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 Quest TEAM
Here they are– your quest team members! They're anxious to
bring the mystery of living 100 years to life for you. Should they
spend the day with a 100 year old Karate master? Sample some
"interesting" longevity foods? Whatever you decide, they're ready to
spring into action and report back to you the very next day.
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Dan Buettner, Quest Leader |
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- National Magazine Award finalist: The Secrets of Living Longer
- 2006 Outward Bound Compass Award for community service
- Three Guinness World Records for cycling six continents
- Emmy Award-winning documentary producer
- Scientific American's Young Reader Book Award
- NACA "Hall of Fame" Lecturer
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Greg Plotnikoff, Quest Medical Officer |
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Associate Professor, Internal Medicine and Pediatrics, University of Minnesota Medical School
- Keio University International Kampo Medicine Fellowship, Tokyo, Japan
- Bush Foundation Leadership Program Fellowship
- M.D. University of Minnesota Medical School
- M.T.S. Harvard University Divinity School
- B.A. Carleton College
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Rachel Binns, Love & Decency Expert |
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- Followed the Quest team through three different continents before graduating from high school
- Termed "Sage on the Page" for article contributions to Converge Magazine
- Received Disney's Dreamer and Doer Award
- "Beat the Clock" with her brother on the televised game show
- Graduated "With Distinction" from Purdue University
- Currently a PhD candidate at USF studying Love and Decency
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Tom Adair, Videographer |
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- Won several awards for his work with Twin Cities Public Television in the 1980s and 1990s.
- Voted one of the top 50 television producers by Millimeter magazine in 1985.
- Shot documentaries for the Discovery Channel, the Knowledge Channel, PBS, ABC and National Geographic.
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Gianluca Colla, Photographer |
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- Digital master with National Geographic, World Gold Council, Blockbuster, UBS.
- His work has been published on "IN the world".
- Teaches at the Toscana Photographic Workshop.
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Joseph Van Harken, Producer/Director |
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- Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism John M. Patterson Documentary Television Award
- Awarded the Harry B. & Helen F. Weber Fellowship to report for the Mackinac Island Town Crier
- Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism Society of Professional Journalist's Student of the Year
- Awarded CNN Masters Fellowship
- Avid breakdancer
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Damian Petrou, Producer |
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- Director of Cypriot Indie Film "Sketches of Ambiguity"
- Worked on Greece Quest
- Speaks Greek
- Partner at Brave New Media
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Eric Luoma, Writer/Director |
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- Caught a 17 pound lake trout in Canada.
- Won several advertising awards including an "Addy."
- Featured in Mesabi Daily News for saving a loon.
- Wrote the cult classic book "Fanny Pack Attack."
- Saw Bigfoot when I was a boy.
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