Tutors 2024-2025
Worldwide full Professors in Geriatric Medicine and other medical specialities.
Worldwide full Professors and Experts in Gerontology (nursing, nutrition, psychology, sociology and also architecture, demography, economy, and engineering.
The tutors involved in a session should participate in all teaching activities.
September2024, New Generation of Adults
Prof. Dilek Aslan
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.
Dr. Hanadi Khamis Al Hamad
Senior Consultant Geriatrician, National Lead for Healthy Ageing, Medical Director of Rumailah Hospital and QRI, Chairperson of Geriatrics and Long-Term Care
Prof. Rosette Farrugia-Bonello
Rosette Farrugia-Bonello is Deputy Director at the International Institute on Ageing, United Nations-Malta (INIA). Previously she worked as Co-ordinator at Caritas Malta HelpAge (1996-1999) and as Executive Director of the European Association of Homes and Services for the Ageing (EAHSA), Brussels, Belgium (2012-2015). Rosette graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology and Communication studies and with a Post-Graduate in Gerontology and Geriatrics from the University of Malta. Part of her undergraduate studies were conducted at Clarion University in Pennsylvania, USA. Rosette also holds a Master of Science in Dementia Studies from the University of Stirling, Scotland, and is a certified Montessori Dementia Care Professional (CMDCP). Over the past years, Rosette has actively engaged with various educational initiatives and human capacity-building training programmes on ageing. Her global reach extends to countries such as China, Dominican Republic, Georgia, India, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Malaysia, Nepal and United Arab Emirates. Rosette has served as a programme coordinator with the University of the Fourth Age (U4A) in Malta, serves as an honorary member of TATA Institute of Social Sciences, India (TISS); chief editor of INIA’s International Journal on Ageing in Developing Countries and Vice-President of the Maltese Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics (MAGG). Her research interests are in dementia studies, healthy and active ageing and ageism.