Mark R Luborsky

Mark R Luborsky

Mark R Luborsky, director of aging and health disparities research in the Institute of Gerontology (IOG), and professor of anthropology and gerontology at Wayne State University, has been appointed adjunct foreign professor at the prestigious Nobel Prize-granting Karolinska Institute in Stockholm. The six-year appointment recognizes Luborsky for his many scientific achievements and long-standing research focus on life reorganization and continuity of meaning and function.

Luborsky is the editor of Medical Anthropology Quarterly: International Journal for the Analysis of Health (2006-13). He co-directed Wayne State’s IOG’s National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded Post-Doctoral Training Program. Currently, he serves as a member of the National Institute of Arthritis Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases on the Data and Safety Monitoring Board for a multi-site surgery trial, and is a member of the NIH/Community Influences on Health Behavior study section review panel. This June, he will conduct invited research training on environment and health at Yunnan University, China.

via Anthropology-News http://www.anthropology-news.org/index.php/2013/05/24/mark-r-luborsky/