independence marks 10th year
A symposium celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Center at Yale will take place on Wednesday, June 4, from 3 to 5 p.m. in the Jane Ellen Hope Building, 315 Cedar St.
The center is also celebrating an award of $8.1 million in renewed funding over five years from the National Institute of Aging.
The symposium will open with a keynote address, titled "Aging Research: Past, Present, Future," by Dr. Robert N. Butler, president and chief executive officer of International Longevity Center and professor of geriatrics at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine.
Following Butler's talk, a reception and poster session featuring current research on many aspects of aging will be held in the Hope Building's third-floor lounge.
The symposium is free and open to the public but seating will be limited. To register, call (203) 764-9800 or send e-mail to meany.redd@yale.edu.
The Pepper Center's mission is the development and testing of multi-disciplinary intervention trials aimed at maintaining and improving functional ability in older persons. Its director is Dr. Mary E. Tinetti, the Gladys Phillips Crofoot Professor of Medicine and professor of epidemiology and public health, and its co-director is Dr. Sharon K. Inouye, professor of internal medicine (geriatrics) and associate clinical professor at the School of Nursing.
Pepper Center activities focus on geriatric health conditions common among older people. Building on the foundation laid over the last 10 years, the center focuses on increasing understanding of the causes, prevention, treatment and outcomes of multifactorial geriatric conditions.
In the process of conducting this research, the Yale Pepper Center trains physicians and other scientific researchers to conduct multi-disciplinary intervention trials. A major focus of the Pepper Center is to increase collaborative investigation among researchers with expertise in fields relevant to understanding, treating and preventing functional decline. The center aims to translate research findings into improved health care delivery and public policy.
The Pepper Center is made up of six core programs: Leadership and Administrative, Biostatistics, Data Management and Informatics, Field Core, Pilot and Exploratory Studies, and Research Career Development.
The disciplines represented in the Yale Pepper Center include behavioral sciences, biostatistics, cardiology, cellular and molecular physiology, economics, endocrinology, epidemiology, gastroenterology, genetics, geriatrics, gerontology, health policy, infectious disease, internal medicine, neurobiology, neurology, neuropsychology, neurosurgery, nursing, obstetrics and gynecology, occupational therapy, orthopaedics and rehabilitation, pathology, pharmacology, physical therapy, primary care, psychology, psychiatry, public health, pulmonary/critical care, rheumatology and sociology.
Pulitzer Prize-winning physician will deliver
Physician, gerontologist and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Dr. Robert N. Butler will deliver the keynote address at a symposium celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Center at Yale on Wednesday, June 4.
He will present a talk titled "Aging Research: Past, Present and Future" at 3 p.m. in Rm. 216 in the Jane Ellen Hope Building, 315 Congress Ave.
Since 1995, Butler has served as the president and chief executive officer of the International Longevity Center and is also a professor of geriatrics at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine.
Butler, who received the Pulitzer Prize in 1976 for his book "Why Survive? Being Old in America," is perhaps best known for his advocacy of the medical and social needs and the rights of the elderly and for his research on healthy aging and dementia.
In 1975, he became the founding director of the National Institute on Aging (NIA) of the National Institutes of Health, where he remained until 1982. That year, Butler founded the Department of Geriatrics and Adult Development at the Mount Sinai Medical Center, the first department of geriatrics in a U.S. medical school, and served as chair and Brookdale Professor until 1995.
Butler was a principal investigator of one of the first comprehensive studies of healthy community-residing older persons. This research helped establish that senility is not inevitable with aging, but is instead a consequence of disease. Later, at the NIA, he identified Alzheimer's disease as a national research priority.
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