The Malford Thewlis Lecture on Gerontology and Geriatrics
“What Can Centenarians Teach Us About Healthy Aging”
Presented by
Thomas T. Perls, MD, MPH
Director of the New England Centenarian Study
Associate Professor and Researcher, Boston University School of Medicine
Wednesday, April 8, 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm
Edwards Auditorium at the URI Kingston campus
A reception will follow at the URI Alumni Center on Upper College Road from 4:30-5:30 pm. It will be of interest to educators and students, health care and human service professionals, and the general public.
Dr. Perls will discuss findings from the New England Centenarian Study that truly have an impact upon how well we age and how long we can live. He will also warn us about the anti-aging industry and its false messages and nostrums.
Dr. Perls attended the University of Rochester School of Medicine, followed by Harvard Medical School where he received his training as a geriatrician. The New England Centenarian Study, now in its thirteenth year, is the largest genetic and social study of centenarians and their families in the world. Dr. Perls is also a well known and outspoken critic of the anti-aging industry and its marketing of purported nostrums and elixirs ranging from skin creams to growth hormone. Recently, he testified before the United States Congress as its expert on growth hormone and anti-aging quackery.
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For just a bit more information about Malford Thewlis and this lecture series:
This annual lecture series is named for Malford Thewlis, one of the founders of the American Geriatrics Society in 1942. A former resident of Wakefield, RI, Thewlis wrote The Care of the Aged: Geriatrics, a 1919 textbook on geriatrics medicine. The lecture series is a way to acknowledge this local man’s pioneering work and contributions to the field.
The Rhode Island Geriatric Education Center is a consortium of the URI Colleges of Nursing, Pharmacy, and Human Sciences and Services; Rhode Island College; the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University/Rhode Island Area Health Education Center; and Roger Williams Medical Center. The center aims to enhance the quality of life for older adults in the state by improving knowledge and skills in geriatrics and gerontology among health care and human service professionals, educators, students, older adults, and family caregivers.