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MARTHA CLARE MORRIS, SCD, HAS BEEN APPOINTED TO THE NEW POSITION OF ASSISTANT PROVOST FOR COMMUNITY RESEARCH
Martha Clare Morris, ScD, has been appointed to the new position of assistant provost for community research at Rush University. Morris has been on faculty at Rush in the Department of Internal Medicine and has been a member of the Rush Institute for Healthy Aging since 1992. She has been principal investigator of numerous National Institutes of Health (NIH) studies on dietary risk factors of Alzheimer’s disease and cognitive decline. And, since 1993, she has served as project director and epidemiologist for the Chicago Health and Aging Project, a large multiethnic, population-based study of aging that includes more than 9,000 older adult residents of Chicago. Morris will be responsible for nurturing the development of community research at Rush University, including a newly formed Center for Urban Health. A 27-year veteran of conducting large-scale studies in diverse communities, Morris will lend her expertise in research excellence and community engagement to grow NIH-funded community research at Rush, and to help fulfill Rush’s mission of improving community health. She will also continue her research on risk factors for Alzheimer’s disease and conditions of aging in a number of multiethnic community populations. Morris received her bachelor of science and master of science degrees in sociology from the University of Iowa, and her doctorate in epidemiology from Harvard University. She directed a landmark epidemiologic study of aging in rural Iowa from 1980 to 1987, before moving to Boston, where she directed a community screening and primary prevention trial on hypertension. A pioneer in the study of diet and dementia, Morris is a frequently invited speaker at professional meetings and universities. She is on several editorial boards, has served on international scientific task forces, and has chaired an international conference on the role diet plays in Alzheimer’s disease and cognitive decline. Morris is a member of the Society for Epidemiologic Research, the Gerontological Society of America and the International Academy of Nutrition and Aging. ------------------------------- |
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