Dr. Anderson is an Assistant Professor in the UW Division of Geriatrics and a Research Scientist at the Madison VA GRECC. She obtained a first class degree in Biochemistry from Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, and was awarded a PhD in Biochemistry from the National University of Ireland, University College Dublin. Dr. Anderson was a Taplin Postdoctoral Fellow in Harvard Medical School, where she worked on mechanisms of delayed aging by caloric restriction in yeast. She subsequently joined the UW Madison Institute on Aging as a Postdoctoral Fellow where she extended her work to mammalian aging. In 2006 she joined the Wisconsin National Primate Research Center where she participated in a groundbreaking longitudinal study of caloric restriction in non-human primates, one of only two such studies worldwide. She joined the UW faculty in 2010 where she continues her research on the mechanisms of delayed aging and enhanced disease resistance by caloric restriction. Her studies are supported by peer-reviewed grants from the NIH.

Dr. Asthana is Duncan G. and Lottie H. Ballantine Chair in Geriatrics and Professor and Head of the Division of Geriatrics and Gerontology in the Department of Medicine. He serves as the Director of the Wisconsin Comprehensive Memory Program (WCMP) and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Geriatric Research, Education and Clinical Center (GRECC) at the William S. Middleton Memorial Veterans Hospital in Madison, Wisconsin. Additionally, he is Associate Director of the Wisconsin Alzheimer's Institute (WAI). He received his MD from the University College of Medical Sciences at the University of Delhi, India, and completed his internal medicine residency in Canada. He then obtained fellowship training in geriatrics at the Johns Hopkins program, and completed an additional three-year research fellowship in Alzheimer's disease (AD) at the Laboratory of Neurosciences of the NIA/NIH in Bethesda, MD. Dr. Asthana's first faculty appointment was in the Geriatrics Division of the University of Washington, where he was also closely associated with the Seattle VA GRECC and the Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (ADRC) for over eight years. While in Seattle, in addition to his own independently-funded studies, he initiated the well-regarded AD research program at the Seattle/Tacoma VA GRECC.

In August 2001, Dr. Asthana relocated to the UW-Madison where, under his leadership of the Division of Geriatrics and the VA GRECC, he established the current Alzheimer's disease (AD) program. Since 2001, both the Division of Geriatrics and the VA GRECC have experienced significant expansion in their missions, and attracted substantial extramural funding currently exceeding $59 million. Dr. Asthana is widely recognized for his research in the neuroendocrinology of AD, and has published extensively in the field of hormones and cognition. He has received substantial funding from several sources including the NIH, VA, Alzheimer's Association, and the Hartford Foundation to support his research studies. He serves as the primary mentor on two K23 awards (PIs: Drs. Carlsson, Gleason) including a Beeson Award in AD research, and is PI of a T32 training grant in aging. Dr. Asthana serves as an active grant reviewer on several Study Sections of the NIH and regularly reviews manuscripts in geriatrics and neuroscience for numerous prestigious medical journals. Finally, Dr. Asthana is one of the few Hartford Geriatric Leadership Scholars in the country and has received an NIH-funded Academic Leadership Award (KO7) in AD.

Dr. Atwood is an Associate Professor in the UW Division of Geriatrics and a Research Scientist at the Madison VA GRECC. He is Research Director of the Wisconsin Alzheimer's Institute (WAI) and the Wisconsin Comprehensive Memory Program (WCMP). He received his PhD in Biochemistry at the University of Western Australia in Perth, Australia, and completed postdoctoral training in reproductive endocrinology at the NIH. His early faculty appointment was as an Instructor of Neuroscience at Harvard Medical School, followed by an appointment as an Assistant Professor of Pathology at Case Western Reserve University. Dr. Atwood is a widely-acknowledged authority in the neuroendocrinology of aging and Alzheimer's disease. The research in his laboratory is based on a novel theory of aging (Reproductive-Cell Cycle Theory of Aging) that links reproductive hormone signaling to cell cycle dynamics that regulate our growth and development early in life, our reproductive function during adult life, and our senescent phenotype in late adult life. In essence, the theory explains why and how we age at the molecular, physiological and evolutionary levels. The current focus of research in his laboratory relates to keeping our reproductive hormones in balance so as to halt the aging process. He has published several seminal papers concerning the pathobiology of aging and AD, and has received substantial research funding from the NIH, the VA, the Alzheimer's Association, and the pharmaceutical industry. He is an Editorial Board Member of the Journal of Biological Chemistry.

Dr. Barczi is an Associate Professor of Medicine and Clinical Director of the Division of Geriatrics. Additionally, he is Associate Director-Education at the Madison VA GRECC and Director of the UW Geriatric Medicine Fellowship Program. He received his MD from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and completed residency training in internal medicine at the University of Minnesota. He obtained his fellowship training in Geriatric Medicine at the UW and completed an additional fellowship in Sleep Medicine at the same institution. Dr. Barczi is nationally recognized as a medical educator and directs one of the premier fellowship programs in the country. He has received several national and local awards of excellence as an educator, and leads various clinical programs in geriatrics at both the UW Hospital and the Madison VA Hospital. Dr. Barczi plays a major role at the UW both to direct and advise the institution on establishing new directions in geriatric clinical models, education and curriculum development.

Dr. Bendlin is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Geriatrics. She received her PhD at the University of Arizona in Tucson, and completed postdoctoral training at the University of Wisconsin. She subsequently joined the faculty at UW-Madison in 2010. Dr. Bendlin’s research is focused on understanding brain and cognitive changes in normal and pathological aging. Her studies use novel brain imaging techniques combined with fluid biomarker analysis to detect early brain changes in Alzheimer’s disease, and to understand mechanisms of disease related brain damage. Her current work is funded by the NIH and the Alzheimer’s Association and is focused on understanding the effects of risk factors for Alzheimer’s, including parental family history, genotype, and metabolic risk factors.

Dr. Binkley is an Associate Professor in the UW Division of Geriatrics with joint appointment in the Division of Endocrinology. He earned his medical degree at the UW-Madison, and completed his residency training in internal medicine at the Marshfield Clinic/St. Joseph's Hospital in Marshfield, Wisconsin. He obtained his geriatric fellowship training at the UW. Dr. Binkley is widely recognized for his clinical research in osteoporosis and bone mass measurement, vitamin D assessment, sarcopenia and laboratory-based investigations in animal models of osteopenia. His research is supported by several peer-reviewed grants, including those from the NIH, philanthropic foundations, and the pharmaceutical industry.

Dr. Carlsson is an Associate Professor in the UW Division of Geriatrics and Associate Director for Clinical Programs at the Madison VA GRECC. Additionally, she serves as Co-Director of the VA GRECC Memory Assessment Clinic. She earned her medical degree at the University of Michigan, and completed her internal medicine residency, chief residency, and fellowship training in geriatrics and older women's health at the University of Wisconsin. Additionally, Dr. Carlsson received several years of research training in vascular biology of dementia and cardiovascular disease, and obtained her Masters of Science (MS) degree in Population Health at UW. Her research interests focus on the impact of vascular risk factors and their treatments on risk for Alzheimer's disease. Dr. Carlsson's clinical research studies have been supported by peer-reviewed grants, including those from the NIH (NIA Beeson K23, R01), the John A. Hartford Foundation, and the American Federation for Aging Research (AFAR). She serves as Co-Leader of the Clinical Core of the Wisconsin Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (ADRC), a center investigating ways to identify and treat Alzheimer's disease before symptoms begin.

Dr. Carnes is the Jean Manchester Biddick Professor of Women's Health Research and Director of the Center for Women's Health Research at the UW. Additionally, she is Founder and Director of the VA Women's Health Program and VA Osteoporosis Clinic. Dr. Carnes received her medical degree from the State University of New York at Buffalo and completed her residency and geriatric fellowship training at the UW. She is a widely-acknowledged investigator in the field of women's health with specific focus on stress hormones and gender- and ethnicity-based health disparities. Additionally, Dr. Carnes is nationally recognized for developing programs to support training of physician investigators, especially those of minority origin. To that end, she directs a T32 and K12 supported program to train physician investigators in patient-oriented research, and leads the Women in Science and Engineering Leadership Institute (WISELI) program at the UW funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF). Dr. Carnes has served as the PI of the NIH-funded Multidisciplinary Center of Excellence in Clinical Research at the UW that provided comprehensive clinical research taining to numerous junior faculty members and postdoctoral fellows of varied professional backgrounds. This multidisciplinary center has now been merged into the Institute of Clinical Translational Research, a recent CTSA-funded institute at the UW.

Dr. Dowling is an Associate Scientist in the UW Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics and a full-time faculty at the UW WCMP. She obtained her PhD in Quantitative Methods-Statistics and Measurement from UW-Madison and worked as a researcher at the Wisconsin Center for Education Research at the UW. She serves as a biostatistician on several NIH-funded grants and has published in the field of aging research, survey research, and education. Dr. Dowling is a critical member of the UW Division of Geriatrics and provides outstanding expertise in biostatistics and psychometrics to residents, fellows and junior faculty in aging research.

Dr. Gleason is a Assistant Professor in the UW Division of Geriatrics. She received her PhD in clinical psychology from the California School of Professional Psychology, Fresno, California. She graduated Magna Cum Laude with a BA in psychology and biology from the Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minnesota. Dr. Gleason is a widely-recognized investigator in dementia research with a special interest in cognitive effects of phytoestrogens and gonadal steroids. She has extensive experience in clinical evaluation of patients with cognitive dysfunction, and directs the neuropsychological evaluation of patients seen in the Memory Disorders Clinics of both the UW and VA. Dr. Gleason's research is supported by peer-reviewed grants from the NIH and UW.

Dr. Hansen is an Assistant Clinical Professor in the UW Division of Geriatrics. He received his medical degree at the UW School of Medicine and Public Health (UW SMPH) and completed his internal medicine residency and geriatric fellowship training at the same institution. Dr. Hansen is widely recognized as an outstanding clinician and educator, and has been identified by internal medicine residents as one of the best educators in the Department of Medicine. He now serves at the Assistant Dean of Admissions at UW SMPH. His clinical and academic interests relate to dementia and hospitalized care of older adults.

Dr. Hildebrand is an Assistant Clinical Professor in the UW Division of Geriatrics and serves as Chief, Medical Service at the William S. Middleton Memorial Veterans Hospital in Madison. Additionally, he is the Senior Associate Director of the Internal Medicine Residency Program at the UW. He holds a dual appointment at the VA Hospital where he is also the Associate Chief of Staff for Education in addition to his leading the medical service. Dr. Hildebrand received his medical degree at the University of Iowa College of Medicine and completed his medical residency and geriatric fellowship training at UW Hospital and Clinics. He also served a year as a Chief Resident at UWHC. Dr. Hildebrand is widely recognized as a physician educator and is extensively involved in internal medicine and geriatric training of medical students and residents at the UW.

Dr. Johnson is an Associate Professor in the UW Division of Geriatrics and a Research Scientist at the Madison VA GRECC. He received his PhD in Clinical Psychology at Brigham Young University, and completed his postdoctoral training in Clinical Neuropsychology and Functional Neuroimaging at Dartmouth Medical School. Dr. Johnson is internationally recognized for his novel research in functional neuroimaging and behavior. His special research interest relates to neuroimaging markers of pre-clinical and early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease in at-risk populations for the disease. Dr. Johnson's research is supported by several peer-reviewed grants from the NIH, the VA, and Philanthropic Foundations. Additionally, he has received several national and local awards for his research, including the Presidential Early Career Award in Science and Engineering (PECASE) and the Tomorrow's Leader in Alzheimer's Research from the Alzheimer's Association.

Dr. Kind is an Assistant Professor in the UW Division of Geriatrics, Director of the Madison VA Coordinated-Transitional Care (C-TraC) Program, and Co-Director of the VA Memory Assessment Clinic. She graduated from the UW School of Medicine and Public Health and completed an Internal Medicine residency at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. She obtained her geriatric medicine fellowship training at UW-Madison and completed additional research training in Older Women’s Health research at the Madison VA GRECC. Additionally, she received her PhD in Population Health Sciences. Dr. Kind’s research focuses on patient safety during transitions between health care settings targeting geriatric, dementia and nursing home populations. She receives research funding through the National Institute on Aging (Paul B. Beeson Career Development Award [K23]), the American Federation for Aging Research and the Department of Veterans Affairs.

Dr. LoConte is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the UW Division of Geriatrics. He received his medical degree at the University of Illinois-Chicago, and completed his internal medicine residency at Oregon Health and Science University in Portland, Oregon. He completed his Geriatric Medicine Fellowship and Hospice and Palliative Medicine Fellowship training at the UW. Dr. LoConte has completed the MEDAL Teaching and Primary Care Faculty Development programs at the University of Wisconsin. He is the former Program Director for the Hospice and Palliative Medicine Fellowship program. Currently, he is the Director of Palliative Medicine Services at the Madison VA Hospital, Clinical Champion for Palliative Care for Veteran’s Integrated Service Network 12, and the medical director at Agrace HospiceCare in Fitchburg, WI.

His interests include: medical education, pain management, improving patient doctor communication, and improving access to hospice and palliative medicine for America’s veterans. Dr. LoConte lives in Madison, with his Oncologist wife Noelle LoConte, MD, and their three children.

Dr. Mahoney is an Associate Professor in the UW Division of Geriatrics, and the Principal Investigator of the Community - Academic Aging Research Network. She is also an Affiliate Faculty of the UW Institute on Aging. Dr. Mahoney received her medical degree at the University of California-San Francisco, and completed her medical residency and geriatric fellowship training at the UW. She is nationally recognized for her pioneering research in falls and novel interventions to reduce the incidence of falls in community-dwelling elderly. Dr. Mahoney's research is supported by several peer-reviewed grants from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), NIH and AMRQ.

Dr Olson is an Assistant Professor in the UW Division of Geriatrics, Department of Medicine, and has an affiliate faculty appointment in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis. He conducts research and evaluation in the UW School of Medicine and Public Health Office of Continuing Professional Development. He stepped down from his position of Chief of R&D in OCPD to become the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions, an international publication in its 32nd year and which is the leading journal in its niche. Dr Olson's research interests focus on the effective use of educational interventions to facilitate implementation of evidence-based practices in clinical settings and understanding how clinical teams learn and change their practice. He has an international reputation for his leadership in innovation evaluation methodologies for assessing the impact of educational interventions.

Dr. Pankratz is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the UW Division of Geriatrics. He received his medical degree at Ohio State University - Columbus, and completed his residency and Geriatric Fellowship training at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The major focus of Dr. Pankratz's practice is primary geriatric care, but he has special expertise in assessing patients with memory problems. He is also actively involved in training medical residents and fellows in principles of geriatric care in both inpatient and outpatient settings. His major clinical practice is based at UW East Clinic, and is currently open to new patients.

Dr. Przybelski is an Associate Professor in the UW Division of Geriatrics and Clinical Director of the VA GRECC Falls Clinic. He received his medical degree at the UW, and completed his residency at the Womack Army Community Hospital, New York, and geriatric fellowship at the UW. Additionally, he completed a research fellowship at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research in Washington, DC. Prior to his arrival at the UW, Dr. Przybelski was Vice President of Research at a major pharmaceutical company. He is internationally recognized for his expertise in artificial blood products, and more recently has been involved in collaborative research studies in falls and osteoporosis.

Dr. Puglielli is an Associate Professor in the UW Division of Geriatrics and a Research Scientist at the Madison VA GRECC. He received his medical degree at the Catholic University Medical School in Rome, Italy. Dr. Puglielli completed his postdoctoral training in post-translational modification of proteins at Boston University. He joined Harvard Medical School as an Instructor in 2000, where he worked in Alzheimer's disease. He subsequently joined the UW faculty, where he continues his research on the relationship between lipid metabolism and AD pathology. His studies are supported by peer-reviewed grants from the NIH, the VA, the UW, and different Foundations.

Dr. Sager is a Professor in the UW Division of Geriatrics and Director of the Wisconsin Alzheimer's Institute (WAI). He received his medical degree from the University of Michigan and completed his medical residency at the University of Minnesota. He obtained his geriatric fellowship training at the UW, and joined the faculty following completion of his fellowship. Dr. Sager is an internationally-acknowledged researcher in health services research, and has published pioneering papers related to health resource utilization and health economics. He is the founding Director of the NIH-funded Wisconsin Registry for Alzheimer's Prevention (WRAP), and has a special research interest in prevention of Alzheimer's disease. He has received numerous peer-reviewed grants from the John A. Hartford Foundation, the State of Wisconsin, and the Helen Bader Foundation to support the WAI and his various research studies.

Dr. Siebers is an Associate Professor in the UW Division of Geriatrics and Medical Director of its clinical programs. He received his medical degree from the UW and completed medical residency and geriatric fellowship training at the UW as well. Dr. Siebers is Co-Director of the ACE Consult Service at UW Hospital and Clinics and Director of the GEM Program at the VA Medical Center. He is widely recognized for his outstanding clinical and teaching skills, and has been voted as one of the best physicians in the Madison area.

Dr. Steward is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the UW Division of Geriatrics. He received his medical degree at the University of Iowa - Iowa City, and completed his residency and Geriatric Fellowship training at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Dr. Steward's major interest is in primary geriatric care, with added skills in evaluation of patients with falls and memory impairments. Additionally, he is actively involved in training medical students, residents and fellows rotating through geriatrics clinics at UW. His major clinical practice is based at the U-Station Geriatric Clinic, and is currently open to new patients.

Dr. Teodorescu is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the UW Division of Geriatrics and the UW Center for Sleep Medicine and Sleep Research. He received his medical degree from "Carol Davila" University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest, Romania. He completed his Internal Medicine residency at the University of Massachusetts Memorial Health Care Center, Worcester, Massachusetts. He obtained his Geriatric Fellowship training at the William Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak, Michigan, and his Sleep Medicine fellowship training at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Dr. Teodorescu's clinical and research interests focus on the interface between Geriatric and Sleep Medicine, including the relationship between cognition, mobility, sleep and sleep disorders. He collaborates with the Wisconsin Sleep Cohort (WSC), an ongoing longitudinal study of the causes, consequences and natural history of sleep disorders. He also is a collaborator on studies of sleep and asthma.

DDr. Watts is an Associate Professor in the UW Division of Geriatrics. He received his medical degree from the University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle, and completed his medical residency at the UW. He obtained his geriatric fellowship training at the VA Medical Center in Portland, Oregon. Dr. Watts is a senior clinician and educator. He is widely recognized for his clinical and teaching skills.

Dr. Weindruch is a Professor in the UW Division of Geriatrics and Director of the Aging Research Group at the Wisconsin Regional Primate Research Center. Additionally, he is a Research Scientist at the Madison VA GRECC and Director of the Shared Aging Rodent Facility at the Madison VA Hospital. He is also a member of the UW Paul Carbone Comprehensive Cancer Center and specializes in aging and cancer research. Dr. Weindruch received his PhD in Experimental Pathology at UCLA, and joined the UW faculty in 1991. He is internationally recognized for his pioneering research in caloric restriction, and has published numerous seminal papers in this field. Additionally, Dr. Weindruch has received several awards for his novel research in aging, including the Kleemeir Award from the Gerontological Society of America (GSA), the Glenn Foundation Award, and the Nathan Shock Award from the National Institute on Aging (NIA). Dr. Weindruch is PI of the NCI/NIA-funded Aging and Cancer Center at the UW, and has received substantial additional funding from the NIH, including an active Program Project, to support his research studies.

Dr. Wiggins is an Associate Professor of Medicine in the UW Division of Geriatrics. She received her medical degree from the State University of New York – Brooklyn and completed residency in Internal Medicine at Winthrop Hospital in Mineola, NY. She completed her geriatric fellowship training at UW. She was Chief Medical Officer for Care Wisconsin for 15 years, where she helped to develop and implement their Partnership Program, an integrated home based care management program for frail elders and disabled, and a Family Care program that cared for elderly and disabled. Currently she serves as the Chief Medical Officer for the Medicaid program in Wisconsin, in the Division of Health Care Access and Accountability. Her particular interests include care management, health policy and quality.