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 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

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. 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.

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.

She Graduated from the Universidad Autonoma de Guadalajara, currently a second-degree resident doctor in the specialty of family medicine, at the Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social. Fellow Open Medical Institute International/AMSA initiative for medical professionals, which through education and research, aims to improve healthcare on a global scale. Awarded a scholarship in a seminar in Salzburg for excellence in geriatric clinical case presentation. Diploma in healthy aging and diploma in geriatric medicine in primary care from the National Institute of Geriatrics. Stay at the Epidemiological Research Unit and Querétaro Health Services, with the publication of a medical article Association between family functionality and mild cognitive impairment in the family with the elderly in the Spanish journal of Geriatrics and Gerontology.

Title: Dementia and Its Psychological Impact on Elderly Caregivers in Indonesia

Title: The Study of Family Support related Problems of Elderly Women living in BPL Families 

Polly’s career has been devoted to widening access for people who are blind or have low vision. As a trained and practising audio describer, with nearly 15 years of experience, she creates audio description tracks for broadcast television, cinema, streaming platforms, live presentations, and galleries. She runs the Australian chapter of an initiative, aimed at encouraging young consumers to engage with audio description, has created an accredited unit on using AD aimed at young people and is a member of the Audio Description advisory Board run by Curtin University’s Centre for Culture and Technology

Lev Salnikov, MD, PhD, has many years of experience in the field of oncology and nuclear medicine. His main area of interest and specialization is theoretical and systems biology in the field of the fundamentals of aging.  For the past 15 years, he has been doing work, related to the problems of the biological basis of aging.   In this direction he worked in collaboration with Boston University and after with SibEnzyme US LLC. At the present time with AntiCA Biomed, San Diego, CA. He has many research and theoretical articles focusing on the relationship between ontogenesis and aging, as well as the problems of rejuvenation, published in Future Science OA, Frontiers in Aging and others journals

Rodolfo Goya, is a retired senior scientist of the Argentinian Research Council. He remains active in research and is currently member of the board of directors of four American research organizations namely, Vitality in Aging Research Group, Critica! Care Research, Biomedical Research and Longevity Society and 2st Century Medicine. He has supervised 36 PhD students and currently supervises three. Dr Goya authors or coauthors over 180 peer-reviewed papers. His current focus of research interest is 1) the implementation of regenerative OSKM gene therapy in the brain of old or estropausal female rodents. 2) The implementation of cryobiological strategies to create organ banks or vitrify and reanimate nematode animal models.

Dr Sorinmade is a Consultant in Old Age Psychiatry with special interest in Mental Health Law, especially the Mental Capacity Act (England and Wales); as well as in empowering the decisional autonomy of older adults and enabling people to live well with dementia. His research interests are on human rights, mental health law as well as improving the quality of lives of older adults. He has publications in the field of old age psychiatry, mental health law and human rights, and on subjects relating to mental health law especially as they affect the older adult population.

 

Wenbo Yu is an affiliated Senior Lecturer at Adelaide University working in the Translational Oncology Lab, Centre for Cancer Biology. He earned his PhD in medical virology from Wuhan University, China, 2010. From 2008 to 2010, he served as a research scientist at the University of Hong Kong, where he focused on HIV vaccine development. After relocating to Australia in 2011, he joined Professor Eric Gowans’ group at the Basil Hetzel Institute to study HCV mouse models. He joined current Institution in 2015. His research interest mainly focuses on cancer immunotherapy, including CAR-T therapy. He is also a theoretical biologist.

Dr. Vontell received her PhD in Neurobiology at the School of Imaging Sciences and Biomedical Engineering Research from King’s College London,. She is Associate Director of the Brain Endowment Bank at the University of Miami.
Her primary research has focused on the inflammatory mediators in the brain and their relation to complex diseases; she has been instrumental in studies that identify potential targets for neuronal inflammation in both infants and adults. In addition, she has been involved in developing and implementing educational rotations for the University of Miami Neuroscience Graduate Program

• She holds a Ph.D, M.Phil., MSW Degrees in Social Work from Delhi  University and Lucknow University with UGC-NET and a recipient of  Research Fellowship from UGC.
• She is recently being awarded with a grant by Indian Council of Philosophical studies, Government of India, to conduct a Research on Philosophy of Religion.
• Her Academic and Research interests include Geriatric Social Work, Mental Health, Social Psychology, Child and women Rights, Counselling, Gender Studies, Spirituality & Religious Philosophies of India

Dr. Jie Chen is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Health Policy and Management at the University of Maryland School of Public Health. She also directs the Center on Aging at the University of Maryland, College Park, a leading research hub focused on healthcare systems, public health, economics, and whole-person care to promote aging health and well-being. As the founding director of the Hospital And Public Health Interdisciplinary Research (HAPPY) Lab, her research focuses on advancing healthcare integration, health information technology, and care coordination to improve mental health outcomes.

Dr. Samuel M. Mwangi is a gerontologist who teaches in the Department of Sociology, Gender and Development Studies at Kenyatta University, Nairobi, Kenya. He holds a Bachelor of Education from Kenyatta University, Master of Arts in Gerontology from Wichita State University, Kansas and PhD in Social Gerontology from Miami University of Ohio in the USA. His areas of interest are: retirement/income security, palliative care, gerontology education, intergenerational relations, healthy ageing and support systems for rural elders

Nurhan has been working as a research assistant at Istanbul University for 3 years. At the same time she has been doing her phD in the developmental psychology. She had worked with children before on the autism spectrum and who experience specific learning difficulties and behavioral problems. Since she started playing piano, she has been interested in music. Therefore, research area of her interest consists of music, especially its effects on cognitive and social-emotional development. As a developmental psychologist, she is interested not only in early development but also in the aging process. 

Title: Old Age & Sexuality: plots of Diversity

Lloyd L. Tran, PhD is the Chief Executive Officer and of Biomed Industries, Inc. since May 2020. Previously, he served as Chief Scientific Officer at NeuroActiva, Inc, Director of Research & Development at Biomed Pharmaceutical, Inc. Dr. Tran began his career as a scientist at G.D. Searle, Monsanto (Bayer), and Pfizer.  

Dr. Shalom, a Canadian and Israeli-trained Family Physician Specialist, has practiced medicine in Israel’s Galilee, focusing on End-of-Life and Geriatric care. He works in three nursing homes, Family Medicine, and serves as Medical Director of a national home hospice program. Since 2011, he has taught Palliative Care at Bar Ilan Medical School in Safad. He was Medical Director of Hospice Upper Galilee (2001–2012) and received the Caring Professional Award from Life’s Door in 2014. His postgraduate training includes degrees from Ben Gurion, Tel Aviv universities, and a certificate of Completion from Harvard. He is married with two sons.

Leticia Martins Bitar de Moraes is a lawyer and holds a master's degree in psychology from the Federal University of Pará, Brazil. She is a researcher in Human Aging at Portal do Envelhecimento and Itaú Viver Mais, Brazil. She is also a professor at the Escola Superior da Amazônia in Abaetetuba/PA, Brazil, and serves as a mediator and conciliator at the Court of Justice of the State of Pará, Brazil.

Dr Meena Nathan Cherian is Sr. Advisor Global Action, International Society of Geriatric Oncology, Switzerland. Director, Global Health New Challenges, Geneva Foundation for Medical Education and Research, Switzerland. Member of Health Information for All, UK. Adjunct Prof. The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, China. A professor of anaesthesiology (India) who transitioned to global public health at the WHO Headquarters, Geneva, Switzerland. Interested in knowledge-translation of evidence-based health information to communities towards improving quality of care. 

Nicholas Morris has over 45 years experience working on pensions, health and aged care in Australia, UK and several developing countries, most recently Indonesia. He is an adjunct professor at the Care Economy Research Institute, Latrobe University, Melbourne, Australia. Among other things, he  was Deputy Director, UK Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), Governor and Chairman of Policy Committee, Research into Ageing (UK Charity), and Research leader for UK Continuing Care Alliance inquiry "Fit for the Future". He has advised the Tomlinson Enquiry on restructuring of London's hospitals; theWelsh Office on improving health services in rural Wales; the Registered Nursing Homes Association (UK) and the UK Department of Health on development and restructuring of NHS trusts and hospitals, introduction of GP Fundholding and the NHS workforce allocation model (UK). He was adviser to the UK Royal Commission on Aged Care, and to various Parliamentary Committees

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.