Organization profile

The Sealy Center on Aging (SCoA) focuses on improving the health and well-being of the elderly through interdisciplinary research, education, and community service by integrating the resources and activities relevant to aging at UTMB.

The Center also implements our research findings in hospitals and clinics, bringing excellence and visibility to our health care system, and improving the health of our seniors.

Center Director:

Elena Volpi, MD, PhD, Daisy Emery Allen Distinguished Chair in Geriatric Medicine and Professor in the Departments of Internal Medicine - Geriatrics, Neuroscience & Cell Biology and Nutrition & Metabolism.

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Medicare Medicine & Life Sciences

Breast Neoplasms Medicine & Life Sciences

Inpatients Medicine & Life Sciences

Hospitalization Medicine & Life Sciences

Neoplasms Medicine & Life Sciences

Resistance Training Medicine & Life Sciences

Drug Therapy Medicine & Life Sciences

Confidence Intervals Medicine & Life Sciences

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Projects 2014 2016

1 Completed

CERCIT: Core 1: Data Management Core

Zhang, D.

Cancer Prevention and Research Institute

3/1/14 → 8/29/16

Project: Other project

Research Output 1997 2018

2006 Citations
25 h-Index
48 Article

Differences in electromyographic activity of biceps brachii and brachioradialis while performing three variants of curl

Marcolin, G., Panizzolo, F. A., Petrone, N., Moro, T., Grigoletto, D., Piccolo, D. & Paoli, A., Jan 1 2018, In : PeerJ. 2018, 7, e5165.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

electrodes

Electrodes

exercise

Chemical activation

Muscles

5 Citations (Scopus)

Muscle protein anabolic resistance to essential amino acids does not occur in healthy older adults before or after resistance exercise training

Moro, T., Brightwell, C. R., Deer, R., Graber, T., Galvan, E., Fry, C., Volpi, E. & Rasmussen, B., Jun 1 2018, In : Journal of Nutrition. 148, 6, p. 900-909 10 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Essential Amino Acids

Resistance Training

Muscle Proteins

Exercise

Muscles

5 Citations (Scopus)

The role of education in the association between race/ethnicity/nativity, cognitive impairment, and dementia among older adults in the United States

Garcia, M. A., Saenz, J., Downer, B. & Wong, R., Jan 1 2018, In : Demographic Research. 38, 1, p. 155-168 14 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

dementia

ethnicity

education

telephone interview

retirement