We would like to re-introduce our keynote speakers, Professor Shaun O’Keeffe and Professor Andrea Maier.
Professor Shaun O’Keeffe
Professor Shaun O’Keeffe is a Consultant Geriatrician and an Honorary Personal Professor of Medicine in Galway University Hospitals with extensive interest in cognitive impairment and ethical issues in the care of older people
Professor Andrea Maier
Gerontologist, geriatrician and health policy planning authority, Australia, Singapore and The Netherlands
Professor Maier, a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (FRACP), graduated in Medicine (MD) 2003 from the University of Lübeck (Germany), was registered 2009 in The Netherlands as Specialist in Internal Medicine-Geriatrics and 2013 was appointed Full Professor of Gerontology at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (The Netherlands). From 2016 to early 2021 Professor Maier has 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 continues her career at the National University of Singapore as Co-Director of the Centre of Healthy Longevity. Professor Maier’s research focuses on unraveling the mechanisms of ageing and age-related diseases. During the last 10 years she has conducted multiple European observational and clinical trial studies and has published some 300 peer-reviewed articles (more than 10.000 citations), achieving an H index of 53, 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. She currently is the President of The Australian and New Zealand Society for Sarcopenia and Frailty Research.
Important Dates
ANZSGM Annual Scientific Meeting 2021
19-21 May 2021
December 2020
Call for Abstracts opens
Wednesday 5 May 2021
Late registration opens
Host Organisation
Australian and New Zealand Society for Geriatric Medicine (ANZSGM)
145 Macquarie Street
Sydney NSW 2000, Australia
Tel: +61 2 9256 5460
Fax: +61 2 9241 3458
Website: www.anzsgm.org
