Grand Challenges of Our Aging Society Workshop Summary (2010) / Chapter Skim
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Appendix C: Biographical Sketches of Planning Committee Members and Presenters
Appendix C: Biographical Sketches of Planning Committee Members and Presenters
Pages 69-78
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He has served as president of the Gerontologi cal Society of America, director of a White House Task Force on Older Americans, and chairman and member of a number of advisory panels to federal, state, and local governments and foundations. He has published numerous articles, book chapters, monographs, and books, most of them dealing with politics and policies affecting aging.
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Bridging the fields of cancer and aging, her work includes contributions to understanding the evolution and mechanisms of tumor suppression, the cellular damage responses of senescence and apoptosis, DNA repair mechanisms, telomere biology, and the role of genome maintenance systems in post poning aging and cancer. She has published numerous scholarly papers and has received several awards for her research.
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She is chair of the External Scientific Advisory Committee for the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin and, at the National Research Council, chaired the Committee on Aging Frontiers in Social Psychology, Personality, and Adult Develop mental Psychology. In 2003, she was selected as a Guggenheim fellow.
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is associate director of the Urban Health Institute and assistant professor in the Schools of Medicine and Public Health at Johns Hopkins University. He works primarily in the area of consumer health informatics, focusing on using health information and communications technologies to improve urban health care disparities.
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is professor of psychology, health behavior, and health education in the School of Public Health at the University of Michigan, where he also is director of the Institute for Social Research. He studies immigration, race and ethnic relations, physical and mental health, adult development and aging, attitudes and attitude change, and black American politics.
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He is the former global head of market risk management at AIG Corporation, a financial services firm, where he headed its quantitative finance group. Prior to joining AIG, he was at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, from which he retired as a senior vice president; while there he created and managed the organization's capital markets unit.
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He has served in a variety of editorial and advisory positions on behalf of the Gerontology Society of America, the American Federation for Aging Research, and the National Institute on Aging. He is the recipient of the Nathan Shock Award, the Allied Signal Award, and the Kleemeier Award for aging research.
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Her research explores the intersection between the social sciences and trans portation, examining the implications for transportation and community development of societal trends -- notably, suburbanization, the aging of society, the increased role in the labor force of women with children, and the growth of groups with special needs. At the National Research Council, she is a member of the Transportation Research Board (TRB)
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His current research interests include the use of longitudinal data to study chronic disease processes, especially diabetes; health care decision making at older ages, including Medicare Part D; how couples jointly plan for risks of old age, including retirement, widowhood, and disability; the role of personality factors in lifetime economic success; and the use of biomarkers in population surveys. He is the recipi ent of a Special Emphasis Research Career Award in the Economics and Demography of Aging from the National Institute on Aging.
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