Geriatrics

Andrew P. Goldberg, MD is Professor of Medicine, Head, Division of Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine, at the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM). He is Principal Investigator of the UMSOM Claude Pepper Older Americans Independence Center and NIA training program in exercise, nutrition and metabolism in aging, and Co-Director of the UMSOM Center for Research on Aging. Dr. Goldberg leads clinical and translational research examining the whole body, adipose, muscle and genetic mechanisms underlying the cardiometabolic effects of weight loss with and without aerobic exercise training on lipid and glucose metabolism and functional capacity in obese older people with diabetes, metabolic syndrome, stroke and ICU survivors. The goals are to understand mechanisms of disease, and develop novel exercise rehabilitation and dietary interventions to transform health care practices to reduce risk for complications of chronic disease and disability in older adults. He has published >200 peer-reviewed manuscripts, and mentored >60 pre- and post-doctoral trainees and junior faculty in clinical aging, exercise and metabolism research. He is nationally recognized for his achievements in geriatrics with award of the 2008 Joseph T. Freeman Award from The Gerontological Society of America and the 2009 Master Teacher Award in Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology from State University of New York Downstate Medical Center.

Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine, exercise, nutrition and metabolism in aging, Research on Aging. clinical and translational research examining the whole body, adipose, muscle and genetic mechanisms underlying the cardiometabolic effects of weight loss with and without aerobic exercise training on lipid and glucose metabolism and functional capacity in obese older people with diabetes, metabolic syndrome, stroke and ICU survivors. The goals are to understand mechanisms of disease, and develop novel exercise rehabilitation and dietary interventions to transform health care practices to reduce risk for complications of chronic disease and disability in older adults, clinical aging, exercise and metabolism research.

Steve Kornguth took his BA at Columbia College in New York City and his Ph.D. in biochemistry at the University of Wisconsin- Madison. He was Professor of Neurology and of Biomolecular Chemistry at the University of Wisconsin between 1962 and 1998. His research during this period related to neural development, biological basis of neurological disorders, autoimmune diseases and development of binding agents and platforms for biological threat agent sensors and magnetic resonance image contrast materials. In 1998 he moved to Texas and was Director of the Center for Strategic and Innovative Technologies and Associate Director of the Institute for Advanced Technology at the University of Texas-Austin until 2012. He is currently Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Kinesiology and Health Sciences at The University of Texas-Austin. He directed the Biological and Chemical Countermeasures Program and the Sustaining and Enhancing High OpTempo Performance of Soldiers for the University of Texas. Dr. Kornguth published over 130 articles in peer reviewed journals, including patents and is the editor of books in the areas of biodefense and of human performance.

Neurology and of Biomolecular Chemistry neural development, biological basis of neurological disorders, autoimmune diseases and development of binding agents and platforms for biological threat agent sensors and magnetic resonance image contrast materials, biodefense and of human performance.

Steve Kornguth took his BA at Columbia College in New York City and his Ph.D. in biochemistry at the University of Wisconsin- Madison. He was Professor of Neurology and of Biomolecular Chemistry at the University of Wisconsin between 1962 and 1998. His research during this period related to neural development, biological basis of neurological disorders, autoimmune diseases and development of binding agents and platforms for biological threat agent sensors and magnetic resonance image contrast materials. In 1998 he moved to Texas and was Director of the Center for Strategic and Innovative Technologies and Associate Director of the Institute for Advanced Technology at the University of Texas-Austin until 2012. He is currently Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Kinesiology and Health Sciences at The University of Texas-Austin. He directed the Biological and Chemical Countermeasures Program and the Sustaining and Enhancing High OpTempo Performance of Soldiers for the University of Texas. Dr. Kornguth published over 130 articles in peer reviewed journals, including patents and is the editor of books in the areas of biodefense and of human performance.

Sleep research, Neuropyschiatry

Georgi Pavlovich Gladyshev was born on 19 September 1936 in Alma-Ata, Kazakhstan, he graduated the Chemistry Department of the State University in Alma-Ata in 1959 and received the Degree of Candidate of Science (Ph.D.) in 1962 and a Doctorate Degree in polymer chemistry in 1966. He became Professor of Physical Chemistry in 1969 and in 1970 Chief of the Laboratory at the Institute of Chemical Physics of the USSR (Russian) Academy of Sciences in Moscow. Since 1968 he has been a visiting professor and Scientific adviser at several state universities, industrial plants, and firms. In 1989 he was elected President of the Academy of Creative Endeavors of the USSR (now - the International Academy of Creative Endeavors). Professor Gladyshev, H.E. is a member of many associations, societies and academies. He is also the recipient of many honors and awards, including the Willard Gibbs Gold Medal. He is the author of more than five hundred scientific articles, patents and ten monographs in the fields of Physical Chemistry, He has created the thermodynamics theory of origin of life and biological evolution. Thermodynamic theories of behavior and aging of living beings and physicochemical dietetics were created. The dietetics allowed predicting optimum diets and food additives favoring healthy long life.

Thermodynamic theories of behavior and aging of living beings and physicochemical dietetics

Dr. David Kaufman is a Professor in the Faculty of Education and Associate Member of the Gerontology Department and Faculty of Health Sciences at Simon Fraser University. He has presented more than 200 lectures and/or workshops worldwide and has published more than 120 peer-reviewed articles and three books. Dr. Kaufman serves as a reviewer for many journals, granting agencies and professional associations, and has received more than $4 million in funding. He currently is funded through an AGE-WELL Canadian National Centres of Excellence grant to study digital games and digital storytelling for older adults.

Older Adults, Cognitive Skills, Gerontology, Health Sciences

Dr. Paul Langer is a board certified podiatrist in practice with Twin Cities Orthopedics in Minneapolis, MN. He is an adjunct clinical faculty member at the University of Minnesota Medical School and a past president of the American Academy of Podiatric Sports Medicine. He has authored Great Feet for Life; Footcare & Footwear for Healthy Aging, served as an editor of two sports medicine texts and published five peer reviewed articles. He has presented more than forty academic lectures on topics ranging from lower extremity health to footwear and sports medicine.

Orthopedics, Ankle Care, including Podiatry, Foot Care, Sports Medicine

Andrew P. Goldberg, MD is Professor of Medicine, Head, Division of Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine, at the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM). He is Principal Investigator of the UMSOM Claude Pepper Older Americans Independence Center and NIA training program in exercise, nutrition and metabolism in aging, and Co-Director of the UMSOM Center for Research on Aging. Dr. Goldberg leads clinical and translational research examining the whole body, adipose, muscle and genetic mechanisms underlying the cardiometabolic effects of weight loss with and without aerobic exercise training on lipid and glucose metabolism and functional capacity in obese older people with diabetes, metabolic syndrome, stroke and ICU survivors. The goals are to understand mechanisms of disease, and develop novel exercise rehabilitation and dietary interventions to transform health care practices to reduce risk for complications of chronic disease and disability in older adults. He has published >200 peer-reviewed manuscripts, and mentored >60 pre- and post-doctoral trainees and junior faculty in clinical aging, exercise and metabolism research. He is nationally recognized for his achievements in geriatrics with award of the 2008 Joseph T. Freeman Award from The Gerontological Society of America and the 2009 Master Teacher Award in Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology from State University of New York Downstate Medical Center.

Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine, exercise, nutrition and metabolism in aging, Research on Aging. clinical and translational research examining the whole body, adipose, muscle and genetic mechanisms underlying the cardiometabolic effects of weight loss with and without aerobic exercise training on lipid and glucose metabolism and functional capacity in obese older people with diabetes, metabolic syndrome, stroke and ICU survivors. The goals are to understand mechanisms of disease, and develop novel exercise rehabilitation and dietary interventions to transform health care practices to reduce risk for complications of chronic disease and disability in older adults, clinical aging, exercise and metabolism research.

Steve Kornguth took his BA at Columbia College in New York City and his Ph.D. in biochemistry at the University of Wisconsin- Madison. He was Professor of Neurology and of Biomolecular Chemistry at the University of Wisconsin between 1962 and 1998. His research during this period related to neural development, biological basis of neurological disorders, autoimmune diseases and development of binding agents and platforms for biological threat agent sensors and magnetic resonance image contrast materials. In 1998 he moved to Texas and was Director of the Center for Strategic and Innovative Technologies and Associate Director of the Institute for Advanced Technology at the University of Texas-Austin until 2012. He is currently Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Kinesiology and Health Sciences at The University of Texas-Austin. He directed the Biological and Chemical Countermeasures Program and the Sustaining and Enhancing High OpTempo Performance of Soldiers for the University of Texas. Dr. Kornguth published over 130 articles in peer reviewed journals, including patents and is the editor of books in the areas of biodefense and of human performance.

Neurology and of Biomolecular Chemistry neural development, biological basis of neurological disorders, autoimmune diseases and development of binding agents and platforms for biological threat agent sensors and magnetic resonance image contrast materials, biodefense and of human performance.

Dr. Shapiro has been involved in sleep research for over forty years. He trained in science and medicine in South Africa subsequently did his PhD in sleep physiology at the University of Edinburgh with Ian Oswald. He did his psychiatry training in Edinburgh and then had a senior lectureship at Edinburgh University before moving to Canada approximately twenty five years ago as a Full Professor in the Department of Psychiatry. He was Director of the Neuropsychiatry Program at the Toronto Western Hospital and Editor of the Journal of Psychosomatic Research both for close to two decades. He has over 300 refereed publications in this field and two dozen books and booklets including a book on “Forensic aspects of sleep”, and several books for the lay public. He also authored a children’s book “Who needs to sleep anyway” and most recently co-authored a book “STOP THAT and 100 Other Sleep Scales”. His “ABC of sleep medicine” through the BMJ was considered the first book for family physicians on sleep. He has a further 560 publications (chapters, editorials, letters etc) and has supervised over 50 fellows and postgraduate students. One of his interests is sleep changes in psychiatric disease and the extent to which sleep markers are helpful in psychiatry. He founded the British Sleep Society in 1989. In 1998 he founded the International Neuropsychiatric Association. When a resident in Scotland, he set up the first sleep laboratory in Africa and nine years ago he opened the first independent Child and Adolescent Sleep Clinic in Canada.

Clinical Neurosciences and Cognitive Neurosciences .

Georgi Pavlovich Gladyshev was born on 19 September 1936 in Alma-Ata, Kazakhstan, he graduated the Chemistry Department of the State University in Alma-Ata in 1959 and received the Degree of Candidate of Science (Ph.D.) in 1962 and a Doctorate Degree in polymer chemistry in 1966. He became Professor of Physical Chemistry in 1969 and in 1970 Chief of the Laboratory at the Institute of Chemical Physics of the USSR (Russian) Academy of Sciences in Moscow. Since 1968 he has been a visiting professor and Scientific adviser at several state universities, industrial plants, and firms. In 1989 he was elected President of the Academy of Creative Endeavors of the USSR (now - the International Academy of Creative Endeavors). Professor Gladyshev, H.E. is a member of many associations, societies and academies. He is also the recipient of many honors and awards, including the Willard Gibbs Gold Medal. He is the author of more than five hundred scientific articles, patents and ten monographs in the fields of Physical Chemistry, He has created the thermodynamics theory of origin of life and biological evolution. Thermodynamic theories of behavior and aging of living beings and physicochemical dietetics were created. The dietetics allowed predicting optimum diets and food additives favoring healthy long life.

Thermodynamic theories of behavior and aging of living beings and physicochemical dietetics

Dr. Paul Langer is a board certified podiatrist in practice with Twin Cities Orthopedics in Minneapolis, MN. He is an adjunct clinical faculty member at the University of Minnesota Medical School and a past president of the American Academy of Podiatric Sports Medicine. He has authored Great Feet for Life; Footcare & Footwear for Healthy Aging, served as an editor of two sports medicine texts and published five peer reviewed articles. He has presented more than forty academic lectures on topics ranging from lower extremity health to footwear and sports medicine.

Orthopedics, Ankle Care, including Podiatry, Foot Care, Sports Medicine

Dr. David Kaufman is a Professor in the Faculty of Education and Associate Member of the Gerontology Department and Faculty of Health Sciences at Simon Fraser University. He has presented more than 200 lectures and/or workshops worldwide and has published more than 120 peer-reviewed articles and three books. Dr. Kaufman serves as a reviewer for many journals, granting agencies and professional associations, and has received more than $4 million in funding. He currently is funded through an AGE-WELL Canadian National Centres of Excellence grant to study digital games and digital storytelling for older adults.

Older Adults, Cognitive Skills, Gerontology, Health Sciences

Gorshunova Nina - a doctor of medicine, professor, head of the polyclinic therapy & general practice department of Kursk State Medical University, Russia. She is a head of local scientific center of Global Aging Research Network supported by the International Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics. She is a member of governing Board in scientific Gerontological society of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the member of the international advisory board of academic journal “Advances of gerontology”. The main scientific trends are: gerontology and geriatrics in general practice, cardiovascular problems of elderly people, age-related disorders of hemostasis; mediсo-social rehabilitation; organization and methodical problems of the general medical practice, educational technologies for prevention of premature ageing. Gorshunova Nina - author more than 600 scientific articles, among them 15 in foreign journals, 10 scientific monographies. In 2012 she was award by gold medal of European scientific - industrial chamber for original investigations in Gerontology and for pedagogical activity.

Gerontology, Geriatrics, General practice, Cardiovascular problems of elderly people and Age-related disorders.

Shyh-Dye Lee is a Professor of School of Medicine & Graduate Programme of Long-Term (Custodial) Care and Medical College at Fu Jen Catholic University, Taiwan. He is an attending Physician & vice Superintendent of Fu Jen Clinics & Affiliated Hospital with Co-Appointments. He acts as an Adjunct Professor of Graduate Institute of Gerontology and Aging at National Cheng Kung University Medical College (NCKUMC) and in Institute of Long-Term(Custodial) Care at National Taipei University of Nursing and Health Sciences (NTUNHS). He is a Senior Attending Physician at Department of Community and Family Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital (NTUH) & Bei-Hu.

Long-Term (Custodial) Care, Gerontology, Aging, Community and Family Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences.

Andrew P. Goldberg, MD is Professor of Medicine, Head, Division of Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine, at the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM). He is Principal Investigator of the UMSOM Claude Pepper Older Americans Independence Center and NIA training program in exercise, nutrition and metabolism in aging, and Co-Director of the UMSOM Center for Research on Aging. Dr. Goldberg leads clinical and translational research examining the whole body, adipose, muscle and genetic mechanisms underlying the cardiometabolic effects of weight loss with and without aerobic exercise training on lipid and glucose metabolism and functional capacity in obese older people with diabetes, metabolic syndrome, stroke and ICU survivors. The goals are to understand mechanisms of disease, and develop novel exercise rehabilitation and dietary interventions to transform health care practices to reduce risk for complications of chronic disease and disability in older adults. He has published >200 peer-reviewed manuscripts, and mentored >60 pre- and post-doctoral trainees and junior faculty in clinical aging, exercise and metabolism research. He is nationally recognized for his achievements in geriatrics with award of the 2008 Joseph T. Freeman Award from The Gerontological Society of America and the 2009 Master Teacher Award in Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology from State University of New York Downstate Medical Center.

Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine, exercise, nutrition and metabolism in aging, Research on Aging. clinical and translational research examining the whole body, adipose, muscle and genetic mechanisms underlying the cardiometabolic effects of weight loss with and without aerobic exercise training on lipid and glucose metabolism and functional capacity in obese older people with diabetes, metabolic syndrome, stroke and ICU survivors. The goals are to understand mechanisms of disease, and develop novel exercise rehabilitation and dietary interventions to transform health care practices to reduce risk for complications of chronic disease and disability in older adults, clinical aging, exercise and metabolism research.

Steve Kornguth took his BA at Columbia College in New York City and his Ph.D. in biochemistry at the University of Wisconsin- Madison. He was Professor of Neurology and of Biomolecular Chemistry at the University of Wisconsin between 1962 and 1998. His research during this period related to neural development, biological basis of neurological disorders, autoimmune diseases and development of binding agents and platforms for biological threat agent sensors and magnetic resonance image contrast materials. In 1998 he moved to Texas and was Director of the Center for Strategic and Innovative Technologies and Associate Director of the Institute for Advanced Technology at the University of Texas-Austin until 2012. He is currently Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Kinesiology and Health Sciences at The University of Texas-Austin. He directed the Biological and Chemical Countermeasures Program and the Sustaining and Enhancing High OpTempo Performance of Soldiers for the University of Texas. Dr. Kornguth published over 130 articles in peer reviewed journals, including patents and is the editor of books in the areas of biodefense and of human performance.

Nursing, Elderly Care, Palliative & Hospice Care

Dr. Shapiro has been involved in sleep research for over forty years. He trained in science and medicine in South Africa subsequently did his PhD in sleep physiology at the University of Edinburgh with Ian Oswald. He did his psychiatry training in Edinburgh and then had a senior lectureship at Edinburgh University before moving to Canada approximately twenty five years ago as a Full Professor in the Department of Psychiatry. He was Director of the Neuropsychiatry Program at the Toronto Western Hospital and Editor of the Journal of Psychosomatic Research both for close to two decades. He has over 300 refereed publications in this field and two dozen books and booklets including a book on “Forensic aspects of sleep”, and several books for the lay public. He also authored a children’s book “Who needs to sleep anyway” and most recently co-authored a book “STOP THAT and 100 Other Sleep Scales”. His “ABC of sleep medicine” through the BMJ was considered the first book for family physicians on sleep. He has a further 560 publications (chapters, editorials, letters etc) and has supervised over 50 fellows and postgraduate students. One of his interests is sleep changes in psychiatric disease and the extent to which sleep markers are helpful in psychiatry. He founded the British Sleep Society in 1989. In 1998 he founded the International Neuropsychiatric Association. When a resident in Scotland, he set up the first sleep laboratory in Africa and nine years ago he opened the first independent Child and Adolescent Sleep Clinic in Canada.

Sleep research, Neuropyschiatry