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Neena received her PhD from McMaster University in sociology in 1978. Since that time she has been researching informal and formal care for older adults; quality of life in old age; aging among Chinese communities in Canada, Hong Kong and mainland China; and health care policy. She has established two world-class university-based research Centres on Aging (one at the University of Manitoba and one at the University of Victoria) and has over 250 academic publications and reports and 9 books. Many awards have recognized her work. She is a tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Social Gerontology, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, 'advising professor' at East China Normal University in Shanghai. She has been on the advisory boards of the CIHR Institute on Aging and the Institute for Health Services and Policy Research, the executive of the interim governing council that established CIHR, the advisory board to Health Canada, among others.She is currently president of CAG and of Academy II (Social Sciences) of the Royal Society of Canada.

Howard Feldman, MD, FRCP(C)

Howard Feldman, MD, FRCP (C) is Professor of Neurology and Executive Associate Dean, Research at the Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. He holds academic appointments as Adjunct Professor at Yale University, Department of Neurology in New Haven, CT and at the McGill Center for Studies in Aging in Montreal, Quebec. Dr. Feldman has served as Director of the Clinic for Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Disorders and also as Head of the Division of Neurology at the University of British Columbia. In his research, Dr. Feldman has made seminal contributions to his field with scientific discoveries and clinical research focussed on mild cognitive impairment/prodromal Alzheimer’s disease, frontotemporal dementia and diagnostic/therapeutic trials. He has contributed over 250 publications, including over 130 peer reviewed papers. His career contributions have been profiled in Lancet Neurology in 2007, and he has been appointed as Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences in 2008 and of the American Academy of Neurology in 2007. In 2007, he was appointed as the inaugural Fisher Family and Alzheimer Society of British Columbia Endowed Professorship for Research in Alzheimer’s Disease. From 2009-2011, he took a leave from his academic appointment in Vancouver to take on a senior leadership role in neuroscience global clinical research at Bristol-Myers Squibb, where his research focussed on developing novel pharmaceutical therapies for indications in Neurology and Psychiatry. His current work at UBC includes patient care, teaching and research in addition to his administrative duties.

Geoff Fernie, PhD, MIMechE, CEng, PEng, CCE

Réjean Hébert, MD, MSc, MPhil

Réjean Hébert obtained his Doctor of Medicine degree from the Université de Sherbrooke in 1979 and a speciality degree in Geriatric Medicine in 1987.  He has also a Diploma in gerontology from the Université des sciences sociales, Grenoble (1981) and a Master of Philosophy in Epidemiology from the University of Cambridge (1994).  From 2004 to 2010, he was Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences at the Université de Sherbrooke.  He is a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences.  He was the founding Director of the Research Centre on Aging in Sherbrooke and the Quebec Research Network on Aging (FRSQ).  He was also the founding Scientific Director of the Institute of Aging of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research.  He is the Director of PRISMA (Program of Research to Integrate the Services for the Maintenance of Autonomy), a unique consortium of researchers, health care managers and policy makers working on the organization of services for the frail older people.  He developed the SMAF (Functional Autonomy Measurement System), an instrument for assessing the needs of people with disabilities.  He advocate for prioritizing home care and establishing a public long-term care insurance plan in Canada.  He is full professor and researcher at the Research Centre on Aging of the Université de Sherbrooke and advisor for the Quebec National Institute of Public Health. A successful candidate in the September 2012 Quebec election, currently he is Minister of Health and Social Services, Minister responsible for Seniors, and Minister responsible for the Estrie Region.

Phyllis Moen, PhD

Phyllis Moen holds a McKnight Presidential Endowed Chair and is Professor of Sociology at the University of Minnesota, arriving there in 2003 after twenty-five years as a professor at Cornell University where she held the Ferris Family Chair in Life Course Studies.  She co-directs (with Erin Kelly) the Flexible Work and Well-Being Center (located in the Minnesota Population Center), part of a larger research network initiative supported by the National Institutes of Health and Centers for Disease Control to investigate workplace policy initiatives aimed at promoting individual and family health and life quality as well as positive business outcomes.  Moen has published numerous books and articles on careers, retirement, health, gender, policy and families as they intersect and as they play out over the life course. Her two most recent books are It’s About Time: Couples and Careers (2003) and The Career Mystique: Cracks in the American Dream (2005, with Pat Roehling), which won the 2005 Award for Excellence in Sociology from the Association of American Publishers’ Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division and was a finalist for the C. Wright Mills Award.  Dr. Moen’s most recent (2011) articles (in the American Sociological Review, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, and Social Problems) describe a natural experiment studying the effects of a flexibility policy innovation at a large corporate headquarters in the Midwest.  She is interested in new career/retirement paths and previously served on the board of Civic Ventures, a non-profit think tank on boomers, work, and social purpose.

Thomas Perls, MD, MPH