About Mark Lachs, MD
Dr. Mark Lachs, author of Treat Me, Not My Age: A Doctor's
Guide to Getting the Best Care as You or a Loved One Gets Older, is
a physician, scientist, and gerontologist at Weill Cornell Medical
College in New York City. His research has been published in the New
England Journal of Medicine and the Journal of the American
Medical Association,
and he has appeared on The Today Show, NPR's All Things
Considered, and
in many other national and local media outlets. His numerous honors and
awards include a National Institute on Aging Academic Leadership Award
and a Paul Beeson Physician Faculty Scholarship (the country's
preeminent career award in aging). He and his wife, Susan, a nurse
practitioner, have three children and live in Connecticut.
For more information, view Mark Lachs's Web site.