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Research Committee
Mission: To ensure that every older American receives high quality patient-centered care through development, dissemination, and application of new knowledge to improve the health and well being of older adults; and to foster interdisciplinary research across the full spectrum of research in Geriatrics and Gerontology including basic biomedical, social-behavioral, clinical, health services delivery, and ethics research.

Getting Involved

Staff Contact
Christine Campanelli (Ccampanelli@americangeriatrics.org)

Chair
Kenneth Schmader, MD
Duke University & Durham VA Medical Centers
Durham, NC

Vice Chair
Rebecca A. Silliman, MD, PhD, AGSF
Boston University Medical Center
Boston, MA

Members (* = new member as of May 2008)

Sanjay Asthana, MD
University of Wisconsin-Madison Medical School
Madison, WI

Christopher Callahan, MD
Indiana University School of Medicine
Indianapolis, IN

Cathleen Colon-Emeric, MD, MHSC
Duke University Medical Center
Durham, NC

Luigi Ferrucci, MD, PhD*
Baltimore, MD

Jerry Gurwitz, MD, AGSF
University of Massachusetts Medical School
Springfield, MA

Joseph Hanlon, PharmD
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA

Kevin High, MD
Wake Forest University Health Sciences
Winston-Salem, NC

George Kuchel, MD
University of Connecticut Health Center
Farmington, CT

Sandra Moody-Ayers, MD
Representative to Research
San Francisco VA Medical Center
San Francisco, CA

Robert Schwartz, MD
University of Colorado Health Sciences Center
Denver, CO

Jeffrey Silverstein, MD
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
West Nyack, NY

George Taffet, MD
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, TX

Louise Walter, MD
University of California at San Francisco
San Francisco, CA

Internal Liaisons
Jim Rudolph, MD
Junior Faculty Section

Linda Fried, MD, MPH
AGS Board of Directors
Johns Hopkins University Medical School
Baltimore, MD

Stefan Gravenstein, MD, MPH
COSAR
Eastern Virginia Medical School

Stephanie Studenski, MD, MPH, AGSF
U13 Conference Advisor
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Pittsburgh, PA

External Liaisons
Dan Berlowitz, MD, MPH
VA Research Advisor
Edith Nourse Rogers Memorial Veterans Hospital
Bedford, MA

Thomas M. Gill, MD
SGIM
Yale University School of Medicine
New Haven, CT

Evan Hadley, MD
NIA/NIH
National Institute on Aging
Bethesda, MD