With a background in anthropology, public policy, and medical education, I'm interested in aging from cultural, political, and clinical perspectives. In medical education, I evaluated the impact of community-based geriatric training on the attitudes of primary care physicians. My current research explores the impact of urban planning and zoning on health and quality of life for older adults "aging-in-place" in New York City.

Dr. Grosskopf has extensive experience working in community health settings, specializing in HIV prevention and education with urban youth and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) health.  He has held positions with Hunter College's Center for HIV Educational Studies and Training (CHEST), the Bureau of HIV/AIDS at the New York City Department of Health & Mental Hygiene, and the New York City Department of Education.

At the beginning of my academic career my research focused on cardiac rehabilitation, but in the past few years I shifted my interest to a population in danger of developing cardiac disorders, that of obese children.  Since about half of obese school-aged children become obese adults, I decided to address the risk factors for cardiac disease from the primary prevention domain.