The Annual Symposium in Memory of the Late Prof. David and Prof. Ami Barzilai on Aging

Opening Remarks and Greetings:
Prof. Haim Hammerman
Director, Department of Cardiology and Chairman of Medicine, Rambam Health care Campus
Prof. Karl Skorecki
Director, Medical and Research Development, Rambam Health care Campus
Prof. Eliezer Shalev
Dean, Ruth and Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion - IIT 

Scientific Program:
1. Personalized medicine – in diabetes, obesity and aging
Prof. Eddy Karnieli
Director, Inst. Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Rambam Medical Center
Director, Galil Center Medical Informatics, Telemedicine and Personalized Medicine
Rappaport Faculty of Medicine

2. Aging of the immune system: cause or effect? AIDS as a model
Prof. Shimon Pollack
Director, Institute of Allergy, Immunology & AIDS, Rambam Health Care Campus
Chairman, Department of Immunology, Rappaport Faculty of Medicine

3. Cognition and old age
Prof. Shlomo Breznitz – Emeritus Professor, Haifa University and founder of Cognifit
Coffee Break

4. Genetic manipulation of plant aging
Prof. Shimon Gepstein
Faculty of Biology, Technion – IIT

5. The roles of genes and the environment in exceptional longevity.
or why did Moses lived to be 120?

Prof. Nir Barzilai
Professor of Medicine and Molecular Genetics.
Director, Institute for Aging Research
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
NY, USA
  
6. "Say, have you read Amos Oz's last iPad?"
Noam Manella - Attention Management
The Writer of "The Creative Code"