We would like to thank the following Collaborators:
Harvard Medical School Harvard Medical School's New England Centenarian Study
Research Project: Genetics of Successful Cognitive Aging
Warren-Whitman-Richardson Fellowship
Hebrew Rehabilitation Center for Aged, Men`s Associates Research Fellowship
University of Georgia's Georgia Centenarian Study
Research Project: International Centenarian Survival Characteristics
Tokyo Centenarian Study
Research Project: Genetic and Environmental Correlates of Successful Aging
Japan Team
The University of the Ryukyus, Faculty of Medicine and School of Health Sciences.
Dr. Masafumi Akisaka - Genetics, Personality Profiles
Professor Liu Asato - Nutrition
Dr. Ikuya Ashitomi - Public Health and Aging
Dr. Hiroshi Ishizu - Mental Health, Mind-Body Medicine
Dr. Seizo Sakihara - Medical Sociology, Social Gerontology
Dr. Koichi Naka - Clinical Psychology, Religion, Aging and Health
Dr. Hidemi Todoriki - Epidemiology, Nutrition
Institute for Medical Science of Aging, Aichi Medical University
Dr. Hisashi Tauchi - Pathology
The Japan National Cancer Center Research Institute
Dr. Satoshi Sasaki - Epidemiology, Nutrition
Okinawa Prefectural University - College of Nursing
Dr. Yoshihide Kinjo - Epidemiology
Kaori Higa, R.N., M.H.Sc. - Adult Health and Nursing
Okinawa Gerontology Science Research Center
Mr. Takeshi Matayoshi - Research Assistant
Ms. Yoko Iha - Research Assistant
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Makoto Suzuki MD PhD is a cardiologist and geriatrician. He is Professor Emeritus and former Director of the Department of Community Medicine at the University of the Ryukyus in Okinawa, Japan. Currently, he is Chair, Division of Gerontology, Faculty of Social Welfare, Okinawa International University and Principal Investigator of the Okinawa Centenarian Study, a Japan Ministry of Health-funded study of the world's healthiest and longest-lived people. The study is entering its 28th year and is one of the longest-running centenarian studies in the world. He has over 200 peer-reviewed scientific publications and his total publications number over 700 including scientific manuscripts, conference proceedings, books and book chapters on aging and health. As the first scientist to make a comprehensive study of Okinawan longevity, he organized a conference in 1995 in which the Director of the World Health Organization acknowledged Okinawa as a World Longevity Region. He was recently presented with the Nishi-Nihon News Award to recognize his lifetime contributions to health and well being in Japan. |
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Bradley Willcox MD, MS is a Physician-Investigator in Geriatrics at the Pacific Health Research Institute, Honolulu, and a Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Geriatrics, John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaii. Dr. Willcox is Co-Principal Investigator of the Okinawa Centenarian Study and Principal Investigator of the U.S. NIH-NIA funded "Genetics of Exceptional Longevity in Okinawan Centenarians" Study. He received his Bachelor and Master of Science from the University of Calgary and his MD from the University of Toronto and subsequently trained in internal medicine at the Mayo Clinic and Geriatrics at Harvard Medical School. He has published and lectured over the past 10 years in aging, nutrition and health, especially with reference to Okinawan longevity and has won numerous awards for his work including the American Federation for Medical Research Henry Christian Award for research excellence. Dr. Willcox is currently funded by a career development award from the US National Institutes of Health/National Institute on Aging for to study gene-environment interactions that lead to healthy aging. |
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Dr. Craig Willcox, Ph.D. is a medical anthropologist and gerontologist and internationally recognized expert in healthy aging and cross-cultural gerontology. He is currently Assistant Professor at Okinawa Prefectural University--College of Nursing and Co-Principal Investigator of the Okinawa Centenarian Study, a U.S. National Institutes of Health and Japan Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare funded study of the genetic and lifestyle determinants of exceptional longevity. Dr. Willcox is also Research Associate at University of Hawaii’s Pacific Health Research Institute. Dr. Willcox trained in medical anthropology, gerontology and public health science at the University of Toronto and University of the Ryukyus. He has published and lectured extensively over the past decade in the areas of human ecology and aging, as well as nutritional and public health approaches to successful aging.
Dr. Willcox is particularly interested in what can be learned from a bio-behavioral (bio-cultural) approach to the study of human aging -- linking physiology, culture, and society through extensive fieldwork and rigorous laboratory investigations in order to better understand the dialectic of nature and culture in diverse ecologic and ethnographic settings. His cross-cultural approach to the study of human aging has led him to spend many years living, teaching and doing research in Japan. He speaks fluent Japanese. Dr. Willcox is a member of several professional societies including the American Anthropological Association, Society for Nutritional Anthropology, Medical Anthropology Society, and Gerontological Society of America. His research work has been supported by the U.S. National Institutes of Health, U.S. National Institute on Aging, Medical Research Council of Canada, University of Toronto, the Japan Foundation and the Japan Ministry of Education, Science, Culture, Sports and Technology, among other sources.
Drs. Willcox are identical twins and have written two best selling books on healthy aging, lectured extensively throughout the world and appeared in numerous national television and radio shows and print media. Their books have been published in over two dozen countries in half a dozen languages. Their work has also been featured in Time Magazine, Newsweek, USA Today, The New York Times, U.S. National Public Radio (NPR), Oprah Winfrey Show, Good Morning America, CBS News, Inside Edition, CNBC (Europe), Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) among other international media.
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