Stanimir Vuk-Pavlovič, Ph.D.
Lecture 1: How Sweet to Quit! Let Emeriti Stay Fit!
While fitness facilites available to Mayo Clinic emeriti staff are second to none, the rate of their utilization of these facilities is unsatisfactorily low. Reasons for the underperformance by the eledrly, including the poor motivation among retired medical professionals, have not been fully understood. Evidence for the modes of effective motivating maintenance of a healthy lifestyle in the elderly is rather scarce. For that, it appears that social support and/or a social/humanitarian motive are critical. Leadership of the Mayo Clinic emeriti staff is looking into the procedures to identify individual charactersitics of our membrship that would be most motivating for adoption and maintenance of physical and mental fitness programs.
BIO
Stanimir Vuk-Pavlović is Professor Emeritus (zaslužni profesor), Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science in Rochester, Minnesota and Adjunct Professor, University of Rijeka, Rijeka, Croatia. A native of Zagreb, Croatia, Prof. Vuk-Pavlović was educated in Zagreb, Israel and the United States. He spend thirty years on staff of Mayo Clinic where, among other activities, he founded and for fifteen years directed the Stem Cell Laboratory, Mayo Clinic Cancer Center. The laboratory pioneered basic and clinical studies in cellular immunotherapy of cancer and the use of mesenchymal stromal cells in regenerative medicine. Since having retired three years ago, Prof. Vuk-Pavlović has been a member of the Executive Committee, Mayo Clinic Rochester Emeriti Staff. This year he serves as Chair of the Executive Committee.