MD em. Prof. Unige IAGG e-TRIGGER, Scientific Advisory Board
Dr. Jean-Pierre Michel, MD, is emeritus professor of medicine and former head of the academic geriatric department (Geneva Hospitals and Medical University) He is also honorary professor of Medicine at Limoges University (F) and Beijing University Hospital (CN) as well as adjunct professor at Mac Gill University (Montreal – Ca). He co-founded the European Academy for Medicine of Aging (EAMA) in 1992, the Academia Latinoamericana de Medicina del Adult major (ALMA) in 2001, the Middle East Academy of Medicine of Ageing (MEAMA) in 2002, the Asian Academy for Medicine of Ageing (AAMA) in 2011 and the South Est Asia Academy of Geriatrics in 2018. After several years of work as ambassador of the International Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics-World (IAGG-W) for Asia and the Middle East, he is now acting as Director of the IAGG-W Federation of Geriatric Education (2017). He is the recipient of many awards (City of Vienna life achievement award, China Foreign Friendship Award- giving a talk at the Great People Hall in Beijing on this exceptional occasion, World award for his long life and global achievement in geriatric medicine. He was the editor-in-chief its peer review journal European Geriatric Medicine, is now Honorary editor-in-chief of the Geriatric journal and associate editor of Aging. Elected as a full board member of the French National Academy of Medicine in 2012, he is currently acting in its International Committee. He has been appointed as WHO expert of the “Aging and Life course” program since 1992 and was co-author of the 1st Global WHO report devoted on “Ageing and Health” launched in 2015. In 2016, he co-founded the European Interdisciplinary Council on Ageing EICA, was elected President In 2018, and is now part of the executive board. In 2018, he was welcome as member of the International Federation of Aging scientific committee. In 2018 he was the 1st editor of the Oxford textbook of Geriatric Medicine (3rd Ed), which got an Award by the British Medical Association. In 2019, he edited two Springer books untitled “Healthy Ageing: midlife prevention of age-related disability” (Doody score **** 95/100) and “Adult vaccines”. As chairperson of the working group established at the EU 28 level by the Science Advice for Policy by European Academies (SAPEA), he was the chairperson of an interdisciplinary review report on “Transforming the future of ageing” (2019). In 2021, He was asked to update as first editor the Oxford textbook of Geriatric Medicine and he set up an International online training in Gerontology and Geriatrics: IAGG e-TRIGGER.
