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Tom Perls MD is Professor of Medicine at Boston University. Over the past almost thirty years he has studied centenarians, people who are 100 years old or older as well as their family members. He is also cares for older patients at Boston Medical Center. Dr. Perls is the lead investigator for several large NIH studies that aim to discover the how and why centenarians are such a wonderful model of healthy aging and exceptional longevity.