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Muir Gray is an Executive Director of the Oxford Centre for Triple Value Healthcare, and a Director of the Optimal Ageing Programme. He is a Professor in the Nuffield Department of Surgery at the University of Oxford and an adviser to Public Health England. He is also the Chair of the NHS Health and Social Care Digital which maintains the NHS Choices website. Muir’s work focuses on providing training to healthcare professionals on value-based healthcare.

Sir Muir has occupied a variety of senior positions during his time in the NHS, including first establishing and then being Director of the UK National Screening Committee. He founded the National Library for Health, and was the Director of Clinical Knowledge, Process and Safety for the NHS (England) National Programme for IT, serving as the Director of the National Knowledge Service. He was the first person to hold the post of Chief Knowledge Officer of the NHS (England).

Sir Muir is an internationally renowned authority on healthcare systems and has advised governments of several countries outside the UK including Australia, New Zealand, Italy, Spain and Germany.

Sir Muir received a CBE in 2000 and was knighted in 2005 for services to the National Health Service.

Dr Zara Quail is Goldster’s clinical, scientific research lead and a practising medical doctor. She combines her passion for developing evidence-based, decision-support approaches with her own experiences in clinical workflow.

As well as a practising medical doctor, Zara is a certified lifestyle medicine physician, a committed researcher and a published writer. Her peer-reviewed papers and case reports focus on non-drug interventions for healthy ageing as well as people living with dementia. Her expertise in clinical decision-support tools and systems is matched by her interest in and experience of chronic disease management and prevention. She is also an advocate of the potential use of digital health systems to enable health and social care provision.

Zara has two decades of considerable expertise including working as a general practitioner in South Africa, the United Kingdom and Ireland and as a clinical editor and writer for eminent medical publishing companies. She is a registered member of the General Medical Council (UK), the Medical Council of Ireland, the Health Professions Council of South Africa and the British Society of Lifestyle Medicine. You can read her recent co-authored papers here

Dr Charles Young practices as an emergency physician for one day each week at St Thomas’ hospital, London. As Senior Medical Officer for Capita PLC, Charles leads a team of 1500 clinicians who work across a broad range of contracts delivering vital health services at national levels in the UK and internationally. Charles also leads all of Capita’s health-related functions, caring for the full Capita team, and the company’s approach to achieving its ambitious net zero targets.

Charles lectures internationally and his current focus is on clinical decision support and the interface between clinical information, healthcare technology, and clinical workflows. In addition he teaches and writes. He is also a longstanding member of the UK’s National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) External Accreditation committee, a member of the Cochrane Collaboration editorial committee and Editor in Chief of Clinical Case Reports and Health Science Reports journals.

Charles trained in medicine in London. For the last 15 years he has worked in a range of roles, which have included Executive Editor at The Lancet, Editor in Chief at the BMJ Evidence Centre, and Vice President for Clinical Solutions at Wiley.

Dr. Ashley Gluchowski is a dedicated mixed-methods research scientist with a passion for ageing and a mission to empower older adults to grow stronger with age. With a background in basic medical science and human clinical trials, Dr. Gluchowski has evolved into an expert in applied and implementation studies.

Driven by a desire to make a significant impact on the lives of older adults, she focuses on improving physical and physiological health, social and mental well-being, and expanding disability-free lifespan.

Outside of her professional pursuits, she indulges her passion for exploring the world through scuba diving, with plans to complete her diving tour of all seven continents.

Dr David Reilly is an international pioneer of a more healing and integrative medicine, having been a physician in the NHS Centre for Integrative Care and the Scottish Government’s first National Clinical Lead for Integrative Care.

Reinhard is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist and Clinical Neuropsychologist working in the NHS and private practice in Sussex and Kent.

Over the past years he has particularly valued working with people with a diagnosis of dementia in awareness raising and co-production, and collaborating with the Dementia Engagement and Empowerment Programme (DEEP). He was the dementia workstream lead for the Faculty of the Psychology of Older People’s National Committee for eight years and was Chair of the Faculty. As such he is an expert in high level dementia care for all ages.

Reinhard studied Clinical Psychology and Gerontology at Heidelberg University in the 1980s and subsequently worked in Salford, completing the BPS Statement of Equivalence.

He is also involved in lecturing and training. Outside psychological work, Reinhard is an avid gardener, photographer and user of social media​.

Mike Reid co-founded Goldster in 2021 with Mark Carter. As such he is CEO of the UK’s leading healthy ageing platform, which researches and delivers non drug interventions for the over 50s. He currently tries to keep up with living the Goldster life in Dumfrieshire and London.

Mike was brought up in Dumfries, Scotland. He had a first career as a Bond Trader in New York, and then round the world. Prompted by his late Mother, Mike founded Care Visions in 1998 to deliver new models of care for children & young people in Scotland. Care Visions & it’s sister Charity ‘Why Not’, works with hundreds of vulnerable and promising young people across Scotland now, from Dumfries to Aberdeen. 

Care Visions inspired Mike to find & develop new models for getting older and healthy ageing. During the last decade he has lived & worked in the UK, Singapore and Beijing developing these models with people and governments.

Zoe Wyrko is Well-being Director at Riverstone. Riverstone provides hi-spec, healthy living for people over 65 in the London area. As such Zoe is focussed on helping people to stay as well as they can and to age in the way that they want to. Within Riverstone’s residences, and under Zoe’s direction the team takes a biopsychosocial (or mind, body and soul) approach to getting older; bringing wellbeing into every aspect of Riverstone’s business from how new developments are acquired through to the design and management of each residence.

Under Zoe’s direction Riverstone is breaking new ground in the Integrated Retirement Community field. Zoe continues to research and study what works for older people, so that all can benefit, regardless of where they live.

Zoe is also a popular public speaker, sharing her knowledge and expertise and has taken part in two, award-winning television series. In the first part of her career, Zoe was a Consultant Geriatrician in the NHS which led her to set up services to provide excellent healthcare and support to older people where and when they needed it.

James Vickers is Distinguished Professor at the University of Tasmania and Director of the Wicking Dementia Research and Education Centre. The Wicking Centre has core research themes on the Cause, Care and Prevention of dementia, and offers undergraduate and postgraduate degree programmes in dementia as well as two free massive open online courses (MOOCs) on ‘Understanding Dementia’ and ‘Preventing Dementia’.

James is a neuroscientist and has research interests in Alzheimer’s disease, brain plasticity and dementia risk reduction. He is a past-President of the Australasian Neuroscience Society and past-Dean of the Tasmanian School of Medicine. He is also a Board Member of Glenview Community Services and the Dementia Australia Research Foundation.