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Professor Cha graduated in Sociology from the Seoul National University and obtained his PhD at Choong-Ang University in Korea and began his career in 1971 in the Government of the Republic of Korea as Junior Secretary to the Office of the President. He then became Director of the Social Welfare Department in the Health Insurance Department of the Ministry of Health and Welfare of the Republic of Korea. 

From 1976 to 1997, Professor Cha joined Hallym University, first as Professor of the Department of Social Welfare, then as Dean of the Social Science College and lastly as Vice President of the Establishment. Between 1997 and 1999, he chaired the Organizing Committee of IAGG’s 6th Asia/Oceania Regional Congress held in Seoul and also became President of the National Pension Corporation of Korea.

In 1999, Prof. Cha became Minister of Health and Welfare of the Republic of Korea.

From 2003 to 2004, Prof. Cha was respectively Dean at the Graduate School of Social Welfare at Hallym University, President of the Korean Gerontological Society, President of the Federation of Korean Gerontological Societies, President of the Korean Academy of Social Welfare. In 2004, he was appointed Advisory Chair at the Presidential Committee on Aging and Future Society of The Republic of Korea and two years later Chair of the Ministerial Committee on Future Strategy of Health Care Security. He is currently President of the Korean Association for Vision of Aging Society.

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Professor CHOI graduated from Seoul National University, South Korea (BA in Social Work), from Washington University in St. Louis, USA (MSW in Social Work), from Case Western Reserve University, USA (PhD in Social Welfare).
Since 2000, he was appointed in various government Committees and has worked on many ministerial missions. He was lastly appointed Member, Ministerial Committee for Long-Term Care Policy, Ministry of Health and Welfare, Korean Government (Jan, 2011 – to present) and  Member, Ministerial Forum for Planning of Future Society, Ministry of Health and Welfare, Korean Government (Dec. 2010 – to present).
Prof Choi also holds the current positions of Professor of Social Welfare, Department of Social Welfare, Seoul National University, (since 1986) and Director, Institute on Aging, Seoul National University, South Korea (since 2011).

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Professor Lee graduated from Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea, (MD, BA, PhD)
Amongst many other academic positions in various Korean scientific societies, Prof Lee was appointed Secretary General of the Korean Geriatrics Society (2010 to present).
He is now Professor of Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine (since 1995) and Director, Health Promotion Center, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, South Korea (since 2009).
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 Professor Bruno Vellas was born in 1957 in Toulouse, France and is currently Chairman of the Toulouse Gérontopôle, Chief of the Department of Internal Medicine and Geriatrics at the Toulouse University Hospital, and Chief of Alzheimer’s Disease Clinical Research Centre, University of Toulouse. He is also member of the INSERM (National Institute of Medical Research) Unit558 on Aging. He is Principal investigator of the European Alzheimer’s Disease Consortium (EADC) and of other large international trials in the field of Alzheimer’s Disease. Professor Vellas obtained his medical degree (MD) and PhD from the University Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, and for more than fifteen years now, he has been involved in many studies on Alzheimer’s disease. Professor Vellas has published over 300 articles related to Alzheimer’s Disease and specially on disease modifying treatment.

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Prof John ROWE obtained his MD and DSc at the University of Rochester, School of Medicine, New York, his BS and PhD at Canisius College, Buffalo, New York. He served as Professor at Harvard Medical School, and authored more than 200 scientific publications, mostly on the aging process.
Since 2012, Prof Rowe is Chairman, Institute of Medicine and National Research Council. Forum on Aging, Disability and Independence, Vice Chairman, Board of Fellows, Harvard Medical School, Chairman, Institute of Medicine (IOM) of the National Academies. Roundtable on Disability, Aging and Independence. In 2013, he became member of the UCLA Health System Board of Overseers. He is currently Visiting Professor of Medicine at the Stanford University School of Medicine,
In 2010, Prof Rowe was designated President of IAGG’s 21st Congress scheduled in July 2017.

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Professor ABODERIN is a Senior Research Fellow at the Oxford Institute of Ageing, University of Oxford (OIA). She has extensive expertise in qualitative research and experience of quantitative analysis and survey design. Her research interests centre on three areas: social and life course determinants of health in old age, ageing and development in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and intergenerational family support and social change in SSA.

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Toni C. Antonucci is the Elizabeth M. Douvan Collegiate Professor of Psychology, Program Director and Research Professor in the Life Course Development Program at the Institute for Social Research and Associate Vice President for Research, all at the University of Michigan.  She was President of the Gerontological Society of America and the Society for the Study of Human Development and served as editor of the Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences.  She is currently series editor of the Annual Review of Geriatrics and Gerontology for Springer Publishing Company. She is a member of the Executive Board of the International Society for the Study of Behavioral Development and Secretary General-Elect of the International Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics, past chair of the American Psychological Association’s Committee on Aging and Board of Scientific Affairs. She is a fellow of the Gerontology Society of America, American Psychological Association, and the Association of Psychological Science.

Dr. Antonucci’s research focuses on social relations and health across the life span and has emphasized the importance of both positive and negative relations.  Her research includes studies of the family and multigenerational relations, as well as comparative studies of social relations and health in the United States, Europe, the Middle East and Japan.  She received a Research Career Development Award and is currently funded or has been funded by the National Institute of Mental Health, the National Institute on Aging and several private foundations, most recently, the Fetzer Institute.  She has numerous scientific publications, in 2010 she edited (with James S. Jackson) Life Course Perspectives on Late Life Health Inequalities and in 2011 edited (with Karen Fingerman, Cynthia Berg and Jacqui Smith) the Handbook of Life Span Development.

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Prof HILL graduated from the Lincoln Institute of Health Sciences in 1980. He has worked primarily in gerontological and neurological physiotherapy clinical roles. Since completing his PhD at The University of Melbourne in 1998, investigating balance dysfunction in older people, he has transitioned to a primarily research role at the National Ageing Research Institute, and La trobe University (2007-2012). In January 2012, he commenced as Head of the Prof HILL graduated from the Lincoln Institute of Health Sciences in 1980. He has worked primarily in gerontological and neurological physiotherapy clinical roles. Since completing his PhD at The University of Melbourne in 1998, investigating balance dysfunction in older people, he has transitioned to a primarily research role at the National Ageing Research Institute, and La trobe University (2007-2012).

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Doctor José Ricardo JAUREGUI was licensed as physician in 1986, at Buenos Aires University, School of Medicine and graduated with a diploma of honor. He took his residency’s programme in Internal Medicine between 1987 and 1990, graduated as well as Geriatrician in a first specialist’s course in the S.A.G.G in 1990. Then Dr JAUREGUI graduated formally in a Universitary Specialist Carreer in Geriatrics under the chair of Professor Roberto KAPLAN, and finally went to England, at Wales University, with Dr. Anthony BAYER as tutorship in1995 for a few month, making a rotation in various Geriatrics Services, for example Wales University Geriatric Department, Birgmingham University Geriatric Department with Prof. Alan SINCLAIR and finally in South West London where he visited several Geriatrics institutions in rural or suburban area.

Since 1991, Dr JAUREGUI works in a Teaching Nursing Home at Hospital Italiano of Buenos Aires, is a staff member of the Family and Community Department (Chief of Geriatric Branch) in the same hospital and is currently Chief Director of Hospital Italiano de San Justo, Agustín Roca (that includes hospital and nursing home).

Dr JAUREGUI is Executive member of the Sociedad Argentina de Gerontologia y Geriatria (S.A.G.G) since 2006, Council member since 2007 and Secretary General since 2009.

Finally, Dr JAUREGUI is presently finishing his PhD period at Salamanca University in Spain, where he will defend his thesis in March 2012. He is Professor of Geriatric Medicine at Buenos Aires University, Tucuman University and Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires School of Medicine, Professor of Family Medicine at University of Buenos Aires, and associated researcher in the same place with a directorship of a new Institut of Biology of Aging.

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Vladimir Kh. Khavinson was born in 1946. A high-level sportsman, Prof. Khavinson entered the S.M. Kirov Medical Military Academy (St Petersburg) in 1965 and graduated in 1971 with a diploma in treatment and prevention. In 1977, after his military service, he was appointed senior resident doctor at the same Academy and received the Medical Sciences degree in 1978. In 1982, he became junior research officer, in 1985 senior research officer and in 1987 obtained his Doctor’s degree. In 1988, he was appointed Chief of the Research Laboratory of Bioregulators. In 1989, Prof. Khavinson established the State Biomedical Scientific and Production Complex “Cytomed”, that he leads until 1992. That year, he founded the Institute of Bioregulation and Gerontology and became its Director. In 2001, the Institute was integrated into the North-Western Branch of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences. 

A major actor of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences in the field of “Gerontology and Geriatrics”, he was designated Professor of the Chair of gerontology and geriatrics of the St Petersburg Medical Academy of Postgraduate Studies of the Russian Ministry of Health. In 2007, he was appointed Main gerontologist of the Health Committee of the Government of St Petersburg. Since October 2007, he is Head of the Sector of peptide regulation of ageing of the Institute of Physiology of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Prof. Khavinson has over 700 research publications and was awarded many distinguished prizes in Russia, Ukrainia, Germany for his different works on peptide bioregulators. 

In 1994, he was elected Vice-President of the Gerontological Society of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He became an active member of the New York Academy of Sciences in 1995, and of the Italian Academy of Economics and Social Sciences in 1996 . He became an academician of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences that same year.

Prof. Khavinson is engaged in IAGG since 1997 : first as member of the European Region Council and then in 2007 as President of the Biological Section.

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