Marie BERNARD

Title: Deputy Director

Office(s): Office of the Director (OD)

Phone Number: 301-496-0216

Email Address: bernardma2@mail.nih.gov

Biography

Marie A. Bernard, MD serves as Deputy Director of the National Institute on Aging (NIA) at the National Institutes of Health. As NIA’s senior geriatrician, she serves as the principal advisor to the NIA director, working closely with the director in overseeing approximately $3.1 billion in aging and Alzheimer’s disease research conducted and supported annually by the Institute. She co-chairs two new Department of Health and Human Services Healthy People 2020 objectives: 1) Older Adults and 2) Dementias, including Alzheimer’s Disease. Within NIH she co-chairs the Inclusion Governance Committee, that oversees inclusion in clinical research by sex/gender, race/ethnicity, and age – inclusive of pediatric and older adult subjects. She has been recognized for her leadership in geriatrics by receipt in the Clark A Tibbits Award from the Association for Gerontology in Higher Education (2013), and the Donald P Kent Award from the Gerontological Society of America (2014).

Until October 2008 she was the endowed professor and founding chairman of the Donald W. Reynolds Department of Geriatric Medicine at the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine (the third department of geriatrics in the U.S.), and Associate Chief of Staff for Geriatrics and Extended Care at the Oklahoma City Veterans Affairs Medical Center. She has held numerous national leadership roles, including chair of the Clinical Medicine Section of the Gerontological Society of America, chair of the Department of Veterans Affairs National Research Advisory Committee, board member of the American Geriatrics Society, president of the Association for Gerontology in Higher Education, and president of the Association of Directors of Geriatric Academic Programs. She has lectured and published widely in her area of research, nutrition and function in older populations, as well as related to geriatric education.

She received her undergraduate education at Bryn Mawr College and her MD from University of Pennsylvania. She trained in internal medicine at Temple University Hospital in Philadelphia, PA, where she also served as chief resident. She has received additional training through the AAMC Health Services Research Institute, the Geriatric Education Center of Pennsylvania, and the Wharton School Executive Development program.