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Speakers

COURSE CO-DIRECTORS:

DENNIS H. SULLIVAN, MD
Director, Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center (GRECC)
Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System
Professor of Geriatrics, Vice-Chair for Clinical Research
Donald W. Reynolds Department of Geriatrics
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences College of Medicine
Little Rock, AR

RONNI CHERNOFF, PhD, RD, FADA
Associate Director for Education and Evaluation
Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center (GRECC)
Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System
Director, Arkansas Geriatric Education Center (AGEC)
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences College of Medicine
Little Rock, AR

KAY GUTHRIE
Administrative Officer
Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center (GRECC)
Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System
Little Rock, AR

FACULTY

WILLIAM J. EVANS, PhD
Vice President
Head, Muscle Metabolism Drug Performance Unit
GlaxoSmithKline
Professor of Medicine (adjunct)
Duke University
University of Arkansas Medical Sciences
Research Triangle Park, NC

TERESA FUNG, ScD, RD
Associate Professor, Simmons College
Adjunct Associate Professor
Harvard School of Public Health
Boston, MA

JANE E. KERSTETTER, PhD, RD
Associate Professor, Allied Health Sciences
Department of Nutritional Sciences
University of Connecticut
Department of Community Medicine
University of Connecticut Health Center
Adjunct Associate Professor of Medicine
Yale University
New Haven, CT

DANA E. KING, MD, MS
Professor, Vice Chair
Department of Family Medicine
Medical University of South Carolina
Charleston, SC

EMILY B. LEVITAN, ScD
Assistant Professor
Department of Epidemiology
University of Alabama-Birmingham
Birmingham, AL

DARIUSH MOZAFFARIAN, MD, DrPH, FACC
Co-Director, Program in Cardiovascular Epidemiology
Assistant Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology
Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and
Harvard Medical School
Harvard School of Public Health
Boston, MA

MEDHA MUNSHI, MD
Director, Joslin Geriatric Diabetes Programs

Gerontologist, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA

BARBARA J. NICKLAS, PhD
Professor of Internal Medicine
Section on Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine
Wake Forest University Health Sciences
Winston Salem, NC

JUAN B. OCHOA, MD, FACS 
Professor of Surgery and Critical Care
Dept of Surgery
University of Pittsburgh 
Associate Medical Director, UPMC Trauma Services
Co-Director, Multi-Disciplinary Acute Care Clinical Research Organization (MACRO)
UPMC Presbyterian
Pittsburgh, PA 

Eric Ravussin, PhD
Douglas L. Gordon Chair in Diabetes and Metabolism
Director, Clinical Nutrition Research Unit,
Pennington Biomedical Research Center
Louisiana State University School of Medicine
Baton Rouge, Louisiana

ALICE S. RYAN, PhD
VA Research Career Scientist
GRECC – VA Medical Center
Professor, Department of Medicine
University of Maryland School of Medicine
Baltimore, MD

DENNIS SULLIVAN, MD
Director, GRECC
Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System
Professor, Geriatrics, Vice-Chair for Clinical Research
Reynolds Department of Geriatrics
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
College of Medicine
Little Rock, AR

DAVID R. THOMAS, MD, FACP, AGSF, GSAF
Director, Restraint Team, Saint Louis University Hospital
Medical Director, Charlevoix Nursing Home
Director, Clinical Research
Professor of Medicine
Division of Geriatric Medicine
Saint Louis University
St. Louis, MO

ROBERT R.  WOLFE, PhD
Professor, Department of Geriatrics
Director, Center for Translational Research
in Aging & Longevity
College of Medicine
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
Little Rock, AR

PLANNING COMMITTEE:

Ronni Chernoff, PhD, RD, Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System, AGEC
Kay Guthrie, AO, Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System
June Parsley, RN, MSE, Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System
Dennis H. Sullivan, MD, Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System, UAMS