Dr. Bradley J. Willcox

Dr. Bradley Willcox Bradley J. Willcox, M.D., M.Sc., is a National Institutes of Health-funded scientist in Geriatrics at the Pacific Health Research Institute, and an internal medicine physician and Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Geriatric Medicine, John. A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaii. He is a part-time scholar at the University of the Ryukyus in Okinawa, Japan, where he is co-Principal Investigator of the Okinawa Centenarian Study. He received his doctorate of medicine from the University of Toronto and trained in internal medicine at the Mayo Clinic and geriatric medicine at Harvard Medical School.

Dr. Willcox has published widely in the fields of successful aging, nutrition, and health and has been invited to deliver Grand Rounds at the Mayo Clinic, Harvard University’s Division on Aging, the Harvard School of Public Health, Tokyo Agricultural University, and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, among other institutions. Dr. Willcox has presented his research at more than fifty national and international meetings. His research has been supported by the U.S. National Institutes of Health, U.S. National Institute on Aging, Medical Research Council of Canada, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council, the Mayo Foundation, Harvard Medical School, and the Japan Foundation for Aging and Health among other funding agencies. He has been awarded a Director’s Citation from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the American Federation for Medical Research Henry Christian Award among other honors.

Selected Peer-Reviewed Publications from over sixty:

  • Willcox BJ, et al. How Much Should We Eat? The Association Between Energy Intake and Mortality in a 36-year Follow-up Study of Japanese-American Men in Hawaii. J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci. 2004; 59(8): 789-95.
  • Bernstein AM, Willcox BJ, et al. Autopsy of an Okinawan-Japanese Centenarian: Absence of Many Age-Related Diseases. J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci. 2004 Nov; 59(11): 1195-9.
  • Willcox BJ, et al. Growth Associated Proteins and Regeneration-Induced Gene Expression in the Aging Neuron. Mech Age Dev 2004; 125:513-16.
  • Willcox BJ, et al. Nutrition and Aging in Okinawa: Is There a Diet that Extends Health Span? J Am Diet Assoc Pulse (CPE) 2001; 20(2): 5-8.
  • Willcox BJ, Willcox DC, Suzuki M. The Okinawa Diet. New York, NY. Random House, 2004.
  • Selected Recent Invited Presentations
  • June, 2005: Lecture for American Aging Association, San Francisco, CA
  • June, 2005: Keynote Lecture for Buck Institute, Santa Rosa, CA
  • June, 2005: Keynote Lecture for KRONOS Longevity Institute, Phoenix, AZ
  • March, 2005: Lecture for 2nd International Conference on Longevity, Sydney, Australia
  • November, 2004: Lecture for American Heart Association Meeting, New Orleans, LA
  • May, 2004: Keynote Lecture for: Spring Lake Village, Santa Rosa, CA