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08/19/2026

✨August Speaker Series ✨

Join the Center for Healthy Aging Thursday, August 20th

"Bone Loss & Injury Prevention"

Speaker: Michael Sole MS, LAT, ATC, CSCS

⏰: 12:00-1:00pm

📍 Colbert Education Center
Room EL 118
MUSC Center for Healthy Aging

07/25/2026

✨ Join the Center for Healthy Aging for our July Speaker Series ✨

“Tech-Driven Aging in Place”

Speaker: Lizzette Danner,
Owner Assisting Hands

📅: Thursday, July 30th

⏰: 12:00-1:00 pm

📍135 Cannon Street, 3rd Floor Conference Room
MUSC Center for Healthy Aging
Lowcountry Senior Network

06/21/2026

Wishing all the fathers, uncles, step dads, granddads, those who have lost a dad, those longing to be dads, and those who play the role of dad a very Happy Father's Day! 💙🫶🏻

And a special Happy Father’s Day to our Executive Director, Dr. Hermes Florez. 💙
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06/17/2026

🤞🏻REMINDER: TOMORROW!💜

Join the SC Safe Seniors Program for the annual World Elder Abuse Awareness Day Virtual Resource Fair.

📅 Thursday, June 18th
⏰2:00 pm
Click on the link here to register your business.
🔗https://redcap.musc.edu/surveys/?s=PDFEJFAM434KDAPN

Join on TEAMS here. 👇🏻
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06/16/2026

Today is World Elder Abuse Awareness Day! This year is the 20th anniversary. 💜🫶🏻

represents a global commitment to understanding, preventing, and responding to the abuse and neglect of older adults.

This day unites communities, organizations, and nations in promoting older adults’ right to live with dignity, security, and the opportunity to contribute to their communities. 💜🫶🏻
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06/09/2026

June is Elder Abuse Month. 💜

Join the Center for Healthy Aging for our speaker series for June:

“Staying Safe as You Age”

Speaker: Dr. Theresa Skojec
Director, SC Safe Seniors

📅 : Thursday, June 25

⏰ 12:00- 1:00pm

📍MUSC College of Nursing
99 Jonathan Lucas Street
Room 221
MUSC College of Nursing

06/06/2026

June is Elder Abuse Awareness Month. 🫶🏻💜

Join the SC Safe Seniors Program for the annual World Elder Abuse Awareness Day Virtual Resource Fair.

📅 Thursday, June 18th

⏰2:00 pm

Click on the link here to register your business.

🔗https://redcap.musc.edu/surveys/?s=PDFEJFAM434KDAPN
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05/22/2026

Join us in congratulating Dr. Kathy Lindell on receiving the American Thoracic Society Assembly of Nursing Mentorship Award! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻💙

05/11/2026

Let’s celebrate our nurses at the Center for Healthy Aging.❤️🩺🔬🌡️

Today we celebrate:

Dr. Whitney Smith
DNP, APRN, AGPCNP-BC

Dr. Smith is a three-time alumna of the Medical University of South Carolina (BSN, 1999; MSN, 2001;
DNP, 2017) and has served on faculty in the College of Nursing since 2013. She has been Lead AGNP and Post-MSN faculty since 2014 and currently serves as Interim Assistant Dean of Graduate Practice Programs.

Dr. Smith has extensive teaching experience across all APRN clinical and DNP project courses and serves as CoChair of the Center for Healthy Aging (CfHA) Education and Outreach Pillar alongside Dr. Lindell.

She became a nurse to become a nurse practitioner and was in the first class that MUSC CON allowed
BSN graduates to go straight into their MSN APRN program. As a Nurse Practitioner, she has worked in women's health, skilled nursing, workers compensation and primary care. She says she has always loved being a nurse practitioner, and even more so educating the next generation of NPs!🫶🏻

Outside of work, Dr. Smith enjoys spending time with her family, daughter, Anna (19), son, Aidan (24), family dog, Toddy, a Boykin Spaniel. ❤️🩺🔬🫶🏻🐶
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MUSC Center for Healthy Aging

05/08/2026

This week is nurses week. Let’s celebrate our nurses at the Center for Healthy Aging! 🩺🔬💊❤️

Dr. Kathy Lindell.

Dr. Lindell has been a nurse for 48 years. She graduated in 1978 from St. Francis Medical Center School of Professional Nursing in Pittsburg, PA. She also has 3 degrees from the University of Pittsburgh ( BSN, MSN in Pulmonary Speciality, and a PhD in Nursing.)

She has been at MUSC since 2020 as an Associate Professor and the Mary Swain Endowed Chair in Palliative Care, and also serves as Interim Department Chair. She is the Co- chair of the Center for Healthy Aging Education and Outreach Pillar with Dr. Whitney Smith. Dr. Lindell says she loves working with students and watching their growth through our program.

In her free time, Dr. Lindell enjoys traveling and spending time with her husband, and their first granddaughter. ❤️🩺🔬

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5000 Coliseum Dr
North Charleston, SC

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http://musc.edu/aging

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