Dr. Gene Cohen Biography

Within the GW Center he has just launched a new public education program on aging targeting the young; the program is called SEA Change - an acronym for Societal Education about Aging for Change. He also cofounded the Creativity Discovery Corps whose mission is to identify and preserve the creative accomplishments and rich histories of under-recognized talented older adults. In addition he is the founding Director of a think tank on aging-the Washington DC Center On Aging (established 1994). He is also Past-President (1996-1997) of the Gerontological Society of America. During 1991-1993 he served as Acting Director of the National Institute on Aging (NIA) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Before coming to NIA Dr. Cohen served as the first Chief of the Center on Aging of the National Institute of Mental Health-the first federal center on mental health and aging established in any country. In addition he also coordinated the Department of Health and Human Services' planning and programs on Alzheimer's disease through the efforts of the Department's Council and Panel on Alzheimer's Disease. During his tenure with the federal government he received the Public Health Service (PHS) Distinguished Service Medal (the highest honor of the PHS).
Dr. Cohen is a graduate of Harvard College (with Honors) and the Georgetown University School of Medicine and has a doctorate in Gerontology from The Union Institute. He is also the author of more than 150 publications in the field of aging including several edited text books and his individually authored book The Brain In Human Aging. He completed a major new book on creativity and aging written for the general public published in 2000 by Harper Collins/Avon Books (The Creative Age: Awakening Human Potential in the Second Half of Life); the paperback version and Japanese translation were released in 2001. His new book The Mature Mind: The Positive Power of the Aging Brain will be published by Basic Books in January 2006.

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