General information: Who we are
Andrea Maier
Andrea Maier is Medical lead of Maiers’ Longevity, professor of Ageing at VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Oon Chiew Seng Professor in Medicine, Healthy Ageing and Dementia Research at the Yong Loo Lin school of Medicine, National University of Singapore and founder of Chi-Longevity.
After graduation in Medicine at the Medical University Lübeck (Germany) in 2003, Andrea Maier registered as specialist Internal Medicine-Geriatrician at the Leiden University Medical Centre (the Netherlands) in 2009. Contemporaneously she worked on translational research on ageing, defending her thesis on geronto psychiatric-medical units in 2003 and on cellular senescence in 2008. Her research is driven by her passion to unravel ageing mechanisms and the interaction of ageing and age-related syndromes and diseases, which eventually leads to counteracting interventions. Her research group particularly focuses on sarcopenia and cellular senescence and its influence on age related diseases. She conducts several observational and intervention studies. In 2012 she was appointed as Head of the Section Gerontology and Geriatrics at the VU University Medical Centre and the Amsterdam Centre on Aging, Amsterdam (the Netherlands) and in March 2013 as full Professor of Medicine, particularly Gerontology. In February 2016 she was appointed as Professor of Ageing at the VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands. From 2016 till 2020 she has worked at the Royal Melbourne Hospital as Divisional Director of Medicine and Community Care and as Professorial Fellow of Aged Care at the University of Melbourne, Australia. IN 2021 she moved to Singapore to work at its National University.
She is advisory to National Governments of several countries and holds advisory board positions in numeral International organizations.
Hans Meij
Hans Meij is a senior healthcare expert with more than four decades of experience. He worked in all fields of healthcare and is an expert in developing strategy, portfolio’s for hospitals and other providers.
At present he is Professor of Medicine at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, leading the Academy for Healthy Longevity. He is also Chair International division of Amsterdam UMC, The Netherlands.
Hans is a medical Anthropologist by training (1992 Fee University, Amsterdam, NL) and obtained his MBA in hospital management in 1996 and his PhD in Medical research in 2008 (Leiden University, NL), where he was appointed Associate Professor of Ageing in 2009. From 2010 – 2015 he was member of the Executive Board of Amphia Hospital, one of the largest hospitals in The Netherlands. Het continued his career as founding Executive Director of the Melbourne Academic Health Center, a collaboration between University of Melbourne and 11 leading hospitals in Australia. Since 2019 he is an executive leader at Amsterdam UMC and Professor of Medicine at the National University of Singapore. He is an impassioned advocate for EMR’s and the use of the present digital opportunities to improve both patient’s health care and medical research.