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Albert L. Siu
Albert L. Siu is an American geriatrician and health services researcher at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and a former chair of the US Preventive Services Task Force.
Andrew P. Goldberg
Andrew P. Goldberg (1945–2022) was an American physician-scientist in geriatric medicine who led geriatrics at the University of Maryland and founded the Baltimore VA GRECC.
Anne Basting
Anne Basting is an American gerontologist, theater artist, and educator, founder of TimeSlips, an improvisational storytelling method for people with dementia, and a 2016 MacArthur Fellow.
Bengt Winblad
Bengt Winblad (B. Winblad) is a Swedish physician and professor of geriatric medicine at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, known for research on Alzheimer's disease and dementia.
Caleb E. Finch
Caleb E. Finch is an American biogerontologist at the University of Southern California known for research on aging, inflammation, and air pollution's effects on the brain.
Carol Brayne
Carol Brayne is a British epidemiologist and public health physician who was Professor of Public Health Medicine at Cambridge from 2001 to 2024, leading the MRC Cognitive Function and Ageing Studies of dementia.
Christopher J. Bulpitt
Christopher J. Bulpitt is a physician-epidemiologist and Emeritus Professor of Geriatric Medicine at Imperial College London, chief investigator of the HYVET trial of treating hypertension in people aged 80 and over.
Daniel Rudman
Daniel Rudman (died April 1994, aged 67) was an American endocrinologist and nutritionist who studied hormones and aging, known for his 1990 growth hormone study in men over 60.
David B. Reuben
David B. Reuben is an American geriatrician and health services researcher who was chief of UCLA's geriatrics division until 2024 and led major dementia care and falls trials.
David Sinclair (aging researcher)
David Sinclair is an Australian-born molecular geneticist and aging biologist, a tenured professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School known for work on sirtuins and NAD+.
Denis A. Evans
Denis A. Evans is an American physician-scientist in geriatric epidemiology who spent 27 years at Rush University Medical Center, founding the Chicago Health and Aging Project.
Dennis T. Villareal
Dennis T. Villareal is an American geriatrician at Baylor College of Medicine known for trials showing weight loss plus exercise improves function in obese older adults.
Desmond O’Neill
Desmond O'Neill is an Irish geriatrician and medical gerontologist, senior academic in Medical Gerontology at Trinity College Dublin's Tallaght University Hospital campus, and consultant in geriatric and stroke medicine.
Diane E. Meier
Diane E. Meier is an American palliative care physician and geriatrician who founded the Center to Advance Palliative Care and won a MacArthur Fellowship in 2008.
Eileen M. Crimmins
Eileen M. Crimmins is an American demographer and gerontologist at the University of Southern California, known for research on mortality, life expectancy, and aging, and elected to the National Academy of Sciences.
Ethel Shanas
Ethel Shanas was an American sociologist and gerontologist who led the National Surveys of the Aged, co-wrote Old People in Three Industrial Societies, and presided over the Gerontological Society in 1974.
Francine Grodstein
Francine Grodstein is an epidemiologist at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago who studies cognitive aging in women and directed the Nurses' Health Study until 2019.
Heather Allore
Heather Allore is an American biostatistician at Yale School of Medicine known for gerontological biostatistics and studies of disability, falls, and dementia in older adults.
Jack M. Guralnik
Jack M. Guralnik is an American epidemiologist of aging who developed the Short Physical Performance Battery and is a professor at the University of Maryland.
James S. Goodwin
James S. Goodwin is an American geriatrician and health services researcher, a University of Texas Medical Branch professor since 1992 who founded its Sealy Center on Aging in 1995.
Kaare Christensen
Kaare Christensen, born in Denmark in 1959, is a Danish genetic epidemiologist and professor at the University of Southern Denmark who studies human aging and longevity.
Katrin F. Chua
Katrin F. Chua is a physician-scientist at Stanford who studies the molecular biology of aging, known for establishing the sirtuin enzymes SIRT6 and SIRT7 as selective histone deacetylases.
Kristine E. Ensrud
Kristine E. Ensrud is an American general internist and clinical epidemiologist at the University of Minnesota and Minneapolis VA who studies fractures, falls, and frailty in older adults.
Lenore J. Launer
Lenore J. Launer is an epidemiologist who led neuroepidemiology research at the National Institute on Aging, known for studies linking midlife blood pressure and diabetes to dementia.
Linda P. Fried
Linda P. Fried is an American geriatrician and population scientist who defined frailty as a clinical syndrome and co-founded Experience Corps, and was dean of Columbia Mailman School of Public Health.
Luigi Ferrucci
Luigi Ferrucci is an Italian geriatrician and epidemiologist, Scientific Director of the National Institute on Aging's intramural research program since 2011, studying physical and cognitive decline in older people.
Luigi Fontana
Luigi Fontana is an Italian physician and biogerontologist who studies how diet, fasting, and exercise slow aging, holding a chair at the University of Sydney's Charles Perkins Centre since 2018.
Marco Pahor
Marco Pahor is a physician-scientist in geriatric medicine who directed the University of Florida Institute on Aging and led the LIFE study of physical activity and mobility disability in older adults.
Mark S. Lachs
Mark S. Lachs, also published as Mark Lachs, is an American geriatrician and elder-abuse researcher at Weill Cornell Medical College, where he leads geriatrics and palliative medicine.
Mary E. Tinetti
Mary E. Tinetti, also known as Mary Tinetti, is an American geriatric physician and epidemiologist at Yale whose research established that falls in older adults are preventable.