Georgia Georgallas Hall, 80, passed away on December 4, 2016.  She attended Brooklyn Community College to study dental hygiene, and taught dental hygiene at the State University of New York, Farmingdale. She received her BS from Columbia University, and then received a grant to attend the University of Michigan where she received her Master's in Public Health in 1972. The next year found her on the Navajo reservation, as a Home Health director in Chinle, Arizona. Always interested in aging, Georgia returned to the University of Michigan for her PhD in Gerontology. She then began teaching at ASU in the late 1970’s in the School of Social Work. She moved to Good Samaritan Hospital in the 1980's as a vice-president directing Gerontology programs. She then began work at the University of Arizona Medical School-Tucson and eventually the University of Arizona Medical school-Phoenix. Dr. Hall was nominated in 2012 for a Healthcare Heroes award. She was also recognized by the tribes in Arizona for her over 30 years of work with their elders. She is survived by a son.