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| E. Jeffrey Metter, M.D., Senior Investigator Longitudinal Studies Section |
 Dr. E. Jeffrey Metter received his M.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1971. He completed a medical internship and neurology residency at the Mayo Graduate School of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota in 1976. He returned to Los Angeles, where he became a staff neurologist and chief of the stroke rehabilitation ward at the Veterans Administration Medical Center, Sepulveda, California. He was also on the full time faculty in the Department of Neurology, UCLA School of Medicine. In 1987, he joined the National Institute on Aging as the physician for the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging. Research Interests: Longitudinal Studies Section (LSS) schedules and manages the activities of the men and women research volunteers during their biannual two and half-day visits during which time the volunteers participate in numerous research studies. LSS staff conducts the clinical evaluations that establish health status of all active participants on every visit. The results are used in many investigations and also are used to determine the safety of research procedures for various participants. The results of the clinical evaluations are given to participants and to their physicians if requested by the participant. Between visits, LSS staff maintain communication with participants, provide information about the findings of the study to participants both individually and by means of a periodic participant newsletter. They also maintain periodic contact with those who either are unable or unwilling to come in for regularly scheduled visits. LSS staff manages the recruitment of new research volunteers from a large group of applicants on a waiting list. LSS staff employs numerous mechanisms to learn about deaths in the study sample, obtain information about deceased BLSA participants and manage the autopsy program. |
| Contact Information: Clinical Research Branch Harbor Hospital 3001 Hanover Street Baltimore, MD 21225 Phone 410-350-3980 E mail metterj@grc.nia.nih.gov For more information about the Branch: http://www.grc.nia.nih.gov/branches/crb/crb.htm |
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