Dr. Parminder Raina is a Professor in the Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics at McMaster University. He specializes in the epidemiology of aging with emphasis on developing the interdisciplinary field of geroscience to understand the processes of aging from cell to society. Dr. Raina also holds the inaugural Raymond and Margaret Labarge Chair in Optimal Aging and holds a CIHR Investigator award. Dr. Raina is the lead principal investigator of the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging. He received the Ontario Premier’s Research Excellence award on research in aging in 2004 to train and mentor new researchers. He is the Director of the internationally recognized McMaster Evidenced-based Practice Center which is funded by the U.S based Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). Dr. Raina holds several national and international grants and has published many peer-review reports and articles for national and international agencies, and in leading scientific journals.