Phylis Lan Lin
University of Indianapolis, United States
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
Paul Chamberlain
Sheffield Hallam University, UK
Title: Designing the 100 year life
Paul is director of an interdisciplinary research group www.lab4living.org.uk/. 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
Joanne Kaa Earl
Macquarie University, Australia
Title: Designing Online Interventions to Improve Retirement Planning
Jo 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
Diana J. Galindo
Cleveland Clinic, USA
Title: Gender Differences in Aging
Dr. Daisy Galindo-Ciocon is a faculty of Nursing Academic Partnership (VANAP) Program in Miami VA HealthCare System where she coordinates the Post-Baccalaureate Nurse Residency Program (PBNR). ....... She has courtesy appointment of Associate Professor from Florida International University, College of Nursing. She received her Baccalaureate of Science in Nursing at the, University of Santo Tomas in Manila, Philippines in 1977, completed her Masters of Science Degree in Nursing, majoring in Critical Care Nursing at Russell Sage College in Troy, N.Y in 1981 and subsequently earned Advanced Registered Nurse Practitioner (ARNP) certification. She obtained her Doctor of Philosophy in Higher Education in University of Miami in Coral, Gables, FL in 1990. Prior to this position, she held faculty positions at various universities in South Florida. She has more than 30 years of teaching experience for undergraduate to PhD programs with joint appointment as Nurse Researcher of Geriatric Research, Education, and Clinical Center (GRECC) in Miami VA HealthCare System. She was a key researcher for the Nursing Service at the VAMC where she received Nursing Research, Initiative (NRI) funding from Dept. of Veterans Affairs (VA), Health Services Research and, Development (HSR&D) for her study on Gait and Balance Training in Reducing Occurrence and, Fear of Falls in the Elderly. Dr. Galindo-Ciocon’s primary area of research involves fall, prevention among elderly population and fear of falling. She received a distinct honor of being chosen as Outstanding Nurse Researcher from her alma mater during its quadricentennial year, celebration in 2011. She is the co-author of recently published books: (1) Health Living – Ways to Enhance Graceful Aging (2018) , and (2) Gender Differences in Aging – which is the Stronger Sex? (2019). Read more
Joann L Warner
Cardiff Metropolitan University, UK
Title: Combined effects of diet and stress on Telomere length
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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
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
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
Jasper De Witte
KU Leuven, Belgium
Title: TBD
Jasper De Witte has a doctorate in sociology (KU Leuven). He works as a senior researcher within the research group Social and Economic Policy and Social Integration. ....... He currently works for the be.Source chair 'Silver Empowerment', under the supervision of Professor Tine Van Regenmortel. The aim of this chair is to acquire more scientific insight into frail elderly people in our society, based on the empowerment paradigm. In this respect, a partnership between science, practice, policy and the target group is indispensable. Read more
Barbara Martins Corręa da Silva
Rio de Janeiro State University, Brazil
Title: Health, Nursing and Caregivers of the Elderly: Coping with Contradictions
Barbara Martins Corręa 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
Samuil Umansky
CSO of DiamiR, USA
Title: Circulating organ-enriched microRNAs as biomarkers of aging and aging associated diseases
Samuil Umansky, MD, PhD, DrSci, co-founded DiamiR to develop non-invasive, accurate diagnostic tests for early detection of neurodegenerative diseases. He serves as the chief scientific officer (CSO) and president of the company. ....... Previously, Dr. Umansky co-founded and served as the CSO and President of Xenomics (now TrovaGene, NASDAQ: TROV), served as the CSO of LXR Biotechnology, and was a professor at the Institute of Biological Physics of the USSR Academy of Sciences. Read more
Mohsen Shafizadeh
Sheffield Hallam University, UK
Title: Patient and Public Engagement in Designing Enriched Physical and Leisure Activity Environments for Older Adults with Fall Experience
Mohsen Shafizadeh was appointed to the academic staff of the Academy of Sport and Physical Activity in 2012. He has teaching responsibilities in the areas of skill acquisition and performance ....... analysis and he has role as module leader for both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. His research expertise lies mainly in the acquisition and re-acquisition of motor skills and analysis performance in both healthy population and people with long-term neurological conditions. Another area is application of theories of ecological-dynamic in practice for talent development and skill refinement. Read more
Brigitte Hanly
CEO and Chief Scientist of Stemaid, USA
Title: Pluripotent Stem Cells & Whole Body Rejuvenation
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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. 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
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
Lochana Shrestha
Nepalese Army Institute of Health Science, Nepal
Title: Nutrition and Health Status assessment of Geriatric people of one rural district in Nepal
Prof 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. Member of Ethical review Board of Nepal health Research council , 2017. Hon. Member of Council of UN International Institute on Aging, Malta/ILC-I Satellite Center for SAARC region, 2015. Board member of Nepal Public Health Foundation (NPHF) since Sept 2016. Former President of Nepalese Society of Community Medicine (NESCOM). Member of International Federation on Aging, 2015. One of the 7 members of First National Geriatric Expert Committee of Nepal, 2018,My Mission: Participate and Implement Preventive medicine and Public health activities with Focusing on Geriatric care services and other vulnerable group of people for the prevention and promotion of health of all people. 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 Geriarics and TB/HIV/AIDS. Participated in research related to dementia as principal investigator (ongoing). ,, Read more
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
Daisy Galindo-Ciocon
Miami Veterans Affairs Healthcare System, United States
Title: Promoting Best Practice in Geriatrics through Evidence in RN Residency Program
Dr. Daisy Galindo-Ciocon is a faculty of Nursing Academic Partnership (VANAP) Program in Miami VA HealthCare System where she coordinates the Post-Baccalaureate Nurse Residency Program (PBNR). ....... She has courtesy appointment of Associate Professor from Florida International University, College of Nursing. She received her Baccalaureate of Science in Nursing at the, University of Santo Tomas in Manila, Philippines in 1977, completed her Masters of Science Degree in Nursing, majoring in Critical Care Nursing at Russell Sage College in Troy, N.Y in 1981 and subsequently earned Advanced Registered Nurse Practitioner (ARNP) certification. She obtained her Doctor of Philosophy in Higher Education in University of Miami in Coral, Gables, FL in 1990. Prior to this position, she held faculty positions at various universities in South Florida. She has more than 30 years of teaching experience for undergraduate to PhD programs with joint appointment as Nurse Researcher of Geriatric Research, Education, and Clinical Center (GRECC) in Miami VA HealthCare System. She was a key researcher for the Nursing Service at the VAMC where she received Nursing Research, Initiative (NRI) funding from Dept. of Veterans Affairs (VA), Health Services Research and, Development (HSR&D) for her study on Gait and Balance Training in Reducing Occurrence and, Fear of Falls in the Elderly. Dr. Galindo-Ciocon’s primary area of research involves fall, prevention among elderly population and fear of falling. She received a distinct honor of being chosen as Outstanding Nurse Researcher from her alma mater during its quadricentennial year, celebration in 2011. She is the co-author of recently published books: (1) Health Living – Ways to Enhance Graceful Aging (2018), and (2) Gender Differences in Aging – which is the Stronger Sex? (2019) Read more
Beatriz da S. R.Bonadiman
Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil
Title: Assessment of Visual Function of Active Elderly in Western Santa Catarina - Brazil
Beatriz da Silva Rosa Bonadiman, has compled master degree at 23 years form Federal University of Santa Maria (UFSM) and currently studing in doctoral programme Biochemistry from Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC)........ I'm a professor at the University of Western Santa Catarina (UNOESC). I has publisched 16 papers in reputed journal. Work with human aging and eye diseases, cell culture, natural compounds, oxidative stress, inflammation and purinergic system. Read more
Jason Dauenhauer
State University of New York, United States
Title: Promoting Intergenerational Learning in U.S. Higher Education: Older Adult Perspectives on Course Auditing
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Mei-Chen Wu
Chi-Mei Medical Center, Taiwan
Title: A Patient with Vibrio Vulnificus Infection and Necrotizing fasciitis-Case Report
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Crismarie Casper Hackenberg
Federal University of Paraná, Brazil
Title: Social Anxiety and Cognitive Aspects of Elderly Singers: An Exploratory Study from Brazil
PhD student in Education at the Federal University of Paraná (UFPR) in the research line: Cognition, Learning and Human Development. Master in Psychology at the Catholic University of Petrópolis (UCP) in the area of Social Cognition. ....... Post-Graduation in Neurosciences Applied to Learning (UFRJ), MBA in Positive Psychology and Quality of Life (UCAM). Post-Graduation in Positive Psychology with Coaching approach. Graduated in Degree in Artistic Education (Music) at the Brazilian Music Conservatory (CBM-RJ). Member of the Research Group on Human Aging (GPEH / UFPR) and Member of the Research Group NUPECS - Research Center for Social Cognition and Health (UCP). Director responsible for the academic area of the company RioAcappella. She acted as creator and organizer of the RioAcappella Vocal Music Forums and International Acappella Music Forums as a Member of the CASA Contemporary A Cappella Society (USA) between 2000 and 2012. Member of the Brazilian Association of Cognition and Musical Arts (ABCM). Read more
