Prof. Dr. Ligia J Dominguez, born in Colombia, is an MD and a specialist in Internal Medicine at the University of Rosario, Bogota, and Endocrinology at
Wayne State University, Detroit (MI). Her research interests cover the fields of diabetes, nutrition and metabolism, obesity, thyroid diseases,
hypertension, and osteoporosis. She is currently a full professor of Medicine at the School of Medicine and Nursing of the University Kore of Enna (Italy) and at the Postgraduate School of Geriatrics at the University of Palermo (Italy). She has been a coordinator in multicenter studies sponsored by the Italian Government and by the EC, such as GIFA (Gruppo Italiano di Farmacovigilanza nell’Anziano), ESAW (European Study of Adult Well-Being: determinants of well-being in older age and of successful ageing), EUROFAMCARE (Support Services for Family Caregivers of Adults in Europe), and Anorexia of Ageing. She has authored over 400 publications in peer-reviewed national and international journals and has been invited as a speaker at national and international conferences.

Tan Maw Pin is Professor in Geriatric Medicine at the University of Malaya. She qualified from the University of Nottingham, United Kingdom and worked as an house officer in Derby and a Senior House Officer at the Nottingham City Hospital before moving up north to Newcastle upon Tyne to pursue her higher specialist training in geriatric medicine. She worked briefly as a consultant geriatrician at the Royal Victoria Infirmary and Freeman Hospital before returning home to Malaysia. She is the Principal Investigator of the Transforming Cognitive Frailty into Later Life Self-Sufficiency (AGELESS) programme which is funded by a Ministry of Higher Education Long Term Research Grant Scheme.  Prof Tan is also the Honorary Secretary of the Malaysian Society of Geriatric Medicine and the College of Physicians of Malaysia. She is Academic Editor to PLOS ONE and Associate Editor to Frontiers in Medicine.  In addition, she has founded the University of Malaya spin-off, ACT4Health Sdn Bhd, and as Medical Director of the Genting Dementia Day Care Centre and Managed Care Services Sdn Bhd.

After obtaining her medical degree, Doctorate in Medicine (MD) and specialty in Internal Medicine from the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, Dina Zekry continued her training in Internal Medicine and Geriatrics in Paris (Foreign Resident of the College of Medicine of the Paris Hospitals, Capacity and DESC of Geriatrics and Gerontology, Diploma of Advanced Study and Thesis in Science (PhD) in Biology of Aging). She continued her career in the University of Geneva as an associate physician in the Department of Internal Medicine, Rehabilitation and Geriatrics. She has extensive clinical experience in geriatrics and the care of people with cognitive disorders both in inpatient settings and in the outpatient Memory Center. She is the author of more than 100 peer-reviewed articles and she is recipient of several research grants as principal applicant (France Alzheimer Association, University of Geneva and Swiss National Science Foundation), her research areas are based on two axes: biological markers of oxidative stress and inflammation in Alzheimer’s disease, vascular and mixed dementias and the predictive contribution of comorbidity scores in the management of complex polymorbid patients. In April 2018, she was promoted Associate Professor of the Faculty of Medicine and nominated Head the Division of Internal Medicine for the aged, Department of Rehabilitation and Geriatrics from the Geneva University Hospitals, Switzerland where she is responsible for a 142 bed sector of acute care in the Geriatrics Hospital, including a unit of intermediate care. Her division also includes a geriatric emergency room in our hospital, a pioneer model specifically dedicated for old people over 75 years old representing more than 3500 admissions per year. Since 2022, she is the President of the Commission of Egality of the Faculty of Medicine of Geneva.

Consultant Internal Medicine & Geriatrics. Director of Seniors’ Happiness Center in Dubai Academic Health Corporation (DAHC). Graduate of UAE Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences. Has MRCP UK (Glasgow), MRCP SCE Geriatrics, PhD Arab Board Internal Medicine, Post Graduate Diploma of Gerontology & Geriatrics and Clinical Leadership Diploma from RCSI. First Emirati Geriatrician, and Founder and chairperson of Emirates Seniors’ Friends Association. Board member of the Middle East Academy for the Medicine of Ageing (MEAMA).

Bianca Buurman was appointed professor by special appointment of Integrated Elderly Care in 2015. She has also been professor of Acute Geriatrics at Amsterdam UMC (location AMC) since 2017. Her professorship conducts research into how primary care (GPs and district nurses), hospitals and care homes can work together in the best possible way to keep elderly people independent for as long as possible, avoid hospital admissions and give the elderly the best possible quality of life. The research is conducted in close collaboration with the elderly and their informal carers.

Bianca Buurman did a Bachelor’s in nursing at the AUAS, followed by a Master’s in nursing science at Utrecht. In 2011, she obtained a doctorate through her research on identifying and supporting vulnerable elderly people in hospitals. She coordinated several major studies, amongst others into integrated GP care for vulnerable elderly people and the Integrated Care Bridge (Transmurale Zorgbrug) project, a care pathway for vulnerable elderly people that reduces mortality rates and is being implemented in 25 Dutch hospitals.

In 2013-2014, with the help of a Rubicon grant, Bianca spent a year conducting research into loss of independence amongst the elderly following admission to hospital, at Yale University in the US. In 2014, she was awarded a Veni grant from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) to conduct further research into the mechanisms that give rise to loss of function in the elderly.

In 2022, she was elected IAGG-World president (2026-2030)

Dr. Heba Gamal Saber, M.D., M.R.C.P., is a Consultant and Associate Professor in the department of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology, Ain Shams university.  She is a member of the Royal College of Physicians, UK.

Her main research interests include Dementia and Frailty as well as Osteoporosis. She actively participated and had a prominent role in the founding of the first Ain Shams fracture liaison and Orthogeriatric service.

Dr. Aslan is working as a full professor of Public Health (PH) at Hacettepe University (HU), Faculty of Medicine (FoM), Department of Public Health (DoPH) (Ankara/Turkey).

Dr. Aslan graduated from HU-FoM in 1994 and completed her compulsory medical services in different parts of the country between 1994-1996. After completing a four years’ training program at HU-FoM-DoPH, she has been a public health specialist in 2000. She completed her post doc training by conducting a 10 months’ fellowship program funded by the USA-National Institute of Health, Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Program (Fogarty International Program). In the first part of the Project, she worked in USA at a Harvard University affiliated Boston’s Children’s Hospital (From July to December 2002). During this period, she completed some courses at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Dr. Aslan also completed her MSc training at HU-Health Sciences Institute-Nutrition and Food Sciences Program in 2004.

Dr. Aslan’s main academic interests in PH are aging, community nutrition, international health, and tobacco control. Since the pandemic, she has been involved in Infodemic Management work. In this regard, she completed WHO certificated training which was held between November and December 2021. She has been appointed as a member of the Technical Advisory Group on Risk Communication and Community Engagement-Infodemic Management (RCCE-IM) in World Health Organization European Region since February 2023.

Dr. Aslan has been working in geriatrics fields with the scope of her public heath background. Her experiences started with a certified “in-situ” Geriatrics and Gerontology Training Program jointly organized by the UN International Institute on Aging (INIA) and the Turkish Geriatrics Society (TGS) in 2006. Since then, she has been involved in similar training programs as trainer (and organizer). The last program was held in 2019 in Turkey. Dr. Aslan has been organizing and/or attending several national and international congresses, symposiums, courses on geriatrics for over 15 years. She also conducts courses on aging at the academy. She has been involved in different PH Projects.

Dr. Aslan worked as an Editorial Board member of the Turkish Journal of Geriatrics between 2006 and 2019. Since March 2022, she has been involved in the Editorial Review Board for the Gerontology and Geriatrics Medicine Journal.

She has been author (or co-author) of several publications including book chapters (national, international), scientific articles, reminders for public. She has been the editor (or) the co-editor of several national books since 2007. She is also contributing the Ministry of Health studies in geriatrics in organizing workshops, protocol preparation, guideline preparation, etc.

Dr. Aslan is the General Secretary of Turkish Geriatrics Society. Her contribution to the TGS started in 2005. Since then, she has been actively involved in the activities of the Society. She also has other memberships in both professional medical organizations and NGOs.

– Chef du service de gériatrie. Hôpital universitaire Ramón y Cajal. Madrid
– Chef de l’unité de gériatrie. Clinique Ruber. Madrid
– Professeur de gériatrie. Université européenne de Madrid (Hôpital Quirón Madrid).

Alfonso J. Cruz-Jentoft was past-President of the European Union Geriatric Society and member of the Royal Spanish Academia de Medicina. He has mainly contributed to research in topic(s): Sarcopenia & Population. The author has an hindex of 51, co-authored 219 publication(s) receiving 21576 citation(s). Previous affiliations of Alfonso J. Cruz-Jentoft include European Union & Saint Louis University.

Dr. Luigi Ferrucci is a geriatrician and an epidemiologist who conducts research on the causal pathways leading to progressive physical and cognitive decline in older persons. In September 2002, he became the Chief of the Longitudinal Studies Section at NIA and the Director of the Baltimore Longitudinal Study on Aging. Dr. Ferrucci received a Medical Degree and Board Certification in 1980, a Board Certification in Geriatrics in 1982 and Ph.D. in Biology and Pathophysiology of Aging in 1998 at the University of Florence, Italy. He spent a 2-year internship at the Intensive Care Unit of the Florence Institute of Gerontology and Geriatrics, and was for many years Associate Professor of Biology, Human Physiology and Statistics at the University of Florence. Between 1985 and 2002 he was Chief of Geriatric Rehabilitation at the Department of Geriatric Medicine and Director of the Laboratory of Clinical Epidemiology at the Italian National Institute of Aging. During the same period, he collaborated with the NIA Laboratory of Epidemiology, Demography, and Biometry where he spent several periods as Visiting Scientist. Dr. Ferrucci has made major contributions in the design of many epidemiological studies conducted in the U.S. and in Europe, including the European Longitudinal Study on Aging, the “ICare Dicomano Study,” the AKEA study of Centenarians in Sardinia and the Women’s Health and Aging Study. He was also the Principal Investigator of the InCHIANTI study, a longitudinal study conducted in the Chianti Geographical area (Tuscany, Italy) looking at risk factors for mobility disability in older persons. Dr. Ferrucci is currently refining the design of the BLSA to focus more on normal aging and the development of age-associated frailty. Dr. Ferrucci has been Scientific Director at NIA since May 2011.

Jaco Hoffman (DPhil, Oxon) is Professor of Socio-Gerontology at North-West University
(Vanderbijlpark Campus, Gauteng), South Africa where he leads the Ageing and Generational
Dynamics in Africa (AGenDA) programme and Professorial Fellow at the Institute of Population
Ageing, where he co-ordinates the UN endorsed African Research Network on Ageing
(AFRAN). AFRAN brings together African and international institutions and individuals from
academia, policy and practice to develop and expand African research and training capacity on
ageing. He is an Honorary Professor in the Institute of Ageing in Africa, Department of Medicine,
Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, and was a past president of the South African
Gerontological Association (SAGA) as well as founding member of the South African Older Person’s
Forum.  Jaco co-directs, with Prof Sebastiana Kalula (UCT), the International Longevity Centre (ILC) –
South Africa and is a Director of the International Federation on Ageing

Technical Officer, Research Promotion and Development, Department of Information, Evidence and Research, World Health Organization, Regional Office of Eastern Mediterranean Region, Cairo, Egypt.

She is a Medical Doctor (MBBCh, OB.GYN, MPH) qualified in Reproductive, Maternal and Child Health and Public Health. I got my Master Degree of Public Health from Liverpool University. I got many training certificates on maternal and child health, reproductive health, quality of health care services, research, epidemiology, accreditation and health system management from national and international universities. I have also working experience in Ministry of Health and Population of Egypt in Family planning and Training. I have also working experience in WHO/EMRO in Primary and Community Health Care and WHO country office of Somalia in Health System and Maternal and Child Health Care.

Publications

• Training modules on improving communication strategies to improve national nutrition programmes- WHO/EMRO (facilitators and participants guides), available from http://applications.emro.who.int/dsaf/dsa788.pdf, http://applications.emro.who.int/dsaf/dsa789.pdf
• Managing disaster risks in communities, a community-based approach to disaster risk reduction- Training manual for the trainers of cluster representatives and volunteers. WHO/EMRO/ PHC. Available from http://applications.emro.who.int/dsaf/EMROPUB_2015_EN_1881.pdf?ua=1
• Concept paper on “The growing need for home health care for the elderly”. WHO, EMRO. Available from http://applications.emro.who.int/dsaf/EMROPUB_2015_EN_1901.pdf?ua=1
• Community Health Workers: A Strategy to Ensure Access to Primary Health Care Services. WHO, EMRO. Available from http://applications.emro.who.int/dsaf/EMROPUB_2014_EN_1760.pdf
• The evaluation of Urban HEART, Journal Social Science and Medicine at http://authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S0277953615301337

Participated in finalization of the following documents of WHO/EMRO:

• Quarterly published Community Based Initiatives Newsletters
• Effects of Urbanization on noncommunicable diseases: studies from 3 countries (Egypt, Iran and Pakistan), WHO/EMRO/ PHC. Available from http://applications.emro.who.int/dsaf/EMPUB_2012_864.pdf
• Good practices in delivery of primary health care in urban settings. WHO/EMRO/ PHC. Available from http://applications.emro.who.int/dsaf/EMPUB_2012_865.pdf
• Research studies on assessing health equity using WHO Urban Health Equity Assessment and Response Tool (Urban HEART) in Egypt, Morocco and Tunisia. Available from http://applications.emro.who.int/hcn/

Links

• WHO EMRO | Research Policy and Cooperation