The USF Collaborative on Aging hosts distinguished lectures on various aging-related topics throughout the academic year. Distinguished Lectures are free and open to the University community and the public, and are held at various locations on the Tampa campus.

Andrea Campbell, Ph.D.,
Associate Professor of Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Topic: “Medicare Beneficiaries’ Experiences with the New Prescription Drug Benefit”
(January 18, 2008 )

Steven Reader, Ph.D.,
Assistant Professor
University of South Florida, Department of Geography, College of Arts and Sciences.
“Using GIS in Health Disparities"
(November 9, 2007)

Christopher M. Callahan, M.D., FACP.
Professor, Department of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine,
Director and the Cornelius and Yvonne Pettinga Professor in Aging Research Indiana University Center for Aging Research; Scientist at the Regenstrief Institute Inc.
“Collaborative Care to Improve Outcomes among Older Adults”
(October 12, 2007)

 

Peter J. Whitehouse, MD, PhD.
Founder & Director of the Integrative Studies Program & Professor of Neurology, Cognitive Science, Psychiatry, Neuroscience, Psychology, Nursing, Organizational Behavior and History Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio “The Future of Aging: from anti-aging medicine to pro-aging learning”
(September 14, 2007)

Attorney James L. Wilkes, II
Wilkes & McHugh, PA., Tampa, FL.
"Warehousing of the Elderly--a Failed Experiment."
(May 18, 2007)

Kenneth Brummel-Smith, M.D.,
Charlotte Edwards Maguire Professor of Geriatrics, and
Chair, Department of Geriatrics
Florida State University
“The Challenges Facing Geriatric Medicine and What FSU is Trying to Do About Them”
(February 9, 2007)

Eileen Crimmins
Edna M. Jones Professor of Gerontology,
USC/UCLA Center on Biodemography & Population Health,
Andrus Gerontology Center
“Biodemography: Provides Answers to Questions about Aging”
(December 08, 2006)

Francis Keefe
Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Associate Director for Research
Duke Pain and Palliative Care Initiative
Duke University Medical Center
Professor of Psychology: Social and Health Sciences
Duke University
“Coping with disease-related pain: Outcomes, Issues, and Opportunities”
(November 03, 2006)

James Simpkins, Ph.D.,
Professor & Chair
Department of Pharmacology & Neuroscience
University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth
“Novel non-feminizing estrogens for the treatment of acute brain injury and neurodeneration”
(October 06, 2006)

Robert Kane, M.D.,
Minnesota Chair in Long-term Care and Aging,
Division of Health Services Research and Policy
University of Minnesota,  School of Public Health
“It Shouldn’t Be This Way: The Failure of Long-term Care”
(March 10, 2006)

Harold Lentzner, Ph.D. & Elsie Pamuk, Ph.D.,
Private Contractor, Demographer/epidemiologist,
“Using the NCHS Warehouse on Trends in Health and Aging”
(February 17, 2006)

Paul Costa, Ph.D.,
Chief, Laboratory of Personality and Cognition Intramural Research Program
National Institute on Aging, NIH
“Clinical Utility of the FFM and NEO-PI-R: Aging and Personality”
(January 27, 2006)

Keith E. Whitfield, Ph.D.
Associate Professor and Graduate Professor, Department of Biobehavioral Health
Pennsylvania State University
“Contributions of Health and Education to Cognitive Aging Among African Americans”
(October 21, 2005)

Jill Quadagno, Ph.D.
Professor of Sociology
Florida State University
“Why the U.S. Has No National Health Insurance”
( October 7, 2005)

Stefan Lohmander, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor and Senior Consultant in Orthopaedic Surgery
Lund University, Sweden
“Osteoarthritis – of Mice, Men and Markers”
( September 30, 2005)

Jeffery B. Halter, M.D.
Professor of Internal Medicine
Director Geriatric Center and Institute of Gerontology
University of Michigan
"The Interface Between Aging and Age-Related Diseases: Type 2 Diabetes as a Model"”
(April 8, 2005)

Gene Cohen, M.D. Ph.D.
Director, Center on Aging, Health and Humanities
George Washington University
“Impact of Programs on Creativity and Aging on Health Promotion & Prevention”
(March 4, 2005)

Dr James Goodwin MSc Ph.D. TD
Head of Research, Help the Aged, London , England
"Cutting the Cost of Climate: A Challenge of Research into Practice”
(February 18, 2005)

Jean-Marie Robine, Ph.D.
Research Director, French National Institute of Health and Medical Research, Montpellier , France
“What are the limits of the human longevity?”
(January 11, 2005)

Marilyn Moon, Ph.D.
Vice President and Director of the Health Program at the American Institutes for Research
“Promises to Keep: Medicare now and in the Future”
(October 15, 2004)

Karlene Ball, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology, University of Alabama at Birmingham
“Enhancing Cognitive Ability in Older Adults”
(October 1, 2004)

Richard Schulz, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychiatry, Director of the University Center for Social and Urban Research, University of Pittsburgh
“Health Effects of Chronic Stress Exposure in the Elderly: Resignation & Resilience”
(April 2, 2004)

Sydney Katz, M.D.
Professor Emeritus, Columbia University
“Transforming Long-Term Care in the U.S. ”
(September 13, 2003)