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International Conference on Aging & Gerontology 2027 @icag02.bsky.social Looking for researchers, speakers & experts in Aging & Gerontology
Join ICAG 2027 -13th International Conference on Aging & Gerontology
📍 Tokyo, Japan | 📅 April 14–15, 2027
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Jennifer Jamieson | Grief & Mourning Educator 🇨🇦 @jenniferjamieson.bsky.social Certified Grief Coach & Educator (RECE) helping individuals & families navigate grief, loss, and life’s hardest transitions | Sunnybrook Pregnancy And Infant Loss (PAIL) Network Rep | Hamilton | brightermourning.ca
Death with Dignity @deathwithdignity.org We lead the national movement on end-of-life advocacy and policy reform. Learn more at www.deathwithdignity.org
Compassion & Choices Action Network @ccactionnetwork.bsky.social The Compassion & Choices Action Network works to build political support to advance its mission to improve care, expand options, and empower everyone to chart their end-of-life journey.
Dignity in Dying @dignityindying.org.uk We believe in choice at the end of life. Including the option of assisted dying for terminally ill, mentally competent adults.
Michael Brodeur, PharmD, BCGP @brodeurpharmd.bsky.social Professor@ Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences| PHARMD, BCGP, FASCP, FNAP| RPD PGY2 Geriatrics| JGN Section Editor: Geropharm
Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com Leading digital news and information platform covering voting rights, elections, and the courts — from an unapologetically pro-democracy standpoint.
Newsletters: https://demdock.com/3T3Owjg
Reporting: democracydocket.com
Founded: @marcelias.bsky.social
Russell D. Vines @rdvines.bsky.social NY Dem. 💙Author, composer, musician, cyber-security expert. Wrote 10 cyber-security books, some best-selling. Author of “Composing Digital Music For Dummies”. Former bassist with the Rat Pack, George Benson, MGM, etc. No fascists! #resist
Stacy Remke @stacysr.bsky.social Pediatric palliative care and palliative social work geek, MSW Prof at #UMNSSW, follow #HAPC #SWHPN #PedPC #EPECPeds and believe in value of literature, justice and empathy.
Palliative Allie @palliallie.bsky.social Pediatric Palliative Care Social Worker in NC, US. Avid reader and getting back into writing, I love to cook, and love my dogs, family, and friends. Enjoying this season of life and the wisdom it brings, as well as what I glean from others.
Dying With Dignity Canada @dyingwithdignity.ca The national human-rights charity committed to improving quality of dying, protecting end-of-life rights and helping people across Canada avoid unwanted suffering. 🌈
Find us at dyingwithdignity.ca
Facebook: @DWDCanada
Instagram: @dwdcanada
MAiD in Canada @maidincanada.bsky.social maidincanada.substack.com/
We are committed to providing accurate, fact-based information about Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) in Canada. We are also dedicated to respectfully challenging misinformation and disinformation wherever it arises.
Jocelyn Downie @jgdownie.bsky.social Professor Emeritus, Faculties of Law and Medicine, Dalhousie University. Working on assisted dying, sport integrity, photography, and woodturning.
Lauren @lekingster.bsky.social Palliative Care Social Worker, Artist, Aunt, and trying to be a force of good in this world.
Art IG @create_with_courage
Grace Chen, MD @gchenmd.bsky.social Geriatrician @UCLA | #age-friendly healthcare #humanism in medicine #inclusion | views/opinions my own
Ian Weissman, DO @drianweissman.bsky.social Radiologist @DeptVetAffairs #AdvocatingForPatients #PublicHealth #Activist @RadiologyACR and @RSNA #Leadership http://www.linkedin.com/in/ianweissmando
Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social Health Policy & Health Econ
Professor, WashU, School Public Health
Co-Director Center for Advancing Health Services Policy&Economics Research).
https://source.washu.edu/experts/timothy-mcbride/
Substack: https://timothymcbride.substack.com/
Views my own.
Vilja Oired @oired.bsky.social News, info, ideas & comments on medicine, health care, geriatrics, tech and more.
Megan (Meegan) Gerber, MD, MPH ☮️ @meggerber.medsky.social General internist & proud primary care doc - passionate about #traumainformed care
Editor: Trauma-informed Healthcare Approaches (Springer) #womenshealth #meded #narrativemedicine #medhum #abstractpainter - #medsky #medtwitter refugee
IG: @meggerberMD
Mariah Robertson, MD, MPH @mlrobertsonmd.bsky.social Johns Hopkins Geriatrics - Internal Medicine - Public Health | House call doctor | Medical educator | Arts & Humanities | Mom & Wife | Baltimore proud 💜🖤🧡 | My Morning Jacket super fan ✨🪩🫶🏻
I stay angry but try to remain kind.
Views are mine.
Megan Ranney MD MPH @meganranney.bsky.social Emergency physician & Dean of the Yale School of Public Health. Gun violence prevention researcher. Incorrigible optimist (because we can and do create change, together). Mom of two teens. GO BILLS. @meganranney at the other place 🛟🩺📉📈🧪
Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social Professor of Political Science at Stanford | Exploring money in politics, campaigns and elections, ideology, the courts, and inequality | Author of The Judicial Tug of War cup.org/2LEoMrs | https://data4democracy.substack.com
Rose Penfold @rosespenfold.bsky.social NHS geriatrics registrar in Edinburgh; Wellcome Trust PhD -delirium and multimorbidity; routine data & epidemiology; cofounder @womenspeakersHC; likes 🏃♀️ a lot. Views own
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social Waitress turned Congresswoman for the Bronx and Queens. Grassroots elected, small-dollar supported. A better world is possible.
ocasiocortez.com
James Deardorff @wjdeardorff.bsky.social Geriatrician and research faculty at UCSF. Former UCSF Geriatrics clinical and T32 aging research fellow, Duke IM resident, and SLU med student.
Indivisible Westchester ❌👑 @indiviswestchester.bsky.social Fighting to protect truth, equality, justice and respect through grassroots action from Westchester County, NY
Join us @ indivisiblewestchester.org.
National Dementia Workforce Study @ndws.bsky.social NDWS, sponsored by the National Institute on Aging of the NIH, conducts the first large surveys of the U.S. dementia care workforce to create an unprecedented data resource for researchers. www.ndws.org
Katie Wilkinson @drkwilkinson.bsky.social Neurophysiologist | http://wilkinsonneuro.com | Past Chair of the American Physiological Society's Science Policy Committee | she/hers
Vusumuzi Ngonidzashe Hove @vusumuzihove.bsky.social
Ph.D. Student, Pharmaceutical Sciences, @umaryland.edu School of Pharmacy 💊 | Medicinal Chemist👨🏾🔬🔬🧪| Oncology Researcher 💻🧬💉| @ubuffalo.bsky.social Alumnus🎓🦬 | @UBmenstennis🤘🏿🎾 | Zimbabwean Pro Tennis Player🎾🇿🇼 |#BillsMafia🏈🇺🇸
https://linktr.ee/vusumuzihove
Michael Vallely @mkvallely314.bsky.social Work @ NASA. Loser @ Jeopardy (twice). My sports teams and political party always lose too. And I've had cancer twice and live in Cleveland. Sweet Jesus.
Health & Productive Aging Lab @healthyaging.bsky.social HPAL is Directed by Dr. Beth Marfeo, Associate Professor @Tufts University’s Dept. of Community Health. HPAL’s mission is to advance health services research related to #Aging, #HealthOutcomes #Measurement, and #QualityofLife
https://sites.tufts.edu/hpal/
Paul Tatum @doctatum.bsky.social Geriatrics, Hospice & Palliative Med, and Fam Med. MO, AZ, TX.
Josh Briscoe @jbriscoe.bsky.social Hospice and Palliative Care Physician
#MedPsych #MedSky #HAPC #Bioethics
Writing @ Notes from a Family Meeting: https://familymeetingnotes.substack.com
NYU Silver @nyusilver.bsky.social The official account for NYU Silver School of Social Work.
@vickieleff.bsky.social @vickieleff.bsky.social 
CAPC @capcpalliative.bsky.social The Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC) is dedicated to increasing quality, equitable #palliative care services for people living with a serious illness.
UCSF Geriatrics @ucsfgeriatrics.bsky.social #Geriatrics Division, University of California, San Francisco
@UCSF | Improving the lives of #olderadults through teaching, discovery, and the care of patients
@chelseakbrown.bsky.social @chelseakbrown.bsky.social 
Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social independent journalist, thehandbasket.co
email: marisa@thehandbasket.co
signal: marisakabas.04
Eric Knowles @ericdknowles.bsky.social Social and political psychologist. NYU professor. Music appreciator. Californian in Manhattan.
ericdknowles.com [research]
github.com/eric-d-knowles [code]
@kathleenfergus.bsky.social @kathleenfergus.bsky.social 
C. Elizabeth Dougherty @cedougherty.bsky.social Palliative Care Clinician & Assistant Clinical Professor. Supporting individuals & families of all ages facing serious illness, uncertainty & grief 🇨🇦
https://cedoughertyconsulting.org/
Dr Jessica Otte, 🇨🇦 MD, CCFP, FCFP 🩺🌍🌱 @drotte.medsky.social Palliative care/family doc in Nanaimo, BC. Clinical Associate Prof, UBC Medicine
Focus: the intersection of Palliative Care + sustainability. Was @lessismoremedicine.❤️quaternary prevention, preventing overdiagnosis, goal-concordant EBM, choosing wisely.
Jane Liebschutz, MD MPH (she/her) @liebschutz.bsky.social Internal medicine and addiction doc, health services and clinical trials researcher, GIM Division Chief at University of Pittsburgh, UPMC, Mom, Wife, Dog-mom, human; all posts mine- not represent any institution
@ashwinkotwalmd.bsky.social @ashwinkotwalmd.bsky.social 
Matthew Growdon @mgrowdon.bsky.social Geriatrician and clinician-researcher @ UCSF passionate about fashioning a better health system for aging populations, w/interests in dementia & safe prescribing
#medsky, #gerisky
@myukawa16.bsky.social @myukawa16.bsky.social 
Nina Kohn @ninakohn.bsky.social Distinguished Professor @SyracuseU. Elder Law Scholar with Yale's @SolomonCtrYLS. I write about older adults’ civil rights, including in #LongTermCare, medical & financial #decisionmaking, #voting & #guardianship. Also: legal ethics & #highered.
A.S. @kittyvanhalen.bsky.social Swamp witch. Chaos demon. Glamour gremlin.
AGE Research Group @newcastleage.bsky.social AGE Research Group, Newcastle University, led by Professor Avan Aihie Sayer. Improving lives through world-class research in ageing, sarcopenia and multiple long-term conditions (MLTC).
Simon Spichak @spichaksimon.bsky.social Neuroscience MSc
🦔 dad
Founded Resolvve Inc to make therapy affordable for students
Science, health and tech journalist published in Being Patient, NYT, The Guardian's Scientific Observer, The Sick Times, and The Daily Beast
Dr. Max @dr-mqx.bsky.social Hospice and palliative medicine doc with too many video games. Progressive & all about medical history, secular humanism, gaming, & pro-wrestling.
-> https://www.twitch.tv/savepointsociety
-> https://www.youtube.com/@SavePointSociety)
#MedSky #GamerSky
John Ross @johnrossmd.bsky.social Hospitalist in Boston. FIDSA. Is Ceanadach mé. An Seanduine Liath. #IDSky
Helene Berger @heleneberger.bsky.social Author. Inspirational Speaker. Caregiving. Dementia caregiver. Alzheimer's caregiver. AlzAuthors
📖 Choosing Joy Alzheimer's: A Book of Hope
Atanas G. Atanasov @atanas-g-atanasov.bsky.social Lead Editor: #CRBIOTECH & #ExplorDHT | Chair of Pharmacology at DPU | Prof of IGAB-PAS | Leader: #DHPSP & #INPST | Author of #HealthHacksThatWork
🔗Web: https://digitalpatientsafety.com/atanas-g-atanasov/
Prof Sarah-Jayne Blakemore @sjblakemore.bsky.social Professor of Psychology & Cognitive Neuroscience at Cambridge, FBA FMedSci FRS. Adolescent brain development. Views my own. Book: http://amazon.co.uk/dp/1784161349
Dr. Devin Guthrie @drdevinguthrie.bsky.social Existential Psychologist, ACT Coach, Death Doula. (They/Them) LifeandDeathCoaching.com
Work centers neurodiversity, disability, climate crisis, queerness, & meaning in life in spite of the inevitability of death.
Currently accepting new clients!
Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics @bermaninstitute.bsky.social Our mission: Identify & address key ethical issues in science, clinical care, public health - locally & globally.
Elizabeth Gundersen @topgundersen.bsky.social Associate Prof of #HPM @cudeptmedicine | Assistant Dean of Student Affairs | Rural Program Faculty @cumedicalschool. #MedHum. #MedEd. Everyone has a story.
Jennifer Gulas MD, FACP, FHM @doctorajgu.medsky.social Academic Hospitalist MD | APD IM | Interests-pt safety, QI, POCUS, faculty development, meded, pain mgmt, & obesity. Carbs, ice cream, Diet Coke and cold brew lover. Cinephile-wrote thesis on Almodóvar. Fred the auggie=perrijo. Polyglot.
Bedside Reading @bedsidereading.bsky.social A medical humanities podcast where bibliophile healthcare professionals can discuss a novel, memoir, poetry collection and gain “accidental CPD”.
https://bedsidereading.buzzsprout.com/
Raven’s Call : Aging & End of Life guide in Oregon @endoflifecare.bsky.social Supporting and informing people who are aging or planning for or currently facing serious illness and/or death, and the people who care about them.
A calming presence for 30+ years.
https://ravens-call.mailerpage.io/
#DeathPositive #EOL #hapc #EOLdoula
Brocha Stern @brochasternot.bsky.social HealthServicesResearch. Ortho. Value. Quality. Equity. PROMs. PROMIS. Rehab. OccupationalTherapy. ImpSci.
My opinions/biases. Follow | Like ≠endorsement. (she/her)
https://BrochaSternOT.com/
Krista Harrison, PhD @kristalynharrison.bsky.social Social scientist | how to make end-of-life less terrible | hospice, pal care & home care for older adults with serious illnesses, dementia | policy & aging research at UCSF | All views my own
https://profiles.ucsf.edu/krista.harrison
Society for Translational Oncology @sto-online.org STO advances global oncology and patient care by bridging scientific discovery and clinical application, promoting equitable healthcare, and harmonizing cancer.
Erik @egveitikkje.bsky.social English professor丨slow cyclist 丨aging punk rocker 丨leftist丨sports fan: Bengals, Cavs, Yankees, Canadiens丨 wanna-be Scandinavian丨skeptic丨English, Norsk, & Français
Christie @yfc80.bsky.social Chaplain - Palliative/ Trauma. MDiv 1985 - 5 women out of 220 grads. Learning Specialist for ADHD, LD, Gifted. Peers retiring, kids grown, I'm still learning. #bioethics #womenshealth #booksky #crochetsky
#academicsky
Alison Brody @chaplain.nyc 
Your Salty Chaplain @yoursaltychaplain.bsky.social Spirituality with a dash of side-eye 👀
I see spirituality as a universal aspect of life that emphasizes meaning, purpose, and relationship—and public policy is wrecking all three 💥
This account is my wrestling match between the sacred ✨ and the absurd 🤡
Mike T @mtaigman.bsky.social Associate Professor UCSF Deadhead dad. Old paramedic Teaches improvement science to emerging healthcare leaders.
He/Him
David D. Ward @daviddward.bsky.social Research fellow in ageing and geriatric medicine at The University of Queensland. Interested in ageing, frailty and preventing dementia.
Donald Farmer @donaldtreehive.bsky.social Scottish - American. Built a so-called career on data and analytics. Should have been a musician.
Gemma Allen (she/her) @gemmaallen.bsky.social Hospice Director. Co-founder of No Barriers Here. Independent Consultant.
Ally 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈
#equity #research #education #coproduction #leadership #systemchange #hapc
www.nobarriershere.org
Shelley she/her🩷💜💙🏳️🌈👣🦋 @spearce33801.bsky.social Registered Nurse.
“I don’t know if I’m too sensitive or if life is unbearable”
🌻- Vincent Van Gogh
🦓EDS♿️⭐️; Dyspraxic🌻Dyslexic
Toni Coe @tonicoe.bsky.social Pharmacist-Health Services Researcher | UMich Pharmacy | Safe med use in older adults | ADRD | Care transitions | Pharmacist-provided care | Go Blue |Steelers and Pens fan | Dog mom | Opinions my own. #PharmSky
Builder Librarian @builderlibrarian.bsky.social Librarian building a network of professionals to keep me informed and current. www.builderlibrarian.com
I also help produce a podcast called, “Ask Dr. Mia: Navigating Dementia Caregiving”www.miayangmd.com
🖖
Emily Giesel MD @emmygiselle.bsky.social Christian ( progressive )
Retired MD. Wife Mom and Grandmother. Dog mom, mediocre gardener. Nasty woman. She/her
#Blueresister ❌
Journal of Palliative Medicine @j-palliativemed.bsky.social Journal of Palliative Medicine is a premier peer-reviewed journal covering medical, psychosocial, policy, and legal issues for patients with serious illness. 
Irina Mindlis, PhD, MPH @irinamindlis.bsky.social Clinical health psychologist @Rutgers RWJMS | Behavioral Medicine/Multimorbidity/Aging | Argentinian NYer 🇦🇷
Una Makris @unamakris.bsky.social Rheumatologist, #Aging research. Dallas VA #hsr #UTSW. Improving outcomes most relevant to older adults w #mskpain #GeriRheum
Also mama, wife and mentor
Jessica Colburn, MD @jesscolburn.bsky.social Geriatrician. Twin Mom. Passionate about geriatrics and primary care. Johns Hopkins geriatrics fellowship PD. she/her 
Jason Hassenstab @ctrlab.org Professor at Washington University in St. Louis. Alzheimer’s disease, Down syndrome, digital cognition researcher. Director of Cognitive Technology Research Laboratory. Into tennis, fly-fishing, espresso, woodworking, opera, und Deutsch lernen. ctrlab.org
Rich Jones @rnjma.bsky.social Epidemiology, Cognitive Aging, Statistics, Psychometrics, Dogs, Celtics, Billsmafia
Zach Gassoumis @zgassoumis.bsky.social Researcher: gerontology, elder abuse, APS, caregiving, disparities, health services, public health, policy; School of Public Health at UTHealth Houston; social justice advocate; singer; he/him 🏳️🌈
Alan Regenberg @aregenberg.bsky.social Bioethicist, etc: Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics. Ethics & emerging biotech. Curator: @bermaninstitute.bsky.social. Baltimore enthusiast. He/Him.
Alex Smith, MD @alexsmithmd.bsky.social Professor of medicine UCSF, GeriPal podcast, ePrognosis, JAGS, dad, husband, Ironman, Go Blue!
STAT @statnews.com Reporting from the frontiers of health & medicine.
Explore all of our newsletters here: https://www.statnews.com/signup/
Lekshmi Santhosh MD MAEd (she/her) @lekshmimd.bsky.social Pulm/ICU/Hospitalist MD | DOM Assoc Chair of Mentorship @UCSF & APD of IM Residency | Crossing Silos | #MedEd #WomeninMedicine #Mentorship | Mom of 2 #MedSky
https://profiles.ucsf.edu/lekshmi.santhosh
https://dommentorship.ucsf.edu/
Thaddeus Mason Pope @thaddeuspope.bsky.social Law professor & bioethicist www.thaddeuspope.com
Crystal M. Glover, Ph.D. @cgster.bsky.social Applied Social Psychologist. Mixed Methodologist. Rigor. Optimal Everything. EiC - Alzheimer’s & Dementia: Behavior & Socioeconomics of Aging.
Dr Neil Pender BM MSc FRCP 🏳️🌈 @drneilpender.bsky.social Medical Director of Trinity Hospice and Brian House Children’s Hospice, Blackpool, UK.
Consultant in Palliative Medicine.
#HAPC #HPM
Blue Trish @jpatricia.bsky.social Married boomer. Biology, cats, Blue Dem in NM 💙💙💙 She/Her 🐜
Ken Covinsky @kencovinsky.bsky.social Geriatrician, researcher, passionate about improving well being and quality of life for older persons
Briony Harden @brionyharden27.bsky.social She/Her | 3rd Year PhD candidate at the University of Nottingham, UK, exploring human rights in international dementia care | avid reader, puzzle solver and football lover | views are my own
Matteo Cesari @macesari.bsky.social Professor of Geriatrics, University of Milan
Scientist, World Health Organization (WHO)
Geriatrics • Aging/Ageing • Frailty • Medicine • Public Health • Science • Geriatria • AS Roma • SPQR • MedSky
Post my own
Also on https://mastodon.social/@macesari
Emily @gingerbreadem.bsky.social former critical care tech, now PA-S2
interested in critical care and palliative med
#MedSky