Positive Emotions as Determinant of Health in the Second Half of Life
Dr. Anthony D. Ong holds appointments at Weill Cornell Medical College and at Cornell University, where he is professor of human development and director of the Human Health Labs.
He received his Ph.D. in developmental psychology from the University of Southern California and completed his postdoctoral training in adult development and aging at the University of Notre Dame.
He is an elected fellow of the Gerontological Society of America, an Outstanding Educator and a Merrill Presidential Scholar. Ong is the author of Emotion, Aging and Health, and the Oxford Handbook of Methods in Positive Psychology. His research has been funded by the National Institute of Aging and the Templeton Foundation among others.
Dr. Ong's Athenaeum presentation is co-sponsored by the Berger Institute for Work, Family & Children at CMC.