Dr. Thomas T. Perls M.D., MPH
Geriatrician | Geriatric Medicine
850 Harrison Ave Yacc 3rd Floor Boston MA, 02118About
Dr. Thomas Perls practices Geriatric Medicine in Boston, MA. Geriatricians prevent, manage, and develop care plans that address the special health problems of the elderly. Dr. Perls works as part of a team with other healthcare providers, to address the natural aging that goes on within the body and to manage multiple medical problems and ensure social support.
Education and Training
Univ of Rochester Sch of Med & Dentistry, Rochester Ny 1986
University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry 1986
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Geriatric Medicine
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Apolipoprotein E and its association with Alzheimer's disease.
- Siblings of centenarians live longer.
- Validity of reported age and centenarian prevalence in New England.
- Cognitive functional status of age-confirmed centenarians in a population-based
- Distinguishing between neurodegenerative disease and disease-free aging:
- Life-long sustained mortality advantage of siblings of centenarians.
- Achieving and maintaining cognitive vitality with aging.
- Cardiovascular advantages among the offspring of centenarians.
- Haplotype-based identification of a microsomal transfer protein marker associated with the human lifespan.
- Cardiovascular disease delay in centenarian offspring.
- The hype and the reality--part I.
- Robine and Michel's "Looking forward to a general theory on population aging": measuring functional decline in population aging in a changing world and an evolving biology.
- Cardiovascular disease delay in centenarian offspring: role of heat shock proteins.
- Anti-aging quackery: human growth hormone and tricks of the trade--more dangerous than ever.
- Lower all-cause, cardiovascular, and cancer mortality in centenarians' offspring.
Awards
- Faculty Scholars Award, Alzheimer'S Assoc
- Phsyician Scientist Award, National Institutes Of
- Boston Faculty Scholar In Aging Award 1999
Fellowships
- Geriatric Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge MA ,, Postdoctoral fellowship, Brown University, Providence RI 1992
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