Andrew P. Goldberg
Professor
University of Maryland School of Medicine
United States
Biography
Andrew P. Goldberg, MD is Professor of Medicine, Head, Division of Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine, at the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM). He is Principal Investigator of the UMSOM Claude Pepper Older Americans Independence Center and NIA training program in exercise, nutrition and metabolism in aging, and Co-Director of the UMSOM Center for Research on Aging. Dr. Goldberg leads clinical and translational research examining the whole body, adipose, muscle and genetic mechanisms underlying the cardiometabolic effects of weight loss with and without aerobic exercise training on lipid and glucose metabolism and functional capacity in obese older people with diabetes, metabolic syndrome, stroke and ICU survivors. The goals are to understand mechanisms of disease, and develop novel exercise rehabilitation and dietary interventions to transform health care practices to reduce risk for complications of chronic disease and disability in older adults. He has published >200 peer-reviewed manuscripts, and mentored >60 pre- and post-doctoral trainees and junior faculty in clinical aging, exercise and metabolism research. He is nationally recognized for his achievements in geriatrics with award of the 2008 Joseph T. Freeman Award from The Gerontological Society of America and the 2009 Master Teacher Award in Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology from State University of New York Downstate Medical Center.
Research Interest
Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine, exercise, nutrition and metabolism in aging, Research on Aging. clinical and translational research examining the whole body, adipose, muscle and genetic mechanisms underlying the cardiometabolic effects of weight loss with and without aerobic exercise training on lipid and glucose metabolism and functional capacity in obese older people with diabetes, metabolic syndrome, stroke and ICU survivors. The goals are to understand mechanisms of disease, and develop novel exercise rehabilitation and dietary interventions to transform health care practices to reduce risk for complications of chronic disease and disability in older adults, clinical aging, exercise and metabolism research.
Biography
Steve Kornguth took his BA at Columbia College in New York City and his Ph.D. in biochemistry at the University of Wisconsin- Madison. He was Professor of Neurology and of Biomolecular Chemistry at the University of Wisconsin between 1962 and 1998. His research during this period related to neural development, biological basis of neurological disorders, autoimmune diseases and development of binding agents and platforms for biological threat agent sensors and magnetic resonance image contrast materials. In 1998 he moved to Texas and was Director of the Center for Strategic and Innovative Technologies and Associate Director of the Institute for Advanced Technology at the University of Texas-Austin until 2012. He is currently Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Kinesiology and Health Sciences at The University of Texas-Austin. He directed the Biological and Chemical Countermeasures Program and the Sustaining and Enhancing High OpTempo Performance of Soldiers for the University of Texas. Dr. Kornguth published over 130 articles in peer reviewed journals, including patents and is the editor of books in the areas of biodefense and of human performance.
Research Interest
Neurology and of Biomolecular Chemistry neural development, biological basis of neurological disorders, autoimmune diseases and development of binding agents and platforms for biological threat agent sensors and magnetic resonance image contrast materials, biodefense and of human performance.
Biography
Dr. Shapiro has been involved in sleep research for over forty years. He trained in science and medicine in South Africa subsequently did his PhD in sleep physiology at the University of Edinburgh with Ian Oswald. He did his psychiatry training in Edinburgh and then had a senior lectureship at Edinburgh University before moving to Canada approximately twenty five years ago as a Full Professor in the Department of Psychiatry. He was Director of the Neuropsychiatry Program at the Toronto Western Hospital and Editor of the Journal of Psychosomatic Research both for close to two decades. He has over 300 refereed publications in this field and two dozen books and booklets including a book on “Forensic aspects of sleepâ€, and several books for the lay public. He also authored a children’s book “Who needs to sleep anyway†and most recently co-authored a book “STOP THAT and 100 Other Sleep Scalesâ€. His “ABC of sleep medicine†through the BMJ was considered the first book for family physicians on sleep. He has a further 560 publications (chapters, editorials, letters etc) and has supervised over 50 fellows and postgraduate students. One of his interests is sleep changes in psychiatric disease and the extent to which sleep markers are helpful in psychiatry. He founded the British Sleep Society in 1989. In 1998 he founded the International Neuropsychiatric Association. When a resident in Scotland, he set up the first sleep laboratory in Africa and nine years ago he opened the first independent Child and Adolescent Sleep Clinic in Canada.
Research Interest
Sleep research, Neuropyschiatry
