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Biographies of RSI Speakers
2004
- Karlene Ball
- Axel Boersch-Supan
- Moshe Buchinsky
- Judith Campisi
- Anne Case
- Dora Costa
- Caleb (Tuck) Finch
- Robert Hauser
- Mark Hayward
- John Horn
- Carol M. Mangione
- Denise C. Park
- Michael Rich
- Leon Thal
Karlene Ball, Ph.D.
Director of the Roybal Center, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Dr. Karlene Ball, an experimental psychologist, is currently the Director of the UAB Edward R. Roybal Center for Research on Applied Gerontology, funded by the National Institute on Aging, and is Associate Director of the university-wide Center for Aging. Dr. Ball recently chaired the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Technical Group on Aging, and she is a member of the Transportation Research Board of the National Research Council. Dr. Ball is investigating visual and cognitive correlates of mobility difficulties among older adults, with an emphasis on driving skills. She has served frequently on expert panels charged with setting the vision standards for commercial and older drivers, and she has authored numerous publications on visual, attentional, and cognitive changes with age, as well as on the identification of at-risk older drivers. She recently received a M.E.R.I.T. award from the National Institutes of Health to extend her basic research program on the everyday activity problems of older adults to the development of interventions to prevent or retard age-related declines.
http://main.uab.edu/show.asp?durki=6771
http://www.psy.uab.edu/ball.htm
http://www.uab.edu/roybal
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Axel Boersch-Supan, Ph.D.
University of Mannheim
Axel Boersch-Supan is Director of the Mannheim Research Institute for the Economics of Aging (MEA) and Professor for Macroeconomics and Public Policy at the University of Mannheim, Germany. He is Coordinator of SHARE, a large-scale data collection effort to study health, aging and retirement in Europe financed by the European Commission.
Boersch-Supan holds a degree in Mathematics from Bonn University and a Ph.D. in Economics from M.I.T. He started teaching at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, then taught at Dortmund and at Dresden, Germany, before moving to Mannheim to his current position.
Boersch-Supan is Member of the German Academy of Sciences "Leopoldina", and of the German Academy of Sciences at Berlin-Brandenburg. He serves as member of the Council of Advisors to the German Economics Ministry and co-chaired the pension reform group of the German Social Security Reform (RŸrup) Commission. He is Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Research Professor of the Center of European Economic Research (ZEW), Mannheim, Germany.
http://www.mea.uni-mannheim.de
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Moshe Buchinsky, Ph.D.
UCLA/RAND
http://www.rand.org/labor/staff/buchinsky/index.html
http://www.econ.ucla.edu/
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Judith Campisi, Ph.D.
Department of Cell and Molecular Biology
Berkeley National Laboratory
University of California Berkeley, CA
Judith Campisi received her doctorate in Biochemistry from the State University of New York, Stony Brook, and postdoctoral training in the area of cell cycle regulation and cancer at the Harvard Medical School. As an Assistant Professor at the Boston University Medical School, she became interested the control of cellular senescence and its role in tumor suppression and aging. In 1991, she moved her research program to the Berkeley National Laboratory, where she continues to study cellular senescence and has established a broad program in various aspects of aging. She is the recipient of a MERIT award from the National Institute on Aging (1995) and the 1997 AlliedSignal Award for research on aging. She serves on several editorial boards and advisory boards, and heads the Center for Research and Education on Aging (CREA) at the Berkeley Lab.
http://www.lbl.gov/lifesciences/CMB/Campisi.html
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Anne Case, M.P.A., Ph.D.
Princeton University
Before joining the School faculty, she taught in the Economics Department at Harvard University. Her research interests are in development, public finance, and intrahousehold resource allocation. She has worked in Africa and Asia and is currently researching social policy in South Africa, and the effects of family structure on investments made in children in the United States. She received an M.P.A. from the Woodrow Wilson School. Ph.D. Princeton University.
http://www.wws.princeton.edu/~accase
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Dora L. Costa, Ph.D.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Dora L. Costa is the Ford Career Development Associate Professor of Economics at MIT where she teaches economic history and econometrics. She is also a research associate in the National Bureau of Economic Research's programs on the Development of the American Economy and on Aging. She received her B.A. in economics and mathematics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1986 and her Ph.D. in economics from the University of Chicago in 1993. She spent 1995-1996 at the National Bureau of Economic Research as an Aging Fellow. Costa's research focuses primarily on issues in labor economics, demography, and health, as interpreted over the long span of American economic history. Her work has covered a wide range of topics including: retirement, elderly living arrangements, determinants of older age mortality and morbidity, long-term trends in the health of the population, and trends in the consumption of recreational goods. Most of her research contrasts and compares the past with the present and examines why cross-sectional relations have been changing to better inform our understanding of the future. She is the author of numerous articles and a book, "The Evolution of Retirement: An American Economic History 1880-1990" (University of Chicago Press for NBER 1998). She is currently pursuing two lines of research. One is an investigation of long-term trends in health inequality by social class at all stages of the life cycle and of the effect of childhood health on morbidity and economic outcomes at older ages. The other study will consider leisure time use at all stages of the life cycle, focusing on inequality of recreational consumption and of leisure hours, the relation between hours worked and the wage, and the life cycle allocation of leisure time.
http://web.mit.edu/costa/www/
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Caleb (Tuck) Finch, Ph.D.
University of Southern California
After earning his undergraduate degree in biophysics from Yale University in 1961, Caleb Finch continued his work in cell biology, receiving his Ph.D. from Rockefeller University in 1969. Finch has received major awards in biomedical gerontology, including the 1985 Robert W. Kleemeier Award of the Gerontological Society of America , the 1995 Sandoz Premier Prize of the International Geriatric Association, and the 1999 American Aging Association's Research Award.
Finch became a University Professor in 1989, an honor held by only seven other professors at USC. A member of ten editorial boards, he has written over 350 articles. In 1990, he published an internationally recognized and acclaimed reference book on aging, titled Longevity, Senescence and the Genome (University of Chicago Press). His latest book, Chance, Development and Aging (Oxford Press, 1999), was coauthored with Thomas Kirkwood.
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 since 1969, Finch has lead several developments in the fields of the neuroendocrinology and pharmacology of normal aging and Alzheimer disease, and in the biodemography of aging.
http://www.usc.edu/about/research/finch.html
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Robert M. Hauser, Ph.D.
University of Wisconsin- Madison
Robert Hauser has wide-ranging research and teaching interests in aging, social stratification, and social statistics. He collaborated with David L. Featherman on the 1973 Occupational Changes in a Generation Survey, a replication and extension of the classic Blau-Duncan study. Beginning in 1969, he collaborated with William H. Sewell on the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study, and he has led the WLS since 1980. The WLS began as a study of the transition from high school to college or the work force. It has become a multi-disciplinary study of the life course and aging, and the next major round of WLS surveys will begin late in 2002. In recent years, Hauser has combined work on the WLS with studies of trends and differentials in educational attainment and of the role of achievement testing in American society. On these projects, Hauser has worked closely with many graduate students. His classroom teaching repertoire includes social stratification, research methods, and introductory and advanced courses in statistics, including structural equation models and discrete multivariate analysis. He has pursued connections between social science and social policy through his work with the National Research Council.
http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/~hauser/
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Mark Hayward, Ph.D.
The Pennsylvania State University
http://athens.pop.psu.edu/CtrPRI/DirBio.cfm?PeopleID=19
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John L. Horn, Ph.D.
University of Southern California
John Leonard Horn received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois in 1965. He has been a Professor in the Department of Psychology at USC since 1986.
Dr. Horn's research and teaching interests cover the areas of Developmental Psychology, Personality, Human Abilities, Cognitive Processes, Multivariate Design and Statistical/ Mathematical Methods. He has been the recipient of a United States Public Health - National Institute on Aging Career Development Award, a Fullbright Fellowship, and both a Young Investigator and a Lifetime Achievement award from the Society for Multivariate Experimental Psychology His research has been supported by grants from the National Institutes of Mental Health and the National Institute on Aging.
Dr. Horn is particularly well known for his work on development of human abilities over lifespan, and on alcohol use and abuse, as well as on methods in multivariate psychology. He is a member of the American Psychological Association, the American Psychological Society, the Society for Multivariate Experimental Psychology, and the Psychometric Society.
http://www.usc.edu/dept/LAS/psychology/people/horn.html
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Carol M. Mangione, M.D., M.S.P.H.
University of California, Los Angeles
Carol Mangione is a Professor in the Department of Medicine of the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and is a consultant in the RAND Health Program. Dr. Mangione is the Director of the NIA funded UCLA Resource Center for Minority Aging Research / Center for Health Improvement of Minority Elderly and is an Associate Director of the UCLA Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program. She is a nationally-known expert in area of eye diseases, quality of life, and outcomes of vision care. Dr. Mangione has provided technical expertise in the areas of study design and measurement of health in over 10 federally funded studies. She is the principal investigator for 4 federally funded research projects. Dr. Mangione's currently funded research focuses on the care that older Latinos and African Americans with diabetes receive. As part of this research agenda she is a principal investigator for a project funded by the Centers for Disease Control to study the quality of care for persons from ethnic and racial minority groups with diabetes in managed care settings. This study also focuses on the management of hyperlipidemia and cardiovascular disease among the participants. Most recently, Dr. Mangione has received an RO-1 grant from the National Institutes of Health to conduct an empowerment intervention among older Latinos with diabetes to improve their self-care skills. She is conducting this study collaboratively with Dr. Keith Norris and a research team at Drew. She has designed a similar study that was successfully funded as part of the UCLA Pepper Center competitive renewal that provides additional funds to extend the study to older African Americans. Senior and junior minority faculty at both UCLA (Dr. Arleen Brown) and Drew (Drs. Keith Norris, Diana Echevarry and Jose Calderon) are active co-investigators in these studies and play important roles in many aspects of the research.
http://www.chime.ucla.edu/directory/Mangione.htm
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Denise C. Park, Ph.D.
Director of the Roybal Center, University of Illinois Cognition and Aging Laboratory
Denise Park received her Ph.D. from the State University of New York at Albany in 1977. She is a professor in the UIUC Department of Psychology and a faculty member in the Beckman Biological Intelligence Group. Her fields of professional interest are (a) the cognitive neuroscience of aging, (b) memory processes and aging, (c) culture, cognition, and aging, and (d) impact of neurobiological changes on cognition in everyday life.
Denise Park's primary research interest is in understanding the role of age-related changes in memory function at the basic level (through functional neuroimaging techniques and behavioral studies) as well as the implications of these changes for society (in cross-cultural studies and work in medical information processing).
http://agingmind.cns.uiuc.edu/cachet/denise.html
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Michael Rich, M.D.
Washington University in St. Louis
Michael W. Rich, MD, is an Associate Professor of Medicine and Director of the Geriatric Cardiology Program at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. Dr. Rich received his M.D. degree from the University of Illinois in Chicago, and his internal medicine and cardiology training at the Jewish Hospital of St. Louis. He has published over 80 articles as well as numerous book chapters on the management of cardiovascular disease in the elderly. Dr. Rich is also past president of the Society of Geriatric Cardiology, an international organization dedicated to the advancement of research, education, and patient care in older individuals with cardiovascular disease. Dr. Rich is an internationally recognized expert on cardiovascular disease in the elderly and on heart failure disease management. In addition to heart failure, current research interests include acute and chronic coronary heart disease and cardiomyopathies in the elderly.
http://cardiology.wustl.edu/faculty/rich.html
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Leon Thal, M.D.
University of California San Diego
Chair of the UCSD Department of Neurosciences, Thal directs the Alzheimer's Disease Research Center at UCSD and leads a national consortium of more than 80 centers called the Alzheimer's Disease Cooperative Study, funded with a grant from the National Institute on Aging to test promising drugs for Alzheimer's disease. One of the world's leading investigators in the development of new therapies for Alzheimer's, Thal is one of only a handful of scientists whose efforts have significantly contributed to the understanding of the cause, prevention and treatment of Alzheimer's disease. With his entire career devoted to the study of aging and dementia, he began aggressively pursuing the cholinergic hypothesis of Alzheimer's disease in the 1970s. After investigations in the laboratory using rat and other models, he translated these studies to humans and subsequently performed clinical trials using choline, lecithin and other precursors of acetylcholine. In 1981, he published his finding that choline chloride failed to improve cognition in Alzheimer's disease. This lack of initial success challenged him to explore alternative and novel ways to treat the cholinergic deficit of Alzheimer's disease using other compounds and routes of administration. The importance of this work is evident by its 1983 publication in the New England Journal of Medicine, where Thal provided some of the first evidence that memory could be enhanced in Alzheimer's patients with cholinesterase inhibition.
In the late 1980s, after nearly two decades of intense research activity, his efforts were rewarded with the approval of the first drug (a cholinesterase inhibitor) for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease. In collaboration with Dr. Ken Davis, he organized a landmark clinical trial for evaluating tacrine as a potential treatment. This double-blind, placebo controlled multi-center study was described in a second paper published in the New England Journal of Medicine and paved the way for approval of the compound in the United States. This work established his leadership in the testing and development of drugs for Alzheimer's disease.
In addition to his many published research papers and administrative activities, Thal serves on the editorial board of seven major journals including Neurobiology of Aging and J of Molecular Neuroscience. He is a frequent reviewer and consultant for the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the National Science Foundation and the Veterans Administration. He serves as a permanent advisor on the FDA anti-dementia assessment team and currently serves on the National Advisory Council on Aging of the National Institute on Aging.
http://medicine.ucsd.edu/neurosci/neurofaculty.htm
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