Geriatric Medicine Training and Practice in the United States at the ...

APPENDIX G.
THE PAUL BEESON PHYSICIAN FACULTY SCHOLARS
IN AGING RESEARCH PROGRAM
1995-1998 Beeson Scholars
Ashley Bush, M.B., B.S., D.P.M, Ph.D., Harvard Medical School: Zinc
Exposure as a Risk Factor for Alzheimer's Disease.
Ted M. Dawson, M.D., Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University School of
Medicine: Gene Therapy for Neurologic Disorders.
David M. Holtzman, M.D., Washington University School of Medicine:
Use of Animal Models and Neuronal Cell Lines to Study Alzheimer'slike
Neurodegeneration.
Edward H. Koo, M.D., University of California, San Diego School of
Medicine: Focus: The mechanism of amyloid beta-protein (AB)
production from the amyloid precursor protein (APP) in neurons.
Mark S. Lachs, M.D., M.P.H., Cornell University Medical College: The
Morbidity and Mortality of Elder Abuse.
Frank M. Longo, M.D., Ph.D., University of California, San Francisco
School of Medicine: New Strategies for Treating Neurodegenerative
Disease.
Richard A. Marottoli, M.D., M.P.H., Yale University School of Medicine:
Older Driver Assessment: A Multilevel Approach.
Lina M. Obeid, M.D., Medical University of South Carolina: Lipid Signal
Transduction in Cellular Senescence.
Peter Reaven, M.D., University of California, San Diego School of
Medicine: The Relationship of Aging and Antioxidant Defense Systems
to Artherosclerosis.
Alan R. Shuldiner, M.D., University of Maryland School of Medicine:
Genetics of Diabetes and Obesity in the Elderly.
1996-1999 Beeson Scholars
Christopher M. Callahan, M.D., Indiana University School of Medicine:
The Use of Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy among Older Adults
in a Community Setting.
Robert W. Doms, M.D., Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania: STM2, APP,
and Alzheimer's disease.
P. Murali Doraiswamy, M.D., Duke University Medical Center:
Apolipoprotein E type 4 Allele and Cerebral Metabolism in Relatives at
Risk for Familial Alzheimer's Disease.
Harlan M. Krumholz, M.D., Yale University School of Medicine: Clinical
Spectrum, Treatment and Outcome of Elderly Congestive Heart Failure
Patients.
Makau Lee, M.D., Ph.D., University of Mississippi Medical Center:
Studies on Aging, Dietary Restriction and Gastric Mucosal Defense.
Richard F. Loeser, Jr., M.D., Rush Medical College: Growth Factors and
Aging in Cartilage.
Karen M. Prestwood, M.D., University of Connecticut Health Center:
Bone Turnover and the Response to Estrogen in Older Caucasian,
Hispanic and African-American Postmenopausal Women.
May J. Reed, M.D., University of Washington School of Medicine:
Angiogenesis, the Extracellular Matrix, and Wound Repair in Aging.
Robert G. Smith, M.D., Ph.D., Baylor College of Medicine: Role of
Voltage-Gated Calcium Channel Autoantibodies in Motoneuron Injury in
ALS.
1997-2000 Beeson Scholars
Nir Y. Barzilai, M.D., Albert Einstein College of Medicine: The Effect of
Age-Dependent Increase in Visceral Fat on Insulin Action and
Secretion
Michele F. Bellantoni, M.D., Johns Hopkins University School of
Medicine: Growth Hormone and Sex Steroid Effects on Bone in Older
Women
James R. Burke, M.D., Ph.D., Duke University Medical Center:
Polyglutamine Proteins as a Model System for Studying Protein
Aggregation and Cell Death in Aging and Neurodegenerative Disease
Mark T. D'Esposito, M.D., University of Calfornia, Berkeley: Functional
Neuroimaging Studies of Working Memory in Normal Human Aging
Thomas M. Gill, M.D., Yale University School of Medicine: Identifying
the Events That Precipitate Functional Dependence Among
Community-living Elderly Persons
Bernard F. Godley, M.D., Ph.D., University of Texas Medical Branch:
Role of Oxidative DNA Damage and Repair in Age-Related Macular
Degeneration
Todd E. Golde, M.D., Ph.D., Mayo Clinic Jacksonville, Mayo Medical
School: Proteolytic Generation of the Amyloid b Peptide in Alzheimer's
Disease
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