Rosanne M. Leipzig, MD, PhD, the Gerald and May Ellen Ritter Professor and Vice Chair Emerita for the Brookdale Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. She is editor-in-chief of the monthly newsletter Focus on Healthy Aging, coeditor of the fourth edition of Geriatric Medicine and author of Honest Aging: An Insider’s Guide to the Second Half of Life. RosanneMD.com
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