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FutureCast: Dr. Thomas Perls on Centenarians (Dec 2, 11am PT)
Join Vivian Distler in conversation with Dr. Thomas Perls, founder and director of the New England Centenarian Study, the largest study of centenarians in the world. A significant portion of the study is devoted to understanding why centenarians delay or escape Alzheimer’s disease and other brain disorders.
Dr. Thomas Perls completed his undergraduate degree in Biology at Pitzer College in Claremont, California. He graduated from the University of Rochester School of Medicine in 1986, followed by internship in internal medicine at Harbor UCLA Medical Center in Torrance, California. He was a Geriatrics Registrar (fellow) at Mount Royal Hospital in Melbourne, Australia. After completing a 3 year Geriatrics Fellowship at Harvard Medical School, he joined the staff at New England Deaconess Hospital and later Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center as Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School. He joined Boston University School of Medicine’s Geriatrics Section in 2001 as an Associate Professor. Dr. Perls is board certified in Internal Medicine with special qualifications in Geriatrics and he is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians. [more]
This conversation will take place on Thursday, December 2, 2010, 11am - noon PT, and will be recorded as a podcast, available afterwards on the FutureCast blog.
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December 2, 2010, 11am - noon PT
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The FutureCast series is a way to track some of IFTF's research-in-progress and join the behind-the-scenes conversations that help shape our forecasts in global trends, technology, innovation, health, and sustainability. These open conversations will be recorded and made available as podcasts on both the FutureCast and The Future Now blogs.