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Send us Fan Mail Dr. Brad Stanfield, MD ( https://drstanfield.com/ ) is a general medical practitioner from Auckland, New Zealand, as well as the host of the rapidly growing Extend Healthspan channel ( https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpcvPcHJVOkO9Qp79BOagTg ) on YouTube. Dr. Stanfield graduated in 2015 from the University of Auckland, New Zealand with his MD, worked in hospital medicine for sever...

Send us Fan Mail Angel Eduardo ( http://angeleduardo.com/ ) is a writer, musician, photographer, and designer based in New York City, who serves an Advisory Board member, FAIR in the Arts Fellow, and Director of Messaging & Editorial for the Foundation Against Intolerance & Racism (FAIR - https://www.fairforall.org/) , where he helps shape the organization's pro-human approach to our...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Uwe Schoenbeck, Ph. D., (https://www.pfizer.com/research/science_and_technology/meet_our_scientists/uwe_schoenbeck) is Chief Scientific Officer, Emerging Science & Innovation (ES&I) and Senior Vice President, Worldwide Research and Development & Medical (WRDM) at Pfizer. Part of Worldwide Research, Development & Medical, ES&I is charged with enhancing Pfize...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Asha M. George, DrPH ( https://biodefensecommission.org/teams/asha-m-george-drph/ ) is Executive Director, Bipartisan Commission on Biodefense, which was established in 2014 to assess gaps in and provide recommendations to improve U.S. biodefense. The Panel determines where the United States is falling short of addressing biological attacks and emerging and reemerging infectio...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Cecilia A. Conrad, Ph. D. ( https://www.macfound.org/about/people/cecilia-a-conrad ) is CEO of Lever for Change, a nonprofit affiliate of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation (where she also serves as a Senior Advisor) which leverages investments in solutions to the world’s biggest problems — from racial and gender equity to climate change. Dr. Conrad was formerly...

Send us Fan Mail Mr. Tomas Diagne is the Director of the African Chelonian Institute ( https://africanchelonian.org/) , an organization with a mission to promote the long-term conservation of turtle, tortoise and terrapin populations, across the African continent, through research, education, and grassroots collaboration. Mr. Diagne is an African freshwater turtle and tortoise expert who has been...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Jana Dickter, MD ( https://www.cityofhope.org/jana-dickter ) is associate clinical professor in the department of medicine, division of infectious diseases, at City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center. She is board-certified in internal medicine, infectious diseases, and the American Academy of HIV Medicine. Dr. Dickter earned her undergraduate degree in cognitive sciences fro...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Robert A. Montgomery, MD, DPhil, FACS, ( https://nyulangone.org/doctors/1467404137/robert-montgomery ) is the Director of the NYU Langone Transplant Institute, and Chair and a Professor in their Department of Surgery, where he oversees a diverse team of medical and surgical specialists who provide a wide variety of surgery and transplantation services including bone marrow, he...

Send us Fan Mail General Stan McChrystal, is Founder and CEO of the McChrystal Group (https://www.mcchrystalgroup.com/people/stan-mcchrystal/) an advisory firm focused on delivering innovative leadership solutions to businesses globally in order to help them transform and succeed in challenging, dynamic environments. A retired four-star general, Stan is the former commander of US and International...

Send us Fan Mail Ambassador John E. Lange ( https://unfoundation.org/who-we-are/our-people/john-e-lange/ ) is Senior Fellow, Global Health Diplomacy, at the United Nations Foundation, a charitable organization headquartered in Washington, DC, that supports the United Nations and its activities. Ambassador Lange has extensive leadership experience in global health issues and longstanding involvemen...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Ana Maria Cuervo, M.D., Ph. D. ( https://www.einsteinmed.edu/faculty/8784/ana-maria-cuervo/ ) is Co-Director of the Einstein Institute for Aging Research, and a member of the Einstein Liver Research Center and Cancer Center. She serves as a Professor in the Department of Developmental & Molecular Biology, and the Department of Medicine (Hepatology), and has the Robert and...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Katherine High, MD, is President, Therapeutics, at Asklepios BioPharmaceutical (AskBio - https://www.askbio.com/ ), where she is also member of the AskBio Board of Directors, and has responsibility for driving the strategic direction and execution of pre-clinical and clinical programs of the company. AskBio is a wholly owned and independently operated subsidiary of Bayer AG, s...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Steve Iley, MD (https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-steve-iley/?originalSubdomain=uk) is the Chief Medical Officer and Global Head of Occupational Health and Safety, at Jaguar Land Rover ( https://www.jaguarlandrover.com/ ). With his medical degree from the University of Bristol, and training in emergency medicine in Australia, Dr. Iley is an experienced Medical Director and Chief...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Bruce Levine, Ph. D. (https://www.med.upenn.edu/apps/faculty/index.php/g5455356/p3504) is the Barbara and Edward Netter Professor in Cancer Gene Therapy, and the Founding Director of the Clinical Cell and Vaccine Production Facility (CVPF) in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and the Abramson Cancer Center, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylva...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Srinivas Rao, MD, Ph. D. is the Chief Scientific Officer at atai Life Sciences ( https://www.atai.life/ ), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company aiming to transform the treatment of mental health disorders. With offices in New York, London and Berlin, atai's business model combines funding, technology, scientific and regulatory expertise with a focus on psychedelic t...

Send us Fan Mail The Honorable Secretary Dr. Donna Shalala, Ph. D. ( https://people.miami.edu/profile/dshalala@miami.edu ), currently serves as Professor Emerita, Department of Health Management and Policy, University of Miami, where she previously served as President from 2001 to 2015, where during her tenure as President, she advanced the university into the top tier of U.S. research universitie...

Send us Fan Mail Keith Camhi is Managing Director, Techstars Future of Longevity Accelerator (https://www.techstars.com/accelerators/longevity), a program, run in partnership with Pivotal Ventures ( https://www.pivotalventures.org/ ), an investment and incubation company created by Melinda French Gates, focusing on innovative solutions to address the unmet needs of older adults and their caregiver...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Amber Salzman, Ph. D. is Chief Executive Officer and Director of Epic Bio ( https://epic-bio.com/ ), a fascinating therapeutic epigenome editing startup, developing therapies to modulate gene expression at the level of the epigenome, which just recently emerged from stealth mode with a $55 million funding round. Dr. Salzman has more than 30 years of experience in the pharmaceu...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Nicole Ehrhart, VMD, MS (http://www.cvmbs.colostate.edu/DirectorySearch/Search/MemberProfile/cvmbs/1013/Ehrhart/Nicole) is the director of the Columbine Health Systems Center for Healthy Aging at Colorado State University (https://www.research.colostate.edu/healthyagingcenter/about/), where she leads an interdisciplinary research effort to identify basic and translational mech...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Arye Elfenbein, MD, PhD, is the Co-Founder of Wildtype ( https://www.wildtypefoods.com/ ), a biotechnology company which produces cultured seafood (with a focus on cultivated Pacific salmon) from fish cells, sustainably and cost effectively, with the nutritional benefits, but without common contaminants such as mercury, microplastics, antibiotics, or pesticides, and without re...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. John LaMattina, Ph. D. ( https://www.johnlamattina.com ), is an independent non-executive director at PureTech, a biotechnology company with a mission to discover, develop and commercialize new therapies for devastating diseases, where limited or no treatment options currently exist for patients, and has served as a member of their board of directors since 2009. Dr. LaMattina...

Send us Fan Mail Tom Lawry is the National Director for Artificial Intelligence (AI), Health & Life Sciences, at Microsoft ( https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/industry-blog/microsoft-in-business/author/tom-lawry/ ). In this role he serves as a strategic advisor to provider, payer and life science organizations across the Americas, creating enterprise-wide AI initiatives designed to transform he...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Stephen Moran, Ph. D., is Global Program Head, Neuroendocrine Tumors & Other Radiosensitive Cancers, for Advanced Accelerator Applications (AAA - https://www.adacap.com/ ), a Novartis company and also a member of the Oncology Development Unit Leadership Team at Novartis. Prior to joining AAA, Dr. Moran was Global Head of Novartis Strategy, where he played a key role in def...

Send us Fan Mail  Dr. Dana K. Merriman Ph. D. (http://www.uwosh.edu/facstaff/merriman/VaughanHome), is Distinguished Professor Emerita of Biology, and Director of the Squirrel Colony, at University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, and Adjunct Professor of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, Medical College of Wisconsin. With her BA in Biological Science and her PhD in Physiology and Cell Biology, both from...

Send us Fan Mail Nikita Michelsen, is Founder & CEO of Pearlita Foods ( https://www.pearlitafoods.com/ ), the world's first cell-based mollusk company, which is developing sustainably & ethically grown products, like oysters and abalone, that are contaminant free without compromising flavor or nutrition. Most recently Nikita served as both Director of Community and Director of Marketi...