Linda P. Fried (born 1949) is an American geriatrician and epidemiologist, who is also the first female Dean of Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health. Her research career is focused on frailty, healthy aging, and how society can successfully transition to benefit from an aging population.[2]
Linda Fried | |
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| Dean of Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health | |
| Assumed office 2008 | |
| Preceded by | Allan Rosenfield |
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| Born | 1949 (age 74–75) |
| Spouse | Joseph Margolick[1] |
| Relatives | Barbara Fried (sister) Sam Bankman-Fried (nephew) |
| Education | University of Wisconsin–Madison (BA) Rush University (MD) Johns Hopkins University (MPH) |
| Website | Linda Fried |
Early life and education
editShe attended Hunter College High School and earned a bachelor's degree in history from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1970. She received her MD from Rush Medical College in Chicago[3] in 1979 and her MPH at Johns Hopkins in 1984, where she worked with Paul Whelton. She trained in internal medicine at Rush Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center in Chicago. After fellowship training in internal medicine, she expanded her focus to the aging population and received a fellowship in Hopkins's geriatrics program.[4]
Career
editIn 1985, Fried accepted joint faculty appointments in the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and School of Hygiene and Public Health. She then served as director of geriatric medicine and was the founding director of the Johns Hopkins Center on Aging and Health,[5] which studies the epidemiology of aging, relationships between aging and health, and interventions to improve health with aging. In 2008, Fried became the first female Dean of Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health, DeLamar Professor of Epidemiology; professor of medicine at Columbia's College of Physicians and Surgeons; and senior vice president of Columbia University Medical Center.[6]
Aging research and programs
editPrior to Fried's work, frailty was an ambiguous medical term commonly referring to a number of ailments and disabilities. Fried developed biologically-based theory regarding the clinical presentation or phenotype of frailty and hypotheses regarding its etiology in dysregulation of genes and some physiologic systems. She has led scientific teams that developed an assessment tool and created a more concrete definition of frailty.[7] Fried also instigated a number of key studies on the cause of frailty and has proposed and developed the idea of a frailty syndrome. Christine K. Cassel, president and chief executive officer of the American Board of Internal Medicine noted that Fried's work, "has become core knowledge and core teaching in every geriatric program" in the country.[8]
In the early 1990s, Fried collaborated with the social activist Marc Freedman and others to design and develop a nationwide volunteer program called Experience Corps. The program trains adult volunteers, ages 55 and older, to improve the academic success of students in economically disadvantaged public elementary schools. Fried and Freedman codesigned the program to have a social impact with children and schools and as a public health intervention to improve the health of older-adult volunteers.[9][10] A 2009 study using functional magnetic resonance imaging showed that participants experienced short-term gains in executive cognitive function compared with a control group.[11] The program now exists in 19 cities across the United States under the aegis of AARP.
In 2012, The New York Times included her as one of 15 world leaders in science.[10]
Mailman School of Public Health
editAs dean, Fried has led a major redesign of the School's MPH curriculum to reflect a new emphasis on interdisciplinary learning based on a new vision of public health and health preservation and prevention for every stage of life.[8] The revised curriculum, which includes leadership training and case-study based instruction in applying theory to practice, debuted in the fall of 2012.[12]
Innovations
editIn 2011, she was instrumental in bringing the International Longevity Center, a research and advocacy center on aging that was founded by the late Robert N. Butler, to Columbia University. Fried led the School to build the nation's first program in a school of public health on climate and health and graduate degrees in this field and established the Global Consortium on Climate and Health Education; she launched the Lerner Center for Public Health Promotion, Columbia Public Health Corporate Partnerships, the Program in Global Health Justice and Governance, established a leading program in Data Science for Health. Among many other innovations, Fried has led the school in the creation of research and educational initiatives on obesity prevention, system science,[13] and public health approaches to preventing incarceration.[10]
Awards and honors
editFried is a member of the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on Aging[14] and the MacArthur Network on an Aging Society. She was the co-chair of the 2019-2022 National Academy of Medicine initiative for a Global Roadmap for Healthy Longevity.[15]
- 2001–present, Elected Member, National Academy of Sciences Institute of Medicine
- 2001–present, Elected Member, Association of American Physicians[16] and served as president (2016-2017)[10]
- 2001 Merit Award, National Institute on Aging
- 2011 Silver Innovator's Award, Alliance for Aging Research
- 2011 Enrico Greppi Prize, Italian Society of Gerontology and Geriatrics
- 2012 Silver Scholar Award, Alliance for Aging Research
- 2012 Longevity Prize, Fondation Ipsen
- 2016 Inserm International Prize[17]
- 2018 Lifetime Achievement Award, International Conference on Frailty and Sarcopenia
- 2019 The Alma Morani Renaissance Woman Award, Women in Medicine Legacy Foundation[18]
- 2022 Kober Medal, Association of American Physicians[16]
- 2022 Named "Best Female Scientist" by Research.com[19]
*Present means as of 2023
Publications
editBetween 2014 and 2021, the top areas of focus in articles in Gerontology (39.67%), Public health (12.73%) and Internal medicine (29.70%).[19]
Peer reviewed articles
editIn 2010, Fried was listed as the third most highly cited author in the field of geriatrics and gerontology. Her 2001 paper Frailty in older adults: Evidence for a phenotype, for example, has been cited more than 15,000 times.[20][21] According to ResearchGate, she has, as of 2023, published 645 publications and has been cited 98,201 times.[22]
Google Scholar lists these as Fried's other most cited articles:[23]
- Frailty Consensus: A Call to Action[24] cited 3675
- Untangling the Concepts of Disability, Frailty, and Comorbidity: Implications for Improved Targeting and Care[25] cited 4609
- Clinical Practice Guidelines and Quality of Care for Older Patients With Multiple Comorbid Diseases[26] cited 3067
- The cardiovascular health study: Design and rationale[27] cited 2364
- Frailty: implications for clinical practice and public health[28] cited 1160
Books and book chapters
editPartial list:
- Measuring Loss of Homeostasis in Aging ISBN 978-3-319-96660-1
- Etiological Role of Aging in Chronic Diseases: From Epidemiological Evidence to the New Geroscience ISBN 978-3-319-23245-4
- Experience Corps®: A Civic Engagement-Based Public Health Intervention in the Public Schools ISBN 978-1-4419-0635-9
- Inflammatory Markers and Frailty ISBN 978-1-4020-9062-2
- Organizational Change to Support Success of Women ISBN 978-0-306-47351-7
References
edit- ^ "Drs. Joseph Margolick and Linda Fried To Wed". The New York Times. September 19, 1982. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved March 25, 2023.
- ^ "Multisector, All-of-Society Transformation Needed to Ensure Aging Societies Worldwide Are Poised to Thrive by 2050, Says New Report". National Academies: Science, Engineering, Medicine. June 3, 2023. Retrieved April 5, 2023.
- ^ "Frailty and the Elderly | New York State Psychiatric Institute". nyspi.org. Retrieved April 6, 2023.
- ^ "Columbia's Linda P. Fried: Robust Research on Frailty". Sciencewatch.com. January 2011.
- ^ "Linda P. Fried". World Economic Forum. Retrieved April 6, 2023.
- ^ Solomont, E. B. "Columbia Names Mailman School Dean" The New York Sun January 7, 2008.
- ^ Fried, L. P., Ferrucci, L., Darer, J., Williamson, J. D. and Anderson G.(2004). "Untangling the Concepts of Disability, Frailty, and Comorbidity: Implications for Improved Targeting and Care." Journal of Gerontology: MEDICAL SCIENCES 59(3): 255–263.
- ^ a b Pennar, Karen. "Unafraid of Aging" The New York Times. June 25, 2012.
- ^ Fried, L. P., Carlson, M. C., Freedman, M., et al. (2004). "A Social Model for Health Promotion for an Aging Population: Initial Evidence on the Experience Corps Model." Journal of Urban Health 81(1): 64-78.
- ^ a b c d Admin, Web (December 4, 2018). "Linda P. Fried | LiLY Legacies". Retrieved March 30, 2023.
- ^ "Evidence for Neurocognitive Plasticity in At-Risk Older Adults: The Experience Corps Program". The Journals of Gerontology Series A: Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences 2009, 64A(12): 1275–1282.
- ^ Marcus, Jon, "U.S. changes does to treat public health malaise." The Times Higher Education. September 6, 2012.
- ^ Columbia Engineering. "Breaking Down Complex Systems in Public Health" Posted November 12, 2012
- ^ John R. Beard, Simon Biggs, David E. Bloom, Linda P. Fried, Paul Hogan, Alexandre Kalache, and S. Jay Olshansky, eds., Global Population Ageing: Peril or Promise, Geneva: World Economic Forum, 2011.
- ^ "Global Roadmap for Healthy Longevity" June 2022.
- ^ a b Newman, Anne B. (December 15, 2022). "2022 Association of American Physicians George M. Kober MedalIntroduction of Linda P. Fried, MD, MPH". The Journal of Clinical Investigation. 132 (24). doi:10.1172/JCI162514. ISSN 0021-9738. PMC 9754097. PMID 36519549. S2CID 254711677.
- ^ 2016 Inserm Awards Laureates
- ^ "Linda P. Fried, MD, MPH".
- ^ a b "Linda P. Fried: H-index & Awards - Academic Profile". Research.com. Retrieved March 30, 2023.
- ^ "PubMed NCBI" July 2022.
- ^ "Frailty in Older Adults: Evidence for a Phenotype". Retrieved March 30, 2023.
- ^ "Linda P Fried at ResearchGate". Retrieved March 30, 2023.
- ^ "Linda P. Fried". Google Scholar. Retrieved March 30, 2023.
- ^ Morley, John E.; Vellas, Bruno; Abellan van Kan, G.; Anker, Stefan D.; Bauer, Juergen M.; Bernabei, Roberto; Cesari, Matteo; Chumlea, W. C.; Doehner, Wolfram; Evans, Jonathan; Fried, Linda P.; Guralnik, Jack M.; Katz, Paul R.; Malmstrom, Theodore K.; McCarter, Roger J. (June 1, 2013). "Frailty Consensus: A Call to Action". Journal of the American Medical Directors Association. 14 (6): 392–397. doi:10.1016/j.jamda.2013.03.022. ISSN 1525-8610. PMC 4084863. PMID 23764209.
- ^ "Untangling the Concepts of Disability, Frailty, and Comorbidity: Implications for Improved Targeting and Care". academic.oup.com. Retrieved March 30, 2023.
- ^ Boyd, Cynthia M.; Darer, Jonathan; Boult, Chad; Fried, Linda P.; Boult, Lisa; Wu, Albert W. (August 10, 2005). "Clinical Practice Guidelines and Quality of Care for Older Patients With Multiple Comorbid DiseasesImplications for Pay for Performance". JAMA. 294 (6): 716–724. doi:10.1001/jama.294.6.716. ISSN 0098-7484. PMID 16091574. S2CID 28090181.
- ^ Fried, Linda P.; Borhani, Nemat O.; Enright, Paul; Furberg, Curt D.; Gardin, Julius M.; Kronmal, Richard A.; Kuller, Lewis H.; Manolio, Teri A.; Mittelmark, Maurice B.; Newman, Anne; O'Leary, Daniel H.; Psaty, Bruce; Rautaharju, Pentti; Tracy, Russell P.; Weiler, Philip G. (February 1, 1991). "The cardiovascular health study: Design and rationale". Annals of Epidemiology. 1 (3): 263–276. doi:10.1016/1047-2797(91)90005-W. ISSN 1047-2797. PMID 1669507.
- ^ Hoogendijk, Emiel O; Afilalo, Jonathan; Ensrud, Kristine E; Kowal, Paul; Onder, Graziano; Fried, Linda P (October 12, 2019). "Frailty: implications for clinical practice and public health". The Lancet. 394 (10206): 1365–1375. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(19)31786-6. ISSN 0140-6736. PMID 31609228. S2CID 204116164.