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AREAS OF EXPERTISE
Geriatric & integrative medicine, healthy longevity, geroscience, health disparities, the health benefits of volunteering and national service, the impact of perceptions on aging on health.
ABOUT
Erwin Tan, MD, is senior director of AARP Health Thought Leadership, where he leads AARP’s work on healthy longevity and drives thought leadership on health disparities to highlight the importance of perceptions of aging and age discrimination. In this role, he cultivates collaborations with academic institutions and scientific organizations to promote AARP’s vision that everyone should be able to live a healthier and longer life. Tan is a physician with training in internal medicine, geriatric medicine, and integrative medicine.
Before joining AARP, Tan served as the director of what is now AmeriCorps Seniors. From 2004-2010, he served as an assistant professor of medicine at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine where he was an attending physician in the division of geriatric medicine. He was also a co-investigator in the Baltimore Experience Corps Study. From 2003-2004, Tan was a White House Fellow serving as a special assistant to the secretary of veterans affairs. Before coming to the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, Tan was a faculty member at the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine, where he was also a geriatric medicine fellow and a primary care medicine resident.
Tan earned his doctor of medicine from the New York University School of Medicine and was a member of the Alpha Omega Alpha honor society. He received his undergraduate degree from Brown University, and was an exchange student at Tougaloo College, an HBCU in Jackson, MS. Tan was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the United States Army Reserves and was in the Corps of Cadets at Providence College ROTC. Tan was born in Indonesia and is a naturalized citizen of the United States.
CONTACT
Email: etan@aarp.org
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/erwin-tan-9340162/
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Recent Publications
How Geography, Race and Ethnicity Affect Life Expectancy at 50
Date: September 1, 2023
The Facts about Prediabetes And Older Americans
Date: November 12, 2018