Dear Healthy Years Reader

Dear Healthy Years reader,

When we started this publication more than a dozen years ago we were fortunate that Dr. Bruce Ferrell agreed to serve as our editor-in-chief. Dr. Ferrell, who will retire his post with Healthy Years effective this issue, has enjoyed a remarkable career at UCLA as a professor of clinical medicine. He was also director of adult palliative care at the UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center, having earned his medical degree in 1979 at Oklahoma State University. Dr. Ferrell went on to win the Arthur Cherkin award for the UCLA Geriatric Medicine Fellowship Program, earned Best Physicians in America in the years 2003, 2009 and 2010 and the Award for Outstanding Dedication, Innovation and Sustained Excellence at the David Geffen School of Medicine in 2005. Dr. Ferrell’s lifelong pursuit of patient-centric healthcare became our guiding light at Healthy Years, empowering readers to take an active role in their health management by giving them solid, expert-sourced information they could rely on.

We are equally fortunate that Dr. Jonathan Wanagat has agreed to take over for Dr. Ferrell as Healthy Years’ new editor-in-chief. Like Dr. Ferrell, Dr. Wanagat’s professional career has been devoted to making things easier for people in their advanced years. His research interests include falls and frailty, and the genetics of muscle aging. In addition to his medical degree, Dr. Wanagat holds a PhD in cellular and molecular biology. His long list of awards includes recognition from the American Aging Association, a Brookdale Leadership in Aging Fellowship, and research support from the National Institute on Aging.

We learned a lot from Dr. Ferrell and we’ll miss him. But we’re looking forward to working with Dr. Wanagat to advance the health and vitality of Healthy Years’ readers.

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