Tutors 2026

Worldwide full Professors in Geriatric Medicine and other medical specialities.

Worldwide full Professors and Experts in Gerontology (nursing, nutrition, psychology, sociology and also architecture, demography, economy, and engineering.

The tutors involved in a session should participate in all teaching activities.

January 2026, Global Aging and Principles of Geriatric Medicine

Prof. Jean-Pierre Michel
Prof. Jean-Pierre Michel was Professor of Medicine and chairman of the Academic Geriatric department in Geneva University Hospitals till 2011.
Then, he was president of the European Geriatric Medicine Society (EuGMS), while acting as World Health Organization (WHO) expert of the “Aging and Life course program”. He is full member of the French Academy of Medicine and Foreign Member of the Royal Academy of Medicine of Spain. He is also director of the International Association Gerontology and Geriatrics (IAGG-world) “Federation of Geriatric Education” and co-responsible of the IAGG e-TRIGGER online training
He has authored over 400 articles in peer-reviewed journals, was responsible of a European report on “Transforming the future of Ageing”. He also co-edited the International Textbook of Geriatric Medicine with Dr Cho (2010) and was the first editor of the Oxford Textbook of Geriatric Medicine (2018). He is currently in charge of co-editing the updated versions of these two textbooks.

Dr. Urza Bhattarai
Dr. Bhattarai is a geriatrician, geriatrics educator, and researcher from Nepal with a strong interest in frailty, complex multimorbidity, and chronic non-communicable diseases (NCDs) among older adults. She played a key role in establishing a Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment (CGA)–based frailty clinic in Nepal at B.P. Koirala Institute of Health Sciences (BPKIHS), Dharan.
Dr. Bhattarai is a government-certified clinical trainer in Geriatrics in Nepal and has contributed to national geriatric training programs for healthcare professionals, including nurses, medical officers, and health assistants, based on the WHO Integrated Care for Older People (ICOPE) framework
 

Prof. Ashish Goel
Ashish was previously a Professor of Medicine at the College of Medical Sciences at the University of Delhi in India. He completed his Masters in Public Health from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health under a Fulbright Fellowship. He is a passionate teacher, humble researcher, a conscientious doctor with an ability to create and maintain networks at regional and international level. His areas of interest include medical ethics, doctor-patient relationships, medical education, applications of technology in health, geriatric care and frailty. He loves to cook, travel, teach and write.