Healthy Aging Symposium 2019

Healthy Aging Symposium 2019
Thursday, March 14, 2019
Jaglom Auditorium, George S. Wise Senate Building
וְהָדַרְתָ פְנֵי זָקֵן ויקרא פרק י"ט פסוק ל"ב
“You shall rise before a venerable person and you shall respect the elderly” (Leviticus 19:32)
Granting elderly people a reasonable quality of life is a personal and professional commitment and one of the basic human values. This is the imperative of the “Healthy Aging” initiative at Tel Aviv University. Nowadays, as the proportion and impact of older members in society surge, the need to understand the vast phenomena of aging, in both their healthy and unhealthy manifestations, is ever growing.
The elderly person undergoes several simultaneous processes: biological aging, affected by genetics and its random structural changes, adaption to the physical environment, increasing of morbidity load, mental adaption to bodily changes as well as changes in one's role in society. This series of changes occurs in parallel, in different rhythms, dictated by various parameters investigated and defined through ongoing research in different disciplines. Thus, aging is one of the most fascinating, complex and dynamic phenomena.
The necessity of investigating the mechanisms of aging as well as of solving unique old-age problems and mental, physical and environmental needs, is a multidisciplinary challenge that involves a wide array of scientific pursuits. From art and culture to medical, sociological and law sciences, from humanities to engineering, smart cities and cyber security – all these research and technologies should be involved.
The goal of the "Healthy Aging" second symposium is to verify, share, discuss and brainstorm the broadband of the aging phenomena aspects, involving most of the research and development areas. Following the ongoing interest in the first “Healthy Aging” symposium, held in January 2018, this symposium aims to establish an international joint collaborative efforts for the benefit and wellbeing of all.
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 INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGIES, INTERVENTIONS AND NOVEL APPROACHES IN THE FIELD OF NEURO-WELLNESS
18:00 Cocktail event at the Porter School of Environmental Studies