Apart from organizing international meetings, HBHA has also solely or jointly with other departments/centres (including Biopharmaceutical Development Centre, Department of Anaesthesiology, Department of Anatomy, Department of Medicine, Genome Research Centre and Osteoporosis Centre) invited 19 overseas experts since the Centre's establishment in 2004 to share their research experiences with all University colleagues. HBHA values these opportunities to work with other departments and centres in exchanging expertise and promoting the awareness of healthy aging.

Sept 17, 2004	Title:	Effect of hyperglycaemia and insulin on the ischaemic heart
	Speaker:	Prof N Wah Cheung, Clinical Senior Lecturer, University of Sydney
Nov 15, 2004	Title:	Antioxidant Actions of Melatonin and Implications for the Aged
	Speaker:	Prof Russel J. Reiter, Department of Cellular and Structural Biology, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, Texas, U.S.A.
Jan 25, 2005	Title:	Glucose-mediated abnormality of Cu(II) metabolism as a key factor underpinning the cardiovascular complications of diabetes
	Speaker:	Prof Garth J S Cooper, Professor in Biochemistry & Clinical Biochemistry, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Mar 31,2005	Title:	Parkinson's Disease as a prototype with Stem Cell as a clinical cure
	Speaker:	Prof Rabi Simantov, Andre Lowff Professor of Neurogenetics, Department of Molecular Genetics, Weizmann Institute of Science
April 6, 2005	Title:	The role of Acetylcholinesterase inhibitor in the Treatment of Vascular Dementia
	Speaker:	Prof Peter Paul De Deyn, Head, Laboratory of Neurochemistry and Behaviour, Born-Bunge Fundation, Univeristy of Antwerp & Head, A.Z. Middelheim, Department of Neurology, University of Antwerp, Belgium
Apr 13, 2005	Title:	Environmental factors in neurodegenerative disease
	Speaker:	Dr Rosemary Waring, Reader in Human Toxicology, School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham
May 9, 2005	Title:	Hyperosmolality signals differentiation of renal medulla - story of TonEBP transcriptional activator
	Speaker:	Professor H. Moo Kwon, Professor of Medicine and Physiology, University of Maryland, USA
June 30, 2005	Title:	TGF-beta  Superfamily Signaling Pathways Throughout Development
	Speaker:	Professor Martin M. Matzuk, MD, PhD, Stuart A. Wallace Chair and Professor, Departments of Pathology, Molecular and Cellular Biology, and Molecular and Human Genetics, and Developmental Biology Program, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston
Aug 10, 2005	Title:	Application of neuroproteomics to understand neuronal plasticity and brain disorders
	Speaker:	Dr Ka wan Li, Department of Molecular and Cellular Neurobiology, Centre for Neurogenomics and Cognitive Research Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Aug 16, 2005	Title:	Advanced glycosylation end products, molecules that cause diabetic complication
	Speaker:	Dr. Horng-Mo Lee, Professor and Director, Institute of Cell and Molecular Biology, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan
Oct 14, 2005	Title:	Lipid-Induced Insulin Resistance: Mechanisms and Therapeutic Approaches
	Speaker:	Professor Edward W Kraegen, Head of Diabetes group, Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Australia
Oct 24, 2005	Title:	Genetics of Bone Disease
	Speaker:	Prof Stuart H. Ralston, Professor of Rheumatology, University of Edinburgh
Nov 1, 2005	Title:	Epac: a novel cAMP target with therapeutic applications?
	Speaker:	Dr John P. de Koning, General Director, Semaia Pharmaceuticals, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Nov 29, 2005	Title:	A New Treatment of Alzheimer's Disease within the next 5 years?
	Speaker:	Prof Ezio Giacobini, Department of Rehabilitation and Geriatries, University of Geneva Medical School, Geneva
Dec 16, 2005	Title: Speaker:	Hyperparathyroidism & Calcimimetics Prof DJ Hosking, Department of Medicine, City Hospital, UK
Feb 20, 2006	Title:	Morphological Basis of Hippocampal Plasticity Following Stress and Learning: Electron Microscope studies
	Speaker:	Prof Michael G. Stewart, Department of Biological Sciences, The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK
Sep 29, 2006	Title:	Skeletal Anabolic and Anti-senescence Actions of PTHrP
	Speaker:	Professor Dengshen Miao, Director of the Research Centre for Bone and Stem Cell, Department of Human Anatomy, Nanjing Medical University, China; Adjunct Professor, Department of Medicine, McGill University, Canada
Jan 23, 2007	Title:	Myography and the molecular regulation of small artery function in health and disease: New insights through combined gene interference, calcium imaging and myography
	Speaker:	Dr Harm Knot, Adjunct Professor, Departments of Pharmacology & Therapeutics Internal Medicine (Cardiology) and Pharmaceutics (Clinical Pharmacology), University of Florida, Florida, USA and Adjunct Professor, Instit. For Regenerative Medicine, Wake-Forest University Medical School, North Carolina, USA
Feb 8, 2007	Title:	Briefing Session on the Biospherix in vitro C42 and in vivo A84 systems
	Speakers:	Dr JCW Mak, Department of Medicine and Dr ML Fung, Department of Physiology
Feb 14, 2007	Title:	Parametric control and analysis in the use of the prepulse inhibition paradigm: Application in patients, animals and drug studies
	Speaker:	Professor Joram Feldon, Professor, Laboratory of Behavioural Neurobiology, ETH Zurich, Schwerzenbach, Switzerland
May 21, 2007	Title:	Oxidative Stress in Patients with Airway Diseases
	Speaker:	Dr Judith CW Mak, Department of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong
	Title:	Adipokines as a Novel Player in Aging-related Diseases: From Risk Prediction to Therapeutic Application
	Speaker:	Professor Aimin Xu, Department of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong
June 14, 2007	Title:	The clinical significance of neuronal and muscle autoantibodies in autoimmune neurological disorders
	Speaker:	Dr Koon-ho Chan, Department of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong
	Title:	Road to Bio-artificial Pacemaker
	Speaker:	Dr David Chung-wah Siu, Department of Human Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of California, Davis, US
	Title:	Homocysteine and one-carbon metabolism in aging and Alzheimer's disease
	Speaker:	Professor Ramon Diaz-Arrastia, Department of Neurology, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Centre, Dallas, Texas, US
18 Sep  2007	Title:	Autonomic disorders in 2007 – Recognition, investigation and management
	Speaker:	Professor CJ Mathias, Professor of Neurovascular Medicine, Neurovascular Medicine Unit, Imperial College London at St. Mary’s Hospital & Autonomic Unit, National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square & Institute of Neurology, University College London, UK
17 Oct 2007	Title:	Tissue factor and cardiovascular disease
	Speaker:	Dr Felix Tanner, Assistant Professor, Cardiology and Vascular Biology, Head Cardiovascular Research, Division of Cardiology, Institute of Physiology, University Zurich, Switzerland
4 Dec 2007	Title:	Molecular pathogenesis of Graves’ Ophthalmopathy
	Speaker:	Professor Terry J Smith, Professor and Head of Division of Molecular Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA, Harbor-UCLA Medical Centre, USA
30 Jan 2008	Title:	O-GlcNAc and circadian clock: Emerging players in metabolism
	Speaker:	Dr Xiaoyong Yang, Gene Expression Laboratory, The Salk Institute, USA
4 Feb 2008	Title:	Epsin in clathrin/ubiquitin-mediated endocytosis: Implications in normal and patho-physiology
	Speaker:	Dr Hong Chen, Boyer Centre for Molecular Medicine, Department of Cell Biology and Pathology, Yale University School of Medicine, USA
26 Feb 2008	Title:	Progress in targeting HDL to Lower the Risk of CVD
	Speaker:	Professor Norman CW Wong, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, University of Calgary, Canada
18 March 2008	Title:	What is hydrogen sulfide doing in the heart
	Speaker:	Dr JS Bian, Assistant Professor, Cardiovascular Biology Research Group, Department of Pharmacology, National University of Singapore
2 May 2008	Title:	Mitochondria in Parkinson’s Disease
	Speaker:	Professor AHV Schapira, Department of Clinical Neurosciences Institute of Neurology, Queen Square, University College London, UK
	Title:	Genomic approaches to brain diseases
	Speaker:	Professor Guy Rouleau, Centre for the Study of Brain Disease, CHUM Research Centre & Department of Medicinem Faculty of Medicine, University of Montreal, Canada
24 June  2008	Title:	Expanding roles for the Type III thyroid hormone Deiodinase
	Speaker:	Prof Charles H Emerson, Professor Emeritus of Medicine, University of Massachusetts, USA
26 June  2008	Title:	Beginning vision: From single cell physiology to Regenerative Medicine
	Speaker:	Dr Tian Xue, Department of Neuroscience, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, USA
30 June 2008	Title:	Early diabetic retinopathy as a risk marker of cardiovascular disease
	Speaker:	Professor Tien Wong, Professor and Head, Department of Pathalmology, University of Melbourne, Managing Director, Centre for Eye Research, Australia
4 Sep 2008	Title:	Novel genes associated with memory: Possible relevance to Alzheimer’s Disease
	Speaker:	Professor Remi Quirion, Professor and Scientific Director of the Douglas Hospital Research Centre, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
9 Sep 2008	Title:	Recent innovations in oculoplastic surgery
	Speaker:	Dr Carol Yu, Department of Ophthalmology, Caritas Medical Centre
9 Oct 2008	Title:	Genetics mechanisms of recurrent central apnea
	Speaker:	Dr Kingman Strohl, University Hospital Cleveland Medical Center, USA
19 Nov 2008	Title:	Molecules to man: Targeting fibrosis and diabetic complications
	Speaker:	Dr Darren Kelly, Department of Medicine, the University of Melbourne, St. Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne, Australia
Sep 15, 2009	Title:	Protection of the stressed heart from ischemia
	Speaker:	Prof Alexander (Sandy) S. Clanachan, Department of Pharmacology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Sep 17, 2009	Title:	Late INa, Ca2+ overload and post-ischemic LV dysfunction
	Speaker:	Prof Alexander (Sandy) S. Clanachan, Department of Pharmacology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Jan 14,  2009	Title:	Neurocircuitry and Glucose Homeostasis
	Speaker:	Dr Tony KT Lam, John Kitson Mclvor Chair in Diabetes Research, Toronto General Hospital & University of Toronto
Jan 23, 2009	Title:	‘Free’ Testosterone for Men
	Speaker:	Dr. Clement Ho, Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, University of Edinburgh
Feb 19, 2009	Title:	Controlling Beat-to-Beat Variability of Repolarization is Anti-Arrhythmic
	Speaker:	Professor Marc A Vos, Head, Department of Medical Physiology, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands
Apr 9, 2009	Title:	Improving Cardiac Function Post Myocardial Infarction: Role Of Stem Cells
	Speaker:	Dr Qingping Feng Departments of Medicine, Physiology and Pharmacology University of Western Ontario, Canada
Apr 29, 2009	Title:	Cardiovascular Risk - A View From East To West
	Speaker:	Professor Bernard Cheung Department of Clinical Pharmacology School of Clinical and Experimental Medicine College of Medical and Dental Sciences University of Birmingham, England
	Title:	Methylarginines And Cardiovascular Homeostasis In End-Stage Renal Disease: Translational Research Goes Both Ways
	Speaker:	Dr Arduino A Mangoni School of Medicine, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia
June 5, 2009	Title:	Restoration of visual function in retinal degeneration mice by ectopic expression of melanopsin
	Speaker:	Dr Lin Bin, Department of Neurosurgery Massachusetts General Hospital
Sep 15, 2009	Title:	Protection of the stressed heart from Ischemia
	Speaker:	Prof Alexander (Sandy) S. Clanachan, Department of Pharmacology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Sep 17, 2009	Title:	Late INa, Ca2+ overload and postischemic LV dysfunction
	Speaker:	Prof Alexander (Sandy) S. Clanachan, Department of Pharmacology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Nov 23, 2009	Title:	Replace, Repair and Regeneration in the Eye
	Speaker:	Dr Carl Sheridan, Eye and Vision Sciences, School of Clinical Sciences  University of Liverpool, UK
Dec 2, 2009	Title:	Cognitive impairments in the aging community – Challenges to early detection and intervention
	Speaker:	Professor Linda Lam, Department of Psychiatry, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Jan 15, 2010	Title:	Type 2 diabetes, metabolic syndrome, and cardiovascular disease
	Speaker:	Professor Paul Huang Director, Cardiac Metabolic Syndrome Program, Harvard Medical School
Feb 23, 2010	Title:	Merck Biosciences Seminar - Inflammation in Health and Disease Glyocogen Synthase Kinase-3 (GSK-3) Inhibitors: Its Signaling Role in Development and Disease NF-kB Activation: A Molecular Link Between Chronic Inflammation and Cancer
	Speaker:	Dr. Chandra Mohan Senior Director, Technical Service, Merck Biosciences
May 5, 2010	Title:	The Promises of Stem Cell Medicine.  What are the realities? What are the difficult questions
	Speaker:	Professor Renee A. Reijo Pera Stanford Center for Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research and Education Institute for Stem Cell Biology & Regenerative Medicine Basic and Translational Research Women’s Health at Stanford Reproductive Biology and Stem Cell Program
Aug 2, 2010	Title	Molecular Mechanism of Granule-Granule Fusion Contributing to Biphasic Insulin Secretion
	Speaker	Professor Herbert Y Gaisano Division of Fundamental Neurobiology Toronto Western Research Institute (TWRI)  Departments of Medicine & Physiology University of Toronto, Canada
Nov 25, 2010	Title:	Tackling the Complexity of Metabolic Disease
	Speaker:	Professor David James Director, Diabetes and Obesity Research Program Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Sydney, Australia
4 January 2011	Title:	Adipose Tissue Inflammation and Metabolic Complication
	Speaker:	Prof Jae Bum Kim, School of Biological Sciences, Seoul National University”