Rein Tideiksaar, Ph.D. is the president of fallPREVENT and has been active in the area of fall prevention for over fifteen years. He has directed numerous research projects on falls and has developed fall prevention programs in the community, assisted living, home care, acute care hospital, and nursing facility setting.

  Dr. Tideiksaar has written numerous articles and book chapters on falls and related topics. He is the author of Falling in Old Age: Its Prevention and Treatment, 2nd edition (Springer Publishing Company, 1997) and Falls in Older Persons, 3rd edition (Health Professions Press, 2002).