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Angus Deaton, Ph.D.
Professor ofEconomics and International Affairs
Princeton University
Angus Deaton is Dwight D. Eisenhower Professor of Economics and International
Affairs at Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School and Department of Economics.
He has previously held appointments at the Universities of Bristol and Cambridge
in England. He is author or co-author of four books, including Understanding
Consumption (1992), Economics and Consumer Behavior (1980), and most recently
The Analysis of Household Surveys (1997), as well as of many journal articles,
on demand analysis, on theoretical and applied econometrics, on saving,
on public finance, on development, on poverty, on price indexes and on health.
He has worked for many years on the empirical analysis of household behavior,
both in developed and developing countries. He has worked on the microeconomics,
macroeconomics and demography of saving, and on the many issues surrounding
the behavior of the prices of primary commodities. He has long term research
interests in South Africa and in India. Most recently he has been working
on income, education and mortality, as well as on the relationship between
income inequality and health in developed and developing countries. He has
been a longtime consultant for the World Bank, working on transportation,
welfare measurement, price reform, poverty, and saving. He has been a member
of National Academy panels on poverty and family assistance, and on price
and cost-of-living index numbers. In 1978, he was the first recipient of
the Frisch Medal of the Econometric Society, and was editor of Econometrica
from 1984-1988. He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society and of the American
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Jared M. Diamond, Ph.D.
Professor of Physiology
UCLA School of Medicine
Los Angeles, CA
Dr. Diamond received his doctorate from the University of Cambridge, England.
His formal training was in physiology and membrane biophysics, but his current
physiological interests have shifted to evolutionary physiology: the study
of the varying extents to which, through natural selection, our physiological
capacities have become matched to the natural loads upon those capacities.
At the same time, Diamond has also pursued a parallel career in ecology
and evolutionary biology, based on an on-going series of expeditions (17
to date) to study the birds of New Guinea and other tropical Southwest Pacific
islands. A further outgrowth of these studies of bird evolution has been
Diamond's series of papers on the paradoxical evolution of human genetic
diseases, such as Tay-Sachs disease and diabetes.
Diamond has combined this academic research in population biology with practical
efforts to stem the accelerating disappearance of the world's biodiversity.
Since 1977, Diamond has been devoting much of his time to popular science
writing. He writes bi-monthly articles for the News and Views section of
Nature, and for Discover Magazine, of which he is a contributing editor.
These articles cover a wide range of subjects, from conservation biology,
animal behavior, and molecular evolution to linguistics, archaeology, and
anthropology. He has written 549 articles, 2 monographs, and seven books
including prize-winning "The Third chimpanzee" and "Guns, Germs, and Steel."
Dr. Diamond is a former professor at the UCLA Medical School, a former director
of the World Wildlife Fund, and an elected member of the US National Academy
of Sciences (1979), the American Philosophical Society (1988), and the American
Academy of Arts and Sciences (1973). Since 1975 he has received several
science awards, and in 1999 he was awarded the National Medal of Science.
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Caleb E. Finch,
Ph.D.
University of Southern California
Ethel Percy Andrus Gerontology Center
Caleb E Finch was born in London England July 4, 1939 of American parents.
He majored in Biophysics at Yale (BS 1961) and did doctoral studies at Rockefeller
University under Alfred Mirsky (PhD 1969: Cellular Activities during Aging
in Mammals). He joined the Dept of Anatomy at Cornell University Medical
College in 1970 and the University of Southern California in 1972, where
he is ARCO and William F Kieschnick Professor in the Neurobiology of Aging.
He is Principle Investigator and Co-Director of the USC Alzheimer Disease
Research Center, funded by the NIH since 1983. Finch's main interests are
the genomic regulation of aging processes. He has authored three books:
Longevity, Senescence, and the Genome (1990); Aging: a Natural History (1995,
with R. Ricklefs); and Chance, Development, and Aging (2000, with TBL Kirkwood).
In 350 reports and reviews, Finch has lead several developments in the fields
of the neurobiology of aging, Alzheimer disease, and the biodemography of
aging.
Technical expertise
Primary training in molecular and cell biology at Yale and Rockefeller and
in pathobiology at Rockefeller; sabaticals at Jackson Labs in 1977 and at
CalTech 1982-3.
1. molecular biology: isolation of high molecular weight RNA; cDNA cloning;
design of primers for PCR; dideoxy and chemical sequencing; solution hybridization
kinetics; RPLF genotyping; in situ hybridization with cRNA probes
2. cell biology: primary culture of brain neurons and glia
3. neuroedocrinology of reproduction and stress responses; physiology of
caloric restriction; ria of steroid and pituitary hormones
4. monoamine assays and pharmacology; ligand-receptor binding.
5. histopathology and gross pathology at necropsy; mouse strain patterns
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Robert W. Fogel,
Ph.D.
University of Chicago
Robert William Fogel received his B.A. from Cornell University, his M.A.
from Columbia University, and his Ph.D., in Economics, from Johns Hopkins
University. He has held faculty positions at the University of Rochester,
Cambridge University, and Harvard University. He is currently the Charles
R. Walgreen Distinguished Service Professor of American Institutions in
the Graduate School of Business, director of the Center for Population Economics,
and a member of the Department of Economics and of the Committee on Social
Thought at the University of Chicago. He received the Nobel Prize in Economics
in 1993. During his graduate work under Simon Kuznets, he became interested
in combining the study of economics and history to understand long-term
technological and institutional change. Early work focused on railroads
and economic growth in American history, which was followed by analyses
of the economics of American slavery (jointly with S. L. Engerman) published
as Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery (1974) and
Without Consent or Contract: The Rise and Fall of American Slavery (4 vols.,
1989-1992). Last year he published a major reinterpretation of America's
current prosperity, material and spiritual, The Fourth Great Awakening and
the Future of Egalitarianism (2000). His current research includes a study
of the high-performing Asian economies, research into nutrition and longevity,
an assessment of the twentieth-century historical debates over American
slavery, and historical work on the development of the discipline of economics
in the twentieth century. |
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Noreen Goldman, Ph.D.
Professor of Demography and Public Affairs
Princeton University
Noreen Goldman is Professor of Demography and Public Affairs at the Woodrow
Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and Faculty Associate
at the Office of Population Research at Princeton University. Her recent
research examines the role of social and economic factors on health and
health-related behaviors. She is currently participating in a large-scale
effort to collect biomedical data for a prospective national survey in Taiwan,
in an effort to learn more about the physiological pathways through which
the social environment affects health. Previously, she conducted a field
survey in rural Guatemala to investigate the determinants of illness and
health care choices among children and women. She has consulted for the
International Statistical Institute, Westinghouse Health Systems, the United
Nations, the Alan Guttmacher Institute, the World Fertility Survey, and
RAND and has served on various committees of the National Academy of Sciences.
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Marcelle
Morisson-Bogorad, Ph.D.
Neuroscience and Neuropsychology of Aging Program
National Institute on Aging
National Institutes of Health
Marcelle Morrison-Bogorad, Ph.D. Biographical Sketch Dr. Marcelle Morrison-Bogorad
is Associate Director of the Neuroscience and Neuropsychology of Aging (NNA)
Program at the National Institute on Aging (NIA), National Institutes of
Health (NIH), Bethesda, Maryland. The Programs mission is to develop an
understanding of normal brain aging, from genes to cognition as well as
the age- and disease-related basis for age-related neurodegenerative disorders.
The NIA is the lead NIH Institute for Alzheimers disease research. The
NNA funds an infrastructure network and individual research grants that
range from basic science to clinical prevention trials. Dr. Morrison-Bogorad
oversees the operation and overall direction of the NNA Program. She serves
as spokesperson for the Institute on Alzheimers disease.
Dr. Morrison-Bogorad obtained an honors degree in Biochemistry from Aberdeen
University, Scotland and her Ph.D. in biochemistry from Glasgow University,
Scotland. In her early work, she was one of the first researchers to isolate
and study the properties of eukaryotic mRNAs. She came to the NIA from the
Department of Neurology at the University of Texas Health Science Center
at Dallas, where she was a professor. While in Dallas, Dr. Morrison-Bogorads
research focused on molecular analysis of brain development, Alzheimers
disease, and age- and the heat shock system in brain. She has authored133
papers, abstracts, book chapters, and invited reviews.
Dr. Morrison-Bogorad was a member of the Medical and Scientific Advisory
Board of the national Alzheimers Association from 1989 to 1996 and the
Alzheimers Association Board of Directors from 1994 to 1996. She has given
many invited presentations on Alzheimers disease, both to scientific and
lay audiences. |
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Carol D. Ryff, Ph.D.
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Carol D. Ryff, Ph.D., is Director of the Institute on Aging and Professor
of Psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is a member of
the MacArthur Research Network for Successful Midlife Development, a Fellow
of the American Psychological Association (Division 20 - Adult Development
and Aging) and the Gerontological Society of America, a former fellow at
the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford, and
Consulting Editor for two major APA journals (Journal of Personality and
Social Psychology, Psychology and Aging).. Her work has been supported by
the National Institute on Aging, the National Institute of Mental Health,
and the MacArthur Foundation. Dr. Ryff's research centers on the study of
psychological well-being, an area in which she has generated a theory-driven,
empirically-based approach to assessment of multiple dimensions of positive
psychological functioning. These assessment procedures have been translated
to 18 different languages and are used in diverse studies in fields of psychology,
sociology, demography, epidemiology, and health. Her own descriptive studies,
conducted with nationally representative survey samples, have documented
sociodemographic correlates of well-being (i.e., how positive mental health
varies by age, gender, social class, ethnic/minority status). Her explanatory
studies have focused on individuals' life experiences and their interpretations
of them to account for variations in well-being. Subsequent longitudinal
investigations of midlife development and old age are exploring processes
of resilience and vulnerability via the cumulation of adversity and advantage.
Multiple protective factors (biological, psychological, social), hypothesized
to promote resilience, are currently under investigation. The linkages between
positive mental health and positive physical health are a primary focus
in her ongoing longitudinal studies. Beyond her own program of studies,
Dr. Ryff has catalyzed extensive multidisciplinary research on topics related
to life course development (e.g., parenting; aging transitions; social relations,
emotions, and health). Since 1996, she has edited four books that summarize
recent findings in these areas. |
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David A. Snowdon, Ph.D.
Professor, Preventive Medicine & Sanders-Brown
Center on Aging
Dr. David Snowdon earned his Ph.D. in Epidemiology from the University of
Minnesota. He is a Professor in the Department of Preventive Medicine in
the College of Medicine and the Sanders-Brown Center on Aging at the University
of Kentucky. He is the director of the Nun Study, a longitudinal study of
health and aging. Participants in the Nun Study are 678 American members
of the School Sisters of Notre Dame religious congregation. Findings from
the Nun Study have been featured locally on evening television news programs
and nationally by CNN, ABC Nightline, and all three networks evening news
programs. Articles have also appeared in the New York Times, Chicago Tribune,
Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, and TIME, Newsweek and National Geographic
magazines as well as in various national and international newspapers. Nun
Study findings have been published in scientific journals such as the Journal
of the American Medical Association, American Journal of Epidemiology and
the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. Dr. Snowdon has authored
a book "Aging with Grace," published on May 8, 2001 by Bantam Books. |
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Stephen C. Stearns,
Ph.D.
Edward P. Bass Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Yale University
Steve Stearns received his doctorate in Zoology from the University of British
Columbia and was a Miller Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley.
He was then at Reed College for five years as an assistant professor of
biology. During that time he concentrated on life history evolution, in
particular on the evolution and expression of age and size at maturity in
the mosquitofish, Gambusia affinis. In 1983 he moved to the Zoology Institute
of the University of Basel, Switzerland, where he changed his model system
to the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. Since 1991 he has focused increasingly
on the evolution of aging, using a combination of experimental evolution
and functional genomics. He has published books on The Evolution of Life
Histories (1992) and on Evolution in Health and Disease (1998), among others.
He helped to found the European Society for Evolutionary Biology and the
Tropical Biology Association, has served as the editor of the Journal of
Evolutionary Biology, and is on several editorial and advisory boards. In
2000 he moved to the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Yale
University, where is using experimental evolution and functional genomics
to understand the nature of the tradeoffs determining the compromises that
shape lifespan, among other traits. |
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Andrew Steptoe, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Psychology
St. George's Hospital Medical School
Cranmer Terrace, London
Andrew Steptoe is professor of psychology in the Department of Psychology
at St. George's Hospital Medical School, University of London, and in the
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at University College London.
He graduated in natural sciences from the University of Cambridge in 1972,
then studied for a Dphil in the Department of Psychiatry at the University
of Oxford. He has served as chair of the Academic Board and head of the
Department of Psychology at St. George's Hospital Medical School, and was
awarded a higher doctorate (DSc) by the University of London in 1995. Andrew
Steptoe has worked for more than 20 years on psychological aspects of health,
and has been particularly interested in the interface between psychosocial
factors and biological processes relevant to disease. He has written more
than 240 scientific papers, and his books include Psychological Factors
in Cardiovascular Disorders (1981), Health Care and Health Behaviour (1984),
Essential Psychology for Medical Practice (1988), Stress, Personal Control
and Health (1989), and Psychosocial Processes and Health (1994). Andrew
Steptoe was president of the International Society of Behavioral Medicine
in 1994, and of the Society for Psychosomatic Research from 1983-1985. Recently,
Professor Steptoe has been working on the problem of social inequalities
in health in collaboration with Professor Sir Michael Marmot from the Department
of Epidemiology and Public Health at University College London. Together,
they are supervising a programme of research into the ways in which psychological
and social factors influence the biological responses underlying coronary
heart disease, and how these responses vary with socio-economics status.
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