Stuart J. Olshansky

Professor
Epidemiology

Contact Information

E-mail: sjayo@uic.edu

Address:
885 Sphpi, M/c 923, M/C 923
1603 W. Taylor St
Chicago, IL 60612

Phone: 312-355-4668

Additional Websites / Affiliates

Personal Website: http://web.mac.com/sjayo/SJayOlshansky/Background.html

Academic Background

PHD, Sociology, Univ of Chicago, 1984
MSO, Sociology, Univ of Chicago, 1982
BS, Psychology, Michigan State Univ, 1975

Research Interests

Biodemography, aging, mortality, and longevity

Teaching Interests

Epidemiology of aging, biodemography, survival

Publications

Olshansky, S.J., Rattan, S.I.S. 2005. What determines longevity: metabolic rate or stability? Discovery Medicine 5(28):359-362.

Olshansky, S.J., Passaro, D., Hershow, R., Layden, J., Carnes, BA., Brody, J., Hayflick, L., Butler, RN., Allison, DB., Ludwig, DS. 2005. A Possible Decline in Life Expectancy in the United States in the 21st Century. New England Journal of Medicine 352:1103-1110.

Olshansky, S.J., Perry, D., Miller, R.A., Butler, R.N. 2006. In pursuit of the Longevity Dividend. The Scientist 20(3):28-36.

Perls, T., Reisman, N.R., Olshansky, S.J. 2005. Provision or distribution of growth hormone for “anti-aging”: Clinical and legal issues JAMA 294(16):2086-2090.

Olshansky, S.J. 2005. Prescient visions of public health from Cornaro to Breslow. International Journal of Epidemiology doi:101093/ije/dyi283.

Carnes, B.A., Nakasata, Y.R., Olshansky, S.J. 2005. Medawar revisited: Unresolved issues in research on ageing. Ageing Horizons 3:22-27.

Olshansky, S.J., Grant, M., Brody, J., Carnes, B.A. 2005. Biodemographic perspectives for epidemiologists. Emerging Themes in Epidemiology 2:10 [http://www.ete-online.com/contents/2/1/10].

Olshansky, S.J., Butler, R.N., Carnes, B.A. Re-engineering Humans. The Scientist 21(3):28-35.

Olshansky, S.J., Rattan, S.I.S. 2005. At the heart of aging: is it metabolic rate or stability? Biogerontology 6:1-5.

 Perls, T., Reisman, N.R., Olshansky, S.J. 2005. Provision or distribution of growth hormone for “anti-aging”: Clinical and legal issues JAMA 294(16):2086-2090.

Olshansky, S.J. 2005. Projecting the future of U.S. health and longevity. Health Affairs Sept. 26, 10.1377/hlthaff.w5.r86

Olshansky, S.J., Carnes, BA, Hershow, R., Passaro, D., Layden, J., Brody, J., Hayflick, L., Butler, RN., Allison, DB., Ludwig, DS. 2005. Misdirection on the road to Shangri-La. Sci. Aging Knowl. Environ. http://sageke.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2005/22/pe15.

Olshansky, S.J., Passaro, D., Hershow, R., Layden, J., Carnes, BA., Brody, J., Hayflick, L., Butler, RN., Allison, DB., Ludwig, DS. 2005. Peering into the future of American Longevity. Discovery Medicine 5(26):130-134.

 Olshansky, S.J., Carnes, B.A., Désesquelles, A. 2001. Prospects for Human Longevity. Science 291 (5508):1491-1492.

 Olshansky, S.J., Carnes, B.A., Cassel, C. 1990. In Search of Methuselah: Estimating the Upper Limits to Human Longevity. Science 250:634-640. .

 Olshansky, S.J., Carnes, B.A. 2001. The Quest for Immortality: Science at the Frontiers of Aging, Norton Press: New York. .

 Olshansky, S.J., Passaro, D., Hershow, R., Layden, J., Carnes, BA., Brody, J., Hayflick, L., Butler, RN., Allison, DB., Ludwig, DS. 2005. A potential decline in life expectancy in the United States in the 21st century. New England Journal of Medicine 352:1103-1110.

Warner, H., Anderson, J., Austad, S.et al. 2005. Science fact and the SENS agenda. EMBO Reports 6(11):1106-1108.

Recent Honors and Awards

2005, National Fellows Fulbright