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May J. Reed

May J. Reed

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Associate Professor of Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine
Section Chief, Harborview Medical Center
Medical Director, Senior Care Clinic

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Dr. Reed graduated from Harvard Medical School and completed her residency in Internal Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital. She came to University of Washington to train in clinical geriatrics and aging research. Dr. Reed is Section Chief of Geriatric Medicine at Harborview, Medical Director of the HMC Senior Care Clinic and UW Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine, Division of Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine. Dr. Reed’s longstanding research interest has been in defining the effects of aging on the microvasculature and the extracellular matrix (ECM) in vitro and in vivo. Her present focus is on changes in ECM of the microvasculature during brain aging and neurodegeneration. Dr. Reed has been continuously funded by NIH for over 25 years.