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Robert Butler is President, CEO and Co-Chairman of the Alliance for Health and the Future at the International Longevity Center USA. He is also a Professor of Geriatrics at the Brookdale Department of Geriatrics and Adult Development at the Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City. At the National Institute of Aging, where he worked as founding director from 1975 through 1982, Butler identified Alzheimer's disease as a national research priority and helped found the Alzheimer's Disease Association, the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry, the American Federation for Aging Research and the Alliance for Aging Research. He served as chairman for the advisory committee for the 1995 White House Conference on Aging and is a founding Fellow of the American Geriatrics Society. In 1976, he won a Pulitzer Prize in General Non-Fiction for Why Survive? Being Old in America; and in 2003, he received a Heinz Award for humanitarianism. From 1986 through 2000, he was the medical editor-in-chief of Geriatrics, a journal for primary-care physicians; he is also the author of 300 scientific and medical articles and a frequent advisor to the World Health Organization.

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Longevity, Biological Age and an Aging Population
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