WCAA Plenary Keynote Speakers Confirmed

As the 8th World Congress on Active Ageing, taking place in Glasgow from the 13th to the 17th of August 2012, draws ever closer, the Local Organising Committee has announced that the following plenary keynote speakers have so far been confirmed.
Plenary Keynote - Monday 13th August 2012Professor Tom KirkwoodNewcastle University (UK)
Longevity, Physical Activity and Ageing.
Plenary Keynote - Thursday 16th August 2012Professor Stephanie StudenskiUniversity of Pittsburgh (USA)
Prevention and Management of Neurological Conditions in Old Age though Physical Activity and Exercise.
Plenary Keynote - Friday 17th August 2012Professor Neville Owen (picture)Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute (Australia)
Sedentary Behaviour and Older People - New Insights.
Tom Kirkwood is Professor of Medicine, Director of the Institute for Ageing and Health at the University of Newcastle and Director of the BBSRC Centre for Integrated Systems Biology of Ageing and Nutrition. He is European President (Biology) of the International Association of Gerontology, chaired the UK Foresight Task Force on ‘Healthcare and Older People' and was Specialist Adviser to the House of Lords Science & Technology Select Committee inquiry into the ‘Scientific Aspects of Ageing.' 
Stephanie Studenski is one of the United States' foremost authorities on and researchers of mobility, balance disorders and falls in older people. She is a Professor of Geriatric Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh's School of Medicine and director of that university's Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Center, which is dedicate to the study of the causes and consequences of balance disorders in later life and the development of innovative strategies to address this common disabling condition that affects one-third of older people. 
Neville Owen is one of the pioneers of the science of sedentary behaviour, whose extensive research relates to the primary prevention of cancer, diabetes and heart disease, and deals with the environmental, social and personal-level determinants of behavioural risk factors - primarily sedentary behaviors (television viewing, sitting in cars, desk and screen-bound work) and the lack of physical activity. He is Professor of Behavioural Epidemiology at the Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute, in Melbourne, Australia.
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