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.

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. 

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

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.

Tahmineh Azizi is a highly innovative and accomplished researcher in the Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison with extensive understanding and more than Five years experience of in presentations, development of novel models and tools, and computational analysis to quantitatively bridge the gap between in-vitro experiments and in-vivo endpoints. Her research has been directed towards areas including mathematical biology, dynamical systems theory, computational analysis, mathematical modeling, statistical modeling, Neuroscience, epidemiological models, topological data analysis, fractional calculus and fractal geometry, and multiscale modeling.

Dr. Costley is an Associate Professor of Gerontology for 15 years and coordinator of the only undergraduate degree in Gerontology in NYC. Before York College, he was the co-investigator of the Columbia Cooperative Aging Program (CCAP) at New York-Presbyterian Hospital and Columbia University with funding from the Arnold P. Gold Foundation. At York, he introduced developed workshops in geriatric care management skills to the undergraduate curriculum, with funding from the New York State Worforce Development Initiative. He currently focuses on public policy on food access and using geographic system technology to improve food distribution to older adults.   

Dr. Rui-Ming Liu is a tenured Professor at the Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham. The research in her lab focuses on oxidative stress/antioxidants, aging, and aging related diseases, including idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF). Dr. Liu has obtained numerous grants from different funding agencies including National Institute of Health (NIH), American Lung Association, and Department of Defense (DOD) to study the etiology, pathogenesis, and therapeutics of IPF. Dr. Liu has published numerous peer-reviewed papers and is recognized as an expert in the field.

Title: “Low Molecular Weight Dextran Sulfate (ILB®): a novel promising molecule for the treatment of Traumatic Brain Injury”.

Irina Conboy, PhD is Professor of Bioengineering, UC Berkeley, Inves9gator at Quan9ta9ve
Biology Ins9tute, QB3 (UCB/UCSF/UCSC), member of the Academic Senate CommiCee and
UCB/UCSF Graduate Program, Editor in Chief of Rejuvena9on Research, Standing Member of an
NIH Study Sec9on, and scien9fic advisor to Juvena, NovaXS biotech companies and to The
Alliance for Longevity Ini9a9ve (a4li) non-profit. Conboy lab research uncovered fundamental
biomedical paradigms on the impact of age-imposed and pathological changes in circulatory
milieu on signaling networks that regulate 9ssue maintenance and repair, as well as the
strategies of calibra9ng these to healthy states.

Dr. Zarowitz has been in geriatric post-acute and long-term care practice and conducted research in older adults for the past 20 years. Over her career she has published 10 book chapters; 129 peer-reviewed articles and over 120 abstracts, editorials, letters and columns.  She has received 11 leadership, research, teaching and practice awards including the 2015 George F. Archambault Award for outstanding contributions to consultant and senior care pharmacy and the 2022 Howard Guterman Scientific Poster Award in post-acute and long-term care. Her research and health policy focus in on medication optimization in older adults with complex co-morbidities and health disparities

Dr. Seth VanDerVeer is an osteopathic physician who is double board-certified in internal medicine and rheumatology, and holds a RhMSUS certification from the American College of Rheumatology for his proficiency in musculoskeletal ultrasound. Throughout his medical training, he earned multiple certifications in strength and conditioning from the NSCA, and gained considerable experience training various populations including individuals with chronic disease, athletes, and fellow members of the U.S. military. He is currently a rheumatologist at Nellis AFB in Nevada, where he focuses on optimizing diet and exercise practices for all his patients in addition to usual pharmacologic managment.

Boshi Wang works in the Department of Clinical Nutrition, People's Hospital of Peking University as a Clinical Dietitian, responsible for clinical nutrition and health education in the geriatric ward and hematology ward, specializing in the nutritional diagnosis and treatment of chronic non-communicable diseases, and nutritional screening and dietary guidance for hematological diseases. She investigating the prevalence of sarcopenia and manifold factors associated with sarcopenia in diverse diseases and achieving a quantity of significant outcomes

Elena Carbone, psychologist, Ph.D. in Psychological Sciences (University of Padova), expert in Psychology of Aging (Second-Level Short-Specialization degree in Gerontological Psychology, University of Padova), Researcher at the Department of General Psychology, University of Padova and member of the Psychology of Aging and Longevity Service at the same University. Her main research interests encompass age-related cognitive changes and individual differences between young and older adults’ core cognitive mechanisms and complex cognitive abilities. She is also interested designing and implementing cognitive interventions and cognitive stimulation programs for older adults with typical and pathological aging. She is author of more than 20 national and international publications on these topics

COVID-19 in lifespan: Psychological impact differences due to the pandemic and confinement between young and older adults in Argentina

Dr. Ami Rokach, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist and teaches at the psychology dept. at York university in Toronto. He has been conducting research and writes about loneliness and its consequences, for the past 40 years. He sees focusing on loneliness, by academia, the media, and conferences, one more step to get it out of the closet, and diminish the stigma that is attached to it.

Ana Paula Ferraz has a undergraduate degree in Nutrition from the Institute of Biosciences at Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho/ UNESP - Botucatu (2015). PhD in Sciences from the Faculty of Medicine - UNESP/Botucatu, has experience in the areas of health science, biochemistry of nutrition, phytochemistry and post-harvest, developed activities in the area of ​​biochemistry, high-performance chromatography (HPLC), mass spectrometry in the identification of bioactive compounds, flow cytometry and in vitro models of mammary adenocarcinoma involving oxidative stress/inflammation pathways.

Preparation of a Knowledge Questionnaire for caregivers on the prevention of skin lesions related to dependency

Yue Tian, aged 28, is currently pursuing a doctoral degree in Integrative Clinical Medicine at Peking Union Medical College. His research primarily focuses on the use of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) in the prevention and treatment of Alzheimer’s disease and cognitive impairments associated with diabetes. He has published three academic papers in this area. In the future, he intends to continue his research, with a specific emphasis on the fundamental and clinical studies of TCM for age-related cognitive impairments. His goal is to promote new developments in the field of foundational scientific research and clinical treatments related to TCM

Dr. Tanushree Sanwal is an Assistant Professor at the KIET School of Management at the KIET Group of Institutions in Delhi-NCR, Ghaziabad, and is a well-known teacher, and trainer in the education system. She had an illustrious career that spanned more than fifteen years in teaching and handling various administrative and academic positions. She has published numerous articles and papers in journals. She has extensive experience in teaching and writing in a variety of management disciplines. She also presented several research papers at national, international, and IEEE conferences. Ms. Sanwal has contributed chapters in different books published by Springer, and IGI Global. She has conducted and attended various workshops, FDPs and MDPs. Her research interests include social intelligence, human development, organizational behavior, and human resource management

Getachew Gebeyaw Tadese is pursuing a Ph.D. in Rehabilitation Science at Queen's University in Canada. He has served as a University Lecturer at the University of Gondar in Ethiopia for the last five years. His involvement in diverse aging research projects underscores a clear mission: ensuring older adults' rights and active participation. This dedication aligns with his broader passion for championing the inclusion of vulnerable communities. Getachew's academic journey and professional contributions weave together seamlessly, emphasizing dedication to research, education, and the inclusion of marginalized communities, particularly in aging and rehabilitation science.

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.