Dr. Kenneth Rockwood, MD, MPA, FRCPC

Biography

Dr. Kenneth Rockwood is Professor of Medicine (Division of Geriatric Medicine and Neurology) and Clinical Research Professor of Frailty and Aging at Dalhousie University and an active staff physician. A native of Newfoundland, he received his MD from Memorial University, and completed training in Internal Medicine at the University of Alberta and in Geriatric Medicine at Dalhousie University.

Research interests

A leading authority on frailty, Dr. Rockwood has more than 600 peer-reviewed publications and nine books to his credit. For the ninth edition of the Brocklehurst’s Textbook of Geriatric Medicine & Gerontology, he is Editor in Chief. Ken has extensive collaborations internationally, including work on younger people with frailty in the UK, a deprescribing clinical trial, an intergenerational dementia prevention trial, and a large multi centre study of frailty, all in Australia. He is also working with Cape Breton University on healthy aging and dementia prevention.