Professor, Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine
Internal Medicine
Dr. Thomas T. Perls practices Internal Medicine. He studied medicine at University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry. He over the years received 24 awards: "Ewald W. Busse Research Award in Gerontological Biomedical Research", "Annual Malford Thewlis Lecture in Gerontology and Geriatrics", "Fifth Annual Denham Harmon Lectureship in Biomedical Gerontology", "MetLife Foundation Mind Alert Award", "Person to Watch in 2001 for the field of Medical Research", "Kit Clark Award", "Discovery Award for Alzheimer's Disease Research", "Senior Scholar Award", "Clinical Investigator Award", "Richard Kalish Award for Living to 100", "Medical Issue Expert", "Nathan Shock Excellence in Biology of Aging Center Fellow", "Paul Beeson Faculty Scholar in Aging Research Award", "Fellow", "Grant award", "Physician's Scientist Award (K12)", "Issue Expert", "Investigator Award", "Trainee Award", "Research Award", "Solomon Award for Clinical Research", "Employee of the Month", "Sigma Xi" and "Fellowship". Thomas T. Perls is a published doctor and has 96 publications published. The lastest was: 'Unraveling the mystery of cognitive changes in old age: correlation of neuropsychological evaluation with neuropathological findings in the extreme old.' He accepts all Medicare patients.
Publications
- Disease Mongering of Age-Associated Declines in Testosterone and Growth Hormone Levels.
- Increasing Sibling Relative Risk of Survival to Older and Older Ages and the Importance of Precise Definitions of "Aging," "Life Span," and "Longevity".
- Are Members of Long-Lived Families Healthier Than Their Equally Long-Lived Peers? Evidence From the Long Life Family Study.
- Genome-Wide Association Study and Linkage Analysis of the Healthy Aging Index.
- Burden of disease variants in participants of the long life family study.
- Common Genetic Variants on 6q24 Associated With Exceptional Episodic Memory Performance in the Elderly.
- GWAS of Longevity in CHARGE Consortium Confirms APOE and FOXO3 Candidacy.
- Extended maternal age at birth of last child and women's longevity in the Long Life Family Study.
- An oral health study of centenarians and children of centenarians.
- Genome-wide association study identifies common loci influencing circulating glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c) levels in non-diabetic subjects: The Long Life Family Study (L...
- Exceptional memory performance in the Long Life Family Study.
- Heritability of and Mortality Prediction With a Longevity Phenotype: The Healthy Aging Index.
- Meta-analysis of genetic variants associated with human exceptional longevity.
- Age Validation in the Long Life Family Study Through a Linkage to Early-Life Census Records.
- Apolipoprotein E and familial longevity.
- Personality Factors in the Long Life Family Study.
- Health Span Approximates Life Span Among Many Supercentenarians: Compression of Morbidity at the Approximate Limit of Life Span.
- Health and function of participants in the Long Life Family Study: A comparison with other cohorts.
- Genetic Signatures of Exceptional Longevity in Humans.
- Prediction models that include genetic data.
- Typologies of extreme longevity myths.
- A family longevity selection score: ranking sibships by their longevity, size, and availability for study.
- Genome-wide association studies and the genetic dissection of complex traits.
- Personality traits of centenarians' offspring.
- RNA editing genes associated with extreme old age in humans and with lifespan in C. elegans.
- Centenarian offspring: start healthier and stay healthier.
- Association of longer telomeres with better health in centenarians.
- New developments in the illegal provision of growth hormone for "anti-aging" and bodybuilding.
- Disentangling the roles of disability and morbidity in survival to exceptional old age.
- Hope drives antiaging hype.
- Characteristics of 32 supercentenarians.
- The different paths to 100.
- Provision or distribution of growth hormone for "antiaging": clinical and legal issues.
- Lower all-cause, cardiovascular, and cancer mortality in centenarians' offspring.
- First autopsy study of an Okinawan centenarian: absence of many age-related diseases.
- Anti-aging quackery: human growth hormone and tricks of the trade--more dangerous than ever.
- 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 bio...
- The hype and the reality--part I.
- Cardiovascular disease delay in centenarian offspring: role of heat shock proteins.
- Cardiovascular disease delay in centenarian offspring.
- Haplotype-based identification of a microsomal transfer protein marker associated with the human lifespan.
- Longevity genes: from primitive organisms to humans.
- Cardiovascular advantages among the offspring of centenarians.
- Is there an antiaging medicine?
- Achieving and maintaining cognitive vitality with aging.
- Life-long sustained mortality advantage of siblings of centenarians.
- Distinguishing between neurodegenerative disease and disease-free aging: correlating neuropsychological evaluations and neuropathological studies in centenarians.
- Do gender, disability, and morbidity affect aging rate in the LLFS? Application of indices of cumulative deficits.
- An efficient technique for Bayesian modeling of family data using the BUGS software.
- Whole genome sequences of a male and female supercentenarian, ages greater than 114 years.
- Clustering by genetic ancestry using genome-wide SNP data.
- Growth hormone and anabolic steroids: athletes are the tip of the iceberg.
- Imputation of missing genotypes: an empirical evaluation of IMPUTE.
- A hierarchical and modular approach to the discovery of robust associations in genome-wide association studies from pooled DNA samples.
- Cancer in the oldest old.
- Scanning the beta-globin gene for mutations in large populations by denaturing capillary and gel electrophoresis.
- Dementia-free centenarians.
- Centenarians who avoid dementia.
- Genetic and environmental influences on exceptional longevity and the AGE nomogram.
- The different paths to age one hundred.
- Survival of parents and siblings of supercentenarians.
- Health and disease in people over 85.
- Understanding the determinants of exceptional longevity.
- Anti-aging teleconference: what is anti-aging medicine?
- Genetics of exceptional longevity.
- The genetics of exceptional human longevity.
- Morbidity profiles of centenarians: survivors, delayers, and escapers.
- Families Enriched for Exceptional Longevity also have Increased Health-Span: Findings from the Long Life Family Study.
- The genetics of aging-- implications for pharmacogenomics.
- The genetics of aging.
- Cognitive functional status of age-confirmed centenarians in a population-based study.
- The evolution of menopause and human life span.
- What does it take to live to 100?
- Analysis of cutaneous delayed-type hypersensitivity reaction and T cell proliferative response in elderly nursing home patients: an approach to identifying immunodefic...
- Higher respiratory infection rates on an Alzheimer's special care unit and successful intervention.
- Reduced apolipoprotein epsilon 4 allele frequency in the oldest old Alzheimer's patients and cognitively normal individuals.
- The relationship between age, gender and cognitive performance in the very old: the effect of selective survival.
- Clinical and pathological correlates of apolipoprotein E epsilon 4 in Alzheimer's disease.
- Acute care costs of the oldest old: they cost less, their care intensity is less, and they go to nonteaching hospitals.
- Acute care costs of the oldest old.
- Middle-aged mothers live longer.
- Centenarians prove the compression of morbidity hypothesis, but what about the rest of us who are genetically less fortunate?
- Apolipoprotein E and its association with Alzheimer's disease.
- Cell-by-cell scanning of whole mitochondrial genomes in aged human heart reveals a significant fraction of myocytes with clonally expanded deletions.
- Siblings of centenarians live longer.
- Validity of reported age and centenarian prevalence in New England.
- Centenarians: the older you get, the healthier you have been.
- Centenarians and the genetics of longevity.
- Exceptional familial clustering for extreme longevity in humans.
- Genetic and phenotypic markers among centenarians.
- Genome wide association and linkage analyses identified three loci-4q25, 17q23.2, and 10q11.21-associated with variation in leukocyte telomere length: the Long Life Fa...
- Unraveling the mystery of cognitive changes in old age: correlation of neuropsychological evaluation with neuropathological findings in the extreme old.
- BRCA1 gene sequence variation in centenarians.
- A genome-wide scan for linkage to human exceptional longevity identifies a locus on chromosome 4.
- Genome-wide association study of personality traits in the long life family study.
Schools
University Of Rochester
Beth Israel Deaconess Hp M C
La Co Harbor UCLA Med Center
Doctors Specialties
- Geriatric Medicine
- Internal Medicine
Accepted Insurances
- Aetna HMO
- Choice Plus POS II
- Blue Card PPO
- BlueConnect HMO
- Blue with Managed Care Behavioral Health HMO
- Preferred Blue PPO
- Cigna HMO
- Great West Healthcare-Cigna PPO
- LocalPlus
- Open Access Plus
- First Health (Coventry Health Care) PPO
- MultiPlan PPO
- PHCS Network PPO
- Tufts PPO
Awards
- Ewald W. Busse Research Award in Gerontological Biomedical Research
- Annual Malford Thewlis Lecture in Gerontology and Geriatrics
- Fifth Annual Denham Harmon Lectureship in Biomedical Gerontology
- MetLife Foundation Mind Alert Award
- Person to Watch in 2001 for the field of Medical Research
- Kit Clark Award
- Discovery Award for Alzheimer's Disease Research
- Senior Scholar Award
- Clinical Investigator Award
- Richard Kalish Award for Living to 100
- Medical Issue Expert
- Nathan Shock Excellence in Biology of Aging Center Fellow
- Paul Beeson Faculty Scholar in Aging Research Award
- Fellow
- Grant award
- Physician's Scientist Award (K12)
- Issue Expert
- Investigator Award
- Trainee Award
- Research Award
- Solomon Award for Clinical Research
- Employee of the Month
- Sigma Xi
- Fellowship
Education
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Harvard School of Public Health
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Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
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Harbor - UCLA Medical Center
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University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry
Hospital
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Boston Medical Center
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