Kaare Christensen DMSc, PhD, MD

Kaare has experience in leadership over the last decade as the Director of both the Danish Twin Registry and The Danish Aging Research Center, and as Deputy Director for international NIA research programs based at Duke University. He has been heading large-scale aging studies with a focus on twins and the oldest-old, taking advantage of the unique data resources in Denmark to shed light on the mechanisms of development and aging.

Kaare has a longstanding interest in sex differences in health and survival as well as in the relation between early life events and later life health outcomes. He is engaged in interdisciplinary aging research combining methods from epidemiology, genetics, medicine, and demography. He has authored or co-authored more than 450 articles in peer-reviewed, international journals.