Genetics and Epigenetics of Frailty and Ageing Satellite Meeting Invited Speakers

Prof Howard Bergman

Howard Bergman MD, FRCPC is Professor of Medicine, Family Medicine and Oncology and the first Dr. Joseph Kaufmann Professor of Geriatric Medicine at McGill University and the Jewish General Hospital. From 2009-2011, he was Vice-President, Scientific Affairs of the Fonds de la Recherche en Santé du Québec (FRSQ), Quebec's health research funding agency.From 1993-2009, he was Director of the Division of Geriatric Medicine at McGill University and of the Jewish General Hospital. In 2001-2002, he was interim Physician-in-Chief and Chief of the Department of Medicine of the Jewish General Hospital. He is an investigator at Solidage: the McGill University/Université de Montréal Research Group on Frailty and Aging as well as at the Bloomfield Centre for Research on Aging at the Lady Davis Institute, Jewish General Hospital. He is Adjunct Professor in the Department of Health Administration, Université de Montréal, Invited Professor in the Faculty of Medicine, Université de Lausanne in Switzerland. He is also adjunct full Professor in the Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel where he was recently appointed to the International Academic Review Committee. Dr. Bergman is a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences (CAHS). He is a past President of the Canadian Geriatrics Society which awarded him the Ronald Cape Distinguished Service Award, a past Scientific Director of the FRSQ Quebec Network for Research in Aging, a Past President of the Consortium of Canadian Centers for Clinical Cognitive Research (C5R) and a past Chair of the Advisory Board of the Institute of Ageing of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR). His research focuses on aging, chronic disease, frailty and health services.

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