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<p><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Amy L. Ai, Ph.D., professor in the College of Social Work and a Faculty Affiliate with the Institute for Successful Longevity, has received a grant from the National Institutes of Health to study resilience of older patients
with advanced heart diseases undergoing open-heart surgery.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Working with Ai will be Yaacov Petscher, Ph.D., associate professor in FSU’s College of Social Work and associate director of the Florida Center for Reading Research; and Susan S. Smyth, M.D., Ph.D., chief and professor of
cardiovascular medicine at the University of Kentucky. The team will evaluate the long-term survival effect of psychological character strengths in an existing cohort of older patients, assessed before open-heart surgery over 16 years ago.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Read more at: <a href="https://isl.fsu.edu/news?fbclid=IwAR1k7DNWSXAK_Gn3fn4PYRGrJYH5bI72Ul5Ul-VF78HMYDdAy3WcuVJR7PA" target="_blank">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Bill Edmonds, Ph.D.<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Institute for Successful Longevity<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Florida State University<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="mailto:btedmond@fsu.edu"><span style="color:#0563C1">btedmond@fsu.edu</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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