Healthy Aging Symposium 2019

Program

Healthy Aging Symposium 2019

Thursday, March 14, 2019

 

 Jaglom Auditorium, George S. Wise Senate Building

 

09:00 Welcome & Opening Remarks 

                        

Dr. Mira Marcus-Kalish - Director, International Research Collaborations, TAU

Prof. Joseph Klafter - President, Tel Aviv University, TAU         

Prof. Yoav Henis - VP for R&D, TAU

 

09:20 - 10:40 Opening Session:

 

Chair: Prof. Alan Leshner - Chief Executive Officer, Emeritus, AAAS, and former Executive Publisher, Science, USA

 

Developing a Policy for an Ageing Population: Examples from the UK

Prof. Sarah Harper - Gerontology, Institute of Population Aging, Oxford University, GB

 

Do Micro-organisms Have Anything to do with Aging?

Prof. George Weinstock - Evnin Family Chair and Director of Microbial Genomics, Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine, USA

 

Engineering Personalized Tissue Implants for Regenerative Medicine  

Prof. Tal Dvir - Laboratory for Tissue Engineering and Regenerating Medicine

School of Molecular Cell Biology and Biotechnology, Department of Materials Science

& Engineering, Sagol Center for Regenerative Biotechnology, Center for Nanoscience

& Nanotechnology, George S. Wise  Faculty of Life Sciences, TAU

 

 Keeping People Healthy with Vaccines for the Aging Society

 Dr. Rino Rappuoli - Chief Scientist & Head of External R&D GlaxoSmithKline (GSK)  Vaccines

 

10:40 - 11:00 Coffee Break

 

11:00 - 12:30 Session II:

 

Chair: Prof. Mauro Ferrari - President and CEO, Houston Methodist Research Institute, Director, Institute for Academic Medicine at Houston Methodist Hospital, Executive Vice President, Houston Methodist Hospital, USA

 

Biomarkers for Cognition, Aging and Alzheimer’s Disease  

Prof. Ilana Gozes - The Gildor Chair for the Investigation of Growth Factors Department of Human Molecular Genetics and Biochemistry Sackler Faculty of Medicine, TAU 

 

                         

Patient-Centered In Silico Assessment of Health Aging: Imaging and Beyond

Dr. Michael Morris, MD - Nuclear Medicine, and Internal Medicine, Mercy Medical Center, Baltimore, MD, USA

 

Medical Epistemology: A Gerontologist's Perspective

Prof. John Sorkin - Chief, Biostatistics and Informatics, University of Maryland School of Medicine Division of Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine Baltimore VA Medical Center
 

Modelling and Optimization of Homecare and Caregiving Services for the Elderly

Prof. Theng Yin Leng - Professor & Director, Wee Kim Wee School of Communication & Information, Acting Executive Director, Ageing Research Institute for Society and Education (ARISE), President's Office, Nanyang Technological University (NTU)

 

12:30 - 13:30  Lunch

 

13:30 - 15:00 Session III:

 

Chair: Prof. Dov Shmotkin - School of Psychological Sciences, and Head of the Herczeg Institute on Aging, TAU

 

Protecting the Elderly and Frail from Pressure Ulcers Using Innovative Bioengineering Technologies

Prof. Amit Gefen - The Herbert J. Berman Chair in Vascular Bioengineering, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Iby and Aladar Fleischman Faculty of Engineering, TAU

 

Healthy Aging and Filial Piety in the Shadow of the Law

Prof. Daphna Hacker - The Buchmann Faculty of Law, TAU

 

The Social Shaping of Uncertainty in Length of Life

 Dr. Isaac Sasson - Department of Sociology and Anthropology and the Herczeg Institute on Aging, TAU

 

Assistive Technology for Cognitive Impaired Seniors in Nursing Homes

Kelvin Tan Cheng Kian - Director, NUS Smart Systems Institute National University of Singapore

 

15:00 - 15:30 Coffee Break

 

15:30 - 17:30 Session IV:

 

Chair: Dr. Dévora Grynspan - Vice President for International Relations, Northwestern University

 

Research Directions in Healthy Aging in the Era of the Longevity Economy

Dr. Dana Burr Bradley - Dean, Erickson School of Aging Studies, Professor of Social Gerontology, UMBC

 

Healthy Aging Starts Not at 65 but at Day One, So Why Do We Misplace Our Resources?

Prof. Manuel Trajtenberg - The Eitan Berglas School of Economics, TAU and Samuel Neaman Institute, Technion

 

Healthy Aging International Initiative – Panel Discussion

Prof. Theng Yin Leng - NanYang Technology University, Singapore

Kelvin Tan Cheng Kian - National University of Singapore 

Dr. Hedva Voliovitch - Executive Manager, former Head of Global Patient Safety & Pharmacovigilance, Teva Pharmaceuticals                                                                           

Miri Polachek - CEO, Joy Ventures, Israel

2019 JOY ACADEMIC GRANT CALL FOR PROPOSALS

 

 

18:00 Cocktail Event at the Porter School of Environmental Studies

 

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