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George A. Kuchel, MD, CM, FRCP, AGSF (he/him/his)

Professor and Chair
University of Connecticut
Farmington, Connecticut, United States

George A. Kuchel is a geriatrician, gerontologist and professor of medicine at UConn Health in Farmington, CT. He holds the Travelers Chair in Geriatrics and Gerontology, and also serves as Director of the UConn Center on Aging at the University of Connecticut.

Dr Kuchel obtained his medical training at McGill, followed by training in Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology at Harvard, together with research fellowships in Epidemiology at Harvard, and in Neurobiology at Harvard and Mount Sinai.

Dr Kuchel’s research has focused on Precision Gerontology. This effort seeks to discover and test interventions designed to enhance function and independence in older adults by targeting heterogeneity in aging-related declines involving host defense, mobility, cognition and bladder control.

Dr Kuchel leads the Claude D Pepper Older Americans Independence Center at UConn, the NIA Geroscience Education and Training (GET) Network, and the KAPP-Sen NIH Common Fund Cellular Senescence Tissue Mapping Center. Dr Kuchel also serves as MPI of the NIA Translational Geroscience Network.

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