Ewald W. Bussee, MD, ScD Memorial Lecture: What if we could measure how fast we are aging while we are still healthy? What next?

Terrie Moffitt, PhD, a licensed clinical psychologist, is the Nannerl O. Keohane University Professor of Psychology at Duke University and professor of social development at King's College London. Her expertise is in longitudinal methods, developmental theory, mental disorders and antisocial behaviors, neuropsychology, and genomics in behavioral science. Moffitt is associate director of the Dunedin Longitudinal Study, which follows a 1972 birth cohort in New Zealand. She also co-founded the Environmental Risk Longitudinal Twin Study, which follows a 1994 birth cohort in the UK. In addition, she carries out longitudinal research using the nationwide administrative registers and electronic medical records in Denmark, New Zealand, and Norway. Moffitt's highly interdisciplinary work includes collaborations with criminologists, economists, geneticists, epidemiologists, sociologists, demographers, gerontologists, statisticians, neuroscientists, medical scientists, ophthalmologists, and dentists.. Moffitt's team was among the first cohorts to: collect DNA, use retinal imaging, assay the chronic inflammation biomarker SuPAR, and use silicone wristbands to assess airborne toxic exposures. Since 2007, her team has studied processes of aging in midlife, and in 2015 they were the first worldwide to develop and publish the longitudinal approach to measuring the pace of biological aging. Over the past decade, Moffitt has provided data to over 100 senior investigators at more than 50 universities in 14 countries. Moffitt is a fellow of the National Academy of Medicine, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, British Academy, Academy of Medical Sciences (UK), Academia Europa, Association of Psychological Science, and American Society of Criminology. She has received numerous awards for her research. She has also mentored dozens of early-career scientists who have gone on to win many awards and fellowships and assume top science leadership positions. Learn more about Moffitt at www.moffittcaspi.com.