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 Fee Range: $20,001 to $30,000 (fee note) |
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 Biography: Joseph F. Coughlin, Ph.D. is founding Director of the MIT AgeLab - a partnership between MIT, industry and the aging community to engineer innovative approaches and technologies to improve the quality of life of older adults and those that care for them. The Lab's industry sponsors are from around the world and include information technology and telecommunications firms, the food and beverage industry, retailers, pharmaceutical companies, consumer products manufacturers, financial services, medical device firms, and the automotive industry. Dr. Coughlin's own research seeks to develop new business and policy strategies that respond to the demands of today's and tomorrow's older adults by seamlessly integrating technology and consumer services. He is recognized around the world as a leader in the field of business, aging and technology. Dr. Coughlin speaks frequently to both business and government audiences describing the implications of "active aging" and technology on business strategy and public policy in Europe, Japan and North America. He often serves as a keynote and plenary speaker - including the annual meetings of the American Geriatrics Society, AARP Board of Directors, National Press Club Foundation, American Telemedicine Association, Health Insurance Association of America, The Freedom Forum, National Home Builders Association, American Senior Housing Association, COMDEX and the White House Conference on Technology and Aging. His work has been featured in Business Week, Time, the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Le Monde, The Times of London, Toronto Star and ABC, CBS, and NBC News, the BBC, Discovery Channel Canada and CNN World. Dr. Coughlin has published in a variety of business, technology and policy journals. He recently completed a book on the transportation needs of an aging society, forthcoming from Johns Hopkins University Press. He is editing a second volume on how quality of life in older adults is measured in healthcare and is now authoring a third book where he shows business how to leverage the convergence of technology and evolving boomer lifestyles to reshape how all of us will live, work and play tomorrow. He consults regularly on business strategy and product development to a wide range of firms across industries, including the AARP, AT&T, IBM and the American Business Collaborative for Quality Dependent Care, Ace Insurance, Bell Canada, EDS, DaimlerChrysler, Johnson & Johnson, MasterFoods, MetLife, Motorola, Nissan, Procter & Gamble, RAND, and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. He is a Board member of the American Geriatrics Society Foundation for Healthy Aging, DaimlerChrysler's Technology Advisory Board and the National Academy of Sciences Steering Committee on Technology for Adaptive Aging. Dr. Coughlin teaches strategic management and public policy at MIT. Prior to joining MIT he was with EG&G, (now PerkinElmer), a Fortune 1000 science and technology firm, consulting to industry and government worldwide. Dr. Coughlin is a graduate of the State University of New York, Brown University and Boston University. |
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