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Robert Neil Butler, M.D.

Pulitzer-Prize winning author, Robert Neil Butler, M.D., will present the 2007 Denham Harman, M.D., Ph.D., Lectureship in Biomedical Gerontology today at noon in the Eppley Science Hall Amphitheater. Lunch will be provided for the first 75 attendees.

Dr. Butler, 80, is president and CEO of the International Longevity Center at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York, a center for policy, research and education on population aging.

In 1982, Dr. Butler founded the Department of Geriatrics and Adult Development at Mount Sinai Medical Center, the first department of geriatrics in a United States medical school. In 1990, he established the U.S. branch of the International Longevity Center (ILC) at Mount Sinai.

Dr. Butler is best known for his 1975 book, “Why Survive?: Being Old in America,” which won the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction in 1976. He also wrote, “The New Love and Sex After 60,” revised in paperback in 2002.