The Okinawa Program

Bradley J. Willcox, M.D., M.Sc., trained in internal medicine at the Mayo Clinic and is a geriatrics fellow in the Division on Aging, Harvard Medical School. He is also a resident scholar at the University of the Ryukyus in Okinawa, Japan, and co-investigator of the Okinawa Centenarian Study.D. Craig Willcox, Ph.D., is a medical anthropologist and gerontologist. He is Assistant Professor at Okinawa Prefectural University — College ofNursing and co-investigator of the Okinawa Centenarian Study. The Willcoxes are identical twins.Makoto Suzuki, M.D., Ph.D., is a cardiologist and geriatrician. He is Professor Emeritus of Community Medicine at the University of the Ryukyus and Professor and Chair, Department of Gerontology, Okinawa International University. He is principal investigator of the Okinawa Centenarian Study, a Japanese Ministry of Health — sponsored study of the world’s healthiest and longest-lived people.