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Recent Aging Seminars


11/6/03

 

Douglas Shenson, MD

President, SPARC (Sickness Prevention Achieved through Regional Collaboration)

“A Population-Based Approach to Delivering Preventive Services to Older Adults”

10/30/03

Sharon K. Inouye, MD, MPH

Professor of Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine

“Delirium in Older Persons, Translating Research into  Practice”

6/29/03

 

 

Reisa Sperling, MD, M.MSc

Assistant Professor, Neurology, Harvard Medical School

Director, of Clinical Research, Memory Disorders, Bringham and Women’s Hospital

“Functional Imaging in Alzheimer’s Disease”

4/24/03 

 

David Lussier, MD, FRCP

McGill University, Division of Geriatric Medicine Beth Israel Medical Center, Department of Pain and Palliative Care

“Persistent Pain in Older Adults”

12/12/02

Robert H. Paul, Ph.D.

 

Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Brown Medical School, Providence, RI

“Vascular dementia – A clinical conundrum”

10/22/02

Richard Bucala, M.D, Ph.D.

Professor, Department of Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine  

"A Genetic Basis for Macrophage Activation and Role in Human Inflammatory Disease"

10/17/02

Gary A. Ford, M.D.

Professor of Pharmacology of Old Age, Institute for Aging and Health, Newcastle University

"Hypertension and Cognitive Function in Older People"

9/13/02

Janet E. McElhaney, M.D

Associate Professor, Glennan Center for Geriatrics and Gerontology, Eastern Virginia Medical School

Vaccine Effectiveness in Older Adults: A Translational Approach to Immunogerontological Research"

9/10/02

Cara Tannenbaum, M.D.

Assistant Professor, Geriatric Medicine, Institut universitaire de gériatrie de Montréal, Université de Montréal, Montreal

"Understanding Older Women's Health Concerns:  Results of Qualitative Study"

6/27/02

Gerard J. Kerins, M.D.

 

Assistant Professor, UConn Center on Aging, University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, CT

“Developmental Disability Medicine: Update and Future Direction”

6/25/02

James F. Nelson, Ph.D.

Professor, Department of Physiology, University of Texas Health Sciences Center at San Antonio

"Probing the role of stress resistance in manipulations that extend mammalian life span"

6/20/02

Steven Cole, M.D., M.A.

 

Professor of Psychiatry, Assistant Dean for Quality and Outcomes Improvement, and Co/Director of the Center for Health Policy and Primary Care Research, University of Connecticut Health Center

“Depression in Chronic Medical Illness: Pragmatic Tools and Treatments”

6/6/02

George Mansoor, M.D.

 

Associate Professor of Medicine, Section of Hypertension and Clinical Pharmacology University of Connecticut, Farmington, CT

“Hypertension in the Nursing Home Population”

05/31/02

Richard W. Besdine, M.D.

 

Professor, Interim Dean
of Medicine and Biological Sciences, Brown University

"Improving Health Care Quality for Older Americans: A Data/driven Agenda"

5/30/02

Nancy W. Sheehan, Ph.D.

 

Associate Professor, Associate Dean School of Family Studies, University of Connecticut Storrs,CT

“Quality of Life Issues and Assisted Living”.

5/24/02

B. Lynn Beattie, M.D.

Professor, Division of Geriatric Medicine, University of British Columbia

"Canadian Longitudinal Study of Health and Aging: Its History and Recent Findings"

5/23/02

James Judge, M.D.

 

V.P. Medical Affairs of Masonicare, Associate Professor, Center on Aging, University of Connecticut

Health Center, Farmington, CT

“Can Three Years of Exercise Improve Femoral Bone Density in Older Women?”

5/2/02

Marie B. Demay, M.D.

 

Associate Professor of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

“New ideas about calcium and vitamin D: Lessons from vitamin D receptor knockout mice”

4/18/02

Richard H. Fortinsky, Ph.D.

 

Associate Professor, Coordinator of Health Outcomes & Population Research, UConn Center on Aging Farmington, CT

“Scope of health outcomes and population/based research at the UConn Center of Aging”

4/4/02

Mary E. Tinetti, M.D.

 

Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT

“Falls in Older Persons: from Prediction to Prevention to Practice”

3/28/02

William J. Kraemer, Ph.D.

 

Professor, Director, Grants and Research, Neag School of Education, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT

“Neurohumoral Factors in Exercise Training in Older Subjects.”

3/21/02

Catherine E. Dubeau, M.D.

 

Assistant Professor, Division on Aging, Beth Israel Hospital, Harvard Medical School Boston, MA

“Does He or Doesn’t He?: Prostate Disease Decisions in Older Men.”

2/7/02

Stephan Gravenstein, M.D.

 

Professor and Director, Glennan Center for Geriatrics and Gerontology Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, VA

“Influenza in the Older Adult: Bigger than Anthrax”

10/18/01

Michael J. Ferns, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, McGill University, Montreal

"Agrin's Role in Cholinergic Synapse Formation"

10/04/01

Gustavo Duque, M.D.

Instructor and PhD candidate Division of Geriatric Medicine, McGill University, Montreal

"Cellular Pathogenesis of Age/Related Bone Loss"

10/02/01

Mark Trifiro, M.D,

Associate Professor, Division of Endocrinology, McGill University

"Androgen Receptor Trinucleotide Repeat Polymorphisms"

9/19/01

James C. Mundt, Ph.D.

Research Scientist, Healthcare Technology Systems, Inc., Madison, WI

"Potential of Interactive Voice Response Technology for Clinical Research"

 

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