World Anti-Aging Congress 2009 Defies Global Economic Downturn, Demonstrating Strength of Anti-Aging Medical Movement
2,600+ Physicians, Health Practitioners, and Industry Leaders Convene for Spring Conference
More than 2,600 participants from the medical, scientific, and business arenas convened for the 17th Annual World Congress on Anti-Aging Medicine's Spring 2009 Session. Held April 23-25th in Florida, this event was sponsored The American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine, the academic leader in a worldwide movement in life enhancement and life extension that impacts more than 550,000 physicians and health practitioners in 105+ countries.
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| In Opening Remarks welcoming the scientific delegates to the academic program, Dr. Ronald Klatz, M.D., D.O., President of the A4M, reported on the publication of a groundbreaking paper in the May/June 2009 issue of Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics, published by Elsevier. The first time in any peer-reviewed scientific journal that the covert misdeeds and extreme abuse of academic and political power by the gerontological establishment has been exposed, the founder and Editor-in-Chief of the Archives, Prof. Dr. Imre Zs.-Nagy, MD, blows the whistle on fourteen years of censorship and repression of the science of anti-aging medicine, and advanced preventive medicine, by the gerontological establishment. Quoting Prof. Dr. Zs.-Nagy, who states that: “[a] complete disregard by certain individuals bearing some of the most prestigious affiliations in the gerontological establishment, for truth, academic integrity, and scientific professionalism … [in a] wanton effort to sabotage and retard a global movement of clinicians, practicing physicians on the front lines who have embraced that aging is not inevitable, and is indeed, preventable,” Dr. Klatz relays that Prof. Dr. Zs.-Nagy concludes that: “there has been little else as dramatic, important, beneficial, and significant as the anti-aging medical movement. … [A]nti-aging medicine has flourished in its sixteen-year long history, garnering the support of more than 100,000 physicians and scientists worldwide who practice or research life enhancing, life extending interventions.” | |
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| Robert Goldman, M.D., Ph.D., D.O., FAASP, Chairman of the A4M, observed that: "Because A4M's Congresses are recognized as the world's premier scientific events on topics relating to medical interventions to prevent and treat the diseases and disabilities associated with the biological process of aging, the Spring 2009 Session of the 17th Annual World Congress on Anti-Aging Medicine and Regenerative Biomedical Technologies drew over 2,600 scientific delegates representing more than 25 nations. In 2009, the A4M will train more than 50,000 physicians via more its Global Series of co-sponsored/co-supported physician education programs taking place worldwide.” |
The 17th Annual World Congress on Anti-Aging Medicine's Spring 2009 Session presented scientific educational programming in some of the most promising arenas of preventive medicine. With presentations sharing the newest breakthroughs in laboratory diagnostics, nutritional and hormone therapies, stem cell technology, and molecular medicine, the event offers a broad range of topics that are specifically relevant to the practice of anti-aging medicine in the clinical office setting. More than 80 world-renowned clinicians and researchers presented the latest data on cutting-edge scientific breakthroughs in human longevity. Highlights from the program included:
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| Ron Rothenberg, M.D., Clinical Professor at University of California San Diego (USA), debunked myths relating to thyroid, growth hormone, testosterone, progesterone, and estrogen | Joseph Maroon, M.D., Professor and Director of Neurosurgery at University of Pittsburgh-Presbyterian University Hospital (Pennsylvania USA), reviewed “Human Longevity” A New Paradigm,” outlining new perspectives on the science of the human lifespan |
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| Sangeeta Pati, M.D., a physician based in the Orlando, Florida USA area, encouraged attendees to follow “A Restorative Model that Works: Integrating Hormones, Nutrition and Detoxification” | Gloria Hakkarainen, M.D., a physician based in the Palm Beach, Florida USA area, reviewed the latest protocols to evaluate and treat nutritional deficiencies and restore proper weight, health, and well-being |  |
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| Zannos Grekos, M.D., a physician practicing in southern Florida USA, introduced “Stem Cells: Basic Concepts, Current Clinical Applications and Case Studies,” with focus on application of Autologous Adult Stem Cell Therapy | Christopher J. Centeno, M.D., a physician based in the Boulder, Colorado USA area, presented the latest on “Stem Cell Therapeutics: Tissue Regeneration,”highlighting mesenchymal stem cells for musculoskeletal tissue repair |
The worldwide anti-aging marketplace is estimated at $96.89 Billion in 2008. Growing at a compounded annual rate of 8.78% over the period 2001-2010, the global anti-aging marketplace is projected to reach $291.9 Billion by 2015 [Global Industry Analysts, Inc.]. Remarks Dr. Klatz: “The anti-aging industry, spawned as a result of the founding of the A4M in 1992, has experienced sustained and exponential growth, demonstrating resistance to the global economic downturn.” Adds Dr. Goldman: “Attendance at the Spring 2009 Session of the 17th Annual World Congress on Anti-Aging Medicine was up 10% as compared to last year’s session. Our numbers show the continued confidence by physicians and health practitioners in this innovative model for healthcare in the 21st century.”
The co-located Orlando Anti-Aging Exposition was a bustling showcase of the latest technologies from the medical and biotech market aimed at improving and/or extending the healthy human lifespan.
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