UTHealth Expert List
Topic: Aging
Faith Atai, M.D.
- Assistant Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Geriatric and Palliative Medicine, McGovern Medical School at UTHealth
- Assistant Medical Director, UT Physicians Center for Healthy Aging at Sienna Village
Faith Atai, M.D., is board certified in family medicine and geriatric medicine. She serves on the faculty of the Training Excellence in Aging Studies (TEXAS), a program that fosters geriatric and palliative medicine at the medical school, resident, faculty and practicing physician level. She sees patients at UT Physicians for Healthy Aging in Bellaire and UT Physicians at Sienna Village. Her interests include palliative and hospice medicine, communication in medicine, preventive senior care and the frail elderly.
Previous interview: http://go.uth.edu/FaithAtaiSummerHeat
Claudio Soto, PhD
- Professor of Neurology, McGovern Medical School at UTHealth
- Director, The George P. and Cynthia W. Mitchell Center for Research in Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Brain Disorders, McGovern Medical School at UTHealth
Claudio Soto, Ph.D., specializes in the molecular basis of neurodegenerative diseases associated to the misfolding and brain accumulation of proteins, particularly focusing on Alzheimer’s and prion-related disorders.