Professor Leonard W. Poon
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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The mission of the Borchard Foundation Center on Law & Aging is, through education, research and service, to help improve the quality of life for elderly people, including those who are poor or otherwise isolated by lack of education, language, culture, disability or other barriers.
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