About Me

Katrina Gwinn-Hardy, MD:
I am a neurologist who has worked at medical schools including Vanderbilt, University of Michigan, and the Mayo Clinics in Scottsdale and Jacksonville, and am now at the National Institutes of Health. I have also worked in private practice in Jacksonville Beach Florida. I have taught numerous medical and graduate school students and given many lectures to lay audiences around the country. As an adult neurologist, a great deal of my work involves the elderly. As I have aged myself, I have to come increasingly appreciate the issues, choices, and fears which my patients have dealt with regarding their own aging process. Many of my patients have found their own solutions to problems that I will also share with you here. Other sources of inspiration are my physician teachers and mentors. I have been fortunate enough to have experience from many fine institutions as an undergraduate, laboratory researcher, and physician, in this country and abroad. My own parents, now in their late 70s, my aunts and uncles, and their friends are also sources of inspiration as well as information.

Carl Gwinn PhD:
I am a Physics Professor at the University of California Santa Barbara. I have had a lifelong interest in photography, and in recent years have devoted a great deal of my leisure time to photographing underwater inhabitants and scenes. You can see a few examples of my dive photography at http://blackcormorant.net. I have worked to protect the Channel Islands Kelp forests, dived to count fish (a key part of protecting our oceans), for organizations including NOAA, and participated in other scientific efforts as a photographer. I have recently taken my skills back onto the land, and photographed its inhabitants (including humans!) for this project on health as we age.