John D. Sorkin, M.D., Ph.D.
Chief of Biostatistics and Informatics
Division of Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine
University of Maryland School of Medicine
 John Sorkin received his M.D. degree from the Universidad Autonima de Guadalajara, completed a Fifth-Pathway at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine City Hospital Center at Elmhurst and received Internship and Residency Training at The University of Pittsburgh Montefiore Hospital. John was a Metabolism Fellow in the laboratory of Dr. Reuben Andres, Metabolism Section, National Institutes of Health, National Institute on Aging and subsequently an Epidemiology Training Fellow in the laboratory of Dr. Tamara Harris, Laboratory of Epidemiology, Biometery and Demography (EDB) National Institutes of Health, National Institute on Aging. In conjunction with his work at the EDB, John received a Ph.D. in Epidemiology from the Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health in Epidemiology.
John leads the Biostatistics and Informatics Core of four centers, the University of Maryland Claude Pepper Older Americans Independence Center, the Baltimore VA Medical Center Geriatrics Research, Education, and Clinical Center, the University of Maryland Clinical Research Nutrition Unit, and the Maryland Exercise and Robotics Center of Excellence. The four centers share a common theme, the study of exercise and nutrition as modulators of health. The Centers explore exercise as a therapeutic intervention for subjects with chronic diseases including stroke, peripheral vascular disease, diabetes, and coronary heart disease, and the role of nutrition in health and disease
In addition to the studies undertaken by the four centers, John’s research interest include the changes that occur with aging in carbohydrate and lipid metabolism, body fat, and body fat distribution and the role these change play in the development of diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and all-cause mortality. Additionally John has explored the genetics of longevity. |
