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An internationally recognized leader in the fields of gerontology and geriatrics, Dr. Butler is the president and CEO of the International Longevity Center-USA and Professor of Geriatrics and Adult Development at the Brookdale Department of Geriatrics and Adult Development at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine.
From 1975 until 1982 Dr. Butler was the first director of the National Institute on Aging of the National Institutes of Health. While there, Dr. Butler identified Alzheimer's disease as a national research priority. In 1982 he founded the nation's first department of geriatrics at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, where he served as Chairman and Brookdale Professor of Geriatrics until 1995. In 1990 Dr. Butler co-founded the International Longevity Center, a non-profit, non-partisan organization devoted solely to the study of population aging and its impact on society.
Dr. Butler won a Pulitzer Prize in 1976 for his book Why Survive? Being Old in America and recently published The Longevity Revolution. He has served as the medical editor-in-chief of Geriatrics, a journal for primary care physicians. Dr. Butler has received numerous other awards as well, most recently the Andrus Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Association of Retired Persons. | 