Robert N. Butler

Physician, gerontologist, psychiatrist, public servant and Pulitzer Prizewinning author of Why Survive, Robert N. Butler, M.D. is president and CEO of the International Longevity Center. In 1975, he became founding director of the National Institute on Aging of the National Institutes of Health, and in 1982 he founded the first department of geriatrics in a U.S. medical school at The Mount Sinai Medical Center.