Prof. Andrea Britta Maier, MD, PhD, FRACP, Oon Chiew Seng Professor of Medicine, Healthy Ageing & Dementia, Singapore, joins a global line-up of speakers for the 2023 International Longevity Summit.
To recap, The International Longevity Summit provides relevant insights into the longevity subject, expert education, investment opportunities, excellent networking opportunities, and a great setting in an exclusive location. The two full days conference is bringing together the world’s top longevity Key Opinion Leaders (KOLs), Institutional and Private investors, Wealthy Private Investors, Families, Offices, and Funds.
Prof. Andrea Britta Maier Speaker Profile: Part 8
Prof. Andrea Britta Maier
Prof. Andrea Maier is a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (FRACP), and graduated in Medicine (MD) from the University of Lübeck, Germany. In 2009 she was registered in The Netherlands as a Specialist in Internal Medicine-Geriatrics and was appointed Full Professor of Gerontology at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam the Netherlands in 2013.
She was the head of Geriatrics at the Vrije Universiteit Medical Center from 2012 to 2016. From 2016 to early 2021, Professor Maier served as Divisional Director of Medicine and Community Care at the Royal Melbourne Hospital, Australia, and as Professor of Medicine and Aged Care at the University of Melbourne, Australia. She continued her career at the National University of Singapore as Co-Director of the Centre for Healthy Longevity.
Unraveling the mechanisms of aging
Professor Maier’s research focuses on unraveling the mechanisms of aging and age-related diseases. Over the last 10 years, she has conducted multiple international observational cohort studies and intervention trials and has published more than 350 peer-reviewed articles, achieving an H index of 63, spearheading the significant contributions of her highly acclaimed innovative, global, multidisciplinary Age research group.
She is a frequent guest on radio and television programs to disseminate aging research and an invited member of several international academic and health policy committees, including the WHO. She is the past president of The Australian and New Zealand Society for Sarcopenia and Frailty Research, the founding president of the Healthy Longevity Medicine Society, and serves as elected Member of The Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities.
Key themes at the International Longevity Summit include
- The One Health Approach Economics of Longevity in Africa: The African Drug Development, Regulatory, and Market Access Landscape
- Funding and Driving Innovation on Longevity and Precision Health: The impact of R&D on longevity and precision health in Africa
- Longevity Research and Biomedical Innovation for Healthy Longevity: The Science of Longevity – Current Research on Longevity and Aging in Africa.
- Utilizing Omics and Data Science for Precision Health and Longevity Innovative Longevity Interventions and Precision Healthcare Approaches in Clinical Medicine
More about the ILS
To find out more about the International Longevity Summit and how to register, click HERE.
For more links to content on the ILS program
Longevity has featured several posts on the International Longevity Summit. You can read more about the conference and speakers here:
Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7
References
Andrea Britta Maier Profile | National University of Singapore (nus.edu.sg)
