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Bradley J. Willcox, M.D., M.S., is a Physician-Investigator in Geriatrics. He currently holds the post of Director, Department of Research and Planning, Queen's Medical Center, Honolulu, Hawaii as well Associate Clinical Professor, Department of Geriatric Medicine, John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaii. Dr. Willcox is also Associate Director of Interdisciplinary Research on Aging at the Pacific Health Research Institute (PHRI) in Honolulu and Investigator, Geriatrics and Gerontology, PHRI, Kuakini Medical Center and Straub Hospital. Additionally, Dr. Willcox works as Staff Physician, Orthopedic Hospitalist Program, The Queen's Medical Center and Medical Team Care Attending Physician, John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaii and Medical Director, Willcox HealthSpan Clinic.
Dr. Willcox is Co-Principal Investigator of the Okinawa Centenarian Study and Principal Investigator of the U.S. NIH-NIA funded "Genetics of Exceptional Longevity in Okinawan Centenarians" Study, and "the Hawaii Lifespan Study", also funded by NIH-NIA. He received his Bachelor and Master of Science from the University of Calgary and his MD from the University of Toronto and subsequently trained in internal medicine at the Mayo Clinic and geriatrics at Harvard Medical School. He has published and lectured over the past 10 years in aging, nutrition and health, especially with reference to Okinawan longevity and has won numerous awards for his work including the American Federation for Medical Research Henry Christian Award for research excellence. Dr. Willcox is currently funded by several research grants from the US National Institutes of Health including the Hawaii Lifespan Study (NIA) and the Prostate, Lung, Colon, Ovarian Cancer Trial (NCI) to study gene-environment interactions that lead to healthy aging and screening to lower cancer risk.
Dr. Craig Willcox, Ph.D., M.H.Sc.,
is a noted medical anthropologist and gerontologist and internationally recognized
expert on healthy aging and cross-cultural gerontology. He is currently Associate Professor at Okinawa International University and a Co-Principal Investigator of the Okinawa Centenarian Study, a U.S. National Institutes of Health and Japan Society for Promotion of Sciences funded study of the genetic and lifestyle determinants of exceptional longevity. Dr. Willcox is also Research Associate at University of Hawaii's Pacific Health Research Institute.
Dr. Willcox trained in medical anthropology, gerontology and public health science
at the University of Toronto and University of the Ryukyus. He has published and
lectured extensively over the past decade in the areas of nutritional anthropology,
successful aging and public health. Dr. Willcox is a member of several professional
societies including the American Anthropological Association, the Medical
Anthropology Society, the Society for Nutritional Anthropology and the
Gerontological Society of America. His work has been supported by the University of
Toronto, U.S. National Institutes of Health, U.S. National Institute on Aging,
Medical Research Council of Canada the Japan Foundation and the prestigious Japan
Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology among other sources.
Makoto Suzuki, M.D., Ph.D., is a
cardiologist and geriatrician. He received his doctorate of
medicine from Keio University and is professor emeritus and former
director of the Research Center for Community Medicine, University
of the Ryukyus in Okinawa, Japan. Currently, he is professor,
Department of Gerontology, Okinawa International University,
director of the Okinawa Gerontology Science Research Center, and
Principal Investigator of the Okinawa Centenarian Study, a Japan
Ministry of Health-funded study of hundred-year-olds and other
elderly people in Okinawa, Japan. The study is entering its
twenty-eighth year and is one of the longest-running centenarian
studies in the world.
He has more than 200 peer-reviewed publications in
respected scientific journals, and has published several books on
aging and health in Japan. As the original discoverer of the
Okinawa longevity phenomenon, he organized a conference in 1995 in
which the director of the World Health Organization acknowledged
Okinawa as a World Longevity Region. His research work has been
supported by the Japan Ministry of Health and Welfare, the Japan
Foundation for Aging and Health, and the Toyota Foundation, among
other sources.
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