The Center for Healthy Aging

The MUSC Center on Aging that has served seniors in the Lowcountry since 1987 is now The Center for Healthy Aging! The Center for Healthy Aging will build on partnerships, education, and outreach previously cultivated through the Center on Aging. The Center for Healthy Aging will drive discovery in all aspects of healthy aging.

In alignment with the United Nations Decade of Healthy Ageing, the MUSC Center for Healthy Aging embraces all aspects of healthy aging with an understanding that aging begins at birth, and healthy aging strategies must reach across the entire lifespan.

Our 4 Pillars

The Center for Healthy Aging is comprised of four pillars:

1. Education and Outreach
2. Fundamental and Discovery Research
3. Clinical Care and Research
4. Population Health and Data Science

Leadership

 

Hermes Florez, M.D., Ph.D., MPH

Endowed Chair and Executive Director of the MUSC Center for Healthy Aging

 

Ashish A. Deshmukh, Ph.D, MPH

Co-Director of Population Health and Data Science

  

Paul J. Nietert, Ph.D.

Co-Director of Population Health and Data Science

 

Kathleen Oare Lindell, Ph.D., RN, ATSF, FAAN

Co-Director of Education and Outreach 

 

Whitney Smith, DNP, APRN, AGPCNP-BC, GNP

Co-Director of Education and Outreach

 

Vanessa Hinson, M.D., Ph.D.

Director of Clinical Research and Care

 

Amanda Overstreet, D.O.

Co-Director of Clinical Research and Care

 

William Hill, Ph.D.

Director of Fundamental and Discovery Science

 

Caroline Davila

Administrative Coordinator