Eric B. Larson's research has changed how people think about healthy aging. Group Health Research Institute's (GHRI) executive director since 2002, Dr. Larson is a member of the Institute of Medicine and a national leader in geriatrics research.

A general internist, Dr. Larson has pursued an array of research, ranging from clinical interests such as Alzheimer's disease and genomics to health services research involving technology assessment, cost-effectiveness analysis, and quality improvement. His research on aging includes a longstanding collaboration between Group Health and the University of Washington (UW) called the Adult Changes in Thought (ACT) study. ACT's many groundbreaking results include news linking exercise to later onset of dementia. Several of Dr. Larson's research projects are related to promoting successful aging and high functioning in seniors. With colleagues at the UW, he is executive co-producer of the Art of Aging, a news-magazine series on public television and the Web.

Dr. Larson strives to keep GHRI on the cutting edge of health research. He has provided leadership on several new initiatives, including serving as principal investigator of a National Institutes of Health Roadmap project to expand the capacity of the HMO Research Network, launching GHRI research programs in health informatics and obesity, and evaluating the Medical Home model at Group Health. In 2008, Dr. Larson facilitated Group Health's inclusion in the UW's new Northwest Institute for Genetic Medicine, a collaboration among local research institutions to support the translation of genetic research into clinical care. He has also invited many additional UW researchers to serve as GHRI affiliate investigators, established a formal affiliation agreement with the UW School of Public Health, and strengthened the Institute's relationship with its partners in the Group Health care-delivery system.

Dr. Larson served as medical director for the UW Medical Center and associate dean for clinical affairs at its medical school from 1989 to 2002. He is a member and past president of the Society of General Internal Medicine (SGIM), having received their highest honor, the Robert J. Glaser Award, in 2004. Dr. Larson is also a Master of the American College of Physicians (ACP) and served on their Board of Regents for nearly a decade, including one term as chair. He has been a commissioner on The Joint Commission since 1999.

Dr. Larson maintains a small but long-standing internal medicine practice.

Related information:

• Institute of Medicine
• Adult Changes in Thought (ACT) study
• Art of Aging
• National Institutes of Health Roadmap project
• HMO Research Network (HMORN)
• Northwest Institute for Genetic Medicine
• Society of General Internal Medicine
• American College of Physicians (ACP)

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Recent publications

Reitz C, Jun G, Naj A, Rajbhandary R, Vardarajan BN, Wang LS, Valladares O, Lin CF, Larson EB, Graff-Radford NR, Evans D, De Jager PL, Crane PK, Buxbaum JD, Murrell JR, Raj T, Ertekin-Taner N, Logue M, Baldwin CT, Green RC, Barnes LL, Cantwell LB, Fallin MD, Go RC, Griffith P, Obisesan TO, Manly JJ, Lunetta KL, Kamboh MI, Lopez OL, Bennett DA, Hendrie H, Hall KS, Goate AM, Byrd GS, Kukull WA, Foroud TM, Haines JL, Farrer LA, Pericak-Vance MA, Schellenberg GD, Mayeux R; Alzheimer Disease Genetics Consortium. Variants in the ATP-binding cassette transporter (ABCA7), apolipoprotein E 4, and the risk of late-onset Alzheimer disease in African Americans. JAMA. 2013;309(14):1483-92. doi: 10.1001/jama.2013.2973. PubMed

Schick UM, McDavid A, Crane PK, Weston N, Ehrlich K, Newton KM, Wallace R, Bookman E, Harrison T, Aragaki A, Wang SS, Reiner AP, Jackson RD, Peters U, Larson EB, Jarvik GP, Carlson CS. Confirmation of the reported association of clonal chromosomal mosaicism with an increased risk of incident hematologic cancer. PLoS ONE 8(3): e59823. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0059823.

Ritchie MD, Denny JC, Zuvich RL, Crawford DC, Schildcrout JS, Bastarache L, Ramirez AH, Mosely JD, Pulley JM, Basford MA, Bradford Y, Rasmussen LV, Pathak J, Chute CG, Kullo IJ, McCarty CA, Chisholm RL, Kho AN, Carlson CS, Larson EB, Jarvik GP, Sotoodehnia N, Manolio TA, Li R, Masys DR, Haines JL, Roden DM. Genome- and phenome-wide analysis of cardiac conduction identifies markers of arrhythmia risk. Circulation. 2013 Mar 5 [Epub ahead of print]. PubMed

Holton P, Ryten M, Nalls M, Trabzuni D, Weale ME, Hernandez D, Crehan H, Gibbs JR, Mayeux R, Haines JL, Farrer LA, Pericak-Vance MA, Schellenberg GD; Alzheimer's Disease Genetics Consortium, Ramirez-Restrepo M, Engel A, Myers AJ, Corneveaux JJ, Huentelman MJ, Dillman A, Cookson MR, Reiman EM, Singleton A, Hardy J, Guerreiro R, Apostolova LG, Arnold SE, Baldwin CT, Barber R, Barmada MM, Beach TG, Beecham GW, Beekly D, Bennett DA, Bigio EH, Bird TD, Blacker D, Boeve BF, Bowen JD, Boxer A, Burke JR, Buros J, Buxbaum JD, Cairns NJ, Cantwell LB, Cao C, Carlson CS, Carney RM, Carrasquillo MM, Carroll SL, Chui HC, Clark DG, Cotman CW, Crane PK, Crocco EA, Cruchaga C, Cummings JL, De Jager PL, DeCarli C, DeKosky ST, Demirci FY, Diaz-Arrastia R, Dick M, Dickson DW, Duara R, Ellis WG, Ertekin-Taner N, Evans D, Faber KM, Fallon KB, Farlow MR, Ferris S, Foroud TM, Frosch MP, Galasko DR, Ganguli M, Gearing M, Geschwind DH, Ghetti B, Gilbert JR, Gilman S, Giordani B, Glass JD, Goate AM, Graff-Radford NR, Green RC, Growdon JH, Hakonarson H, Hamilton RL, Harrell LE, Head E, Honig LS, Hulette CM, Hyman BT, Jarvik GP, Jicha GA, Jin LW, Jun G, Kamboh MI, Karlawish J, Karydas A, Kauwe JS, Kaye JA, Kim R, Koo EH, Kowall NW, Kramer P, Kukull WA, Lah JJ, Larson EB, Levey AI, Lieberman AP, Lopez OL, Lunetta KL, Mack WJ, Marson DC, Martin ER, Martiniuk F, Mash DC, Masliah E, McCormick WC, McCurry SM, McDavid AN, McKee AC, Mesulam M, Miller BL, Miller CA, Miller JW, Montine TJ, Morris JC, Naj AC, Nowotny P, Parisi JE, Peskind E, Petersen RC, Poon WW, Potter H, Quinn JF, Raj A, Rajbhandary RA, Raskind M, Reisberg B, Reitz C, Ringman JM, Roberson ED, Rogaeva E, Rosenberg RN, Sano M, Saykin AJ, Schneider JA, Schneider LS, Seeley WW, Shelanski ML, Smith CD, Sonnen JA, Spina S, St George-Hyslop P, Stern RA, Tanzi RE, Trojanowski JQ, Troncoso JC, Tsuang DW, Valladares O, Van Deerlin VM, Vardarajan BN, Vinters HV, Vonsattel JP, Wang LS, Weintraub S, Welsh-Bohmer KA, Williamson J, Woltjer RL, Wright CB, Younkin SG. Initial assessment of the pathogenic mechanisms of the recently identified Alzheimer risk loci. Ann Hum Genet. 2013;77(2):85-105. doi: 10.1111/ahg.12000. Epub 2013 Jan 30. PubMed

Gray SL, Anderson ML, Hubbard RA, LaCroix A, Crane PK, McCormick W, Bowen JD, McCurry SM, Larson EB. Frailty and incident dementia. J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci. 2013 Feb 18 [Epub ahead of print]. PubMed

Tsuang D, Leverenz JB, Lopez OL, Hamilton RL, Bennett DA, Schneider JA, Buchman AS, Larson EB, Crane PK, Kaye JA, Kramer P, Woltjer R, Trojanowski JQ, Weintraub D, Chen-Plotkin AS, Irwin DJ, Rick J, Schellenberg GD, Watson GS, Kukull W, Nelson PT, Jicha GA, Neltner JH, Galasko D, Masliah E, Quinn JF, Chung KA, Yearout D, Mata IF, Wan JY, Edwards KL, Montine TJ, Zabetian CP. APOE 4 increases risk for dementia in pure synucleinopathies. JAMA Neurol. 2013;70(2):223-8. doi: 10.1001/jamaneurol.2013.600. PubMed

Crosslin DR, McDavid A, Weston N, Zheng X, Hart E, de Andrade M, Kullo IJ, McCarty CA, Doheny KF, Pugh E, Kho A, Hayes MG, Ritchie MD, Saip A, Crawford DC, Crane PK, Newton K, Carrell DS, Gallego CJ, Nalls MA, Li R, Mirel DB, Crenshaw A, Couper DJ, Tanaka T, van Rooij FJA, Chen M-H, Smith AV, Zakai NA, Yango Q, Garcia M, Liu Y, Lumley T, Folsom AR, Reiner AP, Felix JF, Dehghan A, Wilson Jg, Bis JC, Fox CS, Glazer NL, Cupples LA, Coresh J, Eiriksdottir G, Gudnason V, Bandinelli S, Frayling TM, Chakravarti A, van Duijn CM, Melzer D, Levy D, Boerwinkle E, Singleton AB, Hernandez DG, Longo DL, Witteman JCM, Psaty BM, Ferrucci L, Harris TB, O’Donnell CJ, Ganesh SK, CHARGE Hematology Working Group, Larson EB, Carlson CS, Jarvik GP, and the Electronic Medical Records and Genomics (eMERGE) Network Genetic variation associated with circulating monocyte count in the eMERGE Network. Hum Mol Genet. 2013 Jan 12. [Epub ahead of print].

O'Hare AM, Walker R, Haneuse S, Crane PK, McCormick WC, Bowen JD, Larson EB. Relationship between longitudinal measures of renal function and onset of dementia in a community cohort of older adults. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2012;60(12):2215-22. doi: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2012.04238.x. PubMed

Li G, Bekris LM, Leong L, Steinbart EJ, Shofer JB, Crane PK, Larson EB, Peskind ER, Bird TD, Yu CE. TOMM40 intron 6 poly-T length, age at onset, and neuropathology of AD in individuals with APOE varepsilon3/varepsilon3. Alzheimers Dement. 2012 Nov 22. pii: S1552-5260(12)02389-8. doi [Epub ahead of print]. PubMed

Dams-O'Connor K, Gibbons LE, Bowen JD, McCurry SM, Larson EB, Crane PK. Risk for late-life re-injury, dementia and death among individuals with traumatic brain injury: a population-based study. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 2012 Nov 21 [Epub ahead of print]. PubMed

Montine TJ, Larson EB. Late-life dementias: does this unyielding global challenge require a broader view? JAMA. 2009;302(23):2593-4. PubMed

Larson EB. Group Health Cooperative—one coverage-and-delivery model for accountable care. N Engl J Med. 2009;361(17):1620-2. PubMed

To view more publications, please see Dr. Larson's CV.

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