Events
2023
Yousin Suh, Ph.D.
Charles and Marie Robertson
Professor of Reproductive Sciences
Professor of Genetics and Development
Director of Reproductive Aging at
Columbia University
Lessons From Centernarians and (whales):
The fundamentals of human Aging
2022
Thomas R. Insel, MD
2021
Wafaa El-Sadr, MD
Director of the Center for Infectious Disease
Epidemiologic Research at the
Columbia University
Mailman School of Public Health
COVID-19
What’s the Latest?
2020
Elissa Epel, PhD
Co-Director of the Aging, Metabolism, and Emotion Research Center, Professor inPsychiatry
at the University of California San Francisco Weill Institute for Neurosciences
What do telomeres tell you about longevity?
2019
Tia Powell, M.D.
Division Head, Biomedical and Bioethics Research Training, Department of Epidemiology & Population Health at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Dementia Reimagined:
Building a Life of Joy and Dignity from Beginning to End
2018
Martin Picard, PhD
Herbert Irving Assistant Professor of Behavioral Medicine (in Psychiatry and Neurology) at Columbia University Medical Center
Diving into the Mind of a Cell:
How Stress Impacts Energy and Aging
2017
Catherine Monk, PhD
Professor in the Departments of Psychiatry, and Obstetrics & Gynecology, and Director for Research at the Women’s Program, Columbia University Medical Center
Is Your Fate in the Stars or in the Womb?
How the First Nine Months Shape Your Life
2016
Julia Rowland, PhD
Director, Office of Cancer Survivorship
Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, National Cancer Institute
Living Beyond Cancer
A New Frontier in Science and Care
2015
Scott A. Small, MD
Director, Alzheimer's Disease Research Center at Columbia University Medical Center
Memories Lost and Found
2014
Thomas R. Insel, MD
Former Director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
Thinking About the Brain:
Blazing New Paths to Deeper Understanding
2013
Eli Puterman Ph.D.
Assistant Professor at the School of Kinesiology at the University of British Columbia
Extending a Healthy Life:
Forever Young? (Telomeres, DNA and Stress)
2012
Alexandra Horowitz Ph.D.
Adjunct Associate Professor at Barnard College and New York Times Bestselling Author
The Dog Human Bond
2011
Kevin Tracey, MD
Kevin J. Tracey, a neurosurgeon and inventor, is the president and CEO of the Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, professor of neurosurgery and molecular medicine at Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell, and President of the Elmezzi Graduate School of Molecular Medicine in Manhasset, New York
How the New Science of Inflammation Can Improve Your Health
2010
Barbara Ehrenreich, Ph.D.
Barbara Ehrenreich is an American journalist and the bestselling author of sixteen previous books, including the bestsellers Nickel and Dimed and Bait and Switch. A frequent contributor to Harpers and The Nation, she has also been a columnist at The New York Times and Time Magazine.
Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America
2009
Frances Champagne, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Psychology at Columbia University
Genes are Not Destiny: How Experience and Environment Influence The Brain
2008
Anne Harrington, Ph.D.
Franklin L. Ford Professor of the History of Science Director of Undergraduate Studies Faculty Dean, Pforzheimer House at Harvard University