 Dr. Walter M. Bortz: biography
Born: March 20, 1930, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Residence: Palo Alto, California
Family: Married, four children,
nine grandchildren
Education: Episcopal Academy, 1947; Williams College, Cum Laude, B.A., 1951; University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, M.D., 1955
Dr. Bortz is the past president of the American Geriatrics Society and the co-chairman of the American Medical Association's Task Force on Aging. He is a specialist in internal medicine with a large clinical practice at the Palo Alto Medical Clinic. He is also a clinical associate professor of medicine at Stanford University.
An avid runner, 70-year-old Dr. Bortz has completed over 20 marathons in cities including
Boston, Honolulu, San Francisco, London, and Athens.
Dr. Bortz has published over 100 scholarly papers in academic and medical
journals, as well as articles in The New York Times, Washington Post, San
Francisco Chronicle, Town & Country and Runner's World. His books, "We Live Too Short and Die Too Long," and "Dare To Be 100" are bestsellers and have
been published in the US, Japan, Italy, and the Netherlands.
Dr. Bortz stresses physical and mental activity as the key to longevity. He
uses his vast clinical experience and immense knowledge to support his
theories and research on aging.
Dr. Bortz is known to spin a limerick from time to time. Here's a recent one:
You gotta have guts to grow old.
To claim life, you've got to be bold.
But you've got to be smart,
as well as have heart,
if you want your whole tale to be told
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