Professor Gabriel Gold was the head of the Division of Geriatrics at Geneva University Hospitals and the academic director of the Geneva University Department of Geriatrics and Rehabilitation. He has extensive clinical experience in the care of older people with cognitive disorders. His main research interests include brain aging and cognitive impairment focusing more specifically on diagnostic criteria, clinicopathologic correlations and vascular lesions. He has authored over 150 original articles and reviews on the subject. He was co-president of the International Springfield Symposium on Alzheimer Therapy from 2010 to 2016 and is an executive organizer of the AAT-AD/PD meetings. He is currently Professor Emeritus in the Department of Rehabilitation and Geriatrics of the University of Geneva, Switzerland.