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Washington University in St. Louis

Forum for Greater China: An Aging Population

SHANGHAI | JANUARY 21, 2017

Over the past two decades, Washington University has developed close partnerships with China Agricultural University, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Fudan University, National Taiwan University, Peking University, The Hong Kong University of Science of Technology, The University of Hong Kong, Tsinghua University, and Xi’an Jiaotong University through its McDonnell International Scholars Academy.

Today, the university is positioned to have an even greater presence and impact in China with the Forum for Greater China. This free, one-day conference is an opportunity for business leaders, high-level Chinese officials, and university administrators and alumni to explore important issues affecting China today. The Forum’s goal is to stimulate collaborative research and conversation that will advance solutions to challenges and identify opportunities for growth.

Washington University’s first Forum for Greater China will address the challenge of China’s aging population. University experts will lay out the social, economic, and medical implications of aging through two keynote speeches, followed by panel discussions with leading U.S. and Chinese experts from the university, corporate and government sectors.

“The Forum will provide the opportunity to address with our leading Chinese university partners one of the great social challenges of the 21st century.”

—Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton

“We look forward to helping our international partners in the years ahead through the Forum for Greater China.”

—Vice Chancellor for International Affairs James V. Wertsch

“Aging presents challenges and opportunities for productive and active civic engagement later in life.”

—Forum Keynote Speaker Nancy Morrow-Howell, MSW, PhD

“Exciting new research is helping us understand— and one day prevent—age-related conditions like Alzheimer’s disease.”

—Forum Keynote Speaker David Michael Holtzman, MD

Introducing the Forum for Greater China

FORUM FOR GREATER CHINA | PAGE 2

1:00 pm

PROGRAM


Chancellor Mark S. WrightonWashington University in St. Louis

Other Welcoming Remarks

Yonghao GUI, PhDFudan UniversityVice President

Nancy Morrow-Howell, MSW, PhDWashington University in St. Louis

Global Aging: Challenges and Opportunities

Moderated byJames V. Wertsch Washington University in St. Louis

Panelists:

Keyong DONG China Ageing Finance Forum 50

Terry LUM The University of Hong Kong

Xizhe PENG Fudan University

Jean W. WOO Chinese University of Hong Kong

Peishan YANG National Taiwan University

Session ISocial and Economic Consequences of the Aging Population

Welcome Remarks & Introductions

Waldorf-Astoria on the BundShanghai Club Ballroom

Keynote Address

Panel Presentations& Discussion

Coffee BreakWriter’s Hall

2:00 pm

3:00 pm

3:30 pm


Session IIMedical Challenges Associated with the Aging Population

Chancellor Mark S. WrightonWashington University in St. Louis

David M. Holtzman, MDWashington University in St. Louis

Alzheimer’s Disease: An Update and Challenges for the Second Century of Research on the Disease

Moderated byChancellor Mark S. Wrighton Washington University in St. Louis

Panelists:

David M. HoltzmanWashington University in St. Louis

Nancy Y. IP The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Min LI GlaxoSmithKline

PROGRAMWaldorf-Astoria on the BundShanghai Club Ballroom

Introductions

Keynote Address

Panel Presentations & Discussion

ReceptionDiplomats Hall

Gala DinnerShanghai Club Ballroom

Master of CeremoniesChancellor Mark S. Wrighton

Awards PresentationKevin Xu Chair, Shanghai Alumni Club

Lion Dance Performance

4:30 pm

Welcome Remarks Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton

Presentation:

Mark P. Taylor Washington University in St. Louis

5:30 pm

7:00pm


FORUM FOR GREATER CHINA:AN AGING POPULATION

For decades, corporations, governments, and educational institutions, including Washington University, have established productive partnerships with China for trade, research, and the exchange of ideas.

In coming years China will be severely tested as it faces a significant challenge: the nation’s aging population. With the largest baby boom generation in the world—more than 400 million—it stands out among all the countries in the world in its demographic revolution. A large pool of young workers in manufacturing jobs led to 30 years of economic growth in China, but those workers are now aging out of the workforce at the same time as life expectancy has climbed to 76 years. All of this creates new challenges for social security funding and productive living options for retirees. New medical issues have also emerged and include increased numbers of patients with dementia. By 2050 China will have about 120 million people over 80 years of age, with 20% of those expected to suffer from dementia.

Research collaboration between Greater China and the U.S. will be more important than ever in tackling the issues of aging and will advance our efforts to transform societies in the face of this global challenge.

FACTS TO EXPLORE

• The number of Chinese citizens over age 65 will rise from 100 million in 2005 to 329 million in 2050.

• Last year, China’s workforce decreased by 4.87 million to 911 million people.

• By 2050 China can expect at least 24 million of its older citizens to have dementia, with about 17 million with Alzheimer’s disease.

• Our understanding of the genetics of Alzheimer’s disease has advanced significantly over the last 30 years and has led to several promising therapeutic targets for the disease.

• Disease modifying treatments for Alzheimer’s are getting closer and closer to reality and it is likely in the next 5-10 years that there will be treatments that slow the disease and delay its onset.

• Policies and programs are emerging to increase economic security for extended years of life, to support older adults with chronic health conditions and disabilities who need assistance, and to ensure meaningful engagement and purpose in later life.


SPONSORS

Thank You to our sponsors for supporting the meeting and events during the Forum, and for their continued committment to our partnership.

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DAVID MICHAEL HOLTZMAN, MDWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST. LOUIS

Andrew B. and Gretchen P. Jones Professor of Neurology Chairman, Department of NeurologyProfessor, Molecular Biology and Pharmacology

Dr. David Michael Holtzman is dedicated to understanding the origin and development of Alzheimer’s disease and other neurodegenerative disorders. He is involved in clinical and research activities at the Washington University Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center and is scientific director of the Hope Center for Neurological Disorders.

As neurologist-in-chief at Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis, Holtzman and his colleagues study the effects of antibodies against amyloid-beta proteins, a key component of the plaques that appear in Alzheimer’s patients’ brains. His lab also studies the link between Alzheimer’s and high glucose levels and ways to prevent and delay dementia. A member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, Holtzman received the MetLife Foundation Award for Medical Research in Alzheimer’s Disease, the Potamkin Prize from the American Academy of Neurology, a MERIT Award from the National Institute on Aging, and the Zenith Award from the Alzheimer’s Association.

KEYONG DONG, PhD(董克用)CHINA AGEING FINANCE FORUM 50

Founding Member, China Ageing Finance Forum 50Professor, School of Public Administration and PolicyDirector, Renmin University Center for Human Resource Research

Professor Dong is Retired Dean and Professor in Renmin University School of Public Administration, Beijing. Professor Dong is currently Director of Renmin University Center for Human Resource Research and is the founding member of China Ageing Finance Forum. Professor Dong holds a PhD in Economics from Renmin University. His major research areas include policy analysis on labor and social security, pensions, human resources management and the theory of social security. He has served as adjunct professor at the University of Michigan (USA), Chungnam University (KOREA), Capital University of Economics and Business (CHINA), etc. and is editorial member of International Human Resources Management (UK). He serves on the International Advisory Board of World Pension Summit.

NANCY MORROW-HOWELL, MSW, PhDWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST. LOUIS

Bettie Bofinger Brown Distinguished Professor of Social Policy Director, Harvey A. Friedman Center for Aging, Institute for Public Health

Co-editor of the book Productive Engagement in Later Life: A Global Perspective (2012), Professor Nancy Morrow-Howell is widely known for her work on productive and civic engagement of older adults. Her research has contributed significantly to understanding the programs, policies, and institutional arrangements that maximize older adults’ productive engagement. She has received international attention as societies across the globe, like China’s, respond to aging populations.

As faculty director for productive aging in the Brown School’s Center for Social Development (CSD), Morrow-Howell organized and participated in two conferences addressing productive aging in China. In 2009, the CSD and the School of Philosophy and Social Development at Shangdong University sponsored two days of lectures, panels, and workshops to examine issues like employment, volunteering, caregiving, and research and program evaluation and development. In 2011, the CSD hosted a conference in Beijing on evidence-based practice and policy in productive aging.

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

KEYNOTE SPEAKER


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Professor Nancy Ip received her PhD degree in Pharmacology from Harvard Medical School, after which she held the position of Senior Staff Scientist at Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc. in New York. Since joining HKUST, she has served as the Dean of Science, Director of the Biotechnology Research Institute, and Head of the Department of Biochemistry.

Professor Ip’s major research interests are in neural development and function, as well as drug discovery for neurodegenera-tive diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease. She is well-known for her seminal discoveries in the biology of neurotrophic factors, which are proteins that promote the survival, development, and maintenance of neurons in the nervous system. She has also made important contributions towards understanding the molecular mechanisms underlying brain development and synaptic plasticity, and their dysregulation in neurological disorders.

As a highly accomplished researcher, Professor Ip has published over 260 papers with 18,600 SCI citations, and holds 41 pat-ents. She has been elected to the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, the World Academy of Sciences, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She is also an elected Councillor for the Society for Neurosci-ence, and was the Senior Editor of the Journal of Neuroscience. Furthermore, she has been a member of the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council since 2012, and is currently on the Global Future Council on the Future of Neurotechnologies and Brain Science. Professor Ip is also the recipient of numerous awards and honors including the National Natural Science Awards and the L’OREAL-UNESCO for Women in Science Award.

NANCY IP, PhD (葉玉如)THE HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (HKUST)

Vice-President for Research and Graduate StudiesThe Morningside Professor of Life ScienceDirector of the State Key Laboratory of Molecular Neuroscience

Professor Gui graduated from the Faculty of Medicine, Shanghai First Medical University, in 1982. He has been engaged in practicing, teaching and researching at The Children’s Hospital Affiliated with Fudan University, and was Director of the Children’s Hospital from 1999 to 2007. He was a visiting scholar at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania from 1991 to 1995. In 1999, he obtained a Master’s Degree in clinical epidemiology. He has also been a senior visiting scholar at Osaka University, Japan and at Deutsches Herzentrum Berlin, Germany. In 2004, Professor Gui completed a hospital management program at the China-Europe International Business School.

Currently, Professor Gui is a member of the State Council’s Academic Degree Committee, Director of the Key Laboratory on Neonatal Disease Sponsored by the Ministry of Health, and Vice President of the Shanghai Association of Science and Technology. He is also Editor-in-Chief of the Chinese Journal of Pediatrics and Evidence-based Pediatrics.

Professor Gui’s research interest lies in the molecular mechanism of congenital heart diseases and their early diagnosis. He has been the principal investigator of several national research programs sponsored by the Natural Science Foundation and the Ministry of Science and Technology. He has also published 120 papers at home and abroad.

Professor Gui has received many awards for his contributions to medical education, including the National Outstanding Professional Award in Public Health System, Outstanding Asian Pediatrician Award by Asian-Pacific Pediatric Association, and Outstanding Chinese Pediatrician Award by the Chinese Medical Association.

YONGHAO GUI, PhD(桂永浩)FUDAN UNIVERSITY

Vice PresidentDean of Shanghai Medical School affiliated with Fudan UniversityProfessor of Pediatric Cardiology


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MARK P. TAYLOR, PhDWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST. LOUIS

Dean, Olin Business School

Dean Mark P. Taylor, one of the most highly cited financial economists in the world, began his career as a foreign exchange trader in the City of London and also spent several years as an advisor at the Bank of England and the International Monetary Fund in Washington DC. He also worked as a Managing Director at BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, where he led the European arm of the Global Market Strategies Group, a large global macro investment fund.

Professor Taylor’s research on exchange rates and international financial markets has been published extensively in many of the world’s leading academic and practitioner journals. He is also the author or co-author of a number of books, including two of the leading European text books in Economics and Macroeconomics, co-authored with Professor Greg Mankiw of Harvard University. He has held professorships at Cass Business School, Oxford University and Liverpool University, and was Visiting Professor of Finance at the Stern School of Business at New York University.

Taylor holds degrees from Oxford University (where he later taught), Birkbeck College, London University, London University’s Institute of Education and Liverpool University. In 2012, the University of Warwick recognized him with an honorary doctorate for his lifetime contributions to the field of finance. Prior to joining Washington University, he was a professor of finance and served as dean from 2010-2016 at Warwick Business School.

Taylor is a skilled horologist and has a collection of fine antique English clocks, all of which he has restored himself.

Professor Lum is the Henry G. Leong Professor in Social Work and Social Administration; Head and Professor of the Department of Social Work and Social Administration at The University of Hong Kong. He is also an elected Fellow of the Gerontological Society of America. Before joining The University of Hong Kong, he was an Associate Professor at the School of Social Work at the University of Minnesota. Professor Lum is an expert in long term care and in ageing policy. He received his Bachelor's degree in Economics and his Master's degree in Social Work from The University of Hong Kong. He earned his Ph.D. degree in social work from Washington University in St. Louis, with special focus on gerontological social work and policy research. Before joining academia, Professor Lum worked as a social worker in both Hong Kong and the United States.

TERRY LUM, PhD(林一星)THE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG

Henry G. Leong Professor in Social Work and Social AdministrationHead and Professor, Department of Social Work and Social Administration

Dr. Min Li joined GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) as Senior Vice President in 2014, to lead the Neurosciences Therapeutic Area Unit (NSTAU). As the Head of Neurosciences, he oversees an R&D organization responsible from target discovery to clinical proof of concept (PoC). NSTAU has a fully integrated functionality from discovery to development with a global footprint in Shanghai, Philadelphia and London. In addition, the R&D enterprise has established a number of strategic partnerships with academic institutions including recently, SBP-GSK Center for Translation Neuroscience. With drug discovery programs driven by foundation science, NSTAU focuses on discovering and developing medicines to treat diseases caused by hyper-excitatory responses and neurodegeneration, including Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases, and as well as pain and epilepsy. Prior to joining GSK, Min spent nearly 20 years as a faculty member at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore where he was a Professor of Neuroscience and Physiology. Min is an author of more than 100 papers, patents and books and is published in journals such as Science, Cell, and Nature. Awards and recognition include the Helen Hay Whitney Fellow, Sloan Neuroscience Fellow, Klingenstein Neuroscience Fellow, the NIH Shannon Investigator Award, Pfizer AHA fellow, and Established Investigator of AHA. He is also a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

MIN LI, PhD(利民)GLAXOSMITHKLINE

Senior Vice President, Neurosicences Therapeutic Area Unit, Shanghai, China


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JEAN WOO, MD, FRCP, FRACP(胡令芳教授)THE CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG

Emeritus Professor of MedicineHenry G Leong Research Professor of Gerontology and GeriatricsDirector, Jockey Club Institute of Aging Honorary Consultant Geritrician, Hospital Authority

Professor Jean Woo graduated from the University of Cambridge in 1974. After medical posts in the Charing Cross, Hammersmith, and Brompton Hospitals in the UK, she worked in part time posts in general practice as well as research at the University of Hong Kong.

Professor Woo joined the Department of Medicine at the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1985 as Lecturer responsible for the development of the teaching and service in Geriatric Medicine, becoming Head of the Department in 1993 until 1999, Chief of Service of the Medicine and Geriatric Unit at Shatin Hospital from 1993 to 2012, and Chair Professor of Medicine in 1994. From 2000 to 2006 she was Head of the Department of Community and Family Medicine, from 2001 to 2005 Director of the newly established School of Public Health, and from August 2013 to July 2016 Chairman of the Department of medicine & Therapeutics.

Currently she is the Director of the Jockey Club Institute of Aging at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and Honorary Consultant of the Prince of Wales and Shatin Hospitals, Hospital Authority. rofessor Woo’s research interests include chronic diseases affecting elderly people, health services research, nutrition epidemiology, quality of life issues at the end of life, with over 700 articles in peer-reviewed indexed journals.

James V. Wertsch is the David R. Francis Distinguished Professor, Vice Chancellor for International Affairs, Director of the McDonnell International Scholars Academy, and Professor of Anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis. His research is concerned with language, thought, and culture, with a special focus on national narratives and identities. Wertsch is the author of over 200 publications appearing in over a dozen languages. These include the volumes Voices of the Mind (Harvard University Press, 1991), Mind as Action (Oxford University Press, 1998), and Voices of Collective Remembering (Cambridge University Press, 2002).

After finishing his Ph.D. at the University of Chicago in 1975 Wertsch was a postdoctoral fellow in Moscow at the USSR Academy of Sciences and Moscow State University. Wertsch has held faculty positions at Northwestern University, the University of California at San Diego, Clark University, and now Washington University in St. Louis. In addition he has been a visiting professor at the University of Utrecht, Moscow State University, the University of Seville, the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in Social Sciences, Bristol University, and the University of Oslo. Wertsch is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, holds honorary degrees from Linköping University and the University of Oslo, and is an honorary member of the Russian Academy of Education. He currently serves as a guest professor at the University of Oslo in Norway, Tsinghua University in Beijing, and at Fudan University in Shanghai.

JAMES V. WERTSCHWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST. LOUIS

David R. Francis Distinguished ProfessorVice Chancellor for International AffairsDirector, McDonnell International Scholars AcademyProfessor, Department of Anthropology


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PEISHAN YANG, PhD(楊培珊)NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY

Professor, Department of Social Work, College of Social Sciences

PENG XIZHE, PhD(彭希哲)FUDAN UNIVERSITY

Professor of Population and DevelopmentDirector, Research Center for Population and Development Policy Studies

Dr. Peng’s research has covered a wide range of population-related issues, including population dynamics, aging and social policy, gender and social development etc. He is author or editor of 16 books, and more than 140 academic articles and book chapters, including China's Demographic History and Future Challenges (Science 333, 2011). Dr. Peng Xizhe has been a member of the expert Committee on Public Policy of China’s National Health and Family Planning Commission for more than 20 years, and provided consultations to other government agencies at national and local level in China. He has been a member of steering or scientific committees of various international and national academic societies including IUSSP, IHDP, ESSP and CPA etc.

Professor Yang Peishan is Professor in the Department of Social Work of National Taiwan University (NTU). Professor Yang received her PhD and MSW from Columbia University School of Social Work. Her research interests focus on gerontology, productive aging, care and work, dementia care, Taiwan Centenarian Study, long term care, and aging parents of intellectually challenged people. She also sits on many government committees on senior social welfare or long term care. Professor Yang is also a member of the Elderly Welfare Advisory Committee at the Department of Social Affairs of Ministry of Interior.

Dr. Mark S. Wrighton is Chancellor and Professor of Chemistry at Washington University in St. Louis since July 1, 1995. Since his arrival, Washington University has made unprecedented progress in campus improvements, resource development, curriculum, international reputation, and especially in undergraduate applications and student quality. Chancellor Wrighton served as a presidential appointee to the National Science Board (2000-06). He is a past chair of the Business-Higher Education Forum and the Association of American Universities. Wrighton has received many awards for his research and scholarly writing, including the distinguished MacArthur Prize. He is also the holder of an honorary doctorate from Fudan University. He is the author of over 300 articles in professional and scholarly journals, is the holder of 16 patents, and co-author of a book, Organometallic Photochemistry. Wrighton received his B.S. degree with honors in chemistry from Florida State University in 1969 and his Ph.D. in chemistry from the California Institute of Technology in 1972.

MARK S. WRIGHTONWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST. LOUIS

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