Dr. Robert Butler

Founder and CEO of the International Longevity Center, New York, New York

Physician, scientist, psychiatrist, public servant, and Pulitzer Prize winning author, Dr. Robert N. Butler has long been involved in a broad array of social and public health issues.  He is best known for his advocacy of the medical and social needs of adults and the aging baby boomer population. 

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Dr. Butler’s work has helped revolutionize the American health system’s view on aging to promote robustness in lifestyle and longevity.  He has brought the cause of healthy aging to a level of international importance.  Dr. Butler first introduced the concept of “Productive Aging” (1983) and attributed the once-perceived normal aging deficits to result from disease, social-economics, and personality instead of age itself.  He helped found the Alzheimer’s Disease Association, the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry, the American Federation for Aging Research and the Alliance for Aging Research.  In 1975, he became the founding director of the National Institute on Aging of the National Institutes of Health, and in 1990, he established the U.S. branch of the International Longevity Center, a policy research and education center.  Dr. Butler has been an advisor to the World Health Organization, he served as chair of the Advisory Committee at the 1995 White House Conference on Aging, and has been a member of numerous medical and aging-research committees. Along with publishing approximately 300 journal articles, Dr. Butler won the Pulitzer Prize for his book, Why Survive? Being Old in America, and presently is writing The Longevity Revolution. 

Dr. Britton Chance

Eldridge Reeves Johnson University Professor Emeritus of Biophysics, Physical Chemistry and Radiologic Physics at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

Professor Britton Chance, a pioneer in biotechnology, biochemistry, and biophysics is best known for his work in biomedical optics, where he was both instrumental in the inception of the field and much of its early growth. His research, which began before World War II, has not been limited to any specific discipline and has advanced the fields of biology, medicine, instrumentation, brain cognitive function and stroke.

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Dr. Chance is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, a Foreign Member of the Royal Society and a Member of the American Philosophical Society. He has received more than 40 awards and honors, including the National Medal of Science in 1975, the Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine Gold Medal in 1988 and the Christopher Columbus Discovery Award in Biomedical Research in 1992. Chance is an author of more than 1,300 original scientific publications.

Dr. Mark D’Esposito

Professor of Neuroscience and Psychology, Director, Brain Imaging Center, Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California, Berkeley, and Editor-in-Chief of The Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Dr. D’Esposito has had a highly productive academic career. He has received numerous competitive research grants from the National Institutes of Health as well as private sources such as the Dana Foundation and the American Federation for Aging Research. For his clinical, teaching and research skills he has been given many awards and honors such as being cited in “The Best Doctors in America”, the Dean’s Award for Excellence in Basic Science Teaching, and the Norman Geschwind Prize in Behavioral Neurology from American Academy of Neurology. He is the Editor-In-Chief of the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, has produced over 185 research publications and has also written and edited four books. Based on these achievements, he has been invited to give lectures throughout the world.