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Assistant Clinical Professor, Department of Community and Preventive Medicine, Mt. Sinai School of Medicine The Frail and the Hardy Seniors of 9/11:
The Needs and Contributions of Older Americans [Transcript • Slides] |
Speaker Biography Myrna I. Lewis, Ph.D., is an Assistant Clinical Professor in the Department of Community and Preventive Medicine at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in NYC, with a special interest in mid-life and older women. She received her Ph.D. from the Columbia University School of Social Work and is a fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine. She has co-authored two books in the field of gerontology with Dr. Robert N. Butler. Her first book, Aging and Mental Health, is now in its 5th edition. The second, Love and Sex After Sixty, was reissued in a new revision in 2002. She has written extensively in the field of women's aging, caregiving, and international aging and is a member of the United Nations' NGO Committee on Aging and the NGO Committee on Women. [return to top] |
