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| Jack M. Guralnik, M.D., Ph.D., Senior Investigator Chief, Epidemiology and Demography Section |
 Dr. Guralnik received his M.D. from Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia and his M.P.H. and Ph.D. from the School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley. He practiced as a primary care and public health physician prior to his Ph.D. training. He is Board Certified in Public Health and General Preventive Medicine. Before coming to NIH he did research on predictors of healthy aging in the Human Population Laboratory Alameda County Study in Berkeley, California.. He has been in the Laboratory of Epidemiology, Demography, and Biometry at the National Institute on Aging since 1985 and has been the Chief of the Epidemiology and Demography Section since 1991.Research Interests: The Epidemiology and Demography Section plans and conducts epidemiologic studies of the risk factors for specific chronic diseases important in aging and pursues research on the consequences of disease, especially the effects of chronic disease on functional limitations, disability, and the ability to remain independent in the community. Assessing the roles of behavioral, psychosocial, and demographic risk factors in the development of disease and disability is also an important area of research. Particular attention has been focused on the development of mobility disability and how factors such as strength and balance, exercise, and measures of physical performance predict the loss of walking ability. Research interests have been pursued using data from the Established Populations for Epidemiologic Studies of the Elderly (EPESE), the Women's Health and Aging Study (WHAS), the InChianti Study and the British 1946 Cohort Study. |
| Contact Information: Laboratory of Epidemiology, Demography, and Biometry Gateway Building, 3C309 7201 Wisconsin Avenue Bethesda, MD 20892-9205 Phone 301-496-6475 Fax 301-496-4006 E mail jg48s@nih.gov For more information about the Laboratory: http://www.grc.nia.nih.gov/branches/ledb/index.htm |
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