The Future of Aging: Transatlantic Perspectives on Digital Health Tech

David Lindeman is director of UC Berkeley's CITRIS Health Initiative. He also serves as director of the Center for Technology and Aging, which was developed with support from the SCAN Foundation, and co-director of the Center for Innovation and Technology in Public Health, which advances the use of technology to support population health. He joined CITRIS in 2013. Previously, Dr. Lindeman was the founder and director of the Mather LifeWays Institute on Aging in Evanston, Ill., where he was responsible for developing and implementing evidence-based applied research programs, demonstration projects, education programs and dissemination initiatives. He has held positions as associate professor of health policy at the Rush Institute for Healthy Aging, Rush University Medical Center and as co-director of the University of California, Davis Alzheimer's Disease Center. Dr. Lindeman is a Berkeley Social Welfare alumni. He earned his DSW in 1987 and MSW 1980.

Prof. Dr. Dr. Thomas Schildhauer is research and founding Director of the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG). He is also scientific director of the research group Innovation, Entrepreneurship & Society. Prof. Schildhauer studied computer science at the Technische Universität Berlin (TU) and holds PhDs in the field of software marketing, information management and public health. As computer scientist, marketing expert, internet researcher he works as university professor for electronic business at the University of the Arts (UdK), Berlin. He is founding director and currently chairman of the board of trustees of the Institute of Electronic Business e.V. (IEB), the largest affiliated institute at the UdK. He also heads the Berlin Career College at the UdK, which bundles the further education activities of the UdK. As director of the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society, Prof. Schildhauer conducts research in particular on the topics of “Internet enabled innovation”, “Digital Education” and “Digital Health”. In this context, Prof. Schildhauer also co-founded the Digital Urban Center for Aging & Health (DUCAH).

Katherine Kim is an adjunct associate professor in the Division of Health Informatics in the Department of Public Health Services at the School of Medicine at the University of California, Davis, and principal of consumer health informatics and health science at MITRE. Dr. Kim is a health informatics researcher specializing in participatory methods in digital health and clinical research networks. She co-directs the CITRIS Health ACTIVATE project, a major effort to improve care and address social determinants in health in rural and vulnerable communities with digital health and telehealth. She started the International Summer Institute in Telehealth, Informatics, and Data Science, a training program of the Transatlantic Telehealth Research Network and CITRIS active in the United States, Europe and Asia. Dr. Kim has over 20 years of experience as a hospital and medical group manager, the entrepreneur–CEO of a venture-funded startup, the leader of a technology incubator and the founder of a consulting firm. She also worked in software product development with Oracle. She is an elected fellow of the American Medical Informatics Association and received a Ph.D. at UC Davis, an MPH-MBA at UC Berkeley and a B.A. at Harvard.