The Center's first Technology & Aging Conference, held in May 2008 at the Skirball Cultural Center, included the following expert speakers:

• UCLA Chancellor Gene Block
  Professor of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences

• Gary Small, MD
  Parlow-Solomon Professor on Aging
  Director, UCLA Center on Aging
  David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

• Eric Dishman
  Intel, Intel Fellow, Digital Health Group; Director, Product Research and Innovation

• Kirk Douglas
  Actor, Author

• Deborah Estrin
  PhD, Director, Center for Embedded Networked Sensing (CENS), UCLA Dept. of BioEngineering

• Nicole Spelhaug
  Chief, Product Development, Mayo Clinic

• Prof. Robert Foster
  Adjunct Professor, UCLA Anderson School of Management

• Erin Johnson
  VP, Research, Zimmer, Inc.

• Peter Schulam, MD, PhD
  Chief, Div. of Endourology; Assoc. Professor of Urology; CO-Director, CASIT

• E. Carmack Holmes, MD
  Exec. Director, CASIT, Emeritus Chairman, Dept. of Surgery

• George Bartzokis, MD
  Professor of Neurology

• Alison Grimes, AuD
  Head, Audiology clinic and Asst. Clinical Professor, Dept. of Head and Neck Surgery

• Donald Jones
  VP, Health & Life Sciences, Qualcomm, Inc.

• Susan B. Riley
  President and CEO, Elite Care Technologies

• Susan Ayers Walker
  Technology Journalist AARP.org; Managing Director, SmartSilvers Alliance

• John FitzGerald, MD
  Asst. Professor of Rheumatology

• Jeffrey Bronstein, MD, PhD
  Professor of Neurology, Director of Movement Disorders

• David Heber, MD, PhD, FACP, FACN
  Professor of Medicine and Public Health; Director, UCLA Center for Human Nutrition

• Frank Katch, PhD,
  Author; Retired Professor of Exercise Sciences, Univ. of Massachusetts

• Meera Kanhouwa, MD
  Physician Executive, Microsoft, Health Solutions Group

• Gerald S. Levey, MD
  Vice Chancellor, Medical Services and Dean

• David Whitlinger
  President and Chairman of the Board, Continua Health Alliance

• Dadong Wan
  Sr. Researcher, Accenture Technology Labs

• C. Anthony Jones, MD
  Founder & President, Next Lifesciences

• Joseph Coughlin, PhD
  Director, MIT AgeLab

• Bruce Dobkin, MD, FRCP
  Exec. Director, Dr. Miriam and Sheldon G. Adelson Medical Research Foundation, Professor of Neurology

• P. Murali Doraisawami
  MD, Chief, Division of Biological Psychiatry, Duke University

• Kevin Miller, MD
  Kolokotrones Professor of Clinical Ophalmology, Jules Stein Eye Institute

Continuing Thanks to our 2008 Sponsors and Supporters