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.

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

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. 

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

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.