3^rd International Conference on Aging, Gerontology & Geriatric Nursing July 18-19, 2018 Atlanta, Georgia, USA

Dr. Kranthi Sitammagari is a board certified Internist, board certified Physician Advisor, Faculty at Campbell University School of Osteopathic Medicine and Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine at Methodist University in Fayetteville, NC, USA. He is an editorial board member of Society of Hospital Medicine's official magazine "The Hospitalist", Editor-in-Chief of Quality Assurance and Utilization at “StatPearls” online database publishing peer-reviewed, PubMed indexed articles and review books. He is also a Scientific reviewer for multiple peer-reviewed journals including Annals of Internal Medicine, Journal of Hospital Medicine, Journal of Preventive Medicine etc. and has published peer reviewed articles and actively involved in research and clinical teaching.

Aging and Geriatric Medicine

She has been the chair of Psychology, Gerontology, & Communication Studies since 2013. She is also the Associate professor of Psychology, Gerontology, & Communication Studies since 2010.

Psychology and Ageism.

Deborah A. Lekan, PhE, RN-BC, is a board certified gerontological nurse with a research focus on frailty in middle aged and older adults and the use of big data and data science to use the abundant already collected, data from the electronic health record to examine problems such as frailty. She is particularly interested in how health disparities and social determinants of health, especially psychosocial factors, impact health status and risk for frailty and associated adverse health outcomes and risk-reduction interventions to promote patient recovery, and how novel data analytics can illuminate some of these complex issues

geriatrics,gerontology, big data, case studies

Yvette Rose has completed her DNP from Governors State University, University Park IL. She is an Associate Professor of Nursing at Olivet Nazarene University, Bourbonnais IL. She has been serving as a member of Kappa Sigma Chapter and Lambda Lambda Chapter, International American Society on Aging and American Psychiatric Nurses Association. Her Honors Includes Includes American Psychiatric Nurses Association Board of Directors 2014 Student Scholar in 2014, San Antonio Military Medical Center (SAMMC) Partners in Nursing Excellence in 2013 and Illinois Board of Higher Education Nurse Educator Fellowship Award Recipient in 2012.

Psychiatry, Nursing & Geriatrics

Nicole is the Chief Executive Officer at Aged Care Consultancy Australia and has over 20 years experience in aged care, retirement living and disability and holds a Clinical Associate Professor title with University of Tasmania in recognition of her international and national expertise in the sector. Nicole completed her PhD in aged care in 2010 at University of Technology, Sydney and resides on the the editorial board for the Journal of Palliative Care & Medicine Journal (OMICS) . Nicole continues to develop innovative and leading edge support to organisations both in business optimisation and risk management, whilst specialising in board and clinical governance, case management and leadership.

Aged care, Palliative Care, Retirement living and Disability

Georgi Pavlovich Gladyshev was born on 19 September 1936 in Alma-Ata, Kazakhstan, he graduated the Chemistry Department of the State University in Alma-Ata in 1959 and received the Degree of Candidate of Science (Ph.D.) in 1962 and a Doctorate Degree in polymer chemistry in 1966. He became Professor of Physical Chemistry in 1969 and in 1970 Chief of the Laboratory at the Institute of Chemical Physics of the USSR (Russian) Academy of Sciences in Moscow. Since 1968 he has been a visiting professor and Scientific adviser at several state universities, industrial plants, and firms. In 1989 he was elected President of the Academy of Creative Endeavors of the USSR (now - the International Academy of Creative Endeavors). Professor Gladyshev, H.E. is a member of many associations, societies and academies. He is also the recipient of many honors and awards, including the Willard Gibbs Gold Medal. He is the author of more than five hundred scientific articles, patents and ten monographs in the fields of Physical Chemistry, Life Science and Polymer Chemistry. His latest monographs include "Thermodynamics and Macrokinetics of Natural Hierarchical Processes" (Nauka, Moscow, 1988), “Thermodynamic theory of the evolution of living beings” (Nova Science Pub., INC., N.Y., 1997), “Supramolecular thermodynamics is a key to understanding phenomenon of life. What is life from a physical chemist’s viewpoint”, M., 2002; Second Edition - Moscow – Izhevsk, 2003. He has conducted research in the fields of polymer chemistry, physical chemistry, biology (chemical kinetics, the physicochemical mechanism of the formation of the planetary system, the mechanism of chirality formation, the nature of ball lightning, biological evolution and aging). He has created the thermodynamics theory of origin of life and biological evolution. Thermodynamic theories of behavior and aging of living beings and physicochemical dietetics were created. The dietetics allowed predicting optimum diets and food additives favoring healthy long life.

polymer chemistry, physical chemistry, biology (chemical kinetics, the physicochemical mechanism of the formation of the planetary system, the mechanism of chirality formation, the nature of ball lightning, biological evolution and aging)

Elizabeth Kessler has been graduated from University of Houston as a Doctor of Philosophy in English, with the concentrations including American Literature and Chicana Literature. Later she pursued her interest in the use of culinary material in literature and ageing in literature and film. She has taught at California State University, Northridge and University of Houston, Central Campus. Currently enrolled in an MS degree program in Gerontology at the University of Florida

Geriatrics & Literacy

the international research community. Her research experience and relation with the proposed project can be documented from her various activities such as (a) her position in Aristotle University of Thessaloniki as a professor and responsible of Memory and Dementia Outpatient Clinic, (b) her social work concerning the support of patients suffering from the Alzheimer’s Disease an other dementias and (c) her international co-operations with the best researchers in the research area of the proposed project. Furthermore, her outstanding number of publications in the top level international and national conferences and journals in the research area of the proposed project as well as the 26 awards that she has received can provide evidence of her independent creative thinking and of potential to advance the state-of-the-art. Her daily investigation of new methods for supporting patients suffering from the Alzheimer’s Disease as well as her participation in every workpackage of this project can provide evidence of her commitment to the proposed project and her willingness to devote a significant amount of time to it.

Memory and Dementia, Alzheimer’s Disease, Care and management of services for older people

Dr. Chesser began her academic career in public health and then worked as a faculty member in a clinical department. Dr. Chesser has a passion for older adults and teaches several courses in aging studies such as Health Communication and Aging, Death and Dying, and Advanced Perspectives of Sociology of Aging.

Health communication , Health literacy,Death and dying

Prof. Ariela Lowenstein, Dept. of Gerontology & Head Social Gerontology, Center for Research & Study of Aging, The University of Haifa Israel. Lowenstein was a faculty member at Social Work School and created the Graduate Dept. of Gerontology and the Research Center at Haifa Univ. Last 4 years served as President, Max Stern Yezreel Academic College. Co-chairing the International Aging Research Center. She publishes extensively, having close to 300 publications - 2 Hebrew books and 1 English: Generational Intelligence”; co-editor of 3 English books. Recipient of numerous competitive research grants, prestigious scholarships, national and international awards. Reputed as a leading national and international expert in aging, serving on various boards and advisory committees in Israel and abroad. For example, she was Chair of the European branch of the International Ass. Of Gerontology and Geriatrics; Currently board member of the International Network for Preventing Elder Abuse (INPEA) and till recently in charge of Europe in it. Served as board member of the International Federation on Aging (IFA). Was Chair of the Israeli Gerontological Society and currently, I am involved in the Society with preparation of a National Program for Care of Elders which started to be discussed in the Israeli Parliament. I had served as an Advisor to the then Israeli Minister of Retirees, chairing a national committee. She serves as Chair of a Scientific Committee advising the Foundation assisting Holocaust Survivors in Israel. Currently she is a member of COST European Network on Social Exclusion and co-chair there of a group on Civic Exclusion. She has an MA in Public Administration, New York University, a PhD in Sociology, Hebrew University, Jerusalem.

Intergenerational family relations, caregiving, elder abuse, policy development, gerontological education.