Aging Successfully

Abstract

John E Morley speaks to Natasha Leeson, Commissioning Editor John E Morley completed his medical degree at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg (South Africa) in 1972. After completing his internal medicine residency in South Africa he completed a fellowship in endocrinology at University of California, Los Angeles (CA, USA). He was subsequently a staff endocrinologist at the Minneapolis VA Medical Center (MN, USA) and the University of Minnesota (MN, USA). In January 1985, he moved to California to become Director of the Geriatric Research, Education, and Clinical Center, Sepulveda VA Medical Center (CA, USA) and a Professor of Medicine at University of California, Los Angeles. He is board certified in internal medicine, endocrinology and geriatric medicine. He has published over 900 papers, with a major research emphasis on the role of neuropeptides in the modulation of hormonal responses and behavior as well as nutrition and hormones in older persons. For his work in appetite regulation, he received the Mead Johnson Award of the American Institution of Nutrition in 1985. He was among the 100 most-cited authors in the world from 1980 to 1988. He was the Medical Director of the Year for Life Care Centers of America (TN, USA) in 1998. In 1999, he was awarded the IPSEN Foundation Longevity Prize, which is one of the most prestigious European awards for research in gerontology. In 2002, he was chosen to receive the American Geriatrics Society’s Nascher/Manning Award for his life-long achievements in clinical geriatrics. In 2003, he became a Fellow in the Gerontological Society of America. He has served on the editorial boards of nine journals and, since 2007, he is the Editor-in-Chief of JAMDA. He has been an invited speaker at numerous national and international meetings. In July 1989, Dr Morley moved to St Louis (MO, USA), to become the Dammert Professor of Gerontology and Director, Division of Geriatric Medicine at Saint Louis University Medical Center and Director of the Geriatric Research, Education, and Clinical Center at the Saint Louis Veterans Affairs Medical Center. He is the Medical Director of six nursing and/or assisted living homes.