L. Stephen Coles

L. Stephen Coles[1][2] (born January 19, 1941) is the co-founder and the Executive Director of the Gerontology Research Group,;[3][4] a Visiting Scholar in the computer science department at the University of California, Los Angeles, United States.;[5] and an Assistant Researcher in the Department of Surgery, at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, in Los Angeles, California.[4][6][7][8] He is a researcher and a spokesperson on supercentenarians[9][10] and on aging.[11]

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Biography

He is an M.D. and Ph.D., plus the author of numerous scientific papers, mostly on aging and supercentenarians.[12][13] and holds one patent.[14] The Web of Science shows that his works have been cited over 100 times, leading to an h-index of 7.[15]

He received his B.S. in electrical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York, his Master's in mathematics from the Carnegie Institute of Technology, and his Ph.D. in systems and communication sciences from Carnegie Mellon University, both located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.[16] After attending Stanford University Medical School, Dr. Coles completed his Clinical Internship in OB/GYN at the Jackson Memorial Hospital of the University of Miami Medical School. He then taught at UC Berkeley[17]

He served as a Visiting Scientist for the Central Intelligence Agency's Office of Research and Development in Washington, D.C.,[17] and has published with Aubrey de Grey, Leonid Gavrilov and Jay Olshansky.[18] He is the treasurer of the Supercentenarian Research Foundation.[19]

Partial bibliography

Journals

  • Coles LS; Los Angeles Gerontology Research Group (LA-GRG). Validated supercentenarian cases aged 114 and above. Rejuvenation Research. 2006 Winter;9(4):503-5. PMID 17105392
  • Coles LS. Validated worldwide supercentenarians for 2004. Rejuvenation Research 2005 Spring;8(1):69-71. PMID 15798378
  • Coles LS; Los Angeles Gerontology Research Group (LA-GRG). Validated supercentenarian cases aged 114 and above. Rejuvenation Research 2004 Winter;7(4):271-3. Review. PMID 15671732
  • Coles LS. Demographics of human supercentenarians and the implications for longevity medicine. Ann N Y Acad Sci. 2004 Jun; 1019:490-5. Review. PMID 15247072
  • Coles LS. Demography of human supercentenarians. J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci. 2004 Jun;59(6):B579-86. PMID 15215268
  • Coles LS. Table of worldwide living supercentenarians. J Anti Aging Med. 2003;6(4):357-60. PMID 15142437
  • Coles LS. Table of worldwide living supercentenarians. J Anti Aging Med. 2003;6(3):275-8. PMID 14987438
  • Coles LS. Table of worldwide living supercentenarians. J Anti Aging Med. 2003 Spring;6(1):65-8. PMID 12941183
  • Coles LS. The life and contributions of Professor Bernard L. Strehler, founding editor-in-chief of mechanisms of aging and development, professor of biology at the University of Southern California (February 21, 1925-May 13, 2001). Mech Ageing Dev. 2002 Apr 30;123(8):821-5. PMID 12044929
  • de Grey AD, Gavrilov L, Olshansky SJ, Coles LS, Cutler RG, Fossel M, Harman SM. Antiaging technology and pseudoscience. Science. 2002 Apr 26;296(5568):656. PMID 11985356

Books

  • Extraordinary Healing: How the discoveries of Mirko Beljanski, the world's first green molecular biologist, can protect and restore your health by L. Stephen Coles, M.D., Ph.D. (2011)
  • The IP-6 with Inositol Question and Answer Book: Nature's Ultimate Anti-Cancer Pill by L. Stephen Coles and David Steinman (1999)

Patent

References

  1. ^ "L. Stephen Coles". American Men & Women of Science. 1976-1979. 
  2. ^ "L. Stephen Coles". Who's Who in the West. 1974-1992. 
  3. ^ Medina, Jennifer (January 30, 2007). "In Connecticut, World’s Oldest Woman Dies at 114.". New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/30/nyregion/30old.html?_r=1&oref=slogin. Retrieved 2007-11-16. "In the last month alone, the title of oldest person has changed hands three times, according to the Gerontology Research Group, an authority on the matter. 'The Guinness Book of World Records will not be able to keep up,' said Dr. L. Stephen Coles of the University of California, Los Angeles, the executive director of the group. 'This has been a pretty volatile time. Usually we’ve had a more stable No. 1 position.'" 
  4. ^ a b Zaslow, Jeffrey (February 28, 2005). "Gerontology sleuths search for 'supercentenarians'". Wall Street Journal (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette). http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05059/463487.stm. Retrieved 2007-10-31. "Her ripe old age was "a falsehood perpetrated by the tourism industry there," says GRG co-founder L. Stephen Coles, a physician and stem-cell researcher at UCLA's David Geffen School of Medicine, where GRG is based. GRG counts just 12 undisputed cases of people ever reaching 115." 
  5. ^ "Coles, L. Stephen". UCLA. http://www.directory.ucla.edu. Retrieved 2007-10-31. "Visit Schr; Cmptr Sci" 
  6. ^ "Rejuvenation Research". Mary Ann Liebert, Inc.. http://www.liebertonline.com/doi/abs/10.1089/rej.2006.9.503. Retrieved 2007-10-31. 
  7. ^ "Demographics of Human Supercentenarians and the Implications for Longevity Medicine". New York Academy of Sciences. http://www.annalsnyas.org/cgi/content/abstract/1019/1/490. Retrieved 2007-10-31. "Department of Surgery, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA" 
  8. ^ "Aging: The Reality". The Gerontological Society of America. http://biomed.gerontologyjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/59/6/B579. Retrieved 2007-10-31. "Department of Surgery, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California at Los Angeles." 
  9. ^ "Research group tracks oldest-living people.". Daily Bruin. June 10, 2004. http://www.dailybruin.ucla.edu/archives/id/29038/. Retrieved 2007-10-31. "They are searching for an alternate route to immortality other than the fountain of youth. ... The group works closely with the Guinness Book of World Records and is now considered the primary source for verifying the world’s oldest person for the annual records’ book. ... Coles added that about a year ago, the Guinness Book began to recognize the group as the primary source for verifying the ages of people." 
  10. ^ "Researchers look for secrets of living to 100 and beyond.". Baltimore Sun. December 31, 2006. "humans could eventually max out at about 125, said Dr. L. Stephen Coles, director of the Los Angeles Gerontology Research Group, which tracks the ages of ..." 
  11. ^ Wilson, Duff (April 15, 2007). "Aging: Disease or Business Opportunity?". New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/15/business/yourmoney/15aging.html. Retrieved 2007-10-31. "Dr. L. Stephen Coles, a researcher at the University of California, Los Angeles, recalled the excitement when he first joined the doctors and about 10 other physicians near Cancún, Mexico, in 1992 to talk about hormones and aging." 
  12. ^ "L. Stephen Coles". NIH. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez. Retrieved 2007-10-31. 
  13. ^ "L. Stephen Coles". University of Trier. http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/indices/a-tree/c/Coles:L=_Stephen.html. Retrieved 2007-10-31. 
  14. ^ "Method for imaging informational biological molecules on a semiconductor.". United States Patent and Trademark Office. http://www.google.com/patents?id=yuIgAAAAEBAJ&dq=%22L.+Stephen+Coles%22. Retrieved 2007-10-31. "Imaging biological molecules such as DNA at rates several times faster than conventional imaging techniques is carried out using a patterned silicon wafer having nano-machined grooves which hold individual molecular strands and periodically spaced unique bar codes permitting repeatably locating all images." 
  15. ^ Web of Science, accessed July 2, 2008.
  16. ^ Simon, Herbert Alexander (1996). The Sciences of the Artificial. ISBN 0262691914. http://books.google.com/books?id=k5Sr0nFw7psC&pg=PA78&dq=%22l+stephen+coles%22&ei=7wA9R9-BN4vc7QLY-_mBDg&sig=I7TLGnup7ZFb6MTJv_5k-yhfLrccarn. 
  17. ^ a b "L. Stephen Coles". Maximum Life Foundation. 2006. Archived from the original on 2007-10-17. http://web.archive.org/web/20071017143655/http://maxlife.org/coles.html. Retrieved 2007-10-31. "VP for Medical Education, The Kronos Group, is a Co-Founder and Director of the Los Angeles Gerontology Research Group. He is Assistant Researcher in the Department of Surgery at the UCLA Medical School. Dr. Coles is the author of over 70 scientific papers and holds two patents." 
  18. ^ de Grey AD, Gavrilov L, Olshansky SJ, Coles LS, Cutler RG, Fossel M, Harman SM. Antiaging technology and pseudoscience. Science. 2002 Apr 26;296(5568):656. PMID 11985356
  19. ^ "Supercentenarian Research Foundation". Supercentenarian Research Foundation. http://www.supercentenarian-research-foundation.org/organization.htm. Retrieved 2007-10-31. "L. Stephen Coles, M.D., Ph.D. - Treasurer" 

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