Advisory Board

Dr. Peter McGraw

Dr. McGraw is an expert in the interdisciplinary field of judgment and decision making. Dr. McGraw is an Assistant Professor of Marketing and Psychology at the University of Colorado, Boulder, where he is co-directs the Judgment, Emotion, Decision, and Intuition (JEDI) Laboratory. He received his Ph.D. in Quantitative Psychology from The Ohio State University and completed his postdoctoral training at Princeton University. His research interests include consumer psychology and the interrelation of emotion, judgment, and choice.

peter.mcgraw@colorado.edu                   

http://leeds.colorado.edu/mcgraw

Dr. Waneen Spirduso, Ed.D., the Mauzy Regents’ Professor in the Department of Kinesiology and Health Education at The University of Texas at Austin, specializes in the effects of aging on adult physical function; specifically how aging, health, fitness, and cognition relate to each other.  She is the senior author of Physical Dimensions of Aging, which describes the effects of aging and physical fitness on all systems of the body related to motor behavior, has published more than 65 research articles on adult aging and physical function, and is a popular national and international speaker.   Dr. Spirduso, who has served as president of the North American Society for the Psychology of Sport and Physical Activity, and of the American Academy for Physical Education., is a Fellow of the Gerontological Society of America.  She was an elected member and served 10 years on the Executive Board of The University of Texas Institute for Neurological Sciences.

Walter M. Bortz II, M.D

Walter M. Bortz II, M.D., is a Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine and a graduate of Williams College and the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. Recognized as one of America’s most distinguished scientific experts on aging and longevity. Dr. Walter Bortz's research has focused on the importance of physical exercise in the promotion of robust aging. Dr. Bortz has published over 130 medical articles and authored numerous books, including We Live Too Short and Die Too Long, Dare to Be 100, and Living Longer for Dummies, and Diabetes Danger. (See the Longevity Library and the Store for more information. Dr. Bortz is past co-chairman of the American Medical Association’s Task Force on Aging, former President of The American Geriatric Society and is currently Chairman of the Medical Advisory Board for the Diabetes Research and Wellness Foundation, as well as a Senior Advisor to Healthy Silicon Valley, a community collaborative effort which addresses the soaring incidence of obesity and diabetes.