William E. Sonntag BS, MS, MD

Dr. Sonntag received his Ph.D. in Physiological Psychology from Tulane University where he studied with Dr. Arnold Gerall and conducted his dissertation research in the laboratory of Dr. Andrew Schally and his colleague, Dr. Akira Arimura. After his graduate training, he received a National Institute on Aging postdoctoral fellowship in Neuroendocrinology to study with Dr. Joseph Meites, a prominent neuroendocrinologist at Michigan State University. In 1984 he received an appointment at the Wake Forest University School of Medicine in Winston-Salem, NC where, for 23 years, he served on the faculty of the Department of Physiology/Pharmacology, Scientific Director for Basic Science Research at the Roena Kulynch Center for Memory and Cognition Research and Scientific Director of the J. Paul Sticht Center on Aging. His accomplishments include the publication of more than 200 original manuscripts, development of medical and a graduate school curriculum for physiology, neuroscience, and aging, past-chair of the Biological Sciences Section of the Gerontological Society, as well as service on a variety of NIH advisory committees, editorial boards and study sections. As of January 1, 2016, he is the Editor-In-Chief of The Journal of the American Aging Association [AGE].