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Speaker Addresses Hype, Hope of Anti-Aging Medicine
Robert Binstock, professor of aging, health and society at Case Western Reserve Universitys School of Medicine, will deliver the Armin Grams Memorial Lecture for the UVM Forum on Aging on April 20 at 7 p.
m. in Memorial Lounge, Waterman Building. Binstocks talk is titled Anti-Aging Medicine and Science: Hype, Hope, and Implications. Binstock earned his bachelor and doctoral degrees in political science from Harvard University.
Prior to his post at Case Western, he spent more than 20 years at Brandeis University, where he directed the doctoral program in social gerontology, the universitys Program in the Economics and Politics of Aging and the Policy Center on Aging. He is a former president of the Gerontological Society of America and a former chair of the Gerontological Health Section of the American Public Health Association. He has authored or edited more than 40 books and monographs, including The Fountain of Youth: Cultural, Scientific, and Ethical Perspectives on a Biomedical Goal (2004), and more than 200 articles, chapters and scholarly reviews. Among the honors he has received are the Kent and Brookdale Awards from the Gerontological Society of America, the Key and Lifetime Achievement Awards from the American Public Health Association, the Hall of Fame Award from the American Society on Aging and the Arthur S.
Flemming Award from the National Association of State Units on Aging. Binstocks lecture is co-sponsored by the UVM Forum on Aging, the Department of Integrated Professional Studies and Fletcher Allen Health Cares Elder Care Services.
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