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.

Serge Adnot is Professor of Physiology, physician in the clinical functional testing department at the H Mondor teaching hospital in Creteil, head of an INSERM respiratory-research group at the The Mondor Institute for Biomedical Research (IMRB, U955 Inserm/UPEC), Créteil. He was appointed in 2021 as a part-time Professor (25%) at the Justus Liebig University of Giessen (Germany) where he heads a research team in the recently created “Institute for Lung Health”. His research focuses on the role for cell senescence in chronic lung diseases. He has pioneered the concept that lung cell senescence is a major driver of age related lung diseases such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and pulmonary hypertension. His group obtained four patents over the last 4 years. He coordinates clinically oriented research and academic projects (e.g., ANR, ARC, INCA).