Speakers' biographies
Prof. Valdimir Anisimov
Prof. Anisimov is the Head of the Department of Carcinogenesis and Oncogerontology at the Petrov Research Institute of Oncology. Prof. Anisimov holds a D.Sc. and a Ph.D in Oncology from the Petrov Research Institute of Oncology in Leningrad, where he also did his postgraduate training in chemical carcinogenesis. He has an M.D. from the 1st Pavlov Medical Institute in Leningrad. He specializes in chemical carcinogenesis, the relationship between carcinogenesis and aging as well as experimental gerontology. Prof. Anisimov has more than 450 scientific publications in international and Russian journals, 4 inventions and 2 patents. He is on the Editorial Board of numerous highly recognized scientific journals. He also serves as the President of the Gerontological Society of The Russian Academy of Sciences and the Chairman of the Problem Committee "Carcinogenesis" of the Scientific Council "Malignant Neoplasia".
Dr Irina Belikova
Dr Irina Belikova, MD is an anti-aging medical doctor and a gynecologist-endocrinologist at the Cosmetology and Plastic Surgery Center in Ekaterinburg, Russia. She graduated from the Ural State Medical Academy in 1995 with a specialty in Obstetrics and Gynecology. She has completed a 2-year post graduate training in Anti-Aging Medicine at the University Center in Charleroi, Belgium. Dr. Belkova also completed Endoscopic Surgery Course in Gynecology, an advance training course on diagnosis and treatment of endocrine gynecological diseases, and a training workshop on gene polymorphism. She has been a speaker at Russian and international meetings on menopause and anti-aging. Dr Belikova is a member of the Russian Menopause Society, the Russian Society of Gynecological Endocrinology, the European Society of Anti-Aging Medicine. She is also the Secretary of the Russian Society of Anti-Aging Medicine. Her primary research interest is preventative genetics.
Dr Maria van Engelen
Dr Maria van Engelen obtained her medical degree in 1980 at the University of Utrecht, the Netherlands. She has been working in her private practice since 1982, for the last 12 years based in Ibiza Spain, working as an integrative orthomolecular doctor with special interest in environmental medicine and preconception care. She was involved in setting up the first Dutch Organisation for Orthomolecular Medicine (MBOG). In the 1990s she appeared and worked on a series of television programs on natural healing and wrote on Dutch alternative medicine magazines. Dr van Engelen has been a long time member of international medical organisations such as ACAM, IFM, ISOM, and for the last 5 years is an active member of the Fundación Alborada (environmental Medicine).
Prof. Damiano Galimberti
Prof. Galimberti is the General Secretary of the European Society of Anti-Aging Medicine (ESAAM) and the President of the Italian Healthy-Aging-Doctor Association (AMIA). He obtained an undergraduate degree in Medicine and Surgery and a postgraduate degree in nutritional science from Universita' Degli Studi di Milano. He teaches on the preventative medicine course at the Post University School. He is also a referent for the technical scientific board of the Health Care Department at Milan City. He is a specialist in nutritional and nutrigenomic science. Prof. Galimberti is a member of the International Scientific Board of the Anti-Aging World Conferences and World Association of Genomic Medicine, and the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine. He has been a speaker at various national and international congresses and a four-time scientific director of the International Congress of Preventative and Healthy Aging Medicine. He is an author of popular Italian books on anti-aging available on the mass market, some of which have also been translated and published in Spain and France.
Professor Yury Guscho
Prof. Guscho, Dr.Sc., the author of over 250 publication, 98 patents and 13 books is the senior scientist of Institute of the Social and Economic Problems of Population of Russian Academy of Sciences and President and CEO of “Longevity” AS, Norway. Yury Guscho specialises in the next areas: quantitative statistical gerontology, rapid methods and computer programs for analyzing and forecasting life expectancy and quality of life among various social groups; mathematical models registering quality of life; promotion of active longevity; the influence on life expectancy of food, movement, water regime, psychological state, exchange of gases, medical services, work and living conditions, bodily cleansing, heredity, place and time of birth, education, harmful habits and their effects. Yury Guscho is the Head of International world-round expeditions "The Harmony of Personality and Planet Ecology" over all continents (120 countries). In 2011 he published the books: “The Price of Life” (English) and “12 Schlüssel zur Lebensqualität”(German).
Prof. Zulya Maizetova
Dr Maizetova is a medical doctor who has developed an integrated method for preventing and reversing age related conditions through specific investigations and treatments which are aimed at enhancing the body's own ability to restore natural balance. Dr Maizetova is playing a leading role in integrating Lifestyle medicine and Nutrigenomics and underlining the importance of the connection between the environment, our lifestyle and genetic predisposition. She is founder and medical director of 'The Blossom Clinic', London, UK. She also serves as a consultant in Functional Medicine and Nutrigenomics for Laboratoires Reunis, Luxembourg. Dr Zulya Maizetova deeply believes in the power of nature and holistic approach to preventing and treating illnesses. She is renowned speaker on topics related to Functional and Lifestyle Medicine, Genomics for Health and Medical Spa at Anti-Ageing Conferences around the world. Dr Maizetova earned an MD from St Petersburg State First Medical University and an MBA from Wesminster University in London.
Mr Phil Micans
Mr Phil Micans studied Food and Vitamin Technology at South London and completed an applied science bachelor's degree in Pharmacy. He holds a master's degree in biochemistry from the University of Canterbury. Having been actively involved in the anti-aging field since the late 1980's, Phil has held the positions of Editor-in-Chief of the Aging Matters™ Magazine, Director of Research and Development to IM Health and Chairman of the Monte Carlo Anti-Aging Congress. He is currently the Assistant Editor to the digital Lifespan Medicine Magazine, an advisor to the British Longevity Society, the Stromboli conference on cancer and aging, and the London Anti-Aging Conference. In 1991 he became a founding member of the IAS Group, where he maintains the position of Vice President. Some of Phil's specific achievements in bringing the latest drugs, nutrition and diagnostics to the marketplace include the Can-C™ eye-drops (reversing conditions of cataract), the BEC5™ cream (reversing non-melanoma skin), and the Bio-Clip™ Plus and Bio-Clip™ Cuff diagnostic equipment to ascertain arterial stiffness.
Dr Martin Klentze
Dr Michael Klentze completed his doctorate at the Tübingen Urological Clinic on the subject of "Urethral Syndrome". Soon afterwards he opened the Klentze Institute for Anti-Aging Medicine in Munich and later joined it with the Diagnoseklinik Muenchen, Germany. Currently the Klentze Institute operates a worldwide network of Anti-Aging clinics in Madrid, Houston, and Istanbul. He has been nominated as International Medical Director of Vitallife Corp. In research with the Genosense company in Vienna, Dr Klentze developed several modules of polymorphisms used for the risk prediction in preventive medicine. He has also served as a scientific advisor for Pfizer and Lancaster. He has thought as a professor in Vienna, Dresden, Kuala Lumpur, and Bali. His specialist fields include Ob-Gyn, Psychiatry, Endocrinology, Polymorphisms, Molecular biological and biochemical foundations of the aging process, and Anti-Aging endocrinology. He has more than 100 publications in peer reviewed journals and is the author of 6 books about Anti-Aging, endocrinology and molecular genetics in preventive medicine. Dr Klentze holds leadership positions in ESAAM, ESSAM, A4M, ABAAM.
Dr Çimen Karasu
Dr Karasu is part of the Faculty of Medicine at the Department of Medical Pharmacology at Gazi University in Ankara, Turkey. She is President of the Turkish Society for Preventative, Regenerative & Anti-Aging Medicine. She is also a board member of ESAAM and an advisory board member of WAAAM. Dr Karasu is the Chief of Cellular Stress Response and Signal Transduction Research Laboratory in Gazi University. She is also the leader for the "Antioxidants in Diabetes-Induced Complications Study (ADIC)" group. Dr. Çimen Karasu was post-doctoral educated in the Queen Mary & Westfield College, Basic Medical Sciences and William Harvey Research Institute, London. Prof. Karasu has been investigating the cellular mechanisms of glycoxidation and lipoxidation associated metabolic disorders such as diabetes and its complications. During her academic period, she has many international research projects on the aging and age-related disease. Under collaboration of Slovak Academy of Sciences, she has also patents by pyridoindole antioxidants and glycoxidative inhibitors.
Dr John Ionescu
Dr John Ionescu is the Scientific Director and Founder of the Special Clinic Neukirchen for the treatment of allergic, skin and environmental diseases according to the principles of the nutritional and environmental medicine. Dr Ionescu received his PhD in Medical Biochemistry in 1983 from the University of Saarbrücken, Germany, and directed until 1985 the research programme of a dermatological clinic in Aschaffenburg. His main research areas included the atopic diseases, psoriasis, arthritis and the MCS-syndrome. The original diagnostic and therapeutic approaches of his cortisone-, cytostatic- and radiation-free concept have been reported in more than 200 scientific publications in Germany, Europe and USA. His current work involves the investigation of biological redox systems and free radical reactions in skin, environmental and cancer patients. Prof. Ionescu is an association and a visiting professor at several universities as well as a member of the Commission for Environmental Medicine of the Ministry of Health in Berlin,Germany.
Dr Christophe de Jaeger
Christophe de Jaeger is one of the European pioneers of aging prevention. He has been working for more than 25 years on the aging process and promoting the measurement of physiological age. He created and participated in all major anti-aging events for the last 15 years. Christophe de Jaeger is an international speaker and author of many books about aging prevention. He is the President of the French Society of Physiology and Medicine of Longevity, the Vice Vresident for Europe of the World Society Interdisciplinary Anti-Aging Medicine, the Chief Redactor of the revue "Médecine et Longevité", and the head of European Longevity Institute in Paris, France (specialist of the evaluation and the management of the ageing). His main work topics are muscular aging, brain aging, arterial aging, and the measurement of physiological aging.
Dr. Martin Jenzer
Dr Martin H. Jenzer graduate with a Doctor of Medicine from the University of Zurich Medical School. He is board certified in Internal Medicine, ABMI and FMH. In the early stages of his career he served as the Medical Director Lakeshore Nursing Home, Rochester NY and a Clinical Instructor at the University of Rochester Medical School. Consequently, between 1977 and 1988 he ran his own private practice in Rochester, NY, after which re returned to Switzerland where he continued his practice. He is the Medical Direktor of ‘projeunesse ag’ and a past Vice-President of the Professional Society for Nutrition and Orthomolecular Medicine. Dr Jenzer is currently the Vice-President of the Swiss Anti-Aging Medical Society. He also holds mmembership in the Swiss Society of Internal Medicine, Phlebologie, ACAM, AAEM, SGUM, and SSAAMP. His main interests are regenerative, anti-aging medicine, and integrative medicine.
Prof. Vladimir Khavinson
Prof. Khavinson's 35-year long investigations resulted in developing a method for complex application of peptide bioregulators to slow down ageing and increase average life span. 6 peptide pharmaceuticals and 36 biologically active supplements developed by him have been introduced into clinical practice. Thanks to participatory efforts of Prof. Khavinson the scientific specialty "Gerontology and Geriatrics" was adopted in the Russian Federation on the governmental level in 2001. Prof. Khavinson is the author of over 700 publications and several books. Among many others, Prof. Khavinson holds the title Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation", 2007. He is the President of the International Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics (IAGG), European Region, and the Vice–President of the Gerontological Society of the Russian Academy of Sciences. In 2010, IAGG headed by him was given a Special Consultative Status of the UN ECOSOC. In 2011, it was enrolled in the IAGG's Global Ageing Research Network.
Dr Mina Michal
Dr Mina Michal has been involved in Preventive Medicine and Corporate Health for a number of years and is author of many publications. A graduate of the University of Cambridge Medical School (UK), Mina Michal has worked for the Medical Research Division of Sandoz AG (Basel), University of Toronto (Canada), Royal College of Surgeons (London), Addenbrookes Hospital Medical School (Cambridge), and Battelle Research Center (Geneva) as a senior research scientist. She was a pioneer in the field of stress management and its implication in personal and organizational performance. Drawing on her polyvalent and multicultural experience, Mina Michal founded LEADERSHIP 2000, Geneva in 1992, with the aim of promoting corporate health and well-being. Its concept is based on optimizing organizational performance and quality of life within the working environment. Dr Michal is currently head of LEADERSHIP 2000, Professor of Management and Human Resources at Webster University in Geneva, Head of the Scientific Board of the SAAAM and consultant to organizations in the public and private sector.
Dr Jean-Pierre Naim
Dr Jean-Pierre Naim is one of the most renowned experts in Anti-Aging. He graduated from the University of Brussels, School of Medicine in 1980. He has been practicing Integrative, Preventive & Regenerative Medicine in Belgium, Lebanon, France and Switzerland for the last 30 years. Dr Naim was the head of the Medical Service in 1998-2010 of a Geneva-based UN specialised agency. He has committed himself to Complementary and Integrative Medicine, and incorporated natural healing techniques, nutrition, holistic and Orthomolecular Medicine in his clinical practice. He has been lecturing around the world and has published many scientific papers. Dr Naim is the Founder and President of SAAAM, and Deputy Secretary-General of ESAAM. He is member of A4M and Board Director of WAAAM. He is CEO of the Naim’s Longevity Clinic in Lebanon, the first center in the Middle-East specialising in Anti-Aging Therapy and Regenerative Medicine. Dr Naim is senior consultant at Long Age Health (Turkey) and chair of the Integrative Medicine department in Institut Medico-Chirurgicale de Champel in Geneva.
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Dr Alexander Riftine
Dr Alexander Riftine is the President and CEO of Intellewave. He has worked as a research associate for three years in the Cardiovascular Division of Cornell University Medical Center in Ithaca, New York. He has also served as a Director of the Biomedical Research Laboratory in Moscow between 1989-1991. Prior to that Dr Riftine was the Director of the Laboratory of Medical Cybernetics in Vladivostok. He has conducted a validation study of the nerve-express algorhythm in Columbia University Cardiology Division. He has also presented at the Harvard Medical School Seminar in August 1991 on the theory of quantitative assessment of functional condition based on Heart Rate Variability analisys.
Dr Roudier
Dr Roudier was born in Lyon, France and received a PhD in Sciences in 1945 from the Faculty of Sciences in Lyon. In 1952, Dr Roudier obtained the diploma of Doctor in Medicine from the Lyon School of Medicine. Consequently, he dedicated 53 years of his life to research in Immunology, Virology, Polyarthritis and MS. His expertise is in PCB. He has been working in private practice since 1953.
Dr Gloria Sabater
Dr Gloria Sabater received her Master and Doctor in Pharmacy from Barcelona University. Her doctoral thesis was focused on the nutrition status of the Catalan population. While at Sabater Analysis she was involved in different analytical departments, working on food analysis, vitamins, pesticide residue, metals, and drug analysis. She later progressed to become the Quality Manager for the Sabater Analysis Group. She has lectured in at least 39 courses for the pharmaceutical and food industry, thus training technical and quality control courses for nearly ten years. In the last decade, she has been more involved in Anti-Aging Medicine. She is a professor in the Anti-Aging Master's program at the "Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona". She also served as a professor in the same program at the "Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico" for 4 years, and at the "University of Puebla" for 2 years. Dr Sabater is the co-owner of an anti-aging shop in Barcelona and a distribution business for anti-aging supplements.
Prof. Adolf E. Schindler
Prof. Schindler is the Director of the Institute for Medical Research and Education in Essen, Germany. He is also a visiting professor at the German Academic Exchange Service in Romania, Greece, and China. Prof. Schindler is the author and co-author of more than 600 peer-review papers in national and international scientific journals on topics such as gynecological endocrinology, reproductive medicine, high risk obstetrics, and gynecological oncology. Currently, he serves as President of the European Society of Obstetrics and Gynaecology as well as President of the German-Egyptian Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology. He serves on the editorial board of several publications and journals including European Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology & Reproductive Biology, Bulgarian Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Russian Journal of Human Reproduction, and the Journal Reproductive Medicine in China. Prof. Schindler has founded the European Progestin Club and has cofounded the Endometriosis Research Foundation in Germany as well as the European Endometriosis League.
John Van Limburg Stirum
Dr. John van Limburg Stirum completed his medical education and doctorate at the University of Zurich in 1981. Specialization in science based functional medicine and applied biochemistry. Since 1997 head of the Lake Garden Medical Center in Kilchberg-Zurich, Switzerland. 2000-2010 president of the Swiss Medical Society for Nutritional Medicine. 2010 Board member of the Swiss Society for AntiAging Medicine and Prevention. Engagement in dental and environmental medicine as well as in eastern medical paradigms. Research and international lecturer activity in applied biochemistry, particularly dental related and acid base medicine. Scientific and medical contributions in journals, magazines, radio, television and literature. In 2008 he published the textbook: “Modern Acid Base Medicine”, Hippocrates, Stuttgart.
Dr Emar Vogelaar
Dr Vogelaar is a Professor of Clinical Nutrition at Benadir University. He is a member of the European Laboratory of Nutrients and Vitamin Diagnostics. In the past he has served as President for the World Health Foundation and the Foundation for the Heart. He has also been the Director of the thrombosis service at the Red Cross and Director of MDPC (preventative health clinics). Until recently he served as the Director of Vital Health Diagnostics, the Autism Research and Treatment Center, and the European Laboratory of Nutrients. He graduated with biochemistry and endocrinology from the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands and produced a thesis on the optimal use of human blood while working at the Central Laboratory of the Red Cross on the analysis and improved production of albumin, GPO, and gamma-globulin.