Trends in Geriatric Healthcare

Peter Barnes is Margaret-Turner Warwick Professor of Medicine at the National Heart and Lung Institute, Head of Respiratory Medicine at Imperial College and Honorary Consultant Physician at Royal Brompton Hospital, London. He qualified at Cambridge and Oxford Universities (first class honours) and was appointed to his present post in 1987. He has published over 1000 peer-review papers on asthma, COPD and related topics (h-index 155) and has written or edited over 50 books. He is the 7th most highly cited researcher in the world and the most highly cited respiratory researcher in the world over the last 20 years. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2007, the first respiratory researcher for over 150 years. He is currently a member of the Scientific Committee of global guidelines on COPD (GOLD). He also serves on the Editorial Board of over 30 journals and is currently an Associate Editor of Chest, Journal of COPD Foundation, respiratory Editor of PLoS Medicine and Editor in Chief of Up-to-Date Pulmonary Diseases. He has given several prestigious lectures, including the Amberson Lecture at the American Thoracic Society, the Sadoul Lecture at the European Respiratory Society and the Croonian Lecture at the Royal College of Physicians, London. He has been received honorary degrees from the Universities of Ferrara (Italy), Athens (Greece), Tampere (Finland), Leuven (Belgium) and Maastricht (Netherlands). He is a NIHR Senior Investigator, a Master Fellow of the American College of Chest Physicians and elected a member of Academia Europaea. He served as President of the European Respiratory Society 2013/14. He co-founded an Imperial spin-out company RespiVert, which was acquired by Johnson & Johnson and has developed novel inhaled treatments for COPD and severe asthma.

Dr. Heppner Hans Jürgen is a Chair & Professor of Geriatrics in University Witten/ Herdecke & Director of Geriatric Department at HELIOS Klinik Schwelm. He received his degrees in Emergency Medicine, Intensive Care Medicine, Geriatrics at Bayerische Landesärztekammer, and Master of Health Business Administration at Friedrich-Alexander University. Dr. Heppner Hans Jürgen worked as Vice director in Emergency Department and Intensive Care Unit, Senior register in Geriatric Department at Klinikum Nuremberg. His research interest includes Intensive Care Medicine, Infections (sepsis) in the elderly, Emergency Medicine, general geriatric medicine, orthogeriatric co-management, etc.

Dr. Ramón Cacabelos is Professor of Genomic Medicine at Camilo José Cela University, Madrid, and President of the EuroEspes Biomedical Research Center, Corunna, Spain. He received his M.D. from Oviedo University, Ph.D. from Santiago University, and D.M.Sci. (Psychiatry) from Osaka University Medical School, Japan. After a decade at the Department of Psychiatry in Osaka, he returned to Spain and focused his research activity on the genomics and pharmacogenomics of neurodegenerative disorders. He has published over 600 papers and 24 books, and is Editor-in-Chief of the first World Guide for Drug Use and Pharmacogenomics and President of the World Association of Genomic Medicine. His Research Interests includes Genomics, Pharmacogenomics, Genomic Medicine, Neurogenetics, Drug development for brain disorders, Neurodegeneration/Alzheimer’s disease, Cerebrovascular disorders, Nutrigenomics.

Dr. Marek Zak is a Head of Department of Physical Rehabilitation in Rheumatology and Geriatrics and also Chair of Clinical Rehabilitation at University School of Physical Education. He received his Ph.D & M.Sc in Institute of Rehabilitation at University School of Physical Education.Dr. Zak worked as Assistant Trainee, Assistant Researcher, Reader in Rehabilitation, Chair of Clinical Rehabilitation, Associate professorship at University School of Physical Education. He is presently also working as Associate Professor at University School of Physical Education. Dr. Zak specialy had trained in Physiotherapy, Rehabilitation, Geriatrics. His research interest are - Physiotherapy and rehabilitation in geriatrics; Functional capabilities in the seniors; Clinical and social gerontology; Long-term care in the seniors; Accidental falls in the seniors.

Dr. Hiroshi Kawaguchi graduated from the University of Tokyo, and began his career as an orthopedic surgeon in 1985. He began as a researcher in the laboratory of Dr. Lawrence Raisz at the University of Connecticut in 1991. Dr. Kawaguchi decided his life’s work would be on “disease science”, i.e. preclinical translational research leading directly to the treatment of skeletal disorders: osteoporosis, bone fracture, periprosthetic osteolysis, ossification of spinal ligaments, and osteoarthritis. Since then, he have had a career as a “surgeon scientist” in both laboratory and clinical aspects of these disorders, publishing 286 peer-reviewed original articles (total impact factor: 1,448) in prestigious scientific journals such as Nat Med, Nat Mater, Nature, Science, JCI, Gene Dev, JCB, PNAS, Dev Cell, JBC, and JBMR. Dr. Kawaguchi research interest is on Osteoarthritis, Osteoporosis, Bone fracture, Periprosthetic osteolysis, Ossification of spinal ligaments.

Dr. Whitlow is an Associate Professor at Wake Forest School of Medicine in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA, where he is Chief of Neuroradiology and Vice-Chair for Faculty Development in the Department of Radiology. He also has cross-disciplinary faculty appointments in the Department of Biomedical Engineering and Clinical Translational Sciences Institute (CTSI), serving as Director of the Combined MD/PhD Program and Associate Leader of the CTSI Translational Imaging Program. As a board-certified Diagnostic Radiologist with focused subspecialty fellowship training in neuroradiology, Dr. Whitlow has broad clinical expertise in brain, head-neck and spine imaging. Dr. Whitlow is also a neuroimaging physician-scientist and neuroepidemiologist, with specific doctoral training in translational neurophysiology/neuropharmacology, including experience using human research subjects and research animal models to explore the effects of diseases and conditions affecting brain structure and function. He has a strong informatics background as well, with extensive experience using a variety of computational informatics techniques to analyze epidemiologic and neuroimaging data, including graph theoretical brain network connectivity methods and machine learning. Dr. Whitlow’s extensive training in epidemiology and public health research methodologies as a graduate of the Gillings School of Global Public Health at University of North Carolina Chapel Hill has provided him with the critical training necessary to lead important large-scale studies of diseases at the population level funded by the National Institutes of Health. His research has resulted in more than 200 published peer-reviewed journal articles, abstracts and book chapters, and has been cited over 1000 times in the peer-reviewed literature.

Diane Chau MD, is the Project Director of the University of California Geriatric Education Center/Geriatric Workforce Enhancement Project and the medical director of the Community Living Center at the Veteran Affairs in San Diego and an Associate Professor of Health Sciences Medicine at UCSD. Dr. Chau graduated from Drexel University College of Medicine and completed a fellowship in geriatric medicine at the University of California, San Diego. He is board-certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine in Geriatric Medicine, Hospice and Palliative Medicine. She is has participated in many a national leadership development program for geriatric leaders and clinicians, and now serves on the multiple board of directors including the California Geriatrics Society and the California Long Term Care Association.As a geriatric medicine specialist and researcher, Dr. Chau’s work focuses on developing and implementing geriatric medicine services for older adults, their families and caregivers, and physicians who provide the patient’s primary care. She has authored and co-authored numerous journal articles, book chapters, and abstracts and regularly gives presentations across the country.