Robert Butler

Panelist

Robert Butler, MD

Robert N. Butler, MD is the President and CEO of the International Longevity Center- USA and author of The Longevity Revolution: The Benefits and Challenges of Living a Long Life (Public Affairs, March 2008).

Physician, gerontologist, psychiatrist, public servant and Pulitzer-Prize winning author, Dr. Butler has long been involved in a broad array of social and health issues. He is perhaps best known for his advocacy of the medical and social needs and rights of the elderly and his research on healthy aging and the dementias. In 1975, he became the founding director of the National Institute on Aging of the National Institutes of Health, where he remained until 1982. In 1982, he founded the Department of Geriatrics and Adult Development at Mount Sinai Medical Center, the first department of geriatrics in a US medical school. Dr. Butler continues to serve as Professor of Geriatrics and Adult Development at the Brookdale Department of Geriatrics and Adult Development at Mount Sinai Medical Center.

In 1990, Dr. Butler founded the International Longevity Center (ILC)—a policy, research and education organization conducting research and education projects on population aging. Today, the ILC has ten independent centers in the US, Europe, Asia, Latin America, Africa and the Middle East.

In 1976, Dr. Butler won the Pulitzer Prize for his book Why Survive? Being Old in America. He is co-author (with Dr. Myrna I. Lewis) of the books Aging and Mental Health and Love and Sex After 60.

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