Wiser: The Scientific Roots of Wisdom, Compassion, and What Makes Us Good

Dilip V. Jeste, M.D. is a public speaker, the Senior Associate Dean for Healthy Aging and Senior Care, Estelle and Edgar Levi Memorial Chair in Aging, Director of the Sam and Rose Stein Institute for Research on Aging, Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry and Neurosciences at University of California San Diego and Co-Director of the UC San Diego-IBM Center on Artificial Intelligence for Healthy Living. He obtained his medical education in Pune and psychiatry training in Mumbai, India. In the US, he completed psychiatry residency at Cornell, and Neurology residency at George Washington University. He was a research fellow, and later, Chief of the Units on Movement Disorders and Dementias at the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) before joining UC San Diego. He started a Geriatric Psychiatry program from scratch at UC San Diego, today it is one of the largest Geriatric Psychiatry Divisions in the world. Dr Jeste has been Principal Investigator on a number of research and training grants. His main areas of research include schizophrenia, neuropsychiatric interventions and successful aging. He has published 13 books, 725+ articles in peer-reviewed journals and 160+ invited book chapters. He is Past President of the American Psychiatric Association, American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry, the West Coast College of Biological Psychiatry and Founding President of International College of Geriatric Psychoneuropharmacology. Dr Jeste is a member of the National Academy of Medicine, and was a member of the NIMH Advisory Council and NIH Council of Councils. He is Past Editor-in-Chief of The American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry. He is currently the Editor-in-Chief of the International Psychogeriatrics.

Roger May is a British actor, director and voice artist. He has recorded over 100 plays for radio and numerous audiobooks, and appears in the cartoon series Peter Rabbit and Sarah and Duck. Roger has played James Bellamy in the BBC Radio 4 play The Archers for over a decade, and has performed extensively in theatre across the UK and internationally. His many film and television credits include The Scarlet Tunic, An Ideal Husband, Endeavour, Father Brown and Doctors.