Geriatric Cardiology, Cardiovascular Diseases and Palliative Care

Ignat C. Petrov is a physician with specialties in Psychiatry, Gerontology and Geriatrics. His Ph thesis was on the mental health and self-evaluation of aged rural people. He has worked at the Centre of Gerontology and Geriatrics and the Psychiatric Clinic at the Medical University of Sofia. Currently he is a consultant at the Clinical Centre of Endocrinology and Gerontology at the same university. Most of his research relates to mental health in ageing and old age, including self-evaluation, depression, sources of subjective well-being in later life, cognitive ageing and dementia. He is an associated professor, corresponding member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and Arts, a Member of the Council of the International Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics, President of the Bulgarian Association on Ageing, Honorary Member of the Romanian Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics, etc.

Psychiatry, Gerontology, Geriatrics, Mental health in ageing and old age, Including self-evaluation, Depression, Sources of subjective well-being in later life, Cognitive ageing and Dementia

Leon (Lee) Albert Hyer is a Professor, Mercer Medical School at Georgia Neurosurgical Institute and Department of Psychiatry and Health Behavior. Dr. Lee completed his graduation and Internship from Lehigh University during 1970 and Post-Doctoral Education/Training, Clinical Training from Brooke Army Hospital, San Antonio, TX during 1970-1971. Post-Doctoral Clinical Training: Lyons, Veterans Administration Medical Center, Lyons, NJ, 1972-197, School and Training: Alfred Adler Institute, New York, NY, 1972-1974 and Certificate. School and Training: New Jersey Academy of Group Psychotherapy, NJ, 1974-1976, Certificate. Post-Doctoral Fellowship: Center for the Study of Aging and Human Development, Duke University Medical Center, 1979-1982. Institute for Advanced Studies in Personality and Psychopathology: Board of Advisors and Senior Fellow Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) Coordinator and Special Instructor. Lee involves in several Administrative Responsibilities/Appointments and Committees. He secured many awards/honors and serves as editorial member and also reviewer for the following journals Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, Journal of Clinical Psychology, Journal of Applied Gerontology, Journal of Aging Studies, Journal of Gerontology, The Gerontologist, Journal of Traumatic Stress, Journal of Personality Disorders, Journal of Personality Assessment, Psychological Reports and Professional Practice. Lee also published many research papers in highly reputed journals.

Clinical Psychology, Applied Gerontology, Aging Studies, Traumatic Stress, Personality Disorders, Personality Assessment etc.

Marlene Rosenkoetter has been a nurse researcher for 35 years with over 300 publications and national/international presentations. She has been a consultant to 50 hospitals and health care systems as well as universities. She is the former Dean of Nursing at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington and the Medical College of Georgia. She has traveled to 30 countries and is widely sought for her expertise in nursing research and geriatric nursing. She has been a clinical practitioner, nurse administrator and academician. She is a member of Sigma Theta Tau and a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing. She is a Professor Emerita of Augusta University (formerly Georgia Health Sciences University).

Geriatric Nursing, Elderly Care, Mental Health Nursing, Retirement Communities.

Frieder R. Lang is chair of psycholoy and gerontology, and director of the Institute of Psychogerontology at the Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU). Prof. Lang received his Ph.D. in 1993 from the Free University of Berlin and the Max-Planck-Institute for Human Development in Berlin. He is currently Editor-in-Chief of "GeroPsych - The Journal of Gerontopsychology and Geriatric Psychiatry, and serves as Editorial Board Member for several journals in the field (e.g., Psychology and Aging, European Journal of Ageing). Frieder R. Lang has published more than 120 articles and several monographs. His major research areas are health behavior and healthy aging, future cognition, social relationships, and gerotechnology.

Health behavior and Healthy aging, Future cognition, Social relationships, and Gerotechnology

Professor Sheying Chen received his doctoral and master’s degrees from the University of California at Los Angeles, a postdoctoral certificate in Higher Education Management & Leadership from Harvard University, and a graduate degree and an undergraduate diploma from two major universities in China. He has served as Professor and Associate Provost at Pace University in New York and was previously Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs and Professor with tenure at Indiana University (Southeast), responsible for advancing strategic agenda in the key areas of faculty development, academic publications and grants support, alternative delivery and instructional technology, equity and diversity, student access and success, institutional planning, and local and international outreach. Prior to IU. Dr. Chen was Professor and Dean of Professional Studies at the University of Guam (a major U.S. land-grant institution), overseeing three schools (formerly Colleges of: Business & Public Administration; Education; Nursing, Health Sciences & Social Work) and several institutes and centers. He also held tenure as Professor and Chair at the City University of New York (College of Staten Island), where he headed a large unit housing sociology, anthropology, psychology, social work, disability studies, women's studies, aging, and a number of interdisciplinary initiatives. He worked at the University of California at Los Angeles, California State University, and the University of Hong Kong and was involved in major research projects as a Research Scientist or Associate collaborating with research teams at UC Berkeley etc. Prior to his relocation to the United States, he was a permanent faculty member of Sun Yat-sen (Zhongshan) University, Guangzhou, in one of the first sociology departments re-established in China, until 1992. He received and administered numerous research and other grants and was the founder of IU Southeast Academy for Leadership and Diversity. He is currently Editor-in-Chief of Springer Book Series on International Perspectives on Social Policy, Administration, and Practice, and editor/co-editor for major international book series and journals, including International Perspectives on Aging. He is frequently invited as a keynote speaker; his publication records include the world’s first comparative book on community care in China, works on mental health and social support for the aging, articles and books on general public policy (GPP) (especially social policy of a changing “economic state”), projects on higher education management/academic administration, and volumes on research methods and measurement/analysis issues.

Sociology, Aging, Anthropology, Psychology, Social work, Disability studies, Women's studies.

Vigdis Abrahamsen Grøndahl works at Østfold University College in Norway. She has experiences from medical wards and intensive care units. She has worked as a nursing teacher for 25 years, including 6 years as head of bachelor in nursing, 1 year as prorector and the last 9 years as both teacher and researcher. Her PhD degree concerned health care quality from the patients’ perspective, and her special interest in research concerns person centered care both in community health care and hospital, elderly care and healthcare quality from the patients’ perspective.

Person centered care, Elderly care and Healthcare Quality

Alexander Khalyavkin is the Academic Secretary of Gerontological Society of RAS (Moscow Branch), Senior Researcher of the Emanuel Institute of Biochemical Physics of RAS and Senior Researcher of the Institute for Systems Analysis of FRC CSC RAS. His Alma Mater was the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (the Russian MIT). His postgraduate training was at the Gamaleya Institute for Epidemiology and Microbiology (Moscow). He has completed his PhD in Immunology at 1980. He is author and lecturer of “Introduction to Biogerontology” for the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (1991-2000). He cooperated with the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (2001-2009). His research interests include theoretical aspects of biomedicine, biogerontology, biodemography, an effect of environmental factors on the rate of aging, and some aspects of the regulation of reproduction of normal and malignant cells. He studied non-canonical (growth control) function of the immune system and mechanism for a switching of symmetric to asymmetric mitosis in stem cells.

Theoretical aspects of Biomedicine, Biogerontology, Biodemography, an effect of environmental factors on the rate of aging and some aspects of the regulation of reproduction of normal and malignant cells.

Ricardo Salinas- Martinez received medical degree from Universidad de Monterrey, Speciality in Internal Medicine from University Hospital, Universidad de Nuevo León, Mexico. (1979- 1983) Fellow in Geriatric Medicine from the Long Island Jewish Medical Center (1983-1986) USA attending physician at Jewish Institute for Geriatric Care (1986-88) USA. Professor of Internal and Geriatric Medicine University Hospital, Universidad de Nuevo León, Mexico. (1989 to date), Chief Geriatric Medicine, University Hospital, Universidad de Nuevo León, Mexico (2003 to date), 50 Scientific peer reviewed publications on Cognition, Geriatric Assessment and Sarcopenia. Member of the “Mexican Aging Network” Clinical research in Cognition, Sarcopenia and Frailty.

Internal Medicine, Geriatric Medicine, Geriatric Care, Geriatric Assessment, Cognition, Sarcopenia and Frailty

Fabio Monzani serves as a Professor at the Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Director of the Section of Geriatrics and Gerontology at University Hospital of Pisa, Italy. Fabio serves as a referee for several international scientific journals. He is the Editorial Board Member for “European Journal of Internal Medicine”, “Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism”,“The Open Autoimmunity Journal”; “Journal of Endocrinological Investigation”. Monzani also serves as an Associate Editor for journals like “Recent Patents on Endocrine, Metabolic & Immune Drug Discovery”; “Frontiers in Endocrinology of Aging”; “Clinical CNS Drugs”. He is an ordinary member at Italian Society of Endocrinology, Italian Thyroid Association (member of the Group for coordination of “Scientific Research Protocols”), Italian Society of Gerontology & Geriatrics (President of the Tuscany Section), European Thyroid Association; Italian Society of Psyco-Geriatrics; Italian Society of Geriatric Cardiology, European Thyroid Association. Fabiois the member of the Scientific Board of the PhD School of “Medical and Pharmacological Physiopathology“, University of Pisa and of “Biomedical Technology in Clinical Medicine” University of “La Sapienza”, Rome. He is the Coordinator of several national and international research projects supported by MIUR (Ministero Istruzione Università e Ricerca, Rome, Italy) and by European Community Research Agency. Fabio’s main scientific fields of interest include physiopathology of endocrine disorders, thyroid autoimmune disorders, diagnosis and treatment of thyroid nodules, clinical and molecular aspects of thyroid cancer, thyroid dysfunction of the elderly, neurological disorders in the elderly, osteoporosis and traumatic fractures in the elderly, clinical aspects of acute disorders in the elderly. The scientific production includes more than 150 original papers published in International peer reviewed scientific journals: h-Index 32 (Thomson Reuters, Web of Knowledge).

Physiopathology of endocrine disorders, Thyroid autoimmune disorders, Diagnosis and treatment of thyroid nodules, Clinical and molecular aspects of thyroid cancer, Thyroid dysfunction of the elderly, Neurological disorders in the elderly, Osteoporosis and traumatic fractures in the elderly, Clinical aspects of acute disorders in the elderly

S.Asha Devi is Professor of Zoology and Co-ordinator of UGC-CPEPA Program at Bangalore University, India. She completed her postdoctoral studies from Hiroshima University, Japan (1988); University of Texas Medical Branch, USA (1993); and Tulane University Medical Centre, USA (1994). Her interest includes Exercise, Nutrition and Aging. She is a recipient of Commonwealth Fellowship, Aberdeen (2007) and INSA-JSPS visiting Fellowships, University of Tokyo (2005 and 2012). Dr. Asha has published several papers/chapters and is a referee for journals of high repute. She is member of SFRR, IABS, IAN, IAGG (India) and has received research grants from UGC, DST, DRDO and ICMR.

Exercise, Nutrition and Aging.

Frieder R. Lang is chair of psycholoy and gerontology, and director of the Institute of Psychogerontology at the Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU). Prof. Lang received his Ph.D. in 1993 from the Free University of Berlin and the Max-Planck-Institute for Human Development in Berlin. He is currently Editor-in-Chief of "GeroPsych - The Journal of Gerontopsychology and Geriatric Psychiatry, and serves as Editorial Board Member for several journals in the field (e.g., Psychology and Aging, European Journal of Ageing). Frieder R. Lang has published more than 120 articles and several monographs. His major research areas are health behavior and healthy aging, future cognition, social relationships, and gerotechnology.

Health behavior and Healthy Aging, Future Cognition, Social relationships, and Gerotechnology.

Anthea Tinker has been Professor of Social Gerontology at King’s College London since 1988. She has been on the staff of three Universities and three Government Departments and has been a Consultant to the WHO, EU and OECD. She chaired the College Research Ethics Committee from 2001 – 2011. The sole author of 11 books, co-author of 21 and over 300 articles she has carried out a wide range of research on ageing. She was awarded the CBE in 2000, elected a Founding Member of the Academy of Learned Societies for the Social Sciences in 1999, a Fellow of King’s College London in 1998 and was President of the Section of Geriatrics and Gerontology, Royal Society of Medicine 1998-2000. She was awarded the title of Fellow of the British Society of Gerontology in 2008. She was one of the Women of the Year in 2002. In 2010 she was awarded the Alan Walker prize by the British Society of Gerontology for her significant and lasting contribution to Social Gerontology.

Social Gerontology, Geriatrics, Ageing

Stephen Jacobs (PhD, Dip Tchg, BA) is a senior lecturer in the School of Nursing, the Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, The University of Auckland. He lectures on Health Services for Older People and Leadership and Management for Quality Healthcare. Stephen is also co-director of the Institute of Healthy Ageing which is based in Hamilton. He is co-ordinator of the five research streams: workforce, mental health, best practice, community, and rehabilitation. His own research is focused on two areas: 1) dementia services, in particular a current programme for the co-design of community services involving five regional Alzheimer’s organisations; and 2) The adaptive leadership and empowerment of nurses. Stephen was convenor of the 2013 NZ Association of Gerontology Conference and the 2016 8th Annual Elder Law for the Health Sector conference. His previous history includes 6 years from 2000 till November 2006 at the Ministry of Health as a Senior Advisor in the Health of Older People Team in the Sector Policy Directorate, and then as Team Leader, Primary Health Care Implementation and Delivery in the Clinical Services Directorate. Prior to working at the Ministry of Health, he was for five years Manager, Services for Older People, Wesley Wellington Mission, managing a community service, a home care service, two rest homes, and two continuing care hospitals.

Older people, Home care service, Mental Health

Yoshiro Fujii DDS, maneger of Shin-Kobe Dental Clinic, completed his Ph.D. from Aichi Gakuin University Graduate school. A fellow of the International College of Acupuncture and Electro-therapeutics, 100 next era CEOs and 100 Next era Leaders in Asia by Japan Times (2013,14,15), an editorial board member on three international jouranals. He is also an authorization doctor of two Japanese associations, and published thirteen international academic articles. Special session speaker and organizing committee member in 5th International Conference and Exhibition on Metabolomics.

Dementia, Dental Care, Geriatrics

Komal Chauhan is an Associate Professor in the Department of Foods and Nutrition, Faculty of Family and Community Sciences at The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Vadodara, India and also Associate Director, Post Graduate Diploma in Food Service Management. She has teaching experience of 24years for under graduates and 16 years for Post graduates. Dr. Komal Chauhan has research experience for about 16 years through which she guided 23 Masters Dissertations and 4 doctoral students. Her research interests include Geriatric Health & Nutrition (specific), Sports Nutrition and Foods and Nutrition (general). Her research publications are National - 15, International – 12 and Project Reports – 2. Dr. Komal’s articles had published in 5 books and she is also serves as Co-author for a book titled Ageing, Nutrition and Health. She got recognized as International Faculty for conducting workshop on Nutritional Assessment of Elderly at International Conference on Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine, 2012 at Delhi.

Geriatric Health & Nutrition, Elderly Care, Ageing, Gerontology

Paul B. Hicks is a Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Science. He is serving as a Vice Dean for Temple Campus at Texas A&M Health science center.

Psychiatry and Behavioral Science

Dr. Giulio Maria Pasinetti is the Saunders Family Chair and Professor of Neurology, Psychiatry, Neuroscience, Geriatrics, and Adult Development at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Dr. Pasinetti is also the Program Director of the NIH funded P50 Center on Molecular Integrative Neuroresilience focused on understanding the molecular mechanisms and pathophysiology that may be at the basis of stress-induced mood disorders, including anxiety, depression, and other neuropsychiatric disorders, and their influence on cognitive dysfunction. Dr. Pasinetti is the recipient of several academic awards, including the prestigious Zenith and Temple awards from the Alzheimer’s Association, the Nathan W. and Margaret T. Shock Aging Research Foundation Award of the Gerontological Society of America, and the Foundation Queen Sofia of Spain Research Center Award on Alzheimer’s Disease. Most recently, Dr. Pasinetti received The Faculty Council Award for academic excellence at Mount Sinai School of Medicine and The Charles Dana Alliance for Brain Research Award from the Dana Foundation, recognizing productivity and worldwide leadership in his field of expertise. Dr. Pasinetti is the recipient of more than 30 NIH federal, industry and non-profit organization research grants and has published over 300 groundbreaking manuscripts.

Neurology, Psychiatry, Neuroscience, Geriatrics, Adult Development, Alzheimer’s Disease, Cognitive dysfunction, Neuropsychiatric disorders etc.

Dr. Shapiro has been involved in sleep research for over forty years. He trained in science and medicine in South Africa subsequently did his PhD in sleep physiology at the University of Edinburgh with Ian Oswald. He did his psychiatry training in Edinburgh and then had a senior lectureship at Edinburgh University before moving to Canada approximately twenty five years ago as a Full Professor in the Department of Psychiatry. He was Director of the Neuropsychiatry Program at the Toronto Western Hospital and Editor of the Journal of Psychosomatic Research both for close to two decades. He has over 300 refereed publications in this field and two dozen books and booklets including a book on “Forensic aspects of sleep”, and several books for the lay public. He also authored a children’s book “Who needs to sleep anyway” and most recently co-authored a book “STOP THAT and 100 Other Sleep Scales”. His “ABC of sleep medicine” through the BMJ was considered the first book for family physicians on sleep. He has a further 560 publications (chapters, editorials, letters etc) and has supervised over 50 fellows and postgraduate students. One of his interests is sleep changes in psychiatric disease and the extent to which sleep markers are helpful in psychiatry. He founded the British Sleep Society in 1989. In 1998 he founded the International Neuropsychiatric Association. When a resident in Scotland, he set up the first sleep laboratory in Africa and nine years ago he opened the first independent Child and Adolescent Sleep Clinic in Canada.

Sleep research, Neuropyschiatry

Moshe Lewis graduated from Mount Sinai Medical School in New York and fulfilled a residency training program in physical medicine and rehabilitation, at Tufts New England Medical Center in Boston where he served as chief resident. Moreover, he is a volunteer clinical faculty member at the University of California, San Francisco, and the Touro University College of Osteopathic Medicine. He currently serves as the Founder and CEO of the Golden Gate Institute For Integrative Medicine (GGIIM). He also coauthored a revolutionary new comprehensive, evidence-based book titled Understanding Pain: An Introduction for Patients and Caregivers (Rowman & Littlefield, 2015).

Geriatrics, Aging

Rita Stuckey completed her Bachelors in Nursing from California State University, Los Angeles, Masters in Public Administration from California University, East Bay, Masters in Education from Mills College, and Doctorate in Educational Leadership at Mills College. She has served as the Director of nursing, care management, care coordination, and utilization management in acute, long-term acute, skilled nursing, home health, hospice, psychiatric, and public health care organizations. Dr. Stuckey served on the Board of Governors at Mills College; and is the first African American nurse to earn a Doctorate in Educational Leadership from Mills. She is the founder of the Care Advocate Program, an author and educator.

nursing, care management, care coordination, and utilization management in acute, long-term acute, skilled nursing, home health, hospice, psychiatric, and public health

Stephen Gethin-Jones has completed his Doctorate at the Unviersity of Cardiif in 2012 with a focus on homecare delivery to older housebound adults and he had continued to develop a specialist interest in home care and support services for older adults,with a particular focus on outcome focused care. He also has been involved in the development of services for community care in both the statutory and private sectors. He currently teach on a variety of health and social care degrees at both undergraduate and post graduate level.

Elder Care, Home Care

Gina M. D’Angelo is a registered nurse serving seniors for more than two decades. She earned her Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) from Wheeling Jesuit University and a Master’s Degree in Business Administration (MBA) from Johns Hopkins University Carey School of Business. She is President of GD Solutions, LLC, serving as an industry and legal nurse consultant in the USA, involved in risk management services for clients from senior living and nursing home settings. She has written several continuing education (CE) courses and articles for industry trade associations and publications.

Geriatric Nursing, Elderly Care, Pathophysiology

Dr Sylvia L.F. Pender is Associate Professor Reader in Mucosal Immunology, within Medicine at the University of Southampton. She is currently the Adjunct Associate Professor at International Medical University in Malaysia. She was a VC award winner in 2010 for promoting internationalization in the University. She is also a Global Partnership Award winner in 2013 for enhancing international research collaboration and partnership in Singapore, Malaysia and Hong Kong. She completed her BSc.(Hons), Biochemical Sciences at University of Keele 1992 and PhD, University of London 1996 (with an Overseas Research Scholarship award). She is a Research Fellow at St Bartholomew’s and the Royal London School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of London (1995). She acts as Non-clinical Lecturer, University of Southampton (2000). Dr Sylvia L.F. Pender is a Senior Lecturer at University of Southampton during 2005.

Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, Biochemistry Methods, Immunology, Cancer Biology, Cell Culture, PCR, Signaling Pathways and Matrix Metalloproteinase.

Eef Hogervorst did her degree in Health Sciences and a PhD in the Department of Psychiatry and Neuropsychology at Maastricht University, specialising in cognitive aging. She subsequently worked as a researcher at the University of Oxford; as Research Associate Professor at the UAMS (Department of Geriatrics, ranked 8th in the USA) and as Senior Research Associate at the University of Cambridge (Department of Psychiatry) before taking up a Chair as Professor of Biological Psychology at Loughborough University (ranked 5th in the UK) in 2005. She is also a visiting Professor at UCL (pending) and 3 Universities in Indonesia. Eef specialises in the early diagnoses of dementia using cognitive screening instruments and investigates risk and protective lifestyle factors for dementia in the UK, USA, Indonesia and Shanghai China. Eef has published over 200 peer-reviewed international journal papers and book chapters and is regularly invited worldwide to give public and keynote scientific lectures about her work. She chaired symposia for IMS in Mexico, Neuroendocrinology in Turin and Dementia in Toronto in 2014/2015 and is on the organising committee for the Alzheimer's disease conference in London 2016. She won several prizes for her work (PNEC, Blasschko etc.). With her collaborators, >£13M funding was obtained for research from various bodies (MRC, AST, ARUK, NDA, ESRC/NIHR etc) and Eef is now involved in two European multi-million studies investigating nutrition and exercise to prevent dementia. Eef is on the editorial board of the Journal of Alzheimer's disease (US based) and Journal of Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's and advises on dementia conferences.

cognitive aging, Psychiatry, Neuropsychology, Dementia.

Catharina Gillsjö, PhD, FNP, RN earned her PhD in a Joint PhD Program in Nursing between University of Rhode Island, USA and University of Skövde, Sweden. The focus of her research is on the health and well-being of older adults in various contexts,especially that of home. It also encompasses common health problems associated with aging, such as long-term musculoskeletal pain. Furthermore, it includes interventions that support older adults in daily living and their ability to remain at home. Catharina is a senior lecturer at the University of Skövde. She is interested in national and international collaboration in research and education.

Well being, Older adults, Elderly care, Geriatrics

Dr. Lou Vivian W. Q. is the Director of Sau Po Centre on Ageing at The University of Hong Kong. She is also an Associate Professor at Department of Social Work & Social Administration. She is now teaching social gerontology, clinical gerontology, care management, and human development for both undergraduate and postgraduate students. Her research interests focus on family gerontology, in particular family caregiving for frail older adults and grandchildren, intergenerational support, social adaptation and mental health of Chinese older adult. She also has a keen interest in practice research on building evidence-based models that contribute to the enhancement of psycho-spiritual well-being of Chinese older adults. She had publications in journals such as Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences, The Gerontologist, Age and Aging, Aging and Mental Health, and Social Indicators Research. Dr. Lou is presently a member of Elderly Commission of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, a fellow of Gerontology Society of America, and a council member of Hong Kong Association of Gerontology.

Family gerontology, Family Care giving, Social Gerontology, Clinical Gerontology and Care Management

Samia A. Abdul-Rahman is an academic researcher and reviewer with many published international articles and ongoing projects in the field of Aging and Dementia. She is one of the expert members of the Mediterranean Alzheimer Alliance since 2013. She started working at the Geriatrics and Gerontology department, Faculty of Medicine at Ain Shams University in Egypt in 2001 and advanced through the ranks to become an associate professor in 2014. She helped put the curricula for both under- and post-graduate degrees of the department. She is a founding member of the Egyptian Society of Geriatrics and Gerontology and the manager of the community services committee of the Society since 2014.

Geriatrics, Gerontology, Aging, Dementia.

Prof. Yitshal N. Berner M.D. MPH is the Head of Geriatric Medicine and is currently an Associate Professor working at Tel Aviv University Sackler Shool of Medicine. He also serves as Head of acute and Subacute Geriatric Ward- Harzfeld Kaplan Medical Centre, Rehovot Israel. Yitshal N. Berner is Lecturer of Internal Medicine, Hebrew University Medical School Jerusalem, Israel and Biochemistry and Nutrition, Hebrew University Faculty of Agriculture, Rehovot, Israel. Head of Geriatric Assessment Services: Home Care and Clinics; Ashdod Israel. Secretary General Israel Society for Geriatric Medicine, Israel Medical Association.

Geriatric Medicine, Geriatrics Elder Home Care

Joav Merrick, MD, MMedSci, DMSc, born and educated in Denmark, is Professor of Pediatrics, Child Health and Human Development affiliated with the Division of Pediatrics, Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center, Mt Scopus Campus, Jerusalem, Israel, Kentucky Children’s Hospital, University of Kentucky, Lexington, United States, Professor of Public Health at the Center for Healthy Development, School of Public Health, Georgia State University, Atlanta, United States, the Medical Director of Health Services, Division for Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, Ministry of Social Affairs and Social Services, Jerusalem, and the Founder and Director of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development in Israel.

Public Health, Human Development, Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities.

Prof. Stefan Krajcik is currently the Head of 46 bed teaching geriatric department of Slovak Medical University. He did his PhD in Internal Medicine and serves as Faculty of Medicine at Comenius University, Bratislava. Stefan Krajcik was a Prof. of Social Work at Trnava University (Slovakia) in 2001. Associate Prof of Internal Medicine at Slovak Medical University in 2010. He completed his Graduation in 1974 and serves as Faculty of Medicine at Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia. Stefan has completed Internal Medicine specialisation in 1978 and 1983 along with Geriatric Medicine qualification in 1987. He also made some Courses and stays like WHO course on social gerontology at Dubrovnik in 1987 ,Geriatric Centre Berlin-Buch in 1990, 2 week stay at Geriatric department at Catholic University, Montgodine, Belgium in 1993, 5 week course Impact of population ageing on health care provision London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in 1991, a week stay at Geriatric Research Unit at Mc Master University, Canada in 2000. He has made 231 Publications (9 monographies). Prof. Stefan Krajcik also serves as Vice-President of Slovak Gerontological and Geriatric Society, Consultant of Slovak Health Ministry for geriatrics. Prof. Stefan Krajcik was born on April 22, 1950.

Dignity of Older Europeans, Geriatrics, Internal Medicine, Gerontology, Social Gerontology

Professor Manuel Oliveira Carrageta is President of the Portuguese Society of Geriatrics and Gerontology. He is a Professor at the Faculty of Medicine of Lisbon and President of the Preventive Cardiology Institute. Professor Manuel is the Chairman of the Department of Research and Postgraduate Teaching of the Hospital Garcia de Orta. He has been President of the Iberolatin American Atherosclerosis Society. He had presented more than 400 scientific papers in Congresses, made more than 500 conferences and has published over 200 scientific papers. He has been distinguished with six awards for scientific research work and was also awarded with the Prize for medical progress and its application to the elderly. Geriatrics: Director of the Geriatrics and Gerontology Annual Course of the Portuguese Society of Geriatrics and Gerontology, Professor of the Postgraduate Course on Aging Geriatrics Practice at University of Coimbra, the Geriatrics and Gerontology Course for Pharmacists, Order of Pharmacists, the International Postgraduate Course in Geriatrics at the Faculty of Medicine of Oporto. He is the Ambassador of the European Year of Active Aging and Solidarity between Generations.

Atherosclerosis, Telomeres, Longevity, Cardiovascular risk factors and Clinical Pharmacology.

Jane Mohler is a tenured Professor of Medicine, with co-appointments in the Colleges of Public Health, Bioengineering, Pharmacy and Nursing at the University of Arizona. As a Chronic Disease Epidemiologist, Gerontologist, and Director of the Arizona Healthy Brain Research Center, she leads a highly productive interdisciplinary research program using sophisticated remote monitors and algorithms to measure biometric measures of geriatric syndromes with a focus on frailty, falls and cognition. As past Director of the Southern Arizona VA Health Care System Health Services Research Center (nine years) and Associate Director of the Arizona Center on Aging (ten years), she has mentored hundreds of medical, health science, and engineering trainees and young faculty in aging research.

Gerontology, Public Health, Bioengineering, Pharmacy and Nursing, frailty, falls and cognition.

Alexandre Castro-Caldas is a Professor and currently Director of the Institute of Health Sciences of Portuguese Catholic University and was Full Professor of Neurology at the University of Lisbon and Head of the Department of Clinical Neurosciences of the Hospital de Santa Maria, in Lisbon, Portugal. He obtained his M.D. and his Ph.D. from the University of Lisbon - School of Medicine, where he started his career in 1974. He has been responsible for the Language Research Laboratory until 1998 and organized the Centre for Neurosciences of Lisbon in 1990. He was President of the International Neuropsychological Society (2000-2001). His publications include a textbook of Neuropsychology in Portuguese, papers in international journals, as: Brain, Neurology, NeuroImage, Journal of Cognitive Neurosciences, JINS, and multiple chapters in national and international books. He is member of the editorial board of several national and international journals. His current research interests include several topics in Cognitive Neurosciences and in particular the modulatory effect of environmental stimulation in the human brain. During these years his work has been recognized, having received several awards, from here we choose to mention the Great Price of Medicine from Bial Foundation and more recently the Distinguished Career Award of the International Neuropsychological Society.

Clinical Neurosciences and Cognitive Neurosciences .

Gyula Bakó was originally an internist and endocrinolgist. Since 2002 specialized as geriatritian. He became the Head of the Division of Geriatric Medicine of Department of Internal Medicine of Debrecen University, Hungary. He was sent as reprezentative of Hungarian Society of Gerontology and Geriatrics to EUMS GMS (now UMS GMS). He was taking part in the work of the preparation of “European undergraduate curriculum in geriatric medicine developed using an international modified Delphi technique Age And Ageing 43: pp. 1-8. (2014)” and “New horizons in geriatric medicine education and training: The need for pan-European education and training standards (2017)”. He was a member of Editorial Board of the Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics until 2015, and is the member of Editorial Board of Hungarian Geriatrics (Magyar Geriátria). He is the vice president of Hungarian Society of Gerontology and Geriatrics and the president of Medical Advisory Board of the Ministry of Human Resources in Geriatric Medicine and Long Term Care. His main field is pharmacoterapy of elderly people.

Internal Medicine, Geriatric Medicine, Long Term Care, Age And Ageing.

Joaquim Parra Marujo holds a PhD in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Master in Lusophony: Culture, Economics and Politics, Master in Clinical Mental Health, Postgraduate diploma in Community Mental Health, Postgraduate diploma in Mental Health and Psychiatry Nursing, Postgraduate diploma in Pedagogy and Administration applied to Teaching for Nurses, Degree in Mental Health Nursing and Psychiatry. He acts as a Coordinating Professor and Director of Graduate in Social Gerontology, in Escola Superior de Educação João de Deus. He is a Psychotherapist and gerontologist transpersonal in Research Unit of Transpersonal Psychology and Gerontology. He is the Member of the International Society for Gerontechnology and BGS - British Geriatrics Society. He has two dozen articles published in magazines and newspapers specialty in gerontology, psychology and design, more than a hundred publications in the fields of gerontology and transpersonal psychology.

Social gerontology, Psychology, Community Mental Health, Mental Health Nursing and Psychiatry.

Marieke van der Waal has been Director of Leyden Academy on Vitality and Ageing since April 2010. One of Marieke’s focus points is to improve the education curriculum with regards to elderly care. The current curriculum has become outdated and not kept in time with the latest insights and developments. Also lacking, is the transfer of new knowledge into the practical training stages, due to educators being out of touch with the practice, or because other priorities take precedence. Bringing the young and old together, Marieke will work along with partner Association Het Zonnehuis to give a face to this issue and ensure that education is focused upon care for the elderly, and to stimulate youth to consider a career in the healthcare sector. Marieke, together with fellow board member Joris Slaets and the Leyden Academy team, is committed to bring more attention to the results of scientific research on ageing and vitality issues and innovations in the field of elderly healthcare to the general public, policy makers and opinion leaders. Marieke studied the science of Human Nutrition, at Wageningen University, then conducted research on the quality of healthcare for chronically ill patients. She continued her career as a Programme Secretary at NWO Medical Sciences (now ZonMw.). She then became Director of the Netherlands Public Health Federation but were she was committed to bring more attention and resources to a good standard of public healthcare in the Netherlands. At Leyden Academy, Marieke is amongst others responsible for (cursory) education, experimental healthcare and welfare, management, finance, and contact with the Supervisory Board and partners. Additionally, she is the Director of the Dutch branch of the International Longevity Center Global Alliance and performs supervisory roles at Coloriet (elderly, quality committee chairman) and Welfare Lelystad (portfolios of clients, legal affairs).

Ageing and vitality, nutrition, structures and finance for healthcare organisations, revising education, society, perceptions, young and old, career paths, life’s lessons, growing and sharing knowledge.

Leon (Lee) Albert Hyer is a Professor, Mercer Medical School at Georgia Neurosurgical Institute and Department of Psychiatry and Health Behavior. Dr. Lee completed his graduation and Internship from Lehigh University during 1970 and Post-Doctoral Education/Training, Clinical Training from Brooke Army Hospital, San Antonio, TX during 1970-1971. Post-Doctoral Clinical Training: Lyons, Veterans Administration Medical Center, Lyons, NJ, 1972-197, School and Training: Alfred Adler Institute, New York, NY, 1972-1974 and Certificate. School and Training: New Jersey Academy of Group Psychotherapy, NJ, 1974-1976, Certificate. Post-Doctoral Fellowship: Center for the Study of Aging and Human Development, Duke University Medical Center, 1979-1982. Institute for Advanced Studies in Personality and Psychopathology: Board of Advisors and Senior Fellow Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) Coordinator and Special Instructor. Lee involves in several Administrative Responsibilities/Appointments and Committees. He secured many awards/honors and serves as editorial member and also reviewer for the following journals Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, Journal of Clinical Psychology, Journal of Applied Gerontology, Journal of Aging Studies, Journal of Gerontology, The Gerontologist, Journal of Traumatic Stress, Journal of Personality Disorders, Journal of Personality Assessment, Psychological Reports and Professional Practice. Lee also published many research papers in highly reputed journals.

Clinical Psychology, Applied Gerontology, Aging Studies, Traumatic Stress, Personality Disorders, Personality Assessment etc.

DR. O. P. Sharma is the Sr. Consultant of Geriatric Medicine at Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals, New Delhi. He is the General Secretary of Geriatric Society of India. He is National Professor of Geriatrics. Dr. Sharma holds the position of Editor for Principles & Practices in Geriatric Medicine 2015, Chief Editor of Indian Journal of Geriatric Care and Course Director cum Editor: AKN Sinha Institute – Geriatric Course. He also served in the positions as Editor of Indian Recommendations for Vaccination in Older Adults 2015, Core Committee Member of International Council on Adult Immunization – USA, Expert Group Member Geriatrics: Indian Council of Medical & Research, Expert Committee Member - Haj Vaccination initiatives - Malaysia 2015, Medscape “Pneumococcal Disease –A toxic Mix” Munich Germany 2013, Expert Committee Member of South East Asia Pneumococcal meet - Hong Kong 2013, Invited Speaker at World Anti-Ageing Conference held at Las Vegas, USA during 2007.

Geriatric Medicine, Elderly Care, Anti-Ageing and Older Adults.

Gorshunova Nina - a doctor of medicine, professor, head of the polyclinic therapy & general practice department of Kursk State Medical University, Russia. She is a head of local scientific center of Global Aging Research Network supported by the International Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics. She is a member of governing Board in scientific Gerontological society of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the member of the international advisory board of academic journal “Advances of gerontology”. The main scientific trends are: gerontology and geriatrics in general practice, cardiovascular problems of elderly people, age-related disorders of hemostasis; mediсo-social rehabilitation; organization and methodical problems of the general medical practice, educational technologies for prevention of premature ageing. Gorshunova Nina - author more than 600 scientific articles, among them 15 in foreign journals, 10 scientific monographies. In 2012 she was award by gold medal of European scientific - industrial chamber for original investigations in Gerontology and for pedagogical activity.

Gerontology, Geriatrics, General practice, Cardiovascular problems of elderly people and Age-related disorders.

Shyh-Dye Lee is a Professor of School of Medicine & Graduate Programme of Long-Term (Custodial) Care and Medical College at Fu Jen Catholic University, Taiwan. He is an attending Physician & vice Superintendent of Fu Jen Clinics & Affiliated Hospital with Co-Appointments. He acts as an Adjunct Professor of Graduate Institute of Gerontology and Aging at National Cheng Kung University Medical College (NCKUMC) and in Institute of Long-Term(Custodial) Care at National Taipei University of Nursing and Health Sciences (NTUNHS). He is a Senior Attending Physician at Department of Community and Family Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital (NTUH) & Bei-Hu.

Long-Term (Custodial) Care, Gerontology, Aging, Community and Family Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences.