Cardiology, Internal Medicine and General Medicine, Cardiovascular Diseases, Catheter ablation cardiac arrhythmias, Noninvasive monitoring and electrocardiography, Implantable cardioverter defibrillators

Dr. Peter Brady is a cardiologist in Rochester, Minnesota and is affiliated with Mayo Clinic. He received his medical degree from University of Liverpool Faculty of Medicine and has been in practice for more than 20 years. He is one of 224 doctors at Mayo Clinic who specialize in Cardiovascular Disease.

Cell and Developmental Biology, Cell Culture, Flow Cytometry, Immunity, Functional Genomics

Amy Kiger is an Assistant Professor of Biology at the University of California, San Diego. She received her PhD as a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Predoctoral Fellow from the Department of Developmental Biology at Stanford School of Medicine. She then completed postdoctoral studies at Harvard Medical School. The research in her lab focuses on understanding morphogenetic programs. To do this they are applying an informative combination of functional genomics and in vivo genetic approaches in Drosophila to the problem of cellular elongation.

Sports Medicine, Age Management Medicine, Nutrition, Hormonal Balance, Control of Biomarkers, Exercise Medicine, Surgery, Preventive Medicine

Dr. Durantez Licensed in medicine and surgery by the Autonomous University of Madrid with high honours (1987). Specialist in sport and exercise medicine (1990). PhD Cum Laude in Medicine (1997). Certified in Age Management Medicine with Cenegenics Education and Research Foundation (CERF) with 60 credits AMA (2011). Dr. Durantez has practised sports medicine since 1988 with medical clinics, athletic teams, sports federations and numerous athletes of all levels and categories from exercise for health to Olympic athletes. Since 2005, Dr. Durantez has developed and led several projects in Medical Fitness and Age Management Medicine. He has attended hundreds of interviews in all types of media, has written hundreds of divulgative articles and is a regular international speaker. Currently, Dr. Durantez is the Medical Director of his own Clinic in Madrid and a well-known clinician in Age Management Medicine in Spain.

Pediatrics, Pediatric Endocrinology, Nutrition, Public Health, Obesity, Type 2 Diabetes, Heart Disease, Weight Management, Obesity-related Diseases

David S. Ludwig, MD, Ph.D. is a practicing endocrinologist and researcher at Boston Children’s Hospital. He holds the rank of Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and Professor of Nutrition at Harvard School of Public Health. Dr. Ludwig is Founding Director of the Optimal Weight for Life (OWL) program at Children’s Hospital, one of the country’s oldest and largest multidisciplinary clinics for the care of overweight children. He also directs the New Balance Foundation Obesity Prevention Center at Children’s Hospital.

Dr. Ludwig is a fellow of The Obesity Society and recipient of the E.V. McCollum Award (2008) of the American Society for Nutrition. He is Principal Investigator on numerous grants from the National Institutes of Health, has published over 150 scientific articles, and serves as Contributing Writer for JAMA. Dr. Ludwig is the author of a book on childhood obesity for parents (Ending the Food Fight: Guide Your Child to a Healthy Weight in a Fast Food/Fake Food World Houghton Mifflin, 2007). His latest book, for a general audience, is entitled Always Hungry? Conquer Cravings, Retrain Your Fat Cells, and Lose Weight Permanently (Grand Central Publishing, January 2016). He appears frequently in national print and broadcast media.

Nursing, Healthcare Management, Patient Safety