Paul Chamberlain
Sheffield Hallam University, UK
Title: Designing the 100 year life
Paul is director of an interdisciplinary research group Lab4Living and principal investigator on an RCUK E3 funded project exploring the design of ....... the future home and the 100yr life. His interest lies in designing and developing tools and methods to encourage and engender social innovation applying this with a focus on healthcare, disability and ageing. He explores the role of artefacts that help define pertinent societal questions as much as present solutions. He has led major interdisciplinary projects and delivered keynote lectures at leading international venues on innovation strategies and sustainable approaches to design and manufacture to support independence and quality of life Read more
Gary Sinoff
University of Haifa, Israel
Title: Futuristic Trends in Gerontology and Geriatrics: A shift in the paradigm to active ‘functional’ ageing
Prof. Gary Sinoff completed his specialization in Geriatric Medicine in Israel in 1997 and his PhD in Gerontology from the University of Haifa in. ....... He was the director of the cognitive clinic and deputy director of the department of geriatrics at Carmel Medical Center, Haifa. He has published more than 35 papers in reputed journals and contributed chapters in academic books in the area of gerontology/geriatrics and psycho-geriatrics and has been serving as an editorial board member and reviewer of reputed international journals. Read more
Barbara Martins Corrêa da Silva
Rio de Janeiro State University, Brazil
Title: Health, Nursing and Caregivers of the Elderly: Coping with Contradictions
Barbara Martins Corrêa da Silva has completed her doctorate in 2017 at Rio de Janeiro State University. She is head of the outpatient section of the....... Clementino Fraga Filho University Hospital of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). She has published 6 papers in the area of Elderly Health, is a member of the Department of Gerontological Nursing of Rio de Janeiro and is an associate member and specialist title of the Brazilian Society of Geriatrics and Gerontology. Read more
Jason Dauenhauer
State University of New York, USA
Title: Promoting Intergenerational Learning in U.S. Higher Education: Older Adult Perspectives on Course Auditing
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Kristin Heffernan
State University of New York, USA
Title: Promoting Intergenerational Learning in U.S. Higher Education: Older Adult Perspectives on Course Auditing
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Oksana Borodin
Tel Aviv University, Israel
Title: Elderly Neglect and Abuse in the Emergency Department
Oksana Borodin is a Senior Physician and Deputy Director, Geriatric Department. Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel. She completed her ....... education from Kharkov National Medical University, Kharkov, Ukraine 1985-1991. Professional Experience: 2001-2007: Registrar Physician Department of Internal Medicine "E", Meir Medical Hospital, Kfar Saba, Israel, 2007-2010: Registrar Physician Acute Geriatrics Internal Medicine, Geriatric Rehabilitation, Meir Medical Hospital, Kfar Saba, Israel, 2010-2017: Senior Physician and Geriatric Consultant. Emergency Medical Department. Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel, 2017-present: Senior Physician and Deputy Director, Geriatric Department. Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel. Read more
Wayan Suriastini
SurveyMETER, Indonesia
Title: What Prompts Policy Change? Comparative Analyses of Efforts to Create Age-Friendly Cities in 14 Cities in Indonesia
Wayan Suriastini (MPhil Public Policy RAND Graduate School and PhD in Population Policy from the Gadjah Mada University) is a researcher and the ....... Executive Director at SurveyMETER. Suriastini has been involved in large scale household, community, facilities and local government surveys for over 27 years. She has played key roles as survey manager or team leader of more than two dozens surveys including multi-purpose surveys, RCTs, impact evaluations and has a vast experience managing both quantitative and qualitative surveys in all parts of Indonesia. Research focus health and wellbeing early life education, maternal and child health, age friendly cities and communities and healthy aging. Read more
Ettore Bergamini
University Campus Biomedico, Italy
Title: Primary Prevention of Alzheimer Disease by the Pharmacological Intensification of Suppression of Aging in the City of Volterra (Tuscany, Italy)
Ettore Bergamini, MD University of Pisa, 1962; PhD Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa 1964. Full Professor of General Pathology. Chair of the....... Interdiperimental Research Centre on Biology of Aging of the University of Pisa. Past President of the Italian Gerontological Society, Biogerontology Section and of the Gerontological Society of America, Biology Section. He has published more than 200 papers in reputed journals. Read more
Joanne Kaa Earl
Macquarie University, Australia
Title: Designing Online Interventions to Improve Retirement Planning
Joanne Kaa Earl is an academic in the Department of Psychology at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia with a research focus on retirement planning and adjustment. ....... A scientist-practitioner, she also holds registration as a Psychologist, and membership of the Australian Psychological Society. Her research focuses on developing solutions to improve pre and post retirement planning along with identifying predictors of retirement adjustment. Her work has been published in the Medical Journal of Australia, American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, Women and Aging, Frontiers in Psychology, Psychology and Aging, Ageing and Society and Leisure Sciences Read more
Phylis Lan Lin
University of Indianapolis, USA
Title: The Five Fs/Hs of Successful Aging, the Proactivity Model, Stress Management, and Quality of Later Life: Conceptualization
Internationally renowned scholar, author and global education leader, Professor Lin contributes to education and international cooperation locally and ....... globally following forty-five years of dedicated teaching at the University of Indianapolis. The accredited Phylis Lan Lin Department of Social Work is named in her honor. A native of Taiwan, she holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Missouri. Professor Lin organized and chaired international conferences on China, Service Learning and Families, and wrote and edited prolifically in Chinese and English. The Master Au Ho-nien Museum at the University of Indianapolis is among the enduring cultural and education links she established with Asian partners. Read more
Beatrice Alescio-Lautier
Aix-Marseille University, France
Title: Benefits of a multifactorial cognitive training in a large range of elderly, from healthy to pathological
Béatrice Alescio-Lautier is research director at the CNRS, director of the Sensory and Cognitive Neurosciences Laboratory in Marseilles (France), and ....... co-head of the Sensory and Cognitive Rehabilitation team. Her field of expertise is related to cognition and its dysfunctions during aging and in neurodegenerative diseases such as MCI and AD. She has developed cognitive training methods for healthy older adult, and MCI and AD patients. Her work has led to clinical applications in the fields of diagnosis and rehabilitation in both preventive and curative perspectives. He has published more than 40 papers in reputed journals. Read more
Diana J. Galindo
Cleveland Clinic, USA
Title: Gender Differences in Aging
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Joann L Warner
Cardiff Metropolitan University, UK
Title: Combined effects of diet and stress on Telomere length
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Lochana Shrestha
Nepalese Army Institute of Health Science, Nepal
Title: Nutrition and Health Status assessment of Geriatric people of one rural district in Nepal
Dr. Lochana Shrestha, Nepalese nationality with qualification MBBS, MD Community Medicine (India), MIPH (Australia) and Fellowship in Geriatrics (India) ....... residing at Sanepa-2, Lalitpur, Nepal, Current Position: Professor and Head of Department of Community Medicine in National Army Institute of Health and Science (NAIHS), Kathmandu Since November 2011, Chairman(Medical Director) of Health Home Care Nepal (Residential Elderly Care Home), Sanepa, Lalitpur since March 2012, Chairman, Institutional Review Board for Research, NAIHS, 2014 and Over 19 years of experience in Community Medicine Career , with more than 15 papers on MCH, Diabetes, HIV/AIDS, Geriatrics published in National and International Journals. Participated in different national and international Conference and Summit related to Geriatrics and TB/HIV/AIDS. Participated in research related to dementia as principal investigator (ongoing). Read more
Jasper De Witte
KU Leuven, Belgium
Title: TBD
Jasper De Witte is a doctor in sociology (KU Leuven). He works as a senior researcher within the Social and Economic Policy and Social Integration research group........ He is currently working for the be.Source chair 'Silver Empowerment', under the supervision of professor Tine Van Regenmortel. The aim of this chair is to gain more scientific insight with regard to vulnerable elderly people in our society, based on the empowerment paradigm. In this respect, partnership between science, practice, policy and the target group is indispensable. Read more
Leon Piterman
Monash University, Australia
Title: China facing a crisis in aged care
Leon Piterman, MBBS MD MMed MEd Studies, FRCP(Edin) FRACGP, is Professor of General Practice at Monash University a position he has held for over 20 years........ He is the current Director of China GP Programs at Monash and formerly Foundation Head of the School of Primary Health Care. Hui Yang, BM PhD, is manager of China GP Programs and Senior Lecturer in the Centre for Health and Clinical Education at Monash. He is a public health professional and formerly Professor in that discipline at Peking University. Read more
Samuil Umansky
CSO of DiamiR, USA
Title: Circulating organ-enriched microRNAs as biomarkers of aging and aging associated diseases
Samuil Umansky, MD, PhD, is co-founder and CSO of DiamiR, a molecular diagnostics company developing minimally invasive tests for detection and monitoring of pathology based on ....... quantitative analysis of organ-enriched microRNA signatures in plasma. DiamiR’s lead program is focused on neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer’s disease and mild cognitive impairment. Samuil is an experienced biotech entrepreneur and inventor in the field of cell death and molecular diagnostics. Previously, at Xenomics (now Trovagene, NASDAQ: TROV) Samuil developed cell-free transrenal nucleic acids technology for detection and monitoring of various cancers, transplantation, and infectious diseases. Prior to joining the biotech industry in 1993, Samuil had a distinguished academic career as a professor at the Institute of Biological Physics of the USSR Academy of Science. He was among the first scientists to study apoptosis, or programmed cell death. Samuil has published more than 160 articles and is an inventor of over 80 US and international patents. Read more
Brigitte Hanly
CEO and Chief Scientist of Stemaid, USA
Title: Pluripotent Stem Cells & Whole Body Rejuvenation
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Grazia Daniela Femminella
Imperial College London, UK
Title: Neuroimaging in dementias
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Achim Klug
University of Colorado, USA
Title: Mechanisms of age-related central hearing loss
Achim Klug received his undergraduate and Master’s degree in Biology from the University of Würzburg in Germany and his PhD in Neuroscience from the University of Texas at Austin. After completing his postdoctoral training at the ....... Vollum Institute in Portland, Oregon he was a Junior Group leader at the University of Munich in Germany. He now manages a research lab at the University of Colorado School of medicine and has published over 40 publications in the field of auditory neuroscience. Read more
