The Center on Aging Executive Committee consists of leaders throughout the University of Iowa. It's members represent seven different departments and six different colleges. The diversity of the group insures strong interdisciplinary leadership and helps facilitate interdisciplinary projects and ideas.

Executive Committee, Center on Aging Members

Ryan Carnahan, Ph.D.

Ryan Carnahan

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PharmD, MS, BCPP
Associate Professor
Epidemiology/College of Public Health

Ryan Carnahan, PharmD, MS, BCPP, is the Associate Director of Education and Outreach. He is an Associate Professor of Epidemiology in the College of Public Health. His work aims to improve quality of care, particularly medication use, for people with dementia and delirium through education and implementation of best practices. He also studies patterns of use and adverse effects of medications in the elderly, and is involved in drug safety surveillance for the FDA. He is particularly interested in adverse events related to medication-associated cognitive impairment. His work involves...

Bernd Fritzsch, Director

Bernd Fritzsch

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Ph.D.
Director, Center on Aging
Director, Aging Mind and Brain Initiative
Professor and Chair, Department of Biology
Department of Biology

Bernd Fritzsch, Ph.D., is the Director of the Aging Mind and Brain Initiative. He is Professor in the Department of Biology, holds an Endowed Entrepreneurial Professor title and is a Fellow of the AAAS. He holds secondary appointments in the Department of Otolaryngology, is a member of the DELTA center and is core co-director of the recently awarded P30 in auditory research. He received his PhD from the University of Darmstadt, was awarded the prestigious Heisenberg Fellowship and has published over 250 papers and reviews. Prior to becoming the Chair in the Department of Biology he served...

Gerald Jogerst, M.D.

Gerald Jogerst

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M.D.
Mary Ristine Brodie Geriatrics Education Professor
Professor and Senior Vice Chair, Family Medicine
Professor, Psychiatry
Departments of Family Medicine and Psychiatry

Gerald J. Jogerst, M.D., received his B.A. from Loras College and M.D. from the University of Iowa College of Medicine.  He completed his Family Practice Residency and Fellowship at Scottsdale Memorial Hospital, where he also served as Chief Resident.  He is Board Certified in Family Medicine and Geriatric Medicine.  His research interests include Elder Abuse Methods of teaching geriatric medicine Functional Assessment in the geriatric population; modifiable risk factors of function, international family medicine training, depression in the older population (cultural differences).

Dr. Susan Schultz, Co-Director

Susan Schultz

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MD
Director, Center on Aging
Director, Aging Mind and Brain Initiative
Director, Geriatric Education Center
Professor, Department of Psychiatry
Vice-Chair for Clinical Translation
Department of Psychiatry

Susan K. Schultz, M.D., is the Director of the Aging Mind and Brain Initiative.  She is a Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Vice-Chair for Clinical Translation, and Director of the Iowa Geriatric Education Center. She is the President of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry, a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and has board qualifications in Geriatric Psychiatry and Psychosomatic Medicine.  She joined the University of Iowa faculty in 1995 after completing a research fellowship in the Neurobiology of...