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 Leonard
W. Poon, Ph.D., Dr. Phil, h.c., is Professor of Psychology, Director of
the Gerontology Center, and Chair, Faculty of Gerontology at the University
of Georgia.
A fellow of the American Psychological Association, American Psychological
Society, Association of Gerontology in Higher in Education, and the Gerontological
Society of America, Dr. Poon was a Fulbright Senior Research Scholar in
Sweden, and a Senior Visiting Research Scientist to Japan. Among his research
awards are the NIA Special Research Award, VA Medical Research Service
Achievement Award, North America Leader in Psychogeriatrics, and Southern
Gerontological Society Academic Gerontologist Award.
His primary research areas are in normal and pathological changes of memory
processes in aging, clinical memory assessment (including assessment of
early stages of dementia of the Alzheimer’s type), and survival
characteristics and adaptation of centenarians. He is currently directing
a 9-university NIA-funded program project studying genetic basis of longevity,
neuropathological secular of brain-behavior relationships in Alzheimer’
disease, and everyday functioning capacities of the oldest old.
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