Speakers
Hidenori Arai
- President, the National Center for Geriatrics and Gerontology
Hidenori Arai is the President of the National Center for Geriatrics and Gerontology (NCGG). He is also the President of the Japan Federation of Gerontological Societies and the Japanese Association on Sarcopenia and Frailty. After graduating from Kyoto University School of Medicine in 1984, he became a Professor in the Department of Human Health Science at Kyoto University School of Medicine in 2009. Then, he moved to NCGG as the Deputy Director in 2015. He became the Director in 2018 and the President of NCGG in 2019. He is a co-chairman of the Asian Working Group for Sarcopenia and the Asian Working Group for Cachexia and is President-elect of the IAGG-Asia Oceania Region. He is also the principal investigator of J-MINT, a multimodal intervention study for preventing dementia.