Stephen B. Kritchevsky, PhD is the Toby R. Alligood, MD Endowed Professor in Geroscience at the Wake Forest University School of Medicine where he leads the Sticht Center for Healthy Aging and Alzheimer’s Prevention and Wake Forest’s NIA-funded Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Center (OAIC).  He received his doctorate in Epidemiology from the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill.

Dr. Kritchevsky studies nutritional influences that affect trajectories of health and disability in older adults including vitamins, protein, energy balance, obesity and exercise. His current interest is in the evaluation of geroscience-inspired therapies – therapies that target cellular pathways involved in the aging process. Dr. Kritchevsky has held leadership positions in notable aging studies including the Health ABC study, the LIFE trial, and the on-going Study of Muscle, Mobility and Aging. He was the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Gerontology: Medical Sciences from 2012 – 2016 and is a past member of the National Advisory Council on Aging.  He is also a leader of the NIA-funded Translational Geroscience Network, the goal of which is to establish an infrastructure for the efficient clinical evaluation of interventions targeting the biology of aging to improve human health.