Jay Magaziner, Ph.D., M.S., Hyg.
Professor and Director, Division of Gerontology
Department of Epidemiology & Preventive Medicine University of Maryland School of Medicine
Co-Director, UM Center for Research on Aging
Co-Director, Gerontology Doctoral Program

Jay  Magaziner received his doctoral degree in 1980 from the Committee on Human Development at the University of Chicago, where he was a trainee in adult development and aging.  In 1982, he received an M.S.Hyg. in epidemiology from the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health.  His scientific strengths and leadership in geriatrics have been demonstrated in many ways since he joined the faculty of the School of Medicine in 1982.  Dr. Magaziner is credited with developing the Division of Gerontology in the Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, which he currently leads.

Dr. Magaziner pursues research on aging in three interrelated areas:  the consequences of hip fracture, health and long-term care, and methods for studying older populations.  The major focus of this work is to identify ways of enhancing functioning and improving the quality of life for older persons.  The specific conditions which Dr. Magaziner has targeted are hip fracture and dementia.  His work on hip fracture focuses on issues relating to hip fracture recovery and has earned him a MERIT award from the National Institute on Aging.

Dr. Magaziner has taught graduate courses in gerontology, the epidemiology of aging, and the epidemiology of late life psychiatric disorders.  He is Co-Director of a new two-campus doctoral program in gerontology and Director of a pre- and post-doctoral training program supported by the NIA.

Other projects, which relate to this work, entail developing performance-based measures for use in intervention trials post-hip fracture and issues of caregiving for fracture patients.  Recently, this program has been expanded to examine interventions to enhance recovery.  Dr. Magaziner’s Merit Award was recently extended for an additional five years to evaluate two interventions for improving post-fracture bone, muscle and functional status and to chart the sequelae of hip fracture and determine the excess loss attributable to the fracture beyond that expected in similarly frail older persons.  Over the past 15 years, Dr. Magaziner’s research group has enrolled and followed more than 2000 hip fracture patients from nine Baltimore area hospitals.