Future of Aging Advisory Board Academic and Policy Council

A world-renowned geriatrician and epidemiologist, Linda Fried has defined frailty and its causes, conducted research on the prevention of disability and cardiovascular disease, and proposes that investments in health for longer lives could build a Third Demographic Dividend.

Ken Dychtwald is president and CEO of Age Wave, a firm that guides companies and government groups in product/service development for baby boomers and mature adults. He has dedicated his life to battling ageist stereotypes while promoting a new, vital and purposeful role for life’s second half.

Joseph Coughlin is founder and director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology AgeLab. He teaches in MIT's Department of Urban Studies & Planning and the Sloan School's Advanced Management Program.

Pinchas Cohen, MD, is the dean of the USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology at the University of Southern California.

Jennie Chin Hansen is the immediate past CEO of the American Geriatrics Society. Earlier in her career, she was president of the 38 million-member AARP, a position she held during the development of the Affordable Care Act.

Dr. Angelique Chan holds joint appointments as a tenured Associate Professor in the Signature Program in Health Services & Systems Research at the Duke-NUS Medical School, and in the Department of Sociology at the National University of Singapore. She is the Inaugural Executive Director of the Centre for Ageing Research & Education at Duke-NUS.

Laura Carstensen is a professor of psychology and the Fairleigh S. Dickinson Jr. professor in public policy at Stanford University, where she is the founding director of the Stanford Center on Longevity. In academia, Carstensen is known for socioemotional selectivity theory, a life-span theory of motivation.

A former California State treasurer with nearly two decades of experience as a senior bank executive, Kathleen Brown concentrates on business counseling, government, and regulatory affairs in connection with the health-care, energy, real estate, and financial services industries.

Alice Bonner has been a geriatric nurse practitioner caring for older adults and their families for over 30 years. She is currently adjunct faculty and director of strategic partnerships for the CAPABLE Program at the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing and senior advisor for aging at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement.

Throughout her long career in science, Dr. Blackburn has been a leader in the area of telomere and telomerase research, having discovered the molecular nature of telomeres – the ends of eukaryotic chromosomes that serve as protective caps essential for preserving the genetic information – and co-discovered the ribonucleoprotein enzyme, telomerase. She is also known for her championing of diversity and inclusion in the sciences.