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Dr. Robert N. Butler is the President and CEO of U.S. branch of the International Longevity Center (ILC), a policy research and education center. He is also a Professor of Geriatrics at Mount Sinai Medical Center and Co-Chair of the Alliance for Health and the Future of the International Longevity Center, which focuses on Europe. He is a physician, gerontologist, psychiatrist, public servant and Pulitzer-Prize winning author who is perhaps best known for his advocacy of the medical and social needs and rights of the elderly and his research on healthy aging and the dementias.
In 1982, he founded the Department of Geriatrics and Adult Development at the Mount Sinai Medical Center, the first department of geriatrics in a U.S. medical school, and served as Chairman and Brookdale Professor until 1995.
In 1976, Dr. Butler won the Pulitzer Prize in the nonfiction category for Why Survive? Being Old in America. He is co-author of Aging and Mental Health (5th edition, Allyn & Bacon, 1998)and The New Love & Sex After 60 (4th edition, 2002) with Myrna I. Lewis, Ph.D. His new book The Longevity Revolution will be published in 2008.
In 1975, he became the founding director of the National Institute on Aging, where he remained until 1982. While at the NIA, he identified Alzheimer's disease as a national research priority. In addition, Dr. Butler helped found the Alzheimer's Disease Association, the American Association of Geriatric Psychiatry, the American Federation for Aging Research and the Alliance for Aging Research.
Dr. Butler is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences and of the National Academy of Social Insurance. He was a member of the Physician Payment Review Commission, an agency of the U.S. Congress, from 1986-89. He is a founding Fellow of the American Geriatrics Society and vice chairman of the Alliance for Aging Research. He served as Chair, Advisory Committee, 1995, for the White House Conference on Aging. He was a member of the Advisory Committee for the Project on Death in America by the Open Society Institute. He has been a consultant to the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging, the Commonwealth Fund, the Brookdale Foundation, the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation and numerous other organizations. He has served on the National Advisory Committees of the Physicians for Human Rights, the National Women's Health Resource Center and the Mildred and Claude Pepper Foundation, among other organizations. He also served as medical editor-in-chief of Geriatrics, a journal for primary care physicians, for 14 years and has authored approximately 300 scientific and medical articles.
He has received honorary degrees from the University of Gothenburg (Sweden) and the University of Southern California as well as numerous other awards such as the Lienhard Medal of the Institute of Medicine and the Heinz Award for the Human Condition. He received a B.A. degree from Columbia College in 1949 and a M.D. Degree from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University in 1952.
Robert N. Butler, MD
Board Member, Kronos Longevity Research InstituteDr. Robert N. Butler is the President and CEO of U.S. branch of the International Longevity Center (ILC), a policy research and education center. He is also a Professor of Geriatrics at Mount Sinai Medical Center and Co-Chair of the Alliance for Health and the Future of the International Longevity Center, which focuses on Europe. He is a physician, gerontologist, psychiatrist, public servant and Pulitzer-Prize winning author who is perhaps best known for his advocacy of the medical and social needs and rights of the elderly and his research on healthy aging and the dementias.
In 1982, he founded the Department of Geriatrics and Adult Development at the Mount Sinai Medical Center, the first department of geriatrics in a U.S. medical school, and served as Chairman and Brookdale Professor until 1995.
In 1976, Dr. Butler won the Pulitzer Prize in the nonfiction category for Why Survive? Being Old in America. He is co-author of Aging and Mental Health (5th edition, Allyn & Bacon, 1998)and The New Love & Sex After 60 (4th edition, 2002) with Myrna I. Lewis, Ph.D. His new book The Longevity Revolution will be published in 2008.
In 1975, he became the founding director of the National Institute on Aging, where he remained until 1982. While at the NIA, he identified Alzheimer's disease as a national research priority. In addition, Dr. Butler helped found the Alzheimer's Disease Association, the American Association of Geriatric Psychiatry, the American Federation for Aging Research and the Alliance for Aging Research.
Dr. Butler is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences and of the National Academy of Social Insurance. He was a member of the Physician Payment Review Commission, an agency of the U.S. Congress, from 1986-89. He is a founding Fellow of the American Geriatrics Society and vice chairman of the Alliance for Aging Research. He served as Chair, Advisory Committee, 1995, for the White House Conference on Aging. He was a member of the Advisory Committee for the Project on Death in America by the Open Society Institute. He has been a consultant to the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging, the Commonwealth Fund, the Brookdale Foundation, the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation and numerous other organizations. He has served on the National Advisory Committees of the Physicians for Human Rights, the National Women's Health Resource Center and the Mildred and Claude Pepper Foundation, among other organizations. He also served as medical editor-in-chief of Geriatrics, a journal for primary care physicians, for 14 years and has authored approximately 300 scientific and medical articles.
He has received honorary degrees from the University of Gothenburg (Sweden) and the University of Southern California as well as numerous other awards such as the Lienhard Medal of the Institute of Medicine and the Heinz Award for the Human Condition. He received a B.A. degree from Columbia College in 1949 and a M.D. Degree from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University in 1952.
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