Erwin Tan

Erwin Tan, is Senior Director of AARP Health Thought Leadership where he leads AARP’s work on healthy longevity and drives thought leadership on health disparities to highlight the importance of perceptions of aging and age discrimination. In this role he cultivates collaborations with academic institutions and scientific organizations to promote AARP’s vision that everyone should be able to live a healthier and longer life. As a physician with training in internal medicine, geriatric medicine and integrative medicine, Tan previously served as the director of what is now AmeriCorps Seniors before joining AARP. From 2004 to 2010, he served as an assistant professor of medicine at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine where he was an attending physician in the Division of Geriatric Medicine. He was also a co-investigator in the Baltimore Experience Corps Study. From 2003-2004, Erwin was a White House Fellow serving as a Special Assistant to the Secretary of Veterans Affairs. Before coming to the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan area, Erwin was a faculty member at the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine, where he served faculty and was a Geriatric Medicine Fellow and a Primary Care Medicine Resident. Tan holds an MD from the New York University School of Medicine and was a member of the Alpha Omega Alpha honor society. He received his undergraduate degree from Brown University, and was an exchange student at Tougaloo College, an HBCU in Jackson, MS. Tan was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the United States Army Reserves and was in the Corps of Cadets at Providence College ROTC. Tan was born in Indonesia and is a naturalized citizen of the United States.