Louis J. Papa, M.D.
Primary Care Physician
Partner, Olsan Medical Group, Strong Health, Rochester, NY
 
Louis J. Papa M.D., FACP is board certified in Internal Medicine and is a primary care physician and partner at Olsan Medical Group.  He is an Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine at the University of Rochester, where he helps educate internal medicine residents on primary outpatient.  In 1989, Dr. Papa graduated from the State University of New York at Stony Brook School of Medicine and came to Rochester to complete his residency at Strong Memorial Hospital where he is currently an attending physician. Dr. Papa is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians, a former Delegate for the Young Physicians Section representing New York State to the American Medical Association, and was named by his peers to "Best Doctors in America" in 2001.  He was selected by "Rochester Business Journal" as one of the "Forty under Forty" young community leaders in 2001 and was named as one of only 25 physicians under 40 years old nationally to receive the "Excellence in Medicine Award" from the American Medical Association Foundation for leadership in 2003. Dr. Papa is involved in a number of medical, civic and community activities and boards including his role as a board member of the largest health foundation in Upstate New York -- the Greater Rochester Healthcare Foundation, volunteer work with the uninsured, as a New York Council member for the American College of Physicians and is currently President of the local medical society.

Christine Rogers
Health Reporter

Christine is an award winning producer and reporter. She is the recipient of two Edward R. Murrow awards for her investigative journalism work. She was nominated for an Emmy for her documentary on sex offenders and was recently recognized by the Mental Health Association of North Carolina for a series of reports on mental illness. Christine has extensive health reporting experience. She produces and hosts Healthwise on UNC-TV, North Carolina's public broadcasting network. Each month she tackles a different health care topic from diabetes prevention and control to the problem of childhood obesity. Christine also produces health features for Ivanhoe Broadcast News which serves over two hundred stations across the country. She received her undergraduate degree from Syracuse University and her master's from Duke University.

William J. Hall, MD, MACP
Director, Center for Healthy Aging
University of Rochester School of Medicine

William J. Hall, MD, MACP is an internist-geriatrician, Professor of Medicine, and Director of the Center for Healthy Aging at the University Of Rochester School Of Medicine. Dr. Hall received his MD degree from the University of Michigan and completed his residency in Internal Medicine at Yale University. His major professional interest is in developing and teaching strategies for successful aging. Dr. Hall is the founding Medical Director of the Center for Lifetime Wellness, a non-profit fitness and educational program for adults over age 50 in Rochester. The Center recently was commended by the Department of Health and Human Services as one of the top senior fitness programs in the country. Dr. Hall has been very active in the American College of Physicians, serving as President in 2001-2002. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of AARP.

S. Jay Olshansky, Ph.D.
President, Society for the Study of Social Biology

S. Jay Olshansky received his Ph.D. in Sociology at the University of Chicago in 1984. He is currently a Professor in the School of Public Health at the University of Illinois at Chicago and a Research Associate at the Center on Aging at the University of Chicago and at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. The focus of his research to date has been on estimates of the upper limits to human longevity, exploring the health and public policy implications associated with individual and population aging, and global implications of the re-emergence of infectious and parasitic diseases. During the last fifteen years, Dr. Olshansky has been working with colleagues in the biological sciences to develop the modern "biodemographic paradigm" of mortality – an effort to understand the biological nature of the dying out process of living organisms.

Dr. Olshansky is the current president of the Society for the Study of Social Biology, he is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Gerontology: Biological Sciences and Biogerontology, he is on the editorial board of several other scientific journals, and is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the New York Academy of Sciences. Dr. Olshansky is also listed in Who's Who in Science and Engineering, Who's Who in American Education, Who's Who in Medicine and Healthcare, and American Men & Women of Science. Dr. Olshansky is the first author of The Quest for Immortality: Science at the Frontiers of Aging (Norton, 2001).

Dr. J. Michael Gaziano, MD, MPH
Chief of the Division of Aging
Brigham and Women's Hospital

Dr. J. Michael Gaziano received is M.D. from Yale Medical School and his M.P.H from the Harvard School of Public Health and is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.
 
Dr. Gaziano serves as Chief of the Division of Aging at the Brigham and Women's Hospital and the Director of Cardiovascular Epidemiology in the Division of Preventive Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital where he is the Principal Investigator of the Physicians' Health Study II (PHS II), a large-scale trial of vitamins E and C and multivitamins in the prevention of chronic disease.  He is also a co-investigator on a number of other large-scale NIH funded studies.

Dr. Gaziano is also the Director of the Boston Geriatric Research, Education and Clinical Center (GRECC), which is part of the New England GRECC at the VA Boston Healthcare System. Dr. Gaziano serves as the director of the Massachusetts Veteran's Epidemiology Research and Information Center (MAVERIC).

Betty Perkins-Carpenter, Ph.D.
President of Senior Fitness Productions, Inc.

Betty Perkins-Carpenter has made a life-long career of teaching people of all ages to be swimmers and divers, to be physically fit, and to be safe and secure in their activities of daily living. A former diving coach in the 1976 Olympics, she has coached men's and women's diving teams on the high school and college level. She is the founder, and served as president, of the popular Perkins Swim Club, Inc. in Rochester, NY and of the well-known fitness program for pre-schoolers, Fit by Five, Inc. Dr. Perkins-Carpenter served on the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports and was a speaker at the White House Conference on Aging. She has appeared on national broadcast outlets and in publications as an acknowledged expert in fitness for senior citizens and is the author of many articles and books, including the popular How To Prevent Falls: Better Balance, Independence and Energy in 6 Simple Steps, soon to be re-issued in a revised edition.

Dr. Perkins-Carpenter received an undergraduate degree in physical education administration from Empire State College; a master's degree in childcare administration from Nova University; and a doctorate in health administration from Kennedy-Western University. She has taught at St. John Fisher College in Rochester, NY and remains active as a consultant, lecturer, teacher and advocate on issues related to health, fitness and safety or senior citizens.