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Geriatrics

Dr. John E. Morley, M.B., B.Ch., Cyberounds® Geriatrics moderator, is Dammert Professor of Gerontology, Saint Louis University Medical School and Director of the Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center at the St. Louis V.A. Medical Center. Educated at the University of Witwatersrand in his native South Africa, John received his postgraduate training at UCLA and is board certified in endocrinology and geriatrics. The author of numerous papers and 14 texts, including Geriatric Nutrition, Second Edition (1995), Memory Function and Aging Related Disorders (1992), Medical Care in the Nursing Home, Second Edition (1996), Frailty in Older Individuals (1993), and As We Age (1996), John serves on the editorial board of Peptides, Journal of Nutritional Medicine, Age & Nutrition and Clinical Geriatrics. In 1985 he received the Mead Johnson Award of the American Institute of Nutrition and in 1990 he was included among the 100 Most-Cited Scientists in the World from 1981-1988. His current research investigates memory function, nutrition and the endocrinology of the elderly.

Within the past 12 months, Dr. Morley has received grant/research support from Ascend, Baxter, Numico, Nestle, and Danone, been a consultant to Novartis, Mattern Pharmaceuticals, Amgen, Edunn Biotec, Indevus, Abbott, GlaxoSmithKline, Cytokinetics, Ligand and Baxter and been on the Speakers Bureau for Merck, Novartis, Indevus, Orthobiotec, GTx, Amgen, Novartis Nutritional and Mattern.


Last Update: 2/21/2021