# Charting the Path to Health in Midlife and Beyond: the Biology and Practice of Wellness

> **NIH NIH R13** · UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO DENVER · 2020 · $55,000

## Abstract

PROJECT SUMMARY
The NIH's mission to apply knowledge about the nature and behavior of living systems to enhance health,
lengthen life, and reduce illness and disability is complemented by the National Institute on Aging's mission to
extend healthy, active years of older adults' lives, specifically to ` disseminate information about aging and
advances in research to the public, health care professionals, and the scientific community, among a variety of
audiences'. The University of Colorado School of Medicine (CUSOM) is home to the state-of-the-art Anschutz
Health and Wellness Center (AHWC), a national Nutritional and Obesity Research Center (NORC), a Center
for Women's Health Research, dedicated to research in women's health, and a new, University of Colorado
Hospital $150 million campaign to promote behavioral health services. The close alignment of these national
and local missions provides an opportunity to create an innovative, synergistic translational science
symposium to be held immediately before the North American Menopause Society's (NAMS) 2020 annual
meeting in Denver, CO. The symposium, `Charting the Path to Health in Midlife and Beyond: the Biology and
Practice of Wellness' will address gaps in knowledge about how the science and practice of wellness may be
applied to enhance midlife women's health and lengthen life and will be held in Denver, CO, before the North
American Menopause Society's 2020 Annual Meeting. Specific Aims are to: 1. Utilize a diverse array of faculty
to provide a novel, foundational framework for the concept of `wellness' and behavioral approaches to promote
healthy aging; 2. Enable practitioners to translate research content into clinical practice; 3. Facilitate
attendance of trainees and junior faculty to engage them further in health promotion; and 4. Disseminate the
information presented in formal academic pathways and through online platforms that provide high-quality
content. Materials will be disseminated via formal publication and multimedia presentations. This symposium
will address common concerns of midlife women and their providers and provide diverse, interdisciplinary
expertise to promote interaction and application of new science to all patient populations.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10070878
- **Project number:** 1R13AG069384-01
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO DENVER
- **Principal Investigator:** Nanette F. Santoro
- **Activity code:** R13 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $55,000
- **Award type:** 1
- **Project period:** 2020-09-30 → 2022-08-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10070878

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10070878, Charting the Path to Health in Midlife and Beyond: the Biology and Practice of Wellness (1R13AG069384-01). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-25 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10070878. Licensed CC0.

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