Learn, Embrace, Age Well
About the Author
I am a physician who has spent my career caring for people as they age, walking alongside them through illness, recovery, uncertainty, and, at times, the end of life. As a board-certified geriatrician and lifestyle medicine physician, my work has never been limited to managing disease. It has always been about understanding how people live, how they change, and what continues to matter as life becomes more complex.
Over the years, my patients have taught me far more than any textbook. They have shown me what resilience looks like in its quietest forms, how identity shifts with time, and how meaning is often found not in the milestones, but in the moments in between.
My own life has also been shaped by experiences I could not have anticipated. The loss of my son changed the way I understand both medicine and life. It blurred the line between doctor and human being, and deepened the lessons I had witnessed for years in the lives of those I cared for.
These experiences led me to write Life, Love, and the In-Between, a reflection on aging, loss, connection, and what it means to live well across the full arc of life. My work is grounded in the belief that aging is not simply a process of decline, but one of continued growth, adaptation, and evolving purpose.
In addition to my writing, I am the founder of GeriAcademy, where I share insights on healthspan, longevity, and the practical realities of aging, through a framework that integrates clinical medicine with the lived experience of my patients.
Whether in my clinical work or my writing, my goal is the same, to help people better understand their lives as they are living them, and to approach aging with clarity, intention, and meaning.
Books & Publications
This collection highlights my published work as well as projects currently in development. My writing is an extension of my clinical practice, grounded in real-world geriatrics, focused on function, independence, and quality of life, and written to help patients, families, and professionals better understand the aging experience. As new chapters of research, reflection, and teaching continue to unfold, this page will grow to include future books and related publications.
Life, Love, and the In-Between
I have walked with people as they age, change, and live their lives. I have also been with them at the bedside when they are dying. What they taught me changed how I understand love, loss, and what it means to live well.
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As a geriatrician, I have spent years caring for people across the full arc of life. I have seen how identity shifts with time, how meaning evolves, and how connection often deepens when life becomes more uncertain.
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When my own life changed in ways I could not have prepared for, the lessons I had learned from my patients became deeply personal. The distance between doctor and human being disappeared.
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This is not a book about aging as decline. It is about growth through complexity, about how love, illness, and loss reshape who we are, and about how relevance is redefined over time.
What’s Coming Next: The Art of HEALTHspan.
After years of walking alongside patients through aging, illness, recovery, and loss, I began asking a different question.
Not only what gives life meaning,
but how do we protect the biology that allows us to live it well?
My next book, The Art of HEALTHspan, is a structured exploration of how we age and how we preserve capacity across time.
It is not a wellness manual.
It is not an anti-aging guide.
It is a systems-based framework grounded in gerontology, geriatrics, and lifestyle medicine.
HEALTH is organized into six core domains:
H – Health Systems
What aging actually is.
How organ systems change, how complexity accumulates, and how reserve is built and lost.
E – Energy
The body’s capacity to generate and deploy fuel.
Sleep, metabolic resilience, stress physiology, and why fatigue is never “just tiredness.”
A – Activity
Function as the true measure of health.
Mobility, strength, gait speed, frailty, and why movement predicts healthspan more than almost anything else.
L – Longevity
Risk, reserve, and time.
Cardiometabolic health, cognitive durability, hormonal transitions, and prevention as a decades-long process.
T – Transformation
Clinical and psychosocial adaptation.
How people recalibrate when diagnoses emerge, function shifts, or roles change.
H – Habits
The daily drivers that sustain capacity.
Nutrition, sleep, movement, stress modulation, social engagement, and the Reset framework for when life disrupts routine.
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The book moves from biology to function to risk to adaptation to execution.
It reframes aging not as decline to be feared, nor optimization to be chased, but as a longitudinal process that can be understood, respected, and influenced.
The goal is not to live forever.
It is to preserve capacity, protect identity, and remain engaged across the full arc of life.
