5^th International Conference on Geriatric Medicine & Gerontological Nursing November 14-15, 2016
Atlanta, Georgia, USA

Domenico Praticò graduated from the University of Rome “La Sapienza”, School of Medicine as Medical Doctor, where is completed a residency program in Internal Medicine. Later on he continued his post-graduation training at the University College Dublin, Ireland. Internationally known for his work on Alzheimer’s disease, Dr. Praticò is a Professor of Pharmacology, Microbiology and Immunology at Temple University, School of Medicine. He has authored over 230 original articles, and has received many awards for his research accomplishments including the Irvine H. Page Award, Neurosciences Education and Research Award, The Zenith Award from the Alzheimer’s Association, and the Dorothy Dillon Eweson Lectureship.

Alzheimer’s disease, Glucose Deficits, Dementia, Neurofibrillary Tangle.

Dr. Wenger is Professor of Medicine in the Division of Cardiology at the Emory University School of Medicine. She is a Consultant to the Emory Heart and Vascular Center. Dr. Wenger received the Outstanding Professional Achievement Award from Hunter College (1993), and the Physician of the Year Award of the American Heart Association (1998). In 1999, Dr. Wenger received the Distinguished Achievement Award from the Scientific Councils of the American Heart Association and its Women in Cardiology Mentoring Award. She was chosen by Atlanta Women in Law and Medicine for Shining Star Award recognizing her distinguished career in cardiology and women’s health issues. At the Emory University 2004 Commencement, Dr. Wenger received the Emory Williams Distinguished Teaching Award of the University and the Evangeline Papageorge Alumni Teaching Award of the Emory University School of Medicine. Dr. Wenger was selected to deliver the 2004 Laennec Lecture of the American Heart Association. In 2006, Dr. Wenger received the Hatter Award, international recognition for the advancement of cardiovascular science. The Georgia Chapter of the American College of Cardiology presented Dr. Wenger its Lifetime Achievement Award in 2009. She was selected Georgia Woman of the Year for 2010. In 2011, Dr. Wenger was selected to deliver the James B. Herrick lecture by the American Heart Association for her outstanding achievement in clinical cardiology. She was elected a member of Emory’s 175 History makers during Emory’s first 175 years. Dr. Wenger has authored or coauthored over 1500 scientific and review articles and book chapters. Dr. Wenger chaired the U.S. National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Conference on Cardiovascular Health and Disease in Women. She chaired the World Health Organization Expert Committee on Rehabilitation after Cardiovascular Disease, and co-chaired the Guideline Panel on Cardiac Rehabilitation for the U.S. Agency for Health Care Policy and Research is a Past President of the Society of Geriatric Cardiology and was Editor-in-Chief of the American Journal of Geriatric Cardiology for more than 15 years.

Coronary heart disease in women, Geriatric cardiology, cardiac rehabilitation and clinical cardiology.

Cassandra Szoeke brings together high level management and communication skills with expertise in teaching and health. She has worked in the commonwealth science organization, public hospital system and for the Department of Health. She has held teaching roles in several academic institutions and specialist colleges. She is currently the Director of the Healthy Ageing Program, Associate Professor at the University of Melbourne and Adjunct Professor at Monash University. She led the research program in Neurodegenerative Diseases, Mental Disorders and Brain Health at the Australian Commonwealth Science and Industry Organization (CSIRO) and then became a Clinical Consultant to CSIRO. She has been involved in the establishment of several major Australian collaborative studies (ASPREE, START and AIBL), sat on the executive scientific board of the Australian Imaging Biomarker and Lifestyle study of ageing (AIBL) from 2008 to 2014, and was the Inaugural Chair of the Vascular Stream. She has significant experience in governance and formal training including being a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. She served on the board of executive directors for the Western Health Service Network, employed by the Victorian Minister for Health. In this role, she was Chair of both the Quality and Safety and the Education and Research Board subcommittees.

Neurodegenerative Diseases, Mental Disorders, Brain Health Genetics, Pharmacology, Epidemiology, women's healthy ageing and Public Health and Policy

Dr. Wolf-Ostermann is a full professor in the department of Health Care Services Research in Nursing Sciences at the University of Bremen, Germany. Prior to that she served for ten years as full professor at the Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences in Berlin, Germany and also has served as a research statistician at several academic and government settings. Dr. Wolf-Ostermann is an internationally recognized dementia researcher especially in the area of small scale living environments for people with dementia. She has extensively published her work in a variety of journals that focus on gerontology and disseminated her work at an international level in numerous monographs, book chapters, and presentations.

Dementia, Gerontology, Nursing Sciences, Health Care Research.

Dr. Kinjo is an anesthesiologist and pain management physician at University of California, San Francisco. Dr. Kinjo graduated from the Ryukyu University, Faculty of Medicine, Nishihara Cho and Okinawa, Japan in 1994. Dr. Kinjo is affiliated with UCSF Medical Center Parnassus.

Acute pain management, Postoperative cognition and Regional anesthesia.

Mehmet Govercin is a medical doctor since 2001 and received his doctoral degree for his basic research in examining the effects of the Proteinkinaseinhibitor-alpha in cardiomyocytes. He was founder and head of the Ageing and Technology research group and vice director of the Geriatrics Research Group at Charite- Universitatsmedizin Berlin. Dr. Govercin led multiple European and nationally funded collaborative research projects in the field of Gerontechnology, integrated care and Ambient Assisted Living such as SmartSenior, CloudI/O, LeVer, iDSS and SOAMED. Mehmet Govercin is member of the German Geriatrics Society (DGG), the Gerontological Society of America (GSA) and the International Society for Gerontechnology (ISG). Further Dr. Govercin was founder and president of the Austrian-German-Swiss Chapter for Gerontechnology as part of the ISG and (co-)authored more than 50 publications in peer reviewed books, journals, and conference proceedings in Geriatrics Medicine.

Geriatrics Medicine, Gerontechnology, Ageing Research

Prof. Gaiane Safarova is graduated from Leningrad State University (Faculty of Mathematics and Mechanics). Since the graduation she have worked at the same institution – now its name is Saint-Petersburg Institute for Economics and Mathematics of Russian Academy of Sciences. At present she occupies a position of Leading Research Scientist and the Head of the Laboratory of Analysis and Modeling Socio-Demographic Processes. Besides, she is a Professor of the Faculty of Economics at the European University at Saint-Petersburg. She has two scientific degrees – PhD in Economics and Sc. D in Gerontology and the author of more than 150 scientific publications. She has been the leader of several projects supported by Russian foundations and participated in a number of international projects. Prof. Gaiane Safarova is a member of the European Association for Population Studies (EAPS) and International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP).

Age structure, Population ageing, comparative studies; demographic projections, population policies

Dr. Lisa A. Hollis-Sawyer, an Associate Professor in the Psychology department and Coordinator of the Gerontology program at Northeastern Illinois University in Chicago, Illinois. She received doctorate in Industrial Gerontology from The University of Akron and conducted post-doctoral NIH/NIA training at Boston University. She is a trained social/industrial psychologist, a gerontologist, and a women and gender studies faculty. In addition, she co-authored four textbooks and books and authored/co-authored 34 scholarly publications. Dr. Lisa received the American Psychological Association’s Division 20 Mentorship Awards in Aging award in 2014, and attained the Association for Gerontology in Higher Education’s Program of Merit designation for the NEIU M.A. in Gerontology program in the same year. She teaches courses related to social, industrial, gender, testing/assessment, and aging-related (developmental) psychology. She actively develops and teaches several e-courses at both the undergraduate and graduate level.

Dr. Lisa’s research interests range from positive aging and eldercare outcomes to a growing aging workforce and retirement policy issues. Her current research agenda involves the examination of positive aging outcomes for diverse groups and their associated lessons of life. She is currently in the process of developing a new graduate-level certificate on elder advocacy for Fall 2016, and she is collaborating on a new book project related to environmental issues with a global aging population. Her research and teaching philosophy reflects a desire to improve the quality of life of older adults, and her hope is to instill this same passion within my students and mentorees!

Professor WK Tang was appointed to professor in the Department of Psychiatry, the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2011. His main research areas are Addictions and Neuropsychiatry in Stroke. Professor Tang has published over 100 papers in renowned journals, and has also contributed to the peer review of 40 journals. He has secured over 20 major competitive research grants. He has served the editorial boards of five scientific journals. He was also a recipient of the Young Researcher Award in 2007, awarded by the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Geriatric Psychiatry, Addictions and Neuropsychiatry and Stroke Disorders.