Core Leaders: Jeremy Walston, MD; Karen Bandeen-Roche, PhD
The Leadership and Administrative Core (LAC) spearheads the collaborative mission and vision of the JHU Older Americans Independence Center (OAIC). The LAC serves as the driving force in identifying the next generation of research on frailty, supports research planning and recruitment of investigators, and sets and monitors progress benchmarks. The core administrates the OAIC and its research and training Cores for soundness of operations and accomplishes required reporting; promotes a stimulating intellectual environment around scholarship on frailty so as to attract outstanding researchers and knit them into an interdisciplinary community; and creates visibility for the accomplishments of the OAIC locally and globally. Overall, the LAC provides essential leadership in planning, integrating, sustaining, implementing and monitoring OAIC operations to ensure the conduct of these OAIC functions within the broader goals of the support of research aiming to develop new strategies to enhance independence in older Americans and the creation of a new generation of research leaders in the field.
The LAC is led by Drs. Walston and Dr. Bandeen-Roche, with close engagement from the diverse disciplinary expertise of the leaders of all OAIC Cores and the Center Administrator. The LAC is robustly advised by a Leadership Council which it engages monthly, a Leadership Advisory Committee engaged quarterly, and an External Advisory Board which convenes annually.
Leadership Council Members
- Jeremy Walston, MD, MPI
- Karen Bandeen-Roche, PhD, MPI and RC1 Co-Leader
- Peter Abadir, MD, RC2 Leader
- Dan Arking, PhD, RC2 Co-Leader
- Todd Brown, MD, PhD, RC3 Leader
- Brian Buta, MHS, Center Administrator
- Najim Dehak, PhD, RC4 Co-Leader
- Neal Fedarko, Pilot/Exploratory Studies Core Leader
- Gary Gerstenblith, MD, REC Leader
- Esther Oh, MD, PhD, REC Co-Leader
- Qian-Li Xue, PhD, RC1 Leader
- Vadim Zipunnikov, RC4 Co-Leader
Leadership Advisors
- Marilyn Albert, PhD
- Cynthia Boyd, MD
- Rama Chellappa, PhD
- Samuel C. Durso, MD
- Sean Leng, MD
- Katherine Ornstein, PhD
- David Roth, PhD
- Jennifer Schrack, PhD
- Roland J. Thorpe, Jr., PhD
External Advisory Board Members
- Howard Bergman, MD (McGill University)
- Harvey Cohen, MD (Duke University)
- Luigi Ferrucci, MD, PhD (National Institute on Aging)