Dr. Jennie Hewitt is a practicing physiotherapist, educator, and academic researcher with a passion for delivering best practices and leading research that informs healthcare policy. She was awarded the Aged and Community Services Australia, National Lifetime Achievement Award, and a National Commendation for Better Practice, from the Aged Care Quality Agency, for her work on the Sunbeam Program in long-term care. In 2019 she won the Morley Award for the paper most likely to influence policy and practice from the Journal of the American Medical Directors Association. Her work has been used successfully to advocate for Australian Aged Care Funding Reform, she was invited to give evidence on the role of physiotherapists in aged care at the Royal Commission. Dr. Hewitt is currently working as a technical advisor to the Commonwealth Chief Allied Health Officer on an implementation plan to translate and scale her exercise program to practice in Australian long-term care facilities.

Anne Visser works as a nursing home physician and is connected to Maastricht University, in the Netherlands. She is investigating the feasibility of deprescribing in nursing home residents since 2017. 

Alessandro is a well-respected healthcare manager and biotech consultant, having produced 70+ scientific publications. Mr. Monaco serves as an advisor to numerous global pharmaceutical and healthcare companies. His institutional experience consists of pharmaceutical policies, regulatory affairs, and economic strategies for the Italian Medicines Agency (AIFA). On an international level, Alessandro has consulted and collaborated with the European Commission and the European Medicines Agency (EMA). He is an international executive MBA at HEC Paris and received his Ph.D. in hematological sciences. Alessandro completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda-MD coordinating multiple precision medicine research projects. Alessandro is fluent in English and Italian with proficiency in French and Spanish.

Carmelo Mesa-Lago is a Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Pittsburgh; a visiting professor/ researcher in 8 countries and a lecturer in 39 countries. Author of 95 books and 320 articles/chapters published in 9 languages in 34 countries, most of them on social security; his most recent book is Re-reform of Privatized Pension Systems in the World (Max Planck Institute of Social Law and Policy, 2012), Evaluation of Four Decades of Pension Privatization in Latin America (1980-2020): Promises and Reality (Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, 2021) and Efectos de Capitalization Individual en America Latina (CEPAL, 2022) and Comparative Economic Models of Cuba and China-Vietnam: Social Goals and Financial Sustainability (submitted to Oxford University Press, November 2022). He has been a consultant in all Latin American countries and in 8 others in Africa, Asia and the Caribbean for ILO, ISSA, ECLAC and other U.N. branches, most international financial organizations, and foundations. Member US National Academy of Social Insurance, Latin America Academy of Science and the Board of International Social Security Review. Awards: ILO International Prize on Decent Work (shared with Nelson Mandela),  Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung Senior Prize, 3 Senior Fulbrights, homage for his life work on social security from the IOSS and CISS, and 78 other honors and research grants. Finalist in Spain’s Prince of Asturias Prize on Social Sciences, 2014 and 2015; selected among 50 most influential Iberoamerican intellectuals in 2014.

Dr. Neil Jeyasingam is the Area Clinical Director of Far West Local Health District, New South Wales, Australia, as well as a Senior Clinical Lecturer at the Faculty of Medicine, at Sydney University. He is the former chair of the Faculty of Old Age Psychiatry, Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists, and a former Maudsley Scholar.

Oliwia McFarlane in an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Health Sciences of Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, Collegium Medicum in Bydgoszcz Poland. She is interested in public health and population aging. She has been investigating the biopsychosocial factors of aging and the cognitive functioning of the elderly. 

MayAltulyan is currently an assistant professor at the College of Computer Science and Engineering, Prince Sattam bin Abdulaziz University, KSA. She received her master’s degree from King Saud University in 2014. Her research interests include sensor networks, the Internet of Things, and recommendation systems in IoT. Currently, she works on a project in title Things Recommendations for Alzheimer Patients in the Digital World.

Dr. Annaliese Blair is a Clinical Psychologist with the Southern NSW Local Health District Aged Care Evaluation Unit, Australia. She has been in this role for nearly two decades, overseeing research projects aimed at alleviating problems associated with ageing, including the impact of dementia, as well as problems experienced by carers. Annaliese has extensive experience working in inpatient units, residential care setting and community mental health teams providing psychosocial interventions for older people with mental health problems and/or dementia, their carers and nursing staff and as a Senior Policy Officer with the NSW Older People’s Mental Health Policy Unit

Dr Katrina Anderson is a Clinical Psychologist and Researcher with the Aged Care Evaluation Unit, Southern NSW Local Health District, Australia. She has 15 years of experience in designing, conducting, and overseeing research into clinical interventions in dementia with the aim of improving the lives of older people and their carers. Her clinical experience includes working in a psychogeriatric inpatient unit, a dementia-specific unit, and with residential aged care facilities, providing assessments, counseling, and interventions. She is a Lead Investigator on a number of large-scale reserach projects

David Wortley is CEO & Founder of 360in360 Immersive Experiences and a VP of the International Society of Digital Medicine (ISDM. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and Commerce and a global thought leader and innovator on enabling technologies for health, education and the environment. He is on the editorial board of the Digital Medicine Journal. He is an Associate Member of the Royal Society of Medicine and a Visiting Fellow at the Faculty of Health and Social Sciences at Bournemouth University

Gaiane Safarova is the Head of the Laboratory of Analysis and Modeling Socio-Demographic Processes of the Institute for Regional Economic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences. She holds two academic degrees – Ph.D. (Economics) and Sci. D. (Gerontology). She has almost 50 years of experience in the field of the demography of aging. Her interests include age structure and population ageing, comparative studies, demographic modeling and demographic projections. 

Title: Empowering Older-People Communities by Adapting to their Local Environment.
Global Health New Challenges, Geneva Foundation for Medical Education & Research (GFMER), Switzerland

THONG V. NGUYEN Is a lecturer of department of psychiatry in Can Tho University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Vietnam. I have worked with patients and taught students in mental health area for about 15 years. I got training about psychiatry, psychology and internal medicine. I also had surveys related to depression and other mental health problems in general hospital and community. When I did my job and researches, I found that depression is a common illnesses in community and affects too much patients’ performance. In addition, depression happening in elderly is really a burden and I understand what these patients are suffering.

Joanna Kaluza is a nutritionist at the Department of Human Nutrition, Warsaw University of Life Sciences-SGGW (Poland) with the position of associate professor. she has an ongoing (since 2005) cooperation with the Unit of Cardiovascular and Nutritional Epidemiology at Karolinska Institutet (Sweden). Her scientific and research work focuses on the following issues: nutritional habits of chosen groups of people including the elderly, and the influence of lifestyle factors including diet on mortality and development of some diseases in different population groups

TITLE: Public health aspects of perioperative medicine in the elderly.

Carmelo Mesa-Lago is a Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Pittsburgh; a visiting professor/ researcher in 8 countries and a lecturer in 39 countries. Author of 95 books and 320 articles/chapters published in 9 languages in 34 countries, most of them on social security; his most recent book is Re-reform of Privatized Pension Systems in the World (Max Planck Institute of Social Law and Policy, 2012), Evaluation of Four Decades of Pension Privatization in Latin America (1980-2020): Promises and Reality (Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, 2021) and Efectos de Capitalization Individual en America Latina (CEPAL, 2022) and Comparative Economic Models of Cuba and China-Vietnam: Social Goals and Financial Sustainability (submitted to Oxford University Press, November 2022). He has been a consultant in all Latin American countries and in 8 others in Africa, Asia and the Caribbean for ILO, ISSA, ECLAC and other U.N. branches, most international financial organizations, and foundations. Member US National Academy of Social Insurance, Latin America Academy of Science and the Board of International Social Security Review. Awards: ILO International Prize on Decent Work (shared with Nelson Mandela),  Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung Senior Prize, 3 Senior Fulbrights, homage for his life work on social security from the IOSS and CISS, and 78 other honors and research grants. Finalist in Spain’s Prince of Asturias Prize on Social Sciences, 2014 and 2015; selected among 50 most influential Iberoamerican intellectuals in 2014.

David Wortley is the CEO & Founder of 360in360 Immersive Experiences and a VP of the International Society of Digital Medicine (ISDM. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and Commerce and a global thought leader and innovator in enabling technologies for health, education and the environment. He is on the editorial board of the Digital Medicine Journal. He is an Associate Member of the Royal Society of Medicine and a Visiting Fellow at the Faculty of Health and Social Sciences at Bournemouth University.