Join the IOA for another academic year of discussions on aging that address basic and clinical research, social services and issues, public policy, and more.

Our Speakers 2006-2007

Visiting Scholars Series Podcasts

In 2007, the IOA Sylvan M. Cohen Annual Retreat with Poster Session focused on the convergence of medicine and nursing research to optimize care of older adults.

Leading up to the Annual Retreat, the IOA presented two special Penn Panels, each examining a different aspect of the critical collaborative process.

The Visiting Scholars Series lectures are open to the Penn community, to the public and to all those who are interested in aging.

September 21, 2006

Gene Cohen, MD, PhD

Director, Center on Aging, Health & Humanities at the George Washington University Medical Center

Professor of Health Care Sciences

Professor of Psychiatry

"The Mature Mind: The Potential for Creative Expression and Psychological Growth with Aging "

Podcast Available

October 9, 2006

Gabriel M. Leung, MD, MPH

University of Hong Kong

Associate Professor in Translational Public Health

presented by the John A. Hartford Center of Geriatric Nursing Excellence, Penn School of Nursing

Topic: Older adult mortality and BMI

October 11, 2006

Sharon K. Inouye, MD, MPH

Hebrew SeniorLife and Harvard University

Director, Aging Brain Center,
Institute for Aging Research, Hebrew SeniorLife

Milton and Shirley F. Levy Family Chair

Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School (Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center)

"New Research Directions in Delirium" - click title for presentation

October 30, 2006

Felipe Sierra, PhD

National Institute on Aging

Director, Biology of Aging Program

"Funding mechanisms and opportunities at the NIA and NIH"

February 21, 2007

Tamara B. Harris, MD, MS

National Institute on Aging --Laboratory of Epidemiology, Demography, and Biometry

Senior Investigator and Chief, Geriatric Epidemiology Section

"Novel body composition and biochemical markers of obesity-related risk for older persons"

March 8, 2007

Converging Lines of Evidence in Comparative Models of Aging - Exploring Human Animal Intersections

In partnership with the Penn School of Veterinary Medicine

March 22, 2007

Penn Panel #1 - Convergence of Medicine and Nursing Research

(wt) Medicine and Nursing Collaborative Mentoring: Long-Term Care Setting and the Issue of Falls

Panel Participants:

Jerry Johnson, MD, Chief, Division of Geriatric Medicine, Penn School of Medicine

Neville Strumpf, PhD, RN, FAAN, Professor in Gerontology and Director, Hartford Center for Geriatric Nursing Excellence, Penn School of Nursing

Deanna Gray-Miceli, DNSc, FAANP, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Nursing, Penn School of Nursing

March 28, 2007

Fernando Torres-Gil, PhD

University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)

Professor of Social Welfare and Public Policy

Director, Center for Policy Research on Aging

Adjunct Professor of Gerontology, USC

"Leadership, Politics and the New Aging: Implications for the Emerging Latino Majority" (PDF format)

April 11, 2007

Kristine Yaffe, MD

University of California,
San Francisco

Chief of Geriatric Psychiatry

Director of the Memory Disorders Clinic at the San Francisco VA Medical Center

Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Neurology, and Epidemiology & Biostatistics

"Prevention of Cognitive Impairment: Promising Directions in 2007"

April 12, 2007

Penn Panel #2 - Convergence of Medicine and Nursing Research

(wt) Medicine and Nursing Working Collaboratively on Research: Trauma, Violence, and Older Adults

Panel Participants:

C. William Schwab, MD, Professor of Surgery and Chief, Division of Trauma and Surgical Critical Care, UPHS

Therese Richmond, PhD, FAAN, CRNP, Associate Professor in Nursing and Reseach Director, Firearm & Injury Center at Penn (FICAP)

Mary Ann Forciea, MD, Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Geriatric Medicine, and Director, Delaware Valley Geriatric Education Center

Douglas J. Wiebe, PhD, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, Penn School of Medicine

April 18, 2007

Carroll L. Estes, PhD

University of California, San Francisco

Professor of Sociology

Founder, Institute for Health & Aging

Former Chair, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, School of Nursing

"A Critical Perspective on Social Security Privatization" (wt)

May 8, 2007

IOA Sylvan M. Cohen 2007 Annual Retreat with Poster Session

"The Convergence of Medicine and Nursing Research to Optimize Care for Older Adults"

Rosemary A. Stevens, PhD, MPH
Sylvan M. Cohen Visiting Scholar

DeWitt Wallace Distinguished Scholar, Department of Psychiatry, Weill Medical College of Cornell University
and Stanley I. Sheerr Professor Emeritus in Arts and Sciences, University of Pennsylvania

PENN Presenters:

Neville Strumpf, PhD, RN
Edith Clemmer Steinbright Professor in Gerontology and
Director, Center for Gerontologic Nursing Science
Penn School of Nursing

David Casarett, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine,
Penn School of Medicine
Staff Physician and Medical Director, Palliative Care Services
Philadelphia VA Medical Center

"Nursing and Medicine: Collaboration in end-of-life research"

June 7, 2007

Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, MD, MBA

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

President and CEO

"Helping the Most Vulnerable: Emergency Preparedness, Older Adult and Health Disparities"