AFAR partner Wake Forest School of Medicine will host the 2020 William R. Hazzard, MD Translational Research in Aging Symposium: "COVID-19 and Older Adults."

The Hazzard Symposium is an annual event at Wake Forest School of Medicine, which features internationally-renowned speakers in gerontology and geriatric medicine with the purpose of translating discoveries in aging research to the care of older adults.

The topic for this year’s Symposium is “COVID-19 and Older Adults.” Themes of the Symposium include: Geroscience Approaches; Population Impact; and Telehealth Applications During COVID-19.

The Keynote Speaker for the 2020 Hazzard Symposium is Joan Mannick, MD, Chief Medical Officer of resTORbio. Her Keynote address will be “Targeting Immunosenescence with mTOR Inhibitors.”

The Hazzard Symposium is sponsored by Arbor Acres Retirement Community, The Sticht Center for Healthy Aging and Alzheimer’s Prevention, and the Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center Clinical and Translational Science Institute.