Iva Holmerova MD, PhD, MSc

Iva Holmerová is the Chair of the Czech Alzheimer Society, which she co-founded in 1997. A practicing physician since 1981, she is qualified in General and Geriatric Medicine and also holds a PhD in Social Gerontology.

She is also the Director of the Czech Centre of Gerontology (since 1992), the President of the Czech Society of Gerontology and Geriatrics (since 1997) and a committee member of the International Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics (IAGG) since 1997. She is an Associate Professor of Humanities at Charles University (Prague) and was named Visiting Professor at the University of the West of Scotland in 2014.