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Hans STOHRER obtained his diplomas of Doctor of Medicine at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, New York and his Bachelor of Arts in History and Science at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts in the United States.

He is an experienced internist and geriatrician, offering 10 years of progressive post-graduate clinical experience in caring for culturally diverse populations of adults and elderly over a wide spectrum of practice settings.  A clinician-educator with training and experience teaching resident physicians and medical students, giving presentations before medical and community audiences, reviewing and abstracting medical literature, and conducting clinical research. Multi-lingual with language skills in Spanish and German.

Today Hans STOHRER is board-certified and fellowship-trained in Geriatric Medicine, and in Hospice and Palliative Medicine. He is currently Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Weill Cornell Medical College, Cornell University and is also Attending Physician, at the Sub-acute Rehabilitation Unit of the Jewish Home Lifecare, both in New York.

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Juanita Carrillo, LMSW, PhD is a retired social work administrator who worked many years for the New York City Human Resources Administration.  She retired as the borough-wide administrator for Home Care Services for the Bronx (a borough of more than 500,000 people).  In that capacity, she directed the case management program implemented by medical and social service personnel to benefit elderly and disabled Medicaid recipients. In her long experience in the Human Resources Administration, Juanita Carrillo held other positions that focused on the concerns of elderly and disabled people, including the position of Fair Hearings Director, where she participated in the creation of an Administrative Hearing Unit solely for elderly and disabled recipients of home care services. As Special Housing Services Director, she was administratively responsible for multi-disciplinary team (social and medical) on-site services provided to elderly and disabled individuals living in low-rent hotels.
After her 2001 retirement, Ms Carrillo obtained her PhD in Social Work, with a concentration in Gerontology. She served as the Planning Consortium Coordinator at Fordham University for a pilot program designed to heighten interest of Masters Social Work students in the field of Gerontology.  The pilot program was funded under the name Practicum Partnership Program and she served as its Field Instruction Director, over-seeing the plans developed by the field instructors of the students. In 2007, she was hired as a consultant by New York County Health Services Review Organization to design and implement a training course for public employees, one that would expand opportunities for care to elderly and disabled New Yorkers who apply for long-term care.
Much of Dr. Carrillo’s time, since her retirement, has involved her volunteer work at the United Nations. In 2004, she was appointed as an IAGG representative.  In 2006, she was elected to serve as a Director on the Executive Committee of Non-Governmental Organizations Associated with the United Nations Department of Public Information (the NGO/DPI Executive Committee).  Among her many activities on this board, Dr. Carrillo has stressed the importance of multigenerational and ageing concerns.  She was a presenter at the NGO/DPI annual conference that was held in Paris at UNESCO in 2008, speaking on “The Significance of Multigenerational Relationships in Fostering Young and Old Persons’ Human Rights: The Significance for Indigenous Peoples”. She enabled IAGG to receive the recognition of being the primary sponsor for the 2009 NGO/DPI Mexico City conference workshop of the Intergenerational Sub-Committee entitled “Impact of Armed Violence on Vulnerable Generations”.
In addition to her membership on the committees that focus on ageing and intergenerational issues, Dr. Carrillo is a member of the NGO Committee for Social Development.
Dr. Carrillo belongs to a number of professional organizations.  The ones that focus on ageing are the Gerontological Society of America and the New York State Society on Ageing (where she is a member of the Social Policy Committee). She has the honor of being listed in the 24th edition of Who’s Who of American Women.

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                 Thomas Frühwald, MD is native of former Czechoslovakia, and after having graduated in the United States and in Austria, he obtains his medical degree at the University of Vienna Medical School. He has postgraduate diplomas in geriatrics, medical ethics and palliative care.
                 He begins his career as staff physician then deputy chief of medicine in a geriatric hospital of Vienna. He then becomes resident („Chef de Clinique“) at the Department of Geriatric Medicine of the University Hospital of Geneva, Switzerland.

                Since 2000 he is deputy chief of medicine at the “Geriatriezentrum am Wienerwald”, Center of Geriatrics and subsequently in 2003 of the Department of Geriatric Acute Care of the Hietzing Hospital, both in Vienna.
                Thomas Früwald becomes Lecturer in Geriatric Medicine at the Academy of Occupational Therapy in Vienna and at the Institute of Ethics and Law in Medicine (University of Vienna) and was twice Visiting Professor at the University of California, Davis in the Department of Ethics as well as Geriatrics.
                His research interest and publications concern various general topics of geriatrics: nutrition, geriatric palliative care, geriatric assessment, outcome evaluation, benchmarking.
                He is member of the advisory group of experts on Geriatric Medicine to the Austrian Federal Ministry of Health, Board member of the Austrian Society of Geriatrics and Gerontology, Full Board member of the European Union Geriatric Medicine Society, Member of the Geriatric Medicine Section of the European Association of Medical Specialties (UEMS) and Member of the American, German and Swiss Societies of Geriatrics, of the Austrian and Swiss Societies of Palliative Medicine.

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