Saturday 6th March 2004

PLENARY SESSIONS

Anti-Ageing Medicine: The Hype and the Reality
Session chair: Prof. S. Jay Olshansky

9:00am Prof. S. Jay Olshansky, PhD.
Professor, School of Public Health, University of Illinois, Chicago, USA.

9:15am Assoc. Prof. Bruce A. Carnes, PhD.
Associate Professor, Reynolds Department of Geriatric Medicine, University of Oklahoma College of Medicine, Oklahoma, USA.

9:45pm Prof. Leonard Hayflick, PhD.
Professor of Anatomy, School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, USA.

10:15pm Assis. Prof. Thomas Perls, MD, MPH.
Director, New England Centenarian Study; Assistant Professor of Medicine,
Geriatrics Section, Department of Medicine, Boston University, MA, USA.

10:45pm Prof. S. Jay Olshansky, PhD.
Professor, School of Public Health, University of Illinois, Chicago, USA.

11:00am Morning Tea Break

Mental Health & Longevity
Session chair: Dr. Eugen Molodysky

11:30am Depression and Dementia Epidemics - Preparation and Management
Prof. Graham D. Burrows, AO, KCSJ, MD ChB, BSc, DPM, FRANZCP, FRCPsych, MRACMA, Dip.M.Hlth.Sc(Clinical Hypnosis), FAChAM. Professor of Psychiatry, Austin Health, Austin Hospital, Heidelberg, VIC, Australia.

12:10pm Stopping Alzheimer's Disease: What Can We Learn from Our Genes?
Prof. Rudolph E. Tanzi, PhD. Professor of Neurology (Neuroscience), Director, Genetics and Aging Research Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, MA, USA.

12:50pm Lunch Break

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