Current and Future Research on Aging

3:00 - 4:30 p.m. Stamp Student Union, Juan Ramón Jiménez Room

Speakers and Talk Titles:
Ben Hurley, PhD
Professor, Department of Kinesiology, School of Public Health, UMD
Strength training for the prevention and treatment of Sarcopenia

Judith Shinogle, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Health Services Administration, School of Public Health, UMD
Too Much Choice: Does it Explain Low Participation Rates in the Medicare Prescription Drug Program?

Robin Barr, PhD
Director, Extramural Activities, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health
National Institute on Aging: Research Initiatives and Future Directions

Moderators:
James Hagberg, PhD, Professor, Department of Kinesiology, School of Public Health, University of Maryland

Dushanka Kleinman, DDS, Associate Dean and Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Maryland

Speaker bios:
Ben Hurley, PhD, is a professor in the Department of Kinesiology, School of Public Health, at the University of Maryland. He received his PhD from Florida State University and was a postdoctoral fellow in preventive medicine at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, MO. He is also an adjunct professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. Dr. Hurley’s research interests include the effects of aging and exercise training on risk factors for age-related diseases and disability with emphasis on the effects of age, gender, and genetics on health-related responses to strength training.

Judith Shinogle, PhD, is an assistant professor of health economics in the Department of Health Services Administration, School of Public Health at the University of Maryland. Dr. Shinogle received her PhD in health economics from The Johns Hopkins University and was a National Institute of Mental Health Pre-Doctoral Fellow in Mental Health Economics. She received the NCHS/AcademyHealth Policy Fellowship to examine how state polices affect the generosity of health insurance coverage. She was an assistant professor of economics in the Pharmaceutical Outcomes Sciences Department at University of South Carolina’s College of Pharmacy and Arnold School of Public Health.

Robin Barr, PhD, is the Director of Extramural Activities for the National Institute on Aging (NIA), National Institutes of Health. Dr. Barr received his PhD in psychology from the University of Oxford, England and completed postdoctoral work at the University of Pennsylvania before joining the faculty of Ball State University in Indiana. At the NIH, he was instrumental in changing policy on career awards recently to make the program more accessible to clinical researchers, and was a member of the committee responsible for developing the Pathway to Independence (K99/R00) award for new investigators.