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Speakers Biographies McCallum, Prof. John | McLeod, Mr. David | McCormack, Dr. John | Meydani, Prof. Mohsen | Mollard, Dr. Richard | Molodysky, Dr. Eugen | Naganathan, Dr. Vasi | Naito, Mr. Haru | Nakai, Mr. R. Carlos | Olshansky, Prof. S. Jay | Osiecki, Mr. Henry | Parkinson, Ms. Simone | Paster, Dr. Zorba | Perls, Prof. Thomas | Phelps, Prof. Kerryn Currently the Dean of the College of Social and Health Sciences and Provost of Campbelltown Campus at the University of Western Sydney. He has wide experience in academic life and more generally in national and international committees and activities - selected for National Service officer training in 1971 and was appointed as Second-in-Command of the Arms and Services Company in Goldie River Papua New Guinea; Employment Officer at Bougainville Copper, Bougainville Island in Papua New Guinea; completed Economics and Psychology and was a University medallist at the University of Queensland; completed Masters and Doctoral studies at Nuffield College in Oxford University UK; worked at Griffith University, the Research School of Social Sciences and the National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health at the Australian National University, the Andrus Gerontology Center at the University of Southern California, Nanzan University in Nagoya and the Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology both in Japan; joined UWS in 1995 and has established a range of new health science courses including Podiatry, Chinese Medicine, Osteopathy, Naturopathy and manages the largest school of nursing in Australia accounting for 25% of nursing students in NSW; major research publications and projects in the areas of ageing, health services research, health outcome measures and Vietnam Veteran's health and works regularly in Japan, ASEAN countries and USA; major activities in ageing research and has been director of the Dubbo Longitudinal Study for 15 years as well as a other national projects including the Australia-Japan Collaboration in Aged Care and the international Asset and Health Dynamics of the 'Old' Old (AHEAD) project; a member of the NHMRC Australian Health Ethics Committee for the last two terms as well as a member of the NHMRC Health Advisory Committee and many other national and international committees; Last year he was a member of the group who wrote the Myer Foundation Report 2020 A Vision for Aged Care in Australia. He is a widely reported spokesperson on health and ageing in Australia and makes regular national and international contributions to academic and policy debates in this area. In 2003 he was awarded a Centenary of Federation
Medal for outstanding services to Ageing Research and Ageing Policy. Dr. John McCormack has worked professionally
and academically in ageing and aged care for a substantial period. He
has been a discharge planner in acute and sub-acute health care, as
well as a lecturer in health and gerontological social work. His interest
in centenarians dates from 1995, and he published the first article
on Centenarians in Australia in the Australasian Journal on Ageing in
2000. He has been the Australian representative on the International
Database on Longevity since 2001, and has validated the ages of half
of the recorded supercentenarians in Australia. He has also participated
in the third and fourth Workshops on Supercentenarians in 2002 and 2003. Prof. Meydani is a Professor of Nutrition
at the Tufts University, Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy
and Director of the Vascular Biology Laboratory at the Jean Mayer USDA
Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University where he
conducts research in the area of dietary antioxidants and oxidative
stress in vascular function and aging. · Commenced practice 1981, David has been
in full time practice since then. · Plenary speaker at International Conference
on Phytotherapy in Melbourne September 2000. Member of the following Professional Associations:
There he heads a group focusing
on the production of respiratory epithelial cells from stem cells and
using human embryonic stem cells as a model to study early human development.
Richard's work has been supported by funds and awards from Monash University,
The Australian Research Council, The National Health and Medical Research
Council of Australia, ES Cell International, The University Louis Pasteur,
the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and the University
of Michigan. Richard can be reached by email at the following address:
mollard@med.monash.edu.au
Vasi Naganathan is a Senior Lecturer and Consultant
Geriatrician at the Centre for Education and Research, University of
Sydney based at Concord Hospital. His research interests include osteoporosis,
falls in the elderly and the application of clinical research to the
medical care of older people. With regards to the application of research
to the clinical care of older patients interest one of the areas of
focus has been to look at the question of whether it is possible to
practice evidence-based medicine in the elderly.
EDUCATION Employment Accomplishments And Associations Miscellaneous Worked on many volunteer water treatment projects in Mongolia, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sweden, and Denmark. Much of this service was spent with the assistance of Haru's good friend, Dr. Raiz, one of the developers of Interferon Worked for many years with Michio Kushi, Founder of the Kushi Institute in Becket, Massachusetts, to develop special health-related diets and using Haru's special water for health treatment Used his training as a sports physiologist to work with many famous Japanese baseball players and golfers Since coming to the United States in the late 1990s, have worked on many water treatment projects with institutions such as the University of Idaho School of Agriculture, University of Virginia School of Agriculture, NASA, and many large corporations Presented hundreds of lectures related to the
properties of his water filtration process, the water's private effects
on health, pond reclamation, agriculture (primarily growth enhancement
and fungal control), and general improvements to drinking water. Also
an expert herbal dieting consultant
S. Jay Olshansky received his Ph.D. in Sociology
at the University of Chicago in 1984. He is currently a Professor in
the School of Public Health at the University of Illinois at Chicago
and a Research Associate at the Center on Aging at the University of
Chicago and at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. The
focus of his research to date has been on estimates of the upper limits
to human longevity, exploring the health and public policy implications
associated with individual and population aging, and global implications
of the re-emergence of infectious and parasitic diseases. During the
last ten years, Dr. Olshansky has been working with colleagues in the
biological sciences to develop the modern "biodemographic paradigm"
of mortality - an effort to understand the biological nature of the
dying out process of living organisms. Dr. Olshansky's work on biodemography
has been funded by a Special Emphasis Research Career Award (SERCA)
and Independent Scientist Award (ISA) from the National Institute on
Aging - awards that were designed to permit him to obtain additional
training in the fields of evolutionary biology, molecular biology, epidemiology,
population biology, anthropology and statistics. Dr. Olshansky is the
current president of the Society for the Study of Social Biology, he
is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Gerontology: Biological Science
and Biogerontology, he is on the editorial board of several other scientific
journals, and is a member of the American Association for the Advancement
of Science and the New York Academy of Sciences. Dr. Olshansky is also
listed in Who's Who in Science and Engineering, Who's Who in Medicine
and Healthcare, and American Men & Women of Science. He was an invited
speaker at the December, 2002 President's Council on Bioethics and has
testified before the trustees of the Social Security Administration
where his research has influenced forecasts of the nation's entitlement
programs. Dr. Olshansky is a current Senior Fulbright Specialist Candidate
in biodemography; he has been invited to lecture on aging throughout
the world; and has participated in a number of international debates
on the future of human health and longevity. Dr. Olshansky is the first
author of The Quest for Immortality: Science at the Frontiers of Aging
(Norton, 2001).
Henry Osiecki has been a leading Clinical Nutritionist in Australia for over 20 years. Over the past two decades he has changed practitioners perception of nutritional thinking from one that is diet based to one that is biochemically and physiologically based. Henry's recent focus in the area of cancer is an accumulation of years of research with modern day cutting-edge science. Henry has brought together medical models and traditional therapies to form a comprehensive understanding of the biochemical processes involved in cancer development. He has expanded his theoretical constructs of cancer to include the effects of chemotherapy and surgery, nutritional guidelines for specific cancers, metastasis and cancer prevention programs. He has written a number of books including texts in Clinical Nutrition, which are used as textbooks in colleges. His publications include "The Physician's Handbook of Clinical Nutrition", "Hypernutrition for Sport", "The Nutrient Bible", "The Asthma Breakthrough" and, more recently "Cancer: a Nutritional / Biochemical Approach edition I and II". In addition Mr Osiecki has written for the Courier
Mail on a weekly basis as a Nutritional journalist since 1990, and has
had a weekly radio programme for a period of ten years. Mr Osiecki has
been interviewed for a number of television programmes on nutritional
issues.
Simone is a University qualified and highly experienced Clinical Nutritionist & Physiologist, from Australia. Simone delivers general nutritional counselling for the individual in every day life, more specialised health solutions for special/diseased population groups, tailor made advice on occupational health for corporations and works with the specific demands of elite athletes. Simone 's passion is Anti-Ageing /disease prevention and has recently launched her brainchild - "Active Anti-Ageing" at The Third Space Medicine. Simone has also written 3 books in this area, which are currently being published & is completing her PhD in this field. Simone is also the health/diet guru for the Terry & Gabi show. Simone began her career as Clinical Nutritionist
& Physiologist for one of Sydney's leading professional rugby league
football teams. After working for 2 years with the demands of elite
athletes, Simone moved into occupational health. Simone managed a variety
of needs ranging from the corporate stressors such as hypertension to
the occupational stresses of workplace injuries & chronic fatigue. Dr. Zorba Paster is Clinical Professor in the Department of Family Medicine and Practice at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and has practiced family medicine at the Dean Medical Center in Oregon, Wisconsin for more than two decades. Dr. Paster received his medical degree from the University of Illinois Medical School in Chicago. He completed his family medicine training at the Dalhousie University-Halifax, in Nova Scotia, Canada. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Family Practice. Dr. Paster is a family physician, clinical researcher, university professor, and host of a National Public Radio show, "Zorba Paster On Your Health." He has been answering callers' medical questions on health, fitness, and nutrition on public radio stations nationwide for the last 8 years and is featured on the Wisconsin Public Radio Web site (www.wpr.org/zorba). For the past 10 years, he has been a medical consultant and commentator for CBS news in Madison, Wisconsin, and is presently being featured there 3 times per week. Dr. Paster has published extensively and lectured on health-related topics. Random House recently published his book,
The Longevity Code-Your Personal Prescription for a Longer, Sweeter
Life. His first book Heart Healthy (Low-fat, Guilt-free & Tasty)
Recipes from the Kitchen of Zorba Paster is still available through
the University of Wisconsin Extension. Dr. Paster edits Top Health,
a newsletter with a circulation of 1.25 million. His two hour PBS special,
How to Live a Long Sweet Life, will air nationwide in 2004. Dr. Perls is a physician and researcher
in the study of aging at Boston University Medical School. As Associate
Professor in Medicine and a Geriatrician he cares for older patients
at Boston Medical Center. Since he first discovered that his centenarian
patients were among his healthiest, Dr. Perls has become one of a handful
of world's experts studying these exceptional human beings. For the
past eight years he has directed the New England Centenarian Study (NECS).
Funded by The Institute for the Study of Aging, The Ellison Medical
Foundation, The Alzheimer's Association, and The National Institute
on Aging, the NECS is the largest genetic and social study of centenarians
and their families in the world. Prof. Kerryn Phelps Prof Phelps is not only a doctor working
as a general practitioner in Sydney but she has also been a spokesperson
for Health in a media career that spans over 20 years. She has worked
on television on Channel 9's Today Show for over 10 years, the ABC's
Everybody program, Good Morning Australia, hosted her own radio program,
written regular columns in the print media and has been the Health writer
for the Australian Women's Weekly since 1991. Prof Phelps was awarded
the Centenary Medal in 2003 for services to Health and Medicine.
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Professor John McCallum
Dr. John McCormack
Prof. Moshen Meydani
David McLeod
Dr Richard Mollard
Dr. Eugen Molodysky
Vasi Naganathan, MBBS, FRACP, Mmed (clin epi), PHD
Harusuke (Haru) Naito
R. Carlos Nakai - Native American Flute Master
S. Jay Olshansky, Ph.D.
Henry Osiecki BSc (Hons), P/Grad Dip Nutrition and Dietetics
Simone Parkinson B.Sp.Sc/Ex. Sc (Nutrition), Dip. Anti-Ageing (American
Anti-Ageing Centre - AAAC), Dip. Kinesiology, B.Commerce(Marketing),
pending PhD.
Zorba Paster, MD
Dr.
Thomas Perls