Devoted to the study of aging
From the director
Hui Zheng, Ph.D., director of the Huffington Center on Aging is also a professor in the Department of Molecular and Human Genetics. Dr. Zheng is the third director to lead the center since its inception in 1984. Read a message from the director or more about Dr. Zheng.
Center News
George E. Taffet, M.D., has been promoted to Full Professor in the Department of Medicine. As Chief of the Section of Geriatrics, Dr. Taffet's promotion brings further prestige to the academic side of geriatrics. A gifted physician and researcher on the aging heart, this recognition of Dr. Taffet's excellence in clinical care, research, and teaching follows his having been awarded the 2011 Barbara and Corbin J. Robertson, Jr. Presidential Award for Excellence in Education. This is the highest recognition in education a faculty member can receive from Baylor College of Medicine. Taffet is also HCOA medical director and chief of geriatrics at The Methodist Hospital. Join us in congratulating Dr. Taffet on these signal honors.
One of the premier centers on aging in the world, the Huffington Center on Aging was formed in 1988 with the generosity of the late Roy M. and Phyllis Gough Huffington, Houston philanthropists who foresaw the need for an academic entity devoted to studying aging, providing care for older people, and teaching future health professionals and researchers about geriatrics and gerontology.
2011 Women's Health Summit
The 2011 Women's Health Summit took place Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2011, at River Oaks Country Club. Chaired by Anne Carl and Kim Moody, the program began with an educational seminar, followed by a luncheon. The featured honoree was Tony Award winning singer/actress Carol Channing, star of stage and screen, who wowed the audience by her recollections of Broadway plays and how she got into show business. She sang a song as the finale and was given a standing ovation.
The 2011 Summit also honored Joan Schnitzer Levy and Mary Bain Pearson with the Spirit of Excellence Award and Linda Lyons Brown, Melissa King and Alicia Smith with the Excellence in Bloom Award. Terry Huffington and Ralph Dittman served as honorary chairs. For those who missed this year's event, photos will be posted soon.
2011 Huffington Lecture
The Roy M. Huffington Distinguished Lecture was presented by Ronald A. DePinho, M.D., of the Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, president-elect of The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center. Dr. DePinho's lecture was titled "Telomeres in Cancer and Aging." See a slideshow from the lecture, poster session and reception.