one of the requirements is to be a regular CGS member in good standing (active).

  • You are eligible for consideration for CGS Fellowship if you:

    • are currently an Active Member of the CGS

    • have been an Active Full Member of the CGS for at least 5 years and 

    • have attended at least 3 Annual Meetings. 

    Fellowship status is awarded according to approval by the CGS Membership Committee.