Six-time Emmy Award and Golden Globe winner, Alan Alda, wants people to have better conversations. Alda is the former host of PBS’s Scientific American Frontiers, where he interviewed scientists and helped them communicate complex ideas to...

Director of the Longevity Genes Project at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Nir Barzilai has discovered several longevity genes in humans that appear to protect centenarians against major age-related diseases. Barzilai is also co...

Regina Benjamin served as the 18th Surgeon General of the United States, appointed by President Barack Obama in 2009. As the “nation’s doctor,” she served a four-year term focusing on health disparities, disease prevention, and children’s...

Renowned neurosurgeon, Keith Black, has pioneered advances in our understanding and treatment of brain cancers and complex neurological conditions. Black is also a research scientist studying targeted drug delivery, cancer stem cells, and...

Elizabeth Blackburn is one of only 12 women to have won a Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for her co-discovery of telomerase, the enzyme that replenishes the telomere, an area of the chromosome related to the process of aging. In an...

New York Times bestselling author, Dan Buettner has traveled the globe visiting the places in the world where higher percentages of people enjoy long, full lives, areas dubbed “Blue Zones.” He founded Blue Zones LLC to help people live...

Deepak Chopra is a pioneer in integrative medicine and personal transformation. Time magazine has described him as "one of the top 100 heroes and icons of the century.” In an interview with the Milken Institute Center for the Future of...

Thiel Fellow, Laura Deming, is on a mission to extend human healthspan. She is a Forbes 30 Under 30 alum and was one of the stars of The Age of Aging, a documentary by National Geographic. In an interview with the Milken Institute Center...

From spearheading the Affordable Care Act to opposing the legalization of euthanasia, Ezekiel Emanuel continues to make his mark in the world of health. He is a globally recognized oncologist and bioethicist, and author and contributor to...

NYU Professor, André Fenton, is a neurobiologist studying how brains store experiences as memories and how self-expression works with memory to give us information that matters. In an interview with the Milken Institute Center for the of...

As a member of the British House of Lords, Baroness Sally Greengross presides over parliamentary groups examining dementia, corporate social responsibility, intergenerational futures, and continence care. She has been an ambassador for the...

Arianna Huffington knows what it takes to reinvent herself. She has taken on a new mission: ending the worldwide culture of stress and burnout. In an interview with the Milken Institute Center for the Future of Aging, Huffington explains...

Harvard professor Sharon Inouye is one of the world’s leaders in geriatrics research and innovation. She founded the Hospital Elder Life Program (HELP) to prevent delirium in hospitalized patients. In an interview with the Milken Institute...

Trish Lopez founded Teeniors™, a multi-award-winning startup that includes tech-savvy teens and young adults who help older adults learn technology through one-on-one, personalized coaching. In an interview with the Milken Institute Center...

Jim Mellon is an entrepreneur, investor, and frequent speaker on topics ranging from longevity investment to future trends in technology. In an interview with the Milken Institute Center for the Future of Aging, Mellon talks about his book...