Aging and Health
The Johns Hopkins Center on Aging and Health

Leadership/Administrative Core
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Key Accomplishments


Key Personnel

OAIC Core Leaders

Leadership/Administrative Core:

  • Jeremy Walston, MD, Principal Investigator
  • Karen Bandeen-Roche, PhD, Co-Principal Investigator
  • Brian Buta, MHS, Administrator

Resource Core 1, Biostatistics Core:

  • Karen Bandeen-Roche, PhD, Core Leader
  • Qian-Li Xue, PhD, Core Director

Resource Core 2, Genetics, Genomic and Molecular Core:

  • Aravinda Chakravarti, PhD, Core Leader
  • Dan Arking, PhD, Co-Director
  • Dani Fallin, PhD, Co-Director
  • Jeremy Walston, MD, Co-Director

Research Career Development Core:

  • Gary Gerstenblith, MD, Core Leader (also representing Geriatric Cardiology)
  • Paulo Chaves, MD, PhD, Clinical Translation Unit Director

Pilot/Exploratory Studies Core:

  • Peter Rabins, MD, Core Leader (also representing Geriatric Psychiatry)

OAIC Leadership Council Members

  • Jeremy Walston (Principal Investigator and Genetics, Genomics and Molecular Core)
  • Karen Bandeen-Roche (Co-Principal Investigator and Biostatistics Core)
  • Marilyn Albert (Department of Neurology)
  • Aravinda Chakravarti (Genetics, Genomics and Molecular Core)
  • Kay Dickersin (Center for Clinical Trials)
  • Samuel Durso (Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology)
  • Dani Fallin (Genetics, Genomics and Molecular Core)
  • Andrew Feinberg (Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, with expertise in Epigenetics and DNA methylation)
  • Gary Gerstenblith (Research Career Development Core)
  • Thomas Glass (JHSPH Department of Epidemiology, with expertise in social sciences and aging)
  • Peter Rabins (Pilot/Exploratory Studies Core)
  • Kerry Stewart (General Clinical Research Center, with expertise in body composition)
  • Myron J. Weisfeldt (Department of Medicine)

OAIC External Advisory Board Members

  • Joan Bailey-Wilson, PhD
  • Harvey Cohen, MD
  • Deborah Dawson, PhD, ScM
  • Luigi Ferrucci, MD, PhD
  • Kenneth Rockwood, MD, FRCPC
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In the News

OAIC-supported investigator, Peter Abadir, led the effort to identify a novel and fully functional mitochondrial angiotensin system that declines with age (PNAS; Press Release)

Johns Hopkins and  University of Maryland held a Joint Pepper Centers Biostatistics Symposium on Time To Event Analysis on September 9, 2011 (Joint Pepper Centers Symposium)

OAIC-supported investigators, Ronald Cohn and Tyesha Burks, discover losartan protects against loss of old or damaged muscle (Science Translational Medicine; Press Release)

OAIC-supported investigator Ravi Varadhan named 2011 Brookdale Leadership in Aging Fellowship Awardee (Brookdale Foundation)

Research by Frank Lin  (RCDC) and colleagues find hearing loss is prevalent in nearly two thirds of adults aged 70 years and older in the U.S. population. (Journals of Gerontology)

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Announcements

Please click here to learn about our Pepper Scholars Program, a monthly collaborative initiative for supported investigators and all interested in ongoing aging research at the Johns Hopkins OAIC.

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