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Professor Michael MarmotProfessor Sir Michael G. Marmot
Director, UCL Institute for Health Equity (Marmot Institute)
 
Michael Marmot has led a research group on health inequalities for the past 35 years. He is Principal Investigator of the Whitehall II Studies of British Civil Servants, investigating explanations for the striking inverse social gradient in morbidity and mortality. He leads the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA) and is engaged in several international research efforts on the social determinants of health. He was a member of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution for six years. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, an Honorary Fellow of the British Academy, and an Honorary Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health of the Royal College of Physicians. 
 
In 2000 he was knighted by Her Majesty The Queen, for services to Epidemiology and the understanding of health inequalities. Internationally acclaimed, Professor Marmot is a Foreign Associate Member of the Institute of Medicine (IOM), is a former Vice President of the Academia Europaea, won the Balzan Prize for Epidemiology in 2004, gave the Harveian Oration in 2006, and won the William B. Graham Prize for Health Services Research in 2008. He was Chair of the Commission on Social Determinants of Health set up by the World Health Organization in 2005 which produced the report entitled: ‘Closing the Gap in a Generation’. At the request of the British Government, he conducted a review of health inequalities, which published its report 'Fair Society, Healthy Lives' in February 2010. He has now been invited by the Regional Director of WHO Euro to conduct the European Review of Social Determinants of Health and the Health Divide. Sir Michael is the current President of the British Medical Association (BMA) 2010-2011.
 
Professor Bob StoutProfessor Bob Stout
Co Chair
Centre for Ageing Research & Development in Ireland (CARDI)
 
Professor Stout is joint Co-chair of CARDI. He was Professor of Geriatric Medicine in Queen's University Belfast from 1976 to 2007, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences in Queen's from 1991 to 2001 and Director of Research and Development for Health and Social Care in Northern Ireland from 2001 to 2008. He was Chairman of Age Concern Northern Ireland, 1985-88, a member of the Royal Commission on Long Term Care, 1997-9, and President of the British Geriatrics Society, 2002-2004. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences.
 
Prof Stout is a medical graduate of Queen's University Belfast, and undertook postgraduate and research training in Belfast, Hammersmith Hospital, London, and the University of Washington, Seattle, USA. 
 

Professor Anne Martin-MatthewsProfessor Anne Martin-Matthews

Scientific Director

National Institute of Aging of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)Anne Martin-Matthews has just completed two terms (2004-2011) as the Scientific Director of the National Institute of Aging of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR). Under her leadership, the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (a 20 year study of 50,000 Canadians aged 45 years and older) was developed and launched in 2009, with key operational support from the CIHR.  

During her term, the Institute of Aging also developed strategic research initiatives in Cognitive Impairment, and in Mobility in Aging, and developed international funding partnerships with China, France, Japan, and the United Kingdom (through both the NDA and the EPSRC). Anne led the Institute to partnership as an associate member of the ERA-AGE2, and has participated in FUTURAGE consultations on Europe’s Roadmap for Research on Ageing.
 
Anne is a Professor of Sociology at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, where she has held positions as Associate Dean Research and Dean pro tem in the Faculty of Arts. She holds a PhD from McMaster University in Canada. Her publications include Aging and Caring at the Intersection of Work and Home Life: Blurring the Boundaries (2008, with Judith Phillips), Widowhood in Later Life, three edited volumes (one on the research-policy interface) and over 150 scholarly papers on aging in family contexts, widowhood, social support, caregiving, and domiciliary health care services. She has served the Canadian Association on Gerontology as Social Sciences editor for the Canadian Journal on Aging / La revue canadienne du vieillissement, and as its Editor-in-Chief (1996-2000). Currently, she is President of the Research Committee on Aging of the International Sociological Association and on the editorial Boards of Ageing and Society, the Journal of Aging Studies, the Policy Press series on ‘Ageing and the Lifecourse’, and the Sage Handbook of Interview Research. She also serves on the national Advisory Council for Veteran’s Affairs Canada. She is a Fellow of the (U.S.) Gerontological Society of America and of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences. In 2010, Anne was awarded an Honorary Degree in Civil Law from Newcastle University (UK).
 

Professor Alan WalkerProfessor Alan Walker

Professor of Social Policy & Social Gerontology

University of Sheffield and New Dynamics of Ageing Programme

Alan Walker is Professor of Social Policy and Social Gerontology at the University of Sheffield, UK. He has been researching and writing on aspects of ageing and social policy for over 30 years.  He is currently Director of the New Dynamics of Ageing and of the European Research Area in Ageing. Previously he directed the UK Growing Older Programme and the European Forum on Population Ageing. He also chaired the European Observatory on Ageing and Older People. 

 He has published more than 30 books, 200 reports and 350 scientific papers.  Recent books include Growing Older - Extending Quality Life (2004), Growing Older in Europe (2004) and Understanding Quality of Life in Old Age (2005), Quality of Life in Old Age (2007), and Social Policy in Ageing Societies (2009). In 2007 he was given a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Social Policy Association and the first Outstanding Achievement Award by the British Society of Gerontology. Recently he was given the first IAGG European Region Medal for Advances in Gerontology and Geriatrics in the Social and Behavioural Sciences.

Professor Rose Anne KennyProfessor Rose Anne Kenny

Head of Department of Medical Gerontology

Trinity College Dublin and St James’s Hospital Dublin

Professor Kenny is Head of the academic department of Medical Gerontology; Director of Falls and Blackout Unit at St James’s Hospital, Director of the Centre for Successful Ageing of Newcastle upon Tyne. Formerly Professor of Geriatric Medicine at the Institute for Ageing & Health, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, she has been a world leader in research into cardiovascular and mobility disorders in ageing. 

Professor Kenny's research interests are in neurocardiovascular function in ageing. The overarching aims of the research programmes are to unpick the mechanisms for cardiovascular and cerebral dysfunction in the context of falls, blackouts, cognitive impairment and dementia. The research involves collaborative partnership with disciplines from basic science (developing animal modules of cardiovascular and cerebral dysfunction) through to health service development and implementation. She has conducted longitudinal cohort studies of vascular factors in cognitive impairment (post stroke cohort, NCVI in the community and carotid sinus hypersensitivity cohort).

She has published in excess of 200 papers, 40 book chapters and 3 text books and currently chairs the Falls prevention Working Party for the American and British Geriatric Societies and the National Falls collaborative Working Group in Ireland. She has represented her field on international groups for heart failure, syncope and falls. Since her appointment at Trinity College (October 2005) she is Lead PI for the Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA); PI for the falls strand in TRIL (Intel/IDA inter-institutional research collaboration). Lead PI for HRB (Health Research Board) translational research programme investigating why older people with mild cognitive impairment convert to dementia, a member of the Academic Board of the European Geriatric Medicine Society (EUGMS).

Professor Davis CoakleyProfessor Davis Coakley

Co Chair

Centre for Ageing Research & Development in Ireland (CARDI)

Professor Coakley is joint Co-chair of CARDI. He is Clinical Director of MedEL (Department of Medicine for the Elderly at St. James’s Hospital).  He was awarded the Charles University Prague 650 Jubilee Medal in 1998, the President’s Medal, British Geriatric Society in 2004, and Honorary Fellowship of Trinity College Dublin in 2005. He has published over 150 scientific papers in peer-reviewed journals. He has written or edited eighteen books on medical science and on historical and literary subjects. 

He graduated in medicine from University College, Cork in 1971. After postgraduate training in Cork, Dublin and Cardiff, he was appointed senior lecturer in geriatric medicine in the University of Manchester. In 1979 he was appointed consultant physician in St. James’s Hospital and senior lecturer in geriatric medicine in Trinity College Dublin. He was director of postgraduate education, Trinity College Dublin (1984-1990); founder and director of the Mercer’s Institute for Research on Ageing (1998-2003); Dun’s librarian, Royal College of Physicians of Ireland (1991-1996); Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences, TCD (1993-1999). He was appointed to a personal chair in medical gerontology (1996); RSL visiting professor in Australia (1997); head of the newly established Department of Medical Gerontology (1999). 

 

 

Professor Peter PassmoreProfessor Peter Passmore

Professor of Ageing & Geriatric Medicine and Consultant Geriatrician

Queen’s University Belfast and Belfast Health & Social Care Trust

Professor Passmore graduated in Medicine at Queen’s University Belfast, having achieved an intercalated BSc in Physiology during his undergraduate career. After attaining MRCP (UK) he went on to undertake postgraduate research in Therapeutics and Pharmacology, graduating with MD in 1987. He continued his training in the NI training scheme during which time he was locum Senior lecturer at the University of Sydney. He was appointed Senior Lecturer in Geriatric Medicine in Belfast in 1993, Reader in 2005 and Professor in 2007. He has consistently had an interest in cardiovascular disease in older people and has managed the Stroke unit. Current clinical commitments include regular triage, Intermediate Care service, Memory clinic and clinic for cardiovascular disease in older people.  

Professor Passmore is Lead for Dementia forThe British Geriatrics Society, Lead for NICRN Dementia, external member of the Scottish Dementia Network, member of Clinical Studies Group and Organising Steering Group for dementia in DeNDRoN.  

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