Dr. Linda Fried will be at BU in April - a future announcement will be sent out via BU ARC.

Linda P. Fried is Professor of Medicine, Epidemiology and Health Policy at the Johns Hopkins University Schools of Medicine and of Public Health. Dr. Fried is a geriatrician and epidemiologist. She is Director, Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology at Johns Hopkins and Director of the Johns Hopkins Center on Aging and Health, a multidisciplinary center of excellence for research and education on aging at the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions.

She leads a research program directed at health promotion and prevention of disease, frailty, and disability in older adults, with approaches including public health and clinical interventions. This research includes the Women’s Health and Aging Studies and the Cardiovascular Health Study, for which she is the Principal Investigator. She is also Principal Investigator of the newly initiated Older American Independence Center, funded by the National Institute on Aging to discover the causes of frailty as people age.

Dr. Fried has published numerous articles on these issues central to improving health promotion in older adults in leading medical and public health journals. Dr. Fried serves as an advisor for such organizations as the Paul Beeson Faculty Scholars in Aging Research, the Health and Retirement Survey and the AAMC Task Force on Research; she is on the editorial board of a number of journals dedicated to the health of older adults, including the Journal of Gerontology (Medical Sciences), and the American Journal of Medicine. Dr. Fried has been the recipient of a number of awards, including the 2000 APHA Archstone Award, the Marion Spencer Fay Award for the year 2000 Distinguished Woman Physician/Scientist, the 2000 Herbert R. DeVries Distinguished Research Award of the Council on Aging and Adult Development, among other awards, and was named as one of Maryland’s Top 100 Women for the year 2003. Dr. Fried is the recipient of an NIH MERIT Award and is an elected member of the Institute of Medicine and the Association of American Physicians.

Pilot Projects Awarded

Dr Jack Guralnik - lecture

Pilot Project Proposal Announcement