Interview: Aging: the next frontier

Rosanne M Leipzig speaks to Michael Mansbridge, Assistant Commissioning Editor: Rosanne M Leipzig is the Gerald and May Ellen Ritter Professor (tenured) and the Vice Chair for Education of the Brookdale Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York (USA). She graduated from the University of Rochester, attended the University of Michigan Medical School (USA) where she received her MD and PhD (in Human Genetics), completed her residency in Internal Medicine at the University of Rochester (NY, USA), and a Fellowship in Clinical Pharmacology at New York Hospital/Cornell University Medical Center. Dr Leipzig is an internationally recognized leader in geriatrics and evidence-based medicine, and has received numerous awards for her work, including the American College of Physicians Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Foundation Award, a Joy McCann Scholar award recognizing her expertise in mentoring and medical education, the 2008 Dennis W Jahnigen Memorial award from the American Geriatrics Society and one of the first Brookdale National Fellowships in Geriatric Medicine. She is the editor-in-chief of Focus on Healthy Aging, a monthly newsletter for consumers, and chair of the Geriatrics Working Group the US Preventive Services Task Force. She recently completed her term on the American Board of Internal Medicine's Board of Directors, where she served as chair of the American Board of Internal Medicine Subspecialty Board on Geriatric Medicine.