Tutors 2027

Worldwide full Professors in Geriatric Medicine and other medical specialities.

Worldwide full Professors and Experts in Gerontology (nursing, nutrition, psychology, sociology and also architecture, demography, economy, and engineering.

The tutors involved in a session should participate in all teaching activities.

January 2027, titre

Prof. Jean-Pierre Michel
Prof. Jean-Pierre Michel was Professor of Medicine and chairman of the Academic Geriatric department in Geneva University Hospitals till 2011.
Then, he was president of the European Geriatric Medicine Society (EuGMS), while acting as World Health Organization (WHO) expert of the “Aging and Life course program”. He is full member of the French Academy of Medicine and Foreign Member of the Royal Academy of Medicine of Spain. He is also director of the International Association Gerontology and Geriatrics (IAGG-world) “Federation of Geriatric Education” and co-responsible of the IAGG e-TRIGGER online training
He has authored over 400 articles in peer-reviewed journals, was responsible of a European report on “Transforming the future of Ageing”. He also co-edited the International Textbook of Geriatric Medicine with Dr Cho (2010) and was the first editor of the Oxford Textbook of Geriatric Medicine (2018). He is currently in charge of co-editing the updated versions of these two textbooks.

Prof. Heba Tawfik
Dr. Heba Mohamed Tawfik is Associate Professor and consultant of Geriatrics and Gerontology at Faculty of Medicine, Ain-Shams University. Dr Heba is also a consultant at Ain Shams University Virtual Hospital.
She is a co-Founder and director of cognitive training lab, co-founder, and co-director of Ain-Shams Ageing Brain Initiative (AGE-BRAIN) at Geriatric department, Ain-Shams University Hospitals. She is experienced in dealing with geriatric population, has many research papers in the field of cognition, mild cognitive impairment, and dementia. She is also interested in frailty, sarcopenia, and geriatric cardiac diseases. She participated in Addenbrooke’s cognitive examination III (ACE III) Arabic translation and validation and in a construction of a unique cognitive assessment test in Ain-Shams University suitable for educated and illiterate elderly which is the ASCA test.
Dr Heba is a director of Geriatric Medicine Unit at Faculty of Medicine, Ain-Shams University.

Dr. Leon Geffen
Dr. Leon Geffen is a family physician based in Cape Town, South Africa. He is the director of the Samson Institute For Ageing Research. He serves as an expert advisor to the WHO Clinical Consortium on Healthy Ageing & the WHO Global Network on Long-term Care. He is the chairperson of the World Organisation of Family Doctors Ageing & Health Special Interest Group. In 2022, he was named by WHO as one of 50 global leaders working to transform the world to be a better place to grow old.”