Healthy Aging Symposium 2018
Thursday, January 11
Beit Hatfutsot Auditorium
09:00 - Welcome & Opening Remarks
Dr. Mira Marcus-Kalish – VC, Medical Informatics HBP, TAU
Prof. Yoav Henis - VP for R&D, TAU
09:30 - 10:00 - Prof. Sarah Harper - Gerontology, Institute of Population Aging, Oxford University, GB
Overview of NIDA and NIA. State of the art and opportunities - Prof. Antonello Bonci, MD - Scientific Director NIDA, USA
10:00 - 10:30 - Approaches to Understanding Healthy Aging - Prof. Lene Juel Rasmussen - Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
10:30 - 11:00 - Novel ER Located Trophic Factors CDNF Maintains Dopamine Neurons in Aging - Prof. Mart Saarma - Director of the Laboratory of Molecular Neuroscience at the Institute of Biotechnology, University of Helsinki
11:00 - 11:30 - Coffee Break
Chairperson: Prof. Alan Leshner - Chief Executive Officer, and former Executive Publisher, Science, USA
11:30 - 12:00 - Facing Early and Late Psychological Trauma in Healthy and Unhealthy Aging - Prof. Dov Shmotkin - School of Psychological Sciences, Head, Herczeg Institute on Aging, TAU
12:00 - 12:30 - The Relation of Hypoglycemia & Glucose Variability to Mortality & Hospital Readmission: The Utility of Big Data to Define Evidence-Based Care Guidelines - Prof. John Sorkin - Chief, Biostatistics and Informatics, School of Medicine, Division of Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine, University of Maryland, USA
12:30 - 13:00 - Prof. Eliot Siegel, Vice Chairman, University of Maryland, School of Medicine
13:00 - 14:30 - Lunch
Chairperson: Prof. Karen Avraham - Vice Dean, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, TAU
14:30 - 15:00 - Understanding Genes Regulating Autism, Schizophrenia and Alzheimer's Disease Toward Healthy Aging: The Case of ADNP - Prof. Illana Gozes - The Gildor Chair for the Investigation of Growth Factors Medical School, TAU
15:00 - 15:30 - Physiological Effects of Exercise with Aging - Prof. Mickey Scheinowitz - Biomedical Engineering; Director of Sylvan Adams Sports Institute, TAU
15:30 - 16:00 - Prof. Mauro Ferrari - Chairperson, International Board of Governors Dead Sea Research Institute (DSRI)
16:00 - 16:30 - Healthy Aging and the Elderly in the 21st Century - Prof. Yizhal Brener - Head of the Geriatric Department, Meir Hospital
16:30 - Concluding Remarks - Dr. Mira Marcus-Kalish - Medical Informatics, VC HBP, Director, International Research Affairs, TAU
17:30 - Makeathon, AGE3 – Innovative Outcome Announcement of the winning team
