AFAR congratulates Cedars-Sinai on the launch of its new Healthspan Clinic, headed by AFAR Board Member Sara Espinoza, MD, and AFAR Board Member James Kirkland, MD, PhD. AFAR Grantee Nicolas Musi, MD, will also be working in the clinic, helping to provide treatment recommendations drawing from their own research into healthy aging.
In a related Cedars-Sinai press release, Dr. Espinoza, the new clinic’s medical director, spoke on the importance of this new type of clinic focused on healthy aging: “Aging is the leading risk factor for developing multiple chronic conditions that diminish quality of life.”
Dr. Espinoza is an AFAR Board Member, as well as the Co-Chair of the Leadership Core of the Clin-STAR (Clinician-Scientists Transdisciplinary Aging Research) initiative, which AFAR helps lead. In addition to her new position as the Medical Director of the Healthspan Clinic, she also serves as the director of the Center for Translational Geroscience at Cedars-Sinai.
Dr. Kirkland is an AFAR board Member, the 2020 Irving S. Wright Award of Distinction recipient, and a 2012 Glenn Foundation for Medical Research Breakthroughs in Gerontology (BIG) Award recipient. He also serves as the director of the Center for Advanced Gerotherapeutics at Cedars-Sinai.
Dr. Musi is a 2007 Paul B. Beeson Emerging Leaders Career Development Award in Aging Scholar. He previously served as the co-leader of the Integrated Physiology of Aging Core at the Nathan Shock Center at UT Health San Antonio and currently serves as the director of Cedars-Sinai’s Diabetes and Aging Center, and the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism.
Read the full press release here.
To hear more from Dr. Espinoza, view our recent webinar hosted with The Academy of Health and Lifespan Research, “The State of Gerotherapeutics: Next-Gen Interventions to Extend Healthy Living” here.
