Elana Kieffer Blass is the Director of Strategic Alliances at the Gerontological Society of America. Most recently, she served as the Director of the Center for Healthy Aging at The New York Academy of Medicine, and has nearly 20 years of experience working in a wide range of older adult services, with a focus on project management, program development, and sales and marketing. Elana has an MBA in nonprofit management with a concentration in aging services from the Heller School at Brandeis University.

Dr. Bridges is a board-certified internal medicine physician who has worked on influenza and adult immunization issues for over 28 years. She completed medical school at the University of Washington and residency at the University of Colorado. She joined the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 1996 as an Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer, and later became the Associate Director for Science in the Influenza Division and then Associate Director of Adult Immunizations. Her work at CDC focused primarily on influenza and adult immunization policy and implementation. She is a past chair of the American College of Physicians Immunization Committee. Since retiring from CDC in 2017, she has worked with Immunize.org as a Consulting Physician and Director of Adult Immunizations. Dr. Bridges also provides clinical care at a community health center. Dr. Bridges has over 160 publications, including peer-reviewed manuscripts, textbook chapters, and CDC vaccine recommendations.

Dr. Eileen Crimmins investigates how geroscience-based measures can help us understand accelerated and decelerated aging in large national populations. She is the AARP Chair in Gerontology, and University Professor at the Davis School of Gerontology Biomarker Network. She is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Medicine, and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Crimmins is a Past Chair of the Behavioral and Social Sciences Section of the Gerontological Society of America. She has received the Kleemeier award from the Gerontological Society of America and the Matilda White Riley Scholar Award from the Section on Aging and the Lifecourse of the American Sociological Society; and the Taeuber Award for research from the Population Association of America.