Visiting international researcher Prof Masafumi Kuzuya
Prof Masafumi Kuzuya, Dr Beatriz Martens and Prof Renuka Visvanathan
On October 17th international researcher Prof Masafumi Kuzuya visited the CRE for Frailty and Healthy Ageing in Adelaide.
Prof Kuzuya is head of the Community Healthcare and Geriatrics branch in the Medicine in Growth and Ageing Laboratory department at Nagoya University (Nagoya, Japan). His department conducts research encompassing a wide spectrum of Older Adult medical care. He and Prof Renuka Visvanathan co-supervise the CRE Frailty and Healthy Ageing PhD Student and Beacon Scholarship recipient, Dr Beatriz Martins.
During his visit Prof Kuzuya, Prof Visvanathan and Dr Martins attended the Freiburg/Adelaide/Nagoya Annual Symposium hosted by The Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Adelaide. Prof Kuzuya presented his work on ‘Frailty Cohort Study：Nagoya-longitudinal Study for Healthy Elderly (NLS-HE)’ and Professor Renuka Visvanathan presented her research on ‘Multi-disciplinary Frailty Research’.