{"id":231130,"date":"2025-05-27T11:36:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T15:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=231130"},"modified":"2025-05-27T12:47:55","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T16:47:55","slug":"uconns-dr-jaclyn-jaeger-olsen-appointed-to-two-national-education-committees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2025\/05\/uconns-dr-jaclyn-jaeger-olsen-appointed-to-two-national-education-committees\/","title":{"rendered":"UConn\u2019s Dr. Jaclyn Olsen Jaeger Appointed to Two National Education Committees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Geriatric Medicine\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/find-a-provider\/physician\/Olsen-Jaclyn\">Dr. Jaclyn Olsen Jaeger<\/a> of UConn Center on Aging and UConn School of Medicine was appointed to two national Education Committees.<\/p>\n<p>She will join the Education Committees of the American College of Physicians (ACP) and the Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medical Association (PALTmed)<strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Olsen Jaeger serves UConn Center on Aging as associate professor of medicine and is also associate medical director of Avon Health Center. She is medical director of the Clinical Longitudinal Immersion in the Community (CLIC) program of UConn School of Medicine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese two national education committee appointments are incredibly meaningful to me. Serving on the national ACP and PALTmed Education Committees with a platform to contribute to the ever-changing landscape of medical education is an honor and incredibly exciting,\u201d says Olsen Jaeger of the UConn Center on Aging.<\/p>\n<p>Olsen Jaeger adds, \u201cDuring my internal medicine residency at UConn, I benefitted from the expertise of many medical educators who helped me become the physician I am today. Medical education is extremely rewarding and one of the best parts of my job. I&#8217;m very thankful for all the support, especially from my long-time mentor, <a href=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2025\/04\/uconn-healths-dr-rebecca-andrews-chairs-acp-board-of-regents\/\">Dr. Rebecca Andrews<\/a>, and the many educators in the UConn Center on Aging.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Andrews of UConn Health and its School of Medicine is chair of the ACP Board of Regents.<\/p>\n<p>On the ACP Education Committee Olsen will serve until April 2026 with possible reappointment to a one-year term. The committees of ACP perform a vital role in the development of policies and programs that benefit the public, the profession of medicine, and its membership and directly affect internal medicine and patients nationally.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, Olsen Jaeger\u2019s service to the PALTmed Education Committee is for a 2-year term until April 2027 with the possibility of a renewed two additional terms. PALTmed is the leading medical society uniting medical directors, physicians, NPs, PAs, and other experts shaping the future of post-acute and long-term care nationally.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/find-a-provider\/physician\/Olsen-Jaclyn\">Learn more about Dr. Olsen Jaeger.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Olsen Jaeger of the UConn Center on Aging will serve on the Education Committees of both the ACP and PALTmed <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":98,"featured_media":231133,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2283,2429,1868,179,2233],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[1873],"class_list":["post-231130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aging","category-awards-scholarships","category-meds","category-uconn-health","category-university-news"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-02 19:04:12","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/98"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231130"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":231148,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231130\/revisions\/231148"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/231133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231130"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=231130"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=231130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}