VJ Periyakoil
Board Secretary - MD - Director, Stanford Aging and Ethnogeriatrics Center
Dr. VJ Periyakoil is a Professor of Medicine and Associate Dean for Research at Stanford University School of Medicine. Prof. Periyakoil founded and directs Stanford Medicine's Longevity and Healthy Aging Research Center (https://aging.stanford.edu) and mentors numerous junior faculty members. She also founded and directs the Letter Project (http://med.stanford.edu/letter.html).
Dr. Periyakoil has won many teaching and research awards, including a Young Investigator Award from the American Association of Hospice and Palliative Medicine; a Plenary Research Paper Award from the American Geriatrics Society (2014); a Geriatrics Research Poster Award (2015); a Research Award from the American Association of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (2015); and an Innovator Award from the American Medical Association (2015).
Her recent awards include a Research Paper Award from the ABIM Foundation; the Dr. David H. Solomon Award for Clinical Research in Aging (2022) from UCLA; the Award of Honor for Exceptional Community Service from the Office of the Ambassador of Fiji to the United States (2024); the Richard Payne Outstanding Achievement Award (2025); and the Palliative Care Visionary Award from AAHPM (2025).
