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3/4/2025 - Medical Grand Rounds: Can we measure and intervene with our biological age?

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INTRODUCTION

Credit Hours: CME 1.00

Target Audience:

Faculty, residents, fellows, and community physicians in General Internal Medicine and subspecialties.

Educational Objectives:

Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to:

    • Distinguish between biological age and chronological age
    • Explain the current knowledge about how biological age is measured
    • Define the concept of Cellular senescence
    • Describe senotherapeutics

Suggested Additional Reading & Joint Accreditation Statement - Note: This Accreditation Statement Supersedes All Other Statements:

    Suggested Additional Reading:
  • A molecular index for biological age identified from the metabolome and senescence-associated secretome in humans (Aging Cell, 2024)
  • Spatial mapping of cellular senescence: emerging challenges and opportunities (Nature Aging, 2023)
  • Senescence as a therapeutic target in cancer and age-related diseases (Nat Rev Drug Disc, 2025).


Joint Accreditation Statement

In support of improving patient care, the University of Pittsburgh is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.


Physician (CME)

The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine designates this enduring material activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™.Each physician should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.


Other health care professionals will receive a certificate of attendance confirming the number of contact hours commensurate with the extent of participation in this activity.

Authors:
Aditi Gurkar, PhD — Associate Vice Chair, Academic Advancement, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Geriatric Medicine, Aging Institute, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
No relationships with industry relevant to the content of this educational activity have been disclosed.
Dept. Internal Medicine MGR Planning Committee: Michael Donahoe, MD — Professor of Medicine, Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, Executive Vice Chair of Clinical Affairs, Department of Medicine
No relationships with industry relevant to the content of this educational activity have been disclosed.
No other members of the planning committee, speakers, presenters, authors, content reviewers and/or anyone else in a position to control the content of this education activity have relevant financial relationships with any companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.

This activity is approved for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™

The University of Pittsburgh is an affirmative action, equal opportunity institution.