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BIOGRAPHY
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David Snowdon, PhD
Director, The Nun Study University of Kentucky Sanders-Brown Center on Aging Lexington, Kentucky |
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Dr David Snowdon earned his Ph.D. in Epidemiology from the University of Minnesota. He is a Professor in the department of Neurology in the College of Medicine and the Sanders-Brown Center on Aging at the University of Kentucky. He is the director of the Nun Study, a longitudinal study of health and aging. Participants in the Nun Study are 678 American members of the School Sisters of Notre Dame religious congregation. Findings from the Nun Study have been featured locally on evening television news programs and nationally on NBC's The Today Show, CNN, ABC Nightline, and all three networks evening news programs. Articles have also appeared in the New York Times, Chicago Tribune, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, and TIME, Newsweek and National Geographic magazines as well as in various national and international newspapers. Nun Study findings have been published in scientific journals such as the Journal of the American Medical Association, American Journal of Epidemiology and the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. Dr Snowdon has authored a book Aging with Grace, published on May 8, 2001 by Bantam Books. |
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