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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
Caitlin Connolly (cconnolly@americangeriatrics.org)

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

Vice Chair
Jerry Gurwitz, MD, AGSF
University of Massachusetts Medical School
Worcester, MA

Members (* = new member as of May 2009)

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

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

Luigi Ferrucci, MD, PhD
National Institute on Aging
Baltimore, MD

Susan Friedman, MD, MPH, AGSF*
Highland Hospital
Rochester, NY

Joseph Hanlon, PharmD, MS, AGSF
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA

Laura Hanson, MD*
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, NC

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

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

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

Ronald Shorr, MD, MS*
GRECC
Malcolm Randall VAMC
Gainesville, FL

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
Susan Hardy, MD*
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA

Charles Seth Landefeld, MD
AGS Board of Directors
San Francisco VA Med
San Francisco, CA

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

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

Marie Bernard, MD, AGSF
NIA/NIH
Bethesda, MD