{"id":2211,"date":"2022-06-30T14:20:21","date_gmt":"2022-06-30T18:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/geriatrics\/?p=2211"},"modified":"2022-06-30T14:20:53","modified_gmt":"2022-06-30T18:20:53","slug":"knight-steel-awarded-to-dr-emily-jones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/geriatrics\/2022\/06\/30\/knight-steel-awarded-to-dr-emily-jones\/","title":{"rendered":"Knight Steel Awarded to Dr. Emily Jones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/geriatrics\/files\/2022\/06\/Emily-Jones-1-636x636.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"184\" height=\"184\" class=\"wp-image-2213 alignleft\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/geriatrics\/files\/2022\/06\/Emily-Jones-1-636x636.jpg 636w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/geriatrics\/files\/2022\/06\/Emily-Jones-1-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/geriatrics\/files\/2022\/06\/Emily-Jones-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/geriatrics\/files\/2022\/06\/Emily-Jones-1-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/geriatrics\/files\/2022\/06\/Emily-Jones-1-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/geriatrics\/files\/2022\/06\/Emily-Jones-1-2048x2048.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/geriatrics\/files\/2022\/06\/Emily-Jones-1-550x550.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/geriatrics\/files\/2022\/06\/Emily-Jones-1-710x710.jpg 710w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/geriatrics\/files\/2022\/06\/Emily-Jones-1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/geriatrics\/files\/2022\/06\/Emily-Jones-1-600x600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/geriatrics\/files\/2022\/06\/Emily-Jones-1-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 184px) 100vw, 184px\" \/>Each year the geriatrics section selects a resident to receive the Knight steel award. This award was created in honor of R. Knight Steel, the first professor of Geriatrics and Chief of Geriatrics at the Evans Memorial Department of Medicine. The recipient of this award is an indivi<\/span><span>dual who has a &#8220;personal commitment to older individuals in need of medical care, and excellence in geriatric clinical medicine.&#8221; <\/span>This year&#8217;s <span>recipient of the Knight Steel Award goes to<\/span> <strong>Dr. Emily Jones.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dr. Emily Jones has conveyed her deep commitment to the care of older adults during her time in the Geriatrics section. She has been a strong advocate for her older adult patients and has exhibited a commitment to health equity and social justice. Dr. Jones chose to do her second clinic in Geriatrics for two years, further demonstrating her passion for the care of older adults. Her eagerness to learn coupled with her commitment to her patients make Dr. Jones the ideal recipient of this award.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Jones is pursuing a fellowship in Geriatrics an<span>d will be the most wonderful addition to our field.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each year the geriatrics section selects a resident to receive the Knight steel award. This award was created in honor of R. Knight Steel, the first professor of Geriatrics and Chief of Geriatrics at the Evans Memorial Department of Medicine. The recipient of this award is an individual who has a &#8220;personal commitment to older [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21053,"featured_media":2212,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/geriatrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2211"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/geriatrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/geriatrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/geriatrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21053"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/geriatrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2211"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/geriatrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2216,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/geriatrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2211\/revisions\/2216"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/geriatrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/geriatrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/geriatrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/geriatrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}