COVID-19 and Older Adults: Geroscience Approaches; Population Impact; and Telehealth Applications

The Hazzard Symposium is an annual event at Wake Forest School of Medicine which features internationally-renowned speakers in gerontology and geriatric medicine with the purpose of translating discoveries in aging research to the care of older adults. The topic for this year’s Symposium is “COVID-19 and Older Adults.” Themes of the Symposium include: Geroscience Approaches; Population Impact; and Telehealth Applications During COVID-19.

The Keynote Speaker for the 2020 Hazzard Symposium is Joan Mannick, MD, Chief Medical Officer of resTORbio. Her Keynote address will be “Targeting Immunosenescence with mTOR Inhibitors.”

This symposium will be held from 10am-3pm ET. The Hazzard Symposium is sponsored by Arbor Acres Retirement Community and The Sticht Center for Healthy Aging and Alzheimer’s Prevention, with support from the American Federation for Aging Research.