Program Advisory Group

Working to create the most fertile conditions for successful and innovative research in longevity and aging, our Program Advisory Board provides suggestions and advice on policies, procedures, and directions. Board members review funded grants in order to provide oversight and give context to the important research being forged here.

Members

George L. Maddox, Ph.D.
PAG Chair
Director, LTC Resources Program
Duke Center for Aging

Julia T. Alvarez, Former Ambassador
Dominican Republic Mission to the United Nations

Robert H. Binstock, Ph.D.
Professor of Aging, Health and Society
School of Medicine
Case Western Reserve University

James E. Birren, Ph.D.
Associate Director
UCLA Center on Aging

Dan Blazer, M.D., Ph.D.
JP Gibbons Professor of Psychiatry
Duke University Medical Center
Center for Aging

Laurence G. Branch, Ph.D.
University of South Florida
Department of Aging and Mental Health

Jacob A. Brody, M.D.
Professor of Epidemiology &
Research Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago

Robert N. Butler, M.D.
President and CEO, International Longevity Center

Marjorie H. Cantor
Fordham University

Neal E. Cutler, Ph.D.
Associate Director
UNCG Gerontology Program,
and Director, Business and Aging Research,The University of North Carolina at Greensboro

Rose Campbell Gibson, Ph.D.
Professor Emerita
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI

Alan Maynard, Ph.D
Professor, York Health Policy Group
University of York

Kathleen McGarry, Ph.D.
Department of Economics
University of California, Los Angeles

Marilyn Moon, Ph.D.
VP & Director of the Health Program
American Institutes for Research
Alicia Munnell, Ph.D.
Peter F. Drucker Professor- Management Sciences
Boston College - Center for Retirement Research

Mr. Robert J. Myers, FSA
Actuarial Consultant

S. Jay Olshansky, Ph.D.
Professor, School of Public Health, University of Illinois at Chicago

Masako M. Osako, Ph.D.
Fitch Ratings

Martha N. Ozawa, Ph.D.
Professor of Social Policy
Washington University

Martha Pelaez, Ph.D.
Regional Advisor on Aging and Health
Family Health and Population Program
Pan American Health Organization
Pan American Sanitary Bureau
Regional Office of the World Health Organization

Victor Regnier, FAIA
USC School of Architecture
Andrus Gerontology Center

Sara E. Rix, Ph.D.
Public Policy Institute
AARP

Ursula Springer, Ph.D.
President
Springer Publishing Company

Fernando Torres-Gil, Ph.D.
Director, Center for Policy Research on Aging
UCLA School of Policy & Social Research

Tony Vuturo, M.D., M.P.H.
Senior Vice President
Canyon Ranch Health Resort

Peter J. Whitehouse, M.D., Ph.D.
Director Integrative Studies
Department of Neurology,
Case Western Reserve University
University Memory and Aging Center
University Hospitals of Cleveland

T. Franklin (Frank) Williams, M.D.
Professor of Medicine Emeritus
Univ. of Rochester, Monroe Community Hospital

Kathleen Woodward, Ph.D.
Director, Walter Chapin Simpson Center for Humanities
University of Washington