Mo-Kyung Sin is a Dr. Lester and Mary Ann Sauvage Endowed Professor at Seattle University College of Nursing (SU CON). She is an experienced educator and a leader, as well as a NIH-funded researcher. Mo has been working at SU CON since 2004. She enjoys interacting with her students and feels privileged to be a part of her students' career development. Mo is currently serving as a chair of the Gerontological Society of America Health Sciences Section, which she enjoys very much and feels grateful for the opportunity. My research focus includes ADRD, biomarkers for cerebral amyloid angiopathy, chronic diseases, and neuropathologies. Mo collaborates with great researchers across the U.S. (and feels blessed). In her spare time, she enjoys movies, spending time with friends, cooking, and walking.

Ali Ahmed, MD, MPH, is Associate Chief of Staff for Health and Aging at the Washington DC VA Medical Center and Professor of Medicine at George Washington University and Georgetown University, Washington, DC. Dr. Ahmed is a nationally and internationally recognized expert on chronic heart failure in older adults. His work is funded by NIH and VA, and he has presented and published extensively. He is the recipient of the 2024 GSA Health Science Section’s Joseph T. Freeman Award lectureship in geriatrics. The title of his talk was “Improving Care and Outcomes for Older Adults: Propensity Score Matching to Artificial Intelligence,” in which he described his two decades of work on the role of renin-angiotensin system (RAS) inhibitors on kidneys in patients with heart failure (HF) and chronic kidney disease (CKD). Ali is the 2024 Joseph T. Freeman Award recipient.

Megan Huisingh-Scheetz, MD MPH is an Assistant Professor in the Section of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine at the University of Chicago. As a clinician investigator and NIA K23 recipient, her research has focused on understanding how objectively measured activity and sedentary behavior patterns, resting metabolic rate, and body composition relate to frailty progression and frailty-related outcomes. Through her work, she analyzes accelerometry data to assess and trend activity patterns as markers of frailty. In partnership with NORC and Orbita, Inc, Dr. Huisingh-Scheetz also developed and is studying the impact of EngAGE, a technology-based tool utilizing a voice assistant to deliver exercise programming to older adults in their home to reduce frailty. The program leverages caregivers to provide social motivation to the older adult to simultaneously combat loneliness. She also helped establish and now co-directs the Successful Aging and Frailty Evaluation™ (SAFE) clinic in which she assesses and manages frail older adults in consultation. 

Brad Manor is an associate scientist at the Hinda and Arthur Marcus Institute for Aging Research, the associate director of the Mobility and Falls Translational Research Center, the director of the Mobility and Brain Function Lab, and an assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Dr. Manor’s career goal is to alleviate the burden of balance decline that often accompanies biological aging into senescence. As the director of the Mobility and Falls Program, he works to achieve this goal by directing interdisciplinary, translational research in the fields of human balance and rehabilitative medicine. His research combines biomechanical assessments of human movement with advanced medical imaging, noninvasive brain stimulation, and nonlinear signal processing techniques to identify the link between brain function, balance, and falls in older adults and design rehabilitative interventions that improve balance via optimization of brain function and exploitation of its adaptive properties.