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 Titled ‘Happy and healthy ageing: paradox or possibility’ this special event features three pioneering scientists who are globally renowned speakers and command enormous respect in their fields. Join these thought leaders in a discussion that can’t be missed.
It’s one of our oldest dreams, to discover the fountain of youth, living to the age of 200!
Experts say that it’s not only possible, it’s just a matter of time. Scientists are on the verge of understanding ageing and age related diseases.
But in living longer and preventing age related diseases, what might the consequences be? Living longer – how do we do it and what will we do with our time?
Date held: Monday 17th October 2011
Facilitator
Ms Ita Buttrose AO OBE
Ita Buttrose AO OBE, publishing pioneer, journalist, author and businesswoman, has been a feature of Australian public life for more than 40 years.
She has had a long interest in health and ageing issues. She is the current President of Alzheimer’s Australia, Vice President Emeritus of Arthritis Australia and patron of the Macular Degeneration Foundation of Australia.
Ita has featured prominently in Australian journalism holding positions with some of Australia’s most popular publications including Editor in Chief at Cleo, the Australian Women’s Weekly and Daily & Sunday Telegraphs in Sydney. She served on the Boards of Australian Consolidated Press, News Ltd Australia and also to the Prudential Corporation. She has also served on the board of Network TEN.
As founding editor of the magazine Cleo, Ita challenged Australian mainstream publishing. Her role in the launch of Cleo was charted in the recent ABC TV series Paper Giants: the birth of Cleo.
Ita was made an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) in 1988 for services to the community especially in the field of medical education and health care, for her work as Chairperson of the National Advisory Committee on AIDS (NACAIDS), which spearheaded Australia’s HIV/AIDS Education Program. She received an OBE for services to journalism in 1979 and the Centenary Medal in 2003 for business leadership to Australian society.
Sources:
http://www.alzheimers.org.au/ita-buttrose-ao-obe-president-elect-for-alzheimers-australia.aspx
Who’s who in Australia, 2010 Edition
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Baroness Susan Greenfield CBE - scientist, entrepreneur, a TV star, best-selling author and expert on the human brain!
Susan Greenfield is Professor of Pharmacology at the University of Oxford, where she leads a multi-disciplinary team investigating neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. In addition she is Director of the Oxford Centre for the Science of the Mind, exploring the physical basis of consciousness and was the Director of the Royal Institution of Great Britain 1998 - 2010 (the first woman to hold that position).
Baroness Greenfield is also Director of the Institute for the Future of the Mind, part of the James Martin 21st Century School, which exploits the parallels between the brains of the very young and very old, and how they are all vulnerable to technology, chemical manipulation, and disease.
In 1998 she received the Michael Faraday Medal from the Royal Society, was awarded a CBE in the Millennium New Year’s Honours List, and granted a non-political Life Peerage in 2001. In 2000 she was elected to an Honorary Fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians and in 2007 to an Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. She was appointed Chancellor of Heriot Watt University in 2005. Further recognition of her work includes L’Ordre National de la Légion d’Honneur from the French Government, and the American Academy of Achievement Golden Plate Award, both received in 2003, as well as the Australian Medical Research Society Medal, which she awarded in 2010.
Baroness Greenfield is a former Adelaide Thinker in Residence.
Baroness Greenfield is also the author of several books including ‘The Private Life of the Brain’ and ‘ID: The Quest for Identity in the 21st Century ‘
Baroness Greenfield has featured on many popular television programs including ‘Enough Rope’ with Andrew Denton, The 7.30 Report with Kerry O’Brien and ‘Talking Heads’ with Peter Thompson. Please find links to these interviews below.
http://www.abc.net.au/tv/enoughrope/transcripts/s1198694.htm
http://www.abc.net.au/tv/talkingheads/txt/s2840448.htm
http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2009/s2521076.htm
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Professor David A. Sinclair – internationally-recognised leader in the field of ageing!
Professor David Sinclair is Professor of Pathology at Harvard Medical School, a conjoint Professor at the University of New South Wales in the Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Co-Director of the Glenn Laboratories for the Biological Mechanisms of Aging and a co-founder of Sirtris Pharmaceuticals.
Professor Sinclair has made key contributions to the scientific understanding of aging. In 1997, Dr. Sinclair identified the cause of aging in yeast, a first for any species, and in 2003 reported the discovery of a conserved master regulatory gene controlling this process. His laboratory at Harvard is currently focused on slowing diseases of aging in mammals using genetic and pharmacological means.
Professor Sinclair has authored over 40 peer-reviewed scientific publications, including several seminal papers in Nature, Cell and Science. He is co-founder and co-chief editor of the journal Aging.
Professor Sinclair has received numerous awards and honors for his research including The Australian Commonwealth Prize, a Helen Hay Whitney Postdoctoral Award, a Leukemia Society Fellowship, a Ludwig Scholarship, a Harvard-Armenise Fellowship, an American Association for Aging Research Fellowship, The Nathan Shock Award from NIH, Scholarships from The Ellison Medical Foundation, The Merck Prize, the Genzyme Outstanding Achievement in Biomedical Science Award, a "Bio-Innovator award", the David Murdock-Dole Lectureship, the Fisher Honorary Lectureship at UCLA.
Professor Sinclair has featured on 60 Minutes. Please find a link to the story below.
http://sixtyminutes.ninemsn.com.au/stories/liambartlett/640545/forever-young
An Online news hour interview with Professor Sinclair is also featured below.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/science/jan-june05/aging-sinclair_ext.html
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Professor Henry Brodaty AO - Australia's foremost expert in Alzheimer's disease and internationally recognised authority on ageing and dementia!
Henry Brodaty is Professor of Ageing and Mental Health and Director of the Dementia Collaborative Research Centre at the University of New South Wales and Director, Aged Care Psychiatry and Head of the Memory Disorders Clinic at Prince of Wales Hospital. He is past president of Alzheimer’s Australia and Alzheimer’s Australia NSW and past Chairman of Alzheimer’s Disease International.
Professor Brodaty sits on several government committees concerned with ageing and with dementia and is currently leading the NSW Dementia Policy Team which has drafted the 2010-2015 Dementia Services Plan for NSW.
Professor Brodaty has published over 300 scientific papers and has won several national and international awards for his academic and community work in the field of psychiatry including The Junior Organon Research Award, The Ian Simpson Award for outstanding contribution to clinical psychiatry in Australasia, The Bayer-AG International Psychogeriatric Association research award (equal second), The UNSW Alumni Award (for contribution to the community and from Sydney Rotary the Paul Harris International Fellowship in 1995 and their highest award, the Vocational Services Award in 2002.
In 2010, Professor Brodaty was made an Officer of the Order of Australia for “service to the health and well-being of older people in the community as a leader in dementia care through the Alzheimer’s Association, both nationally and internationally, and to medicine through contributions to the specialty of old age psychiatry, and academic and research knowledge in psychogeriatrics” He is listed in the top 1000 scientists publishing internationally in the field of mental health.
His research interests include helping carers, behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia, drug trials for Alzheimer’s disease and general practice diagnosis and management.
Please find a link to an interview Professor Brodaty has done with The World Today
http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/content/2008/s2220887.htm |
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