Dr. Ben Kirk  PhD is a Research Fellow at the Australian Institute for Musculoskeletal Science (AIMSS), located within the Department of Medicine at the University of Melbourne. His clinical research focuses on identifying the mechanisms of and treatments for Sarcopenia (loss of muscle mass and function) to improve health outcomes for patients.

Dr. Chen is full professor in Geriatrics at the National Yang-Ming University in Tapei.

Prof Chen is also the Director of the Centre for Geriatrics and Gerontology, Taipei Veterans General Hospital and the Director of Aging and Health Research Centre of National Yang-Ming University.

Dr. Chen’s research work is focused on several domains: (1) frailty and sarcopenia, (2) insulin resistance and metabolic resistance of the older people, (3) age-friendly healthcare systems, including long-term care and dementia care, and (4) smart health care and artificial intelligence.

Dr. Manjula Caldera is a Consultant Neurologist from Sri Lanka. He currently works at the Teaching Hospital in Anuradhapura and has a special interest in cognitive neurology. He completed a Neurology Fellowship at King’s College Hospital in London, where he trained for two years before returning to Sri Lanka to serve as a neurologist. Dr. Caldera has over 30 publications in local and international peer-reviewed journals and has presented his work at various forums both locally and internationally.

Prof. Shelley De La Vega

MD (Med) DNB (Med) DM (Med Onco) FIMSA FRCP (Glasg)

Prof (Medicine) & Medical Oncologist

Command Hospital (Air Force) Bangalore

Academic awards during graduation and post graduation, including AFMC and Pune University Gold Medal in Medicine. Established the Bone Marrow Transplant Centre at Command Hospital Air Force, Bangalore in 2015. Member of American Society of Clinical Oncology [ASCO]; European Society of Medical Oncology [ESMO] Certified. Joint Editor- Indian Journal of Medical and Pediatric Oncology [IJMPO]. Involved in setting up of two DRDO-AFMS Covid Hospitals at Delhi & Patna in 2020.

Publications: 32 [National-21; International-09]

Interests:

Academic: Geriatric Oncology
Non-academic passions include running and cycling

Dr. Nina is graduated from Faculty of Medicine University of Indonesia, and do of her geriatric internship in Geriatric & Rehab Medicine Department at Royal Adelaide Hospital, Adelaide, South Australia.

Dr. Nina has been practising in the Geriatric Division, Internal Medicine Department at Cipto Mangunkusumo National Referral Centre Hospital, Jakarta, Indonesia since 2006. She has also been acting as a lecturer at Faculty of Medicine, University of Indonesia since 2001.

She used to be a director in three national referral hospital for 8 years, until 2022: Strategic Planning Director in Cipto Mangunkusumo Hospital, Medical & Nursing Director in 2 hospitals: Dharmais National Cancer Centre & Persahabatan National Respiratory Referral Hospital.

Currently, Dr. Nina acting as chief of Indonesian Geriatrics Society, 2023-2026 periode. One of her major focus in Indonesian Geriatrics Society is disseminating  Integrated Care for Older People (ICOPE) approach, as one of Decade of Healthy Ageing action area.

Prof. Masahiro Akishita graduated from The University of Tokyo School of Medicine in 1985, and did fellowships in internal medicine, cardiology and geriatric medicine in Tokyo. He got a PhD in Medicine at The University of Tokyo Graduate School of Medicine in 1995. After working as a PosDoc at Stanford University and Harvard Medical School, and Associate Professor at Kyorin University and The University of Tokyo, he became Professor and Chief at Department of Geriatric Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo in 2013. In April 2024, he moved to Tokyo Metropolitan Institute for Geriatrics and Gerontology as President. His specialty is geriatric medicine, and he is a board-certified geriatrician. His research interest includes frailty, dementia, cardiovascular disease and geriatric syndrome such as polypharmacy.
He developed guidelines for appropriate drug use for the elderly in Japan, and has been working in the governmental committee for that issue. He also spent
many years for the research of cardiovascular disease and its association with geriatric syndrome. He is the immediate past president of the Japan Geriatrics
Society and the president of the Japanese Society of Geriatric Pharmacy.

Jerzy Gąsowski MD, PhD, a geriatrician, internist, hypertension specialist, is a pull professor of medicine at the Jagiellonian University Medical College, Kraków, Poland. He shares his professional time between the acute inpatient and outpatient care for mostly older persons, teaching of internal and geriatric medicine both at a graduate and post-graduate levels, and research. His research activities have been focusing on hypertension and other cardiovascular aspects of ageing, frailty and sarcopenia. Prof. Gąsowski is a member of the Academic Board of the EuGMS, and is currently serving as the president of the Polish College of Geriatricians

Prof. Oude-Vonshaar obtained his diploma in medicine at Radboud University Nijmegen, where he also obtained his PhD on the treatment of benzodiazepine dependence. He specialized as a psychiatrist at the Psychiatry Department of the Radboud UMC and the University of Manchester (UK). After that, he worked as a psychiatrist at the Radboud UMC and Propersona for several years, then moved to the UMC Groningen in 2010, where he became the Head of treatment matters of the Geriatric Psychiatry Department and appointed Professor of Geriatric Psychiatry. In addition to being a psychiatrist, he is also a certified SCEN doctor. SCEN is a program of the medical federation KNMG and stands for Support and Consultation for Euthanasia in the Netherlands.

Date of birth: 25.06.1984

Specialized in Neurology, Geriatrics, Palliativ care.

Career:

09/2022: founding member and current speaker of

the young geriatrics group in Germany

02/2022-current EAMA student

06/2022: Specialization palliative care

06/2019: Specialization Geriatric medicine

02/2019-current: Consultant Geriatric medicine

Medizinisch-Geriatrische Klinik, AGAPLESION Markus

Krankenhaus Frankfurt

07/2017- 01/2019 Residency Geriatric medicine Medizinisch-Geriatrische Klinik,

AGAPLESION Markus Krankenhaus Frankfurt

11/2016: Specialization Neurology

09/2011-06/2017: Residency Neurology, Klinikum Frankfurt Höchst.

04/2011-08/2011: Residency Neurology, Unimedizin Mainz.

Studies:

10/2004-11/2010: Study of medicine at Goethe-Universität Frankfurt

10/2007-06/20 08: Study of medicine (Erasmus) at First Faculty of Medicine, Charles

University, Prague, Czech Republic.

Current projects

Studies on Delirium involving Family members.

Dr. Mala Kapur Shankardass, an international consultant, is an academician, researcher, writer and an activist with higher educational qualifications inclusive of doctoral and post-doctoral specialization in sociology, health social sciences and gerontology (ageing issues). She retired in March 2021 after 38 years of teaching experience and holding important positions as Senior Faculty Member from University of Delhi, India. She has done and continues to do prestigious assignments for various Indian and foreign institutions including United Nations. She is Member of different Committees constituted by a varied Ministries and departments under Government of India. She holds honorary positions with a few international and national organizations, is affiliated as an Expert/Resource Person and delivers lectures/keynote addresses, chairs technical sessions, examines research projects, reviews manuscripts for publishing houses and universities based in India and abroad. She has published 13 books with reputable world publishers, has 3 forthcoming in the next few months, many chapters and over 100 articles in specialized journals, magazines and newspapers. Since 1990s she is recipient of fellowships and awards for her professional work. She is Board Member of a few civil society agencies, Editorial Advisor to scientific journals and works at both micro and macro level advocating for appropriate policies, programs, research and pragmatic action from a right based perspective and with a life cycle approach towards quality of life issues for the wellbeing of humanity across ages.

Professor Dr. Shahrul Bahyah Kamaruzzaman is a Senior Consultant Geriatrician at the Department of Medicine, and Deputy Dean of Postgraduate studies at the Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Malaya in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. She is involved in expanding geriatrics and gerontology into all medical curricula in both undergraduate and postgraduate studies; and is well published in the research and clinical areas of frailty, falls, dementia and ageing. As President of the Malaysian Healthy Ageing Society working alongside other NGOs, government agencies and communities, she is a strong advocate for healthy ageing and is especially active in promoting age friendly initiatives in the community. All these various clinical, teaching, academic and administrative roles have helped cement her commitment to the development of clinical services, ageing research and medical education in Malaysia.

Associate Professor Reshma Merchant
Head of Division Geriatric Medicine and Senior Consultant
Department of Medicine
NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine. National University of Singapore
National University Health System, Singapore

She graduated from the University of Edinburgh and obtained her postgraduate qualification from the Royal College of Physicians, London, in 1999, where she worked for several years before returning to Singapore in 2001. She is a member of WHO Global Network on Long-term care (GNLTC), Clinical Consortium on Healthy Aging and recognised as a thought leader and special expert in policy, research and practice in fields associated with population ageing globally. She has won multiple clinical and teaching awards, including the NUHS-Mochtar Riady Pinnacle Master Clinician Award in 2022. She is well published and her main areas of research interests are in sarcopenia, frailty and healthy ageing in community dwelling older adults. She is currently leading the frailty prevention initiative at Health District @ Queenstown in Singapore.

AFFILIATIONS

Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Tokyo Women’s Medical University Hospital, Professor

EDUCATION

2013 – 2016 Jikei University Graduate School of Medicine, Doctor of Medical Science

1989 – 1995 Yokohama City University School of Medicine, Bachelor of Medicine, Medical Doctor

WORK EXPERIENCE

2020 – present Tokyo Women’s Medical University Hospital, department of rehabilitation medicine, Professor

2008 – 2020 Yokohama City University Medical Center, department of rehabilitation medicine

2003 – 2008 Saiseikai Yokohama City South Hospital, department of rehabilitation medicine

2000 – 2003 Yokohama Stroke and Brain Center, department of rehabilitation medicine

1998 – 2000 Yokohama Rehabilitation Center, department of rehabilitation medicine

1997 – 1998 Yokohama City University Hospital, department of rehabilitation medicine

1995 – 1997 Japanese Red Cross Medical Center, junior resident of internal medicine

MEMBER

Society on Sarcopenia, Cachexia and Wasting Disorders (SCWD): Board member,

Associate Editor of the Journal of Cachexia, Sarcopenia and Muscle (JCSM)

Asian Working Group for Cachexia (AWGC): member

AWARDS

2018: The 4th Asian Conference on Frailty and Sarcopenia (ACFS). First Prize.

2015: The 16th congress of the Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition Society of Asia (PENSA). Best Free Paper Award Oral Presentation.

Distinguished Professor,
Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taipei, Taiwan.

The focus of his laboratory is to understand the biology of aging at the cellular and molecular level by investigating the genetic, environmental, and pharmacological factors that influence the rate of aging and longevity using C. elegans as a model organism. The main theme of his current efforts is directed toward the following areas:  (1) Roles of Heat-Shock Factor (HSF-1) and Histones in stress response and longevity regulation.  (2) Molecular mechanisms of the longevity response to dietary restriction (DR). (3) Inter-organ communications that mediate the longevity regulation. (4) Cellular mechanisms of age-associated decline of motor activity and cognitive function. (5)  Interventions that slow aging and Sarcopenia.

SURESH RATTAN, Ph.D.,Dr.scient. • is a Biogerontologist, Emeritus, affiliated with the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Aarhus University, Denmark. • His research areas and expertise include ageing of human cells and application of the concept of mild stress-induced hormesis as a modulator of ageing and longevity. • He is a recipient of the prestigious Lord Cohen Medal in Gerontology from the British Society for Research on Ageing (BSRA), and an Honorary Doctorate from the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences (St. Petersburg branch). • He is the discoverer of the healthy-ageing effects of kinetin and zeatin. He has published more than 300 scientific articles, and has authored/edited/co-edited 25 books, including books for children, general public and research scientists. • He is the founding Editor-in-Chief of Biogerontology – an international peer reviewed journal published by Springer-Nature. • He is the present Chairman of the Biological Section of the European Region of the International Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics (IAGG-ER). His personal website is: https://sureshrattan.com/ His university profile site: https://pure.au.dk/portal/da/rattan@mbg.au.dk Contact address: email: rattan@mbg.au.dk Phone: +45 2899 2496

Dr Tan Maw Pin is a Professor of Geriatric Medicine at Universiti Malaya. After completing her undergraduate medical training at the University of Nottingham and her core medical training at Nottingham City Hospital, Prof Tan obtained a National Training Number in Geriatric Medicine at Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom, where she also undertook two years of full-time research training at the Institute of Ageing and Health, Newcastle University. An avid researcher, she is currently the Principal Investigator of the Ministry of Higher Education Malaysia Long-Term Research Grant Scheme funded project, TrAnsforming CoGnitivE Frailty into Later-lifESelf-Sufficiency (AGELESS),  and is the current President of the Malaysian Society of Geriatric Medicine and the Honorary General Secretary of the College of Physicians of Malaysia. 

Humanitarian Health Advisor for HelpAge International currently following responses in Ukraine, Northwest Syria, Occupied Palestinian territories 

More than 10 years as humanitarian health worker with different medical organizations – mainly MSF, MdM,  in different field, coordination and HQ positions in conflict settings, natural disasters massive displacements  and outbreaks with a special focus over the last years in Middle East, Mediterranean region and Eastern Europe
Particular interest in Universal Health Coverage, Social Determinants on Health, Displaced populations- Migration Health, Neglected Tropical Diseases, Palliative Care in humanitarian settings 

Articles:

A podcast in The Lancet in which I participated a couple of weeks ago it is a great listening to introduce the topic:

https://www.buzzsprout.com/1746618/14375484

( also there is the link to the mentioned article in the podcast, but I highly recommend listening to the podcast first)

 A short correspondence also in which I participated recently, general overview of the needs and its link with current situation in Gaza

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(23)02355-3/fulltext

Medical Officer, Ageing and Health, Department of Maternal, Newborn, Child & Adolescent Health and Ageing (MCA), UHC life course, World Health Organization

Yuka Sumi holds an MD from Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, a PhD from Osaka University, Japan, and MPH from London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. She is a certified specialist of Acute and Critical Care Medicine. She has worked as an associate professor in the Department of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine and in the Faculty of Gerontology in Juntendo University. In 2016, she joined the Healthcare New Frontier Promotion Headquarters Office in Kanagawa Prefectural Government in Japan as a Global Health Senior Project Leader.

Since December 2016, she is responsible for WHO Integrated Care for Older People (ICOPE) approach and involved in the publication of ICOPE guidelines in 2017, and led the development of ICOPE package of tools such as ICOPE handbook and digital app: guidance for person-centred assessment and pathways in primary care in 2019. She is a secretariat of WHO Clinical Consortium on Healthy ageing (CCHA)  to contribute to the development of standards and guidelines on the clinical aspects of Healthy Ageing. Under CCHA, she coordinates activities such as ICOPE implementation pilot programme and ICOPE training for health and care workers to support country implementation. She has also led the development of a progress report on UN Decade of Healthy Ageing 2021-2023 as well as WHO guideline for non-surgical management of chronic primary low back pain in adults in primary and community care settings.

Antoine Flahault MD, PhD in biomathematics. He was appointed as full professor of public health in 2002. He was the founding director of the French School of Public Health (EHESP, Rennes, 2007-2012). In January 2014, he was appointed as full professor of public health at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva where he is the founding director of the Institute of Global Health. He has been elected as the Dean of the Swiss School of Public Health in Zürich en 2023. He has been president of the Association of Schools of Public Health in the European Region (ASPHER), co-director of the European Academic Global Health Alliance (EAGHA), and  president of the Agency for Public Health Education Accreditation (APHEA).

He conducted  research in mathematical modelling of communicable diseases, chaired the WHO collaborative centre for electronic disease surveillance, and coordinated research on Chikungunya in Indian Ocean (Inserm Prize, 2006; was scientific curator of a large exhibition Epidemik, la Cité des Sciences et de l’Industrie (Paris, Rio and Sao Paulo)). He is member of the Académie Suisse des Sciences Médicales (Bern) and corresponding member at Académie Nationale de Médecine (Paris). In November 2023, he had more than 400 scientific publication referenced in the Web of Science.