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The Progress in Longevity Medicine Seminar Series is KLRI's seminar program designed to provide practicing physicians and other healthcare providers with key, up-to-date topical information on the latest medical research and advancements in aging and longevity. These seminars are accredited by the University of Arizona for Continuing Medical Education (CME) credits. We present world-renowned featured guest speakers who are experts in the fields of aging, geriatrics, hormones, genetics, antioxidants and other supplementation, cognitive function and dementia, exercise, metabolic rate and various diseases and treatments. Click on the links below to view the flyers for previous seminars.

Why And How The Immune System Ages?
Janko Nikolich-Žugich, MD, PhD
Chairman, Department of Immunobiology, Co-Director, Arizona Center on Aging
Elizabeth Bowman Professor in Medical Research
University of Arizona College of Medicine
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Skeletal Muscle As An Endocrine Organ With Focus On
The Role Of Myokines In Muscle-Fat Cross-Talk
Bente Klarlund Pedersen, MD, DMSc
The Department of Infectious Diseases and The Copenhagen Muscle
Research Centre, Rigshospitalet, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
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Healthy Aging and Longevity
Walter J. Nieri, MD
Director, Banner Sun Health Research Institute's Center for Healthy Aging
Sun City, Arizona
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Nonhuman Primates: A Leading Translational Model of Human Immune Senescence
Ilhem Messaodi, PhD
Assistant Scientist, Division of Pathobiology and Immunology
Oregon National Primate Research Center
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The High Cost And Low Productivity Of Drug Development in the US: An Arizona Solution?
Louis Kirby, MD
Director of the Phoenix office of the Critical Path Institute
Co-Chair of the Biomarkers Workgroup of the Coalition Against Major Diseases Phoenix, AZ
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Statin Non-Responders and Residual Risk: Early Detection and Management of Patients with Progressive Atherosclerosis Despite Lowering LDL to Optimum Levels
Harvey S. Hecht, MD, FACC
Lenox Hill Heart & Vascular Institute
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
New York, NY
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Exercise, Obesity, Insulin Resistance and Aging
Williams Evans, PhD
Donald W. Reynold Institute on Aging
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
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Evidence-based Nutrition and the Problem of Proof
Jeffery Blumberg, PhD
Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy
Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Center on Aging Tufts University
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The Healthy Cell Bias of Estrogen Action: Mitochondrial Bioenergetics and Neurological Implications
Roberta Diaz Brinton, PhD
R. Pete Vanderveen Endowed Chair in Therapeutic Discovery and Development
Professor of Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences
University of Southern California
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Hyponatremia-Induced Osteoporosis
Joseph G. Verbalis, MD
Professor of Medicine and Physiology, Program Director, GCRC
Georgetown University Medical Center
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Etiology, Diagnosis and Treatment of Pain In the Elderly
Pam Squire, MD
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Stress Signaling in and the Modulation of Age-Related Behavioral Decline Via Dietary Fruit and Walnut Supplementation
James Joseph, PhD
Jean Mayer Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging
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The Endeavor of High Maintenance Homeostasis: Resting Metabolic Rate and Legacy of Longevity
Luigi Ferrucci, MD, PhD
Director, Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging
Senior Investigator, Clinical Research Branch National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health
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Estrogen, Cognition and Alzheimer’s Disease Is There a Window For Benefit?
Victor W. Henderson, MD, MS
Professor, Department of Health Research & Policy
Professor, Department of Neurology & Neurological Sciences Stanford University
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Kidney Disease in Type 2 Diabetes: Lessons From the Pima Indians
Robert G. Nelson, MD, PhD
Diabetes Epidemiology and Clinical Research Section, Phoenix Epidemiology and Clinical Research Branch, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health
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Pycnogenol®, a Dietary Supplement with Antioxidant and Cardioprotective Activities
Ronald Ross Watson, PhD
Professor of Health Promotion Sciences
Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health
University of Arizona Health Science Center
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The Genetic and Molecular Basis of Longevity: Lessons Learned from Comparative Studies of Yeast, Worms, Fruit Flies, Mice and Humans
Anna McCormick, PhD
Chief, Genetics and Cell Biology Branch
Genetics Program Manager, Biology of Aging Program
NIA, NIH; Bethesda, MD
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Genetic and Epigenetic Contributions to Intraspecific & Interspecific Variations in Longevity
George Martin, MD
Professor of Pathology Emeritus
Director Emeritus, Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center
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An Epidemiologist Looks at Male Aging: How Much Do We Know and How Do We Know It?
John B. McKinlay, PhD
Director, Senior Vice President, and Chief Scientist New England Research Institutes, Inc.
Consultant in Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital
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Sex Differences in Blood Pressure Control During Aging
Kathryn Sandberg, PhD
Professor of Medicine
Director of the Center for the Study of Sex Differences In Health, Aging and Disease
Georgetown University Medical Center
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Complementary & Alternative Medicine and Prostate Cancer: New Perspectives on the Actions of DHEA and Lycopene
Marc Blackman, MD
Chief, Endocrine Section; Laboratory of Clinical Investigation
National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine
National Instiutes of Health; Bethesda, MD
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Brain Imaging, Genomics and the Prevention of Alzheimer’s Disease
Eric Reiman, MD
Executive Director, Banner Alzheimer’s Institute
Clinical Director, Neurogenomics Division, Translational GenomicsResearch Institute (TGen)
Professor & Associate Head, Department of Psychiatry, University of Arizona
Director, Arizona Alzheimer’s Disease Consortium
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