Generation Bold

Dr. Cathy Goldstein is faculty in the Sleep Disorders Center where she evaluates and treats patients with various conditions such as obstructive sleep apnea, insomnia, restless legs syndrome, and circadian rhythm sleep-wake disorders. Her research interests include the interface of sleep disruption with health conditions such as infertility and gastrointestinal disease. She also does work in the d...

Eric Rice, Quanta CEO and Chairman, is a leading American entrepreneur. A former professional baseball player, he started his business career in Chicago in wealth management and high-net-worth financial advising before spending more than a decade building businesses at the nexus of AI machine learning and advertising technology. Along the way, he worked with founders across multiple sectors to cre...

Dr. Erika Schwartz takes the best of conventional and integrative medicine and applies them to preventing disease. For more than 20 years, Dr. Erika has been at the forefront of advanced patient care. She was one of the first doctors in the US to treat patients with bio-identical hormones, conduct biomarker testing, and to administer preventative IVs. She continues to deliver cutting edge care to...

Sonja M. Haggert is an independent investor who credits her ability to retire early (at 51) with learning about investing from her father-in-law. She is passionate that everyone, especially women, acquire a basic knowledge of the topic. Sonja graduated from Villanova University with a BS in Business Administration. She had a varied career starting in retailing and culminating in becoming Vice-Pres...

Dr. Sara Zeff Geber is a recent recipient of the “2018 Influencers in Aging” designation by PBS’ Next Avenue. She is an author, certified retirement coach, and professional speaker on retirement and aging.  She has developed a niche specialty as an expert in “Solo Aging,” guiding people who have no children or who are aging alone to have a safe and fulfilling life in their retirement years. Dr. Ge...

Emily Luchetti is a James Beard Award-winning pastry chef, and Chief Pastry Officer of San Francisco’s Big Night Restaurant Group. She has helped define what great pastry in America means, partly as a cookbook author, and through her three decades in the business of desserts, both as a chef and as a teacher and mentor to chefs and restauranteurs. Erin McHugh is an award-winning author of more than...

John L. Webb, Jr. is the founder of Medication Call Reminder and a seasoned professional with a unique combination of work in both the private and public sectors. John’s experiences in Employee Assistance sales and marketing, medical social work in home health care, hospital discharge planning and care management led to a second career as an entrepreneur. As a long distance caregiver, it was a he...

Dr Cynthia Stuen is the Main Representative to the United Nations on behalf of the IFA. She is currently the Chair of the NGO Committee on Ageing (New York), having served as vice chair from 2015-2019. She was co-chair of the International Day of Older Persons 2015 event at the UN, and also covers the issues of the NGO Committee on the Status of Women. Dr Stuen is a Past Chair of the American Soci...

Sidney Kess, of Counsel to Kostelanetz & Fink, LLP and a Senior Consultant at Citrin Cooperman & Co., is a nationally renowned tax expert and author/coauthor of hundreds of tax books on financial and estate planning. He has written hundreds of AICPA tax workshops, audio and video programs, and is the recipient of the AICPA Distinguished Lecturer Award. Mr. Kess is often quoted in The Wall Street J...

As Director of Lifestyle, Mark is focused on enhancing our customer’s lifestyle experience at all Cresswind and Kolter Homes communities. Mark supports our leadership team in providing Amenity-rich Environments, one of Kolter Homes four brand pillars. He plans and delivers Award-winning lifestyle programming at all Cresswind communities. In 2017, Mark earned Silver Honors as “55+ Lifestyle Directo...

David M. Cunic is a licensed physical therapist, business consultant, certified leadership coach, and cannabis industry expert. He has been involved in the cannabis testing lab sector for over six years and teaches medical professionals as well as the public U.C.S.: Use Cannabis Safely. David has been involved in the cannabis industry for over six years and he quickly made his mark; he is one of t...

Dr. Alexander Fleming is Founder and Executive Chairman of Kinexum. He is also President and Chief Executive Officer of Tolerion, a biotechnology company developing disease-modifying treatments for type 1 diabetes and other autoimmune diseases. Dr. Fleming received his M.D. and internal medicine training from Emory. He completed fellowship training in endocrinology at Vanderbilt and metabolism at...

For 15 years, Colorado based photographer Heidi Wagner has used her camera to look closely at extraordinary people of all ages. Since 2013, Heidi Wagner has made The Passions Project the central focus of her creative work. Through The Passions Project, Heidi finds a platform to share the beauty and vitality she sees in people who are living their life to the fullest and following their passion: “W...

Amy Jeffs currently serves as Vice President of Status Solutions, and has held various positions within the mission-based organization for the past 13 years. Her primary duties include assisting Status Solutions' Founder and President with developing and implementing the company's overall go-to-market strategy. Her past experience includes 20+ years of technology business and marketing at start-up...

Angelica Disanza is Miss Northern Lakes’ Outstanding Teen 2018. Her platform is “Generation Connection” fostering friendships between generations and has written a children’s story entitled, “A Different Kind of Crown.” based on a personal experience where she encourages children at a younger age to see the value of making friendships with seniors. She regularly visits nursing homes and senior cen...

Dr. Michael Blackman joined Allscripts from McKesson and now provides medical leadership across the Allscripts CareInMotion suite. Passionate about looking for methods to improve care, he has worked with multiple hospitals and health systems to improve how EHRs are used to both advance patient outcomes and improve clinician workflow. Additionally, he was a leader in the early work to enable widesp...

Chris Brickler is CEO and Co-Founder of MyndVR, a national health and wellness company pioneering a new network of Virtual Reality experiences to improve the cognitive health and happiness of our aging population. In addition to an expansive library of VR content and original programming designed for recreational and therapeutic effects, MyndVR is also working with leading US universities and rese...

Dr. Rachel Wu is a developmental cognitive neuroscientist investigating attending to and learning relevant information across the lifespan. Her EEG and behavioral research from infancy to aging adulthood investigates how learner factors, (e.g., prior knowledge, learning approach) and environmental factors (e.g., scaffolding) facilitate the selection of relevant information to promote new learning...

Monique Sternin is the co-founder of the Positive Deviance Approach & Initiative, and Adjunct Associate Professor, at Tufts University Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy. Over the past 25 years, Monique has been involved in developing and promoting the Positive Deviance Approach, an asset-based method to solve complex problems requiring behaviour and social change which she pioneered...

Scott Moody is the co-founder and CEO of K4Connect, a mission-centered technology company creating solutions that serve and empower older adults and individuals living with disabilities. Moody previously was the co-founder and CEO of AuthenTec, the only public company ever acquired by Apple and its technologies led to the introduction of the Touch ID. Although Scott had retired, it was on a trip t...

Kate McKay is a multi-million-dollar business owner, international best-selling author, TV personality, transformational speaker, strategic business consultant, and health and wellness expert. Kate is the author of Living Sexy Fit… At Any Age, featured in Family Circle. Kate has been a contributor to Entrepreneur, New York Smash, and Golf Magazine. She is also a monthly contributor to the Eagle Tr...

Jordan Goodman is “America’s Money Answers Man” and a nationally-recognized expert on personal finance. He is a regular guest on numerous radio and television call-in shows across the country, answering questions on personal financial topics. He appears frequently on The View, Fox News Network, Fox Business Network, CNN, CNBC and CBS evening news. For 18 years, Jordan was on the editorial staff of...

Sue Johansen, vice president of partner services with A Place for Mom. A Place for Mom was founded 15 years ago to help families navigate the maze of senior housing options. Since then, A Place for Mom has grown to become the largest senior living referral service in the U.S. and Canada. Although our company name focuses on "mom," we help dad too! As well as uncles, aunts, brothers and sisters - a...

Aubrey De Grey is known for his view that medical technology may enable human beings alive today not to die from age-related causes. He is also an amateur mathematician who has contributed to the study of the Hadwiger–Nelson problem. His research focuses on whether regenerative medicine can prevent the aging process. He works on the development of what he calls "Strategies for Engineered Negligibl...

In 2012, the Global Health Program was established through the Western Connecticut Health Network (WCHN) in conjunction with the Larner College of Medicine, strengthening an already flourishing relationship with the College that sends dozens of medical students to Danbury Hospital each year for clinical rotations. The exchange of knowledge between WCHN and the Larner College of Medicine has foster...