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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

NAME                                               POSITION TITLE
Olshansky, S. Jay                                  Research Associate

EDUCATION/TRAINING
INSTITUTION AND LOCATION                        DEGREE              YEAR(s)   FIELD OF STUDY
Michigan State University, Lansing              B.S.                1975      Psychology
University of Chicago                           M.A.                1982      Sociology
University of Chicago                           Ph.D.               1984      Sociology

A. Positions and Honors

Positions and Employment
1982-1983     Scientific Assistant, Argonne National Laboratory
1983-1985     Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Utah
1985-1988     Assistant Scientist, Argonne National Laboratory
1988-1992     Scientist, Argonne National Laboratory
1987-1990     Research Associate, NORC, University of Chicago
1998-1999     Research Fellow, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
1988-2000     Research Associate, Department of Medicine and Center on Aging, University of
              Chicago
1992-Present Research Associate, Population Research Center, University of Chicago
2000-Present Senior Research Scientist, NORC /The University of Chicago
2001-Present Professor, School of Public Health, University of Illinois at Chicago

Honors and Awards
1977-1979: NICHD Fellowship, University of Chicago; 1978: Summer Seminar Participant, awarded
by the East-West Population Institute; 1979-1980: Marshall Field Fellowship, University of Chicago;
1982-1983: NICHD Fellowship, University of Chicago.

B. Selected Publications

(Publications selected from 35 peer-reviewed publications)

1. Olshansky, S.J. 1988. On Forecasting Mortality. The Milbank Quarterly 66(3):482-530.
2. Olshansky, S.J., Carnes, B.A., Cassel, C. 1990. In Search of Methuselah: Estimating the Upper
   Limits to Human Longevity. Science 250:634-640.
3. Olshansky, S.J., Rudberg, M.A., Carnes, B.A., Cassel, C., Brody, J. 1991. Trading Off Longer
   Life for Worsening Health: The Expansion of Morbidity Hypothesis. Journal of Aging and Health
   3(2):194-216.
4. Cassel, C.K., Rudberg, M.A., Olshansky, S.J. 1992. The Price of Success: Health Care in an
   Aging Society. Health Affairs 11(2):87-99.
5. Carnes, B.A., Olshansky, S.J. 1993. Evolutionary Perspectives on Human Senescence.
   Population and Development Review 19(4):793-806.
6. Olshansky, S.J., Carnes, B., Cassel, C. 1993. Fruit Fly Aging and Mortality (letter). Science
   260(110):1565-1566.
7. Olshansky, S.J. 1993. Human Longevity Without Disease. Geriatrics 48(3):85-88.
8. Olshansky, S.J., Carnes, B., Cassel, C. 1993. The Aging of the Human Species. Scientific
   American, April, pp. 46-52.
9. Olshansky, S.J., Carnes, B.A. 1994. Demographic Perspectives on Human Senescence.
    Population and Development Review 20(1):57-80.
10. Olshansky, S.J. 1995. New Developments in Mortality. The Gerontologist 35(5):583-587.
11. Olshansky, S.J. 1995. The Practical Implications of Increasing Human Life Expectancy.
    European Journal of Public Health 5(1):35-39.
12. Bennett, N.G., Olshansky, S.J. 1996. Forecasting U.S. Age Structure and the Future of Social
    Security: The Impact of Adjustments to Official Mortality Schedules. Population and Development
    Review 22(4):703-727.
13. Carnes, B.A., Olshansky, S.J., Grahn, D. 1996. Continuing the Search for a Law of Mortality.
    Population and Development Review 22(2):231-264.
14. Carnes, B.A., Olshansky, S.J. 1997. A Biologically Motivated Partitioning of Mortality.
    Experimental Gerontology 32:615-631.
15. Olshansky, S.J., Carnes, B.A. 1997. Ever Since Gompertz. Demography 34(1):1-15.
16. Olshansky, S.J., Carnes, B.A., Rogers, R.A., Smith, L. 1997. Infectious Diseases: New and
    Ancient Threats to World Health. Population Bulletin 52(2):1-58.
17. Olshansky, S.J., Carnes, B.A., and D. Grahn. 1998. Confronting the Boundaries of Human
    Longevity. American Scientist 86(1):52-61.
18. Olshansky, S.J., R. Wilkins. 1998. Guest editors: Special issue of Journal of Aging and Health
    devoted to research findings from REVES 8, Volume 10, No. 2.
19. Carnes, B.A., S. J. Olshansky, and D. Grahn. 1998. A Biological Approach to the Interspecies
    Prediction of Radiation-induced Mortality Risk. Radiation Research 149:487-492.
20. Olshansky, S.J. 1999. Le Mur De L'espérance De Vie (Limits to How Long Humans Can Live).
    La Recherche 322:92-95.
21. Carnes, B.A., Olshansky, S.J., Gavrilov, L., Gavrilova, N., Grahn, D. 1999. Human Longevity:
    Nature vs Nurture ­ Fact or Fiction. Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 42(3):422-441.
22. Olshansky, S.J., Carnes, B.A., and C. Cassel. 1998. The Future of Long Life (letter). Science
    281:1611-1612.
23. Olshansky, S.J., Rogers, R.G., Carnes, B.A., Smith, L. 2000. Emerging Infectious Diseases:
    The Fifth Stage of the Epidemiologic Transition? World Health Statistics Quarterly 51
    (2,3,4):207-217.
24. Olshansky, S.J., Carnes, B.A., Butler, R. 2001. If Humans Were Built to Last. Scientific
    American (March).
25. Olshansky, S.J., Carnes, B.A., Désesquelles, A. 2001. Prospects for Human Longevity. Science
    291 (5508):1491-1492.
26. Olshansky, S.J. 2000. The Demography of Aging. Geriatric Medicine. Cassel, C.K., H.J.
    Cohen, E.B. Larson, D.E. Meier, N.M. Resnick, L.Z. Rubenstein, and L.B. Sorensen (Eds.). New
    York: Springer, (Chapter 2), (revision of 1997 chapter).
27. Carnes, B.A., Olshansky, S.J. 2001. Heterogeneity and its Biodemographic Implications for
    Longevity and Mortality. Experimental Gerontology 36:419-430.
28. Olshansky, S.J., Carnes, B.A. 2001. The Quest for Immortality: Science at the Frontiers of
    Aging, Norton Press: New York.
29. Olshansky, S.J., Carnes, B.A. 2001. A Journey Through the Interdisciplinary Landscape of
    Biodemography. Social Science Research Council (Oxford University Press).
30. Olshansky, S.J., Carnes, B.A. 2001. Modern Topics in the Biology of Aging (R. Adelman and V.
    Cristofalo, Eds.), Annual Review of Gerontology and Geriatrics, Volume 21. Springer Publishing
    Company, Inc., New York.
31. Olshansky, S.J. 2002. Aging. World Book Encyclopedia. Chicago.
32. Olshansky, S.J. Mortality. 2002. The Macmillan Encyclopedia of Aging (D. J. Ekerdt, Ed.).
C. Research Support

Ongoing Research
None.

Completed Research
K02 AG00785 (Olshansky)                                                 6/15/98 to 5/31/03
NIA
Training Program on the Biodemography of Aging
The specific aim of this grant is to enable the principal investigator to continue with, and further,
advance the theoretical and methodological development of biodemography through a training
program in the biological and social sciences.
Role: Principal Investigator

Center on Aging Pilot (Olshansky and De Grey)                                         2002 to 2003
International Association of Biomedical Gerontology's 10th Congress
Role: Co-Principal Investigator

Center on Aging Pilot (Olshansky)                                      2000 to 2001
"International Repository for Scholarship on Aging"
Role: Principal Investigator