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Alliance to Improve Dementia Care Members

Alliance to Improve Dementia Care Members
Members – May 2024
The Alliance to Improve Dementia Care is supported by steering committee members AARP, Alzheimer’s Association, Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Foundation, Bank of America, Biogen, BrightFocus Foundation, Cognivue, Craniometrix, Dementia Discovery Fund, Edward Jones, Eisai, Eli Lilly and Company, the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, Genentech, The John A. Hartford Foundation, Lundbeck, Otsuka, The SCAN Foundation, Washington University in St. Louis, and the Gary and Mary West Foundation with matching funds from the Milken Institute. The Alliance convenes members from industry, government, philanthropy, research, advocacy, and health systems, including:

James Appleby, CEO, Gerontological Society of America

Matthew Baumgart, Vice President of Health Policy, Alzheimer’s Association*

Anne Basting, PhD, Professor of English, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee; Founder, TimeSlips.org

Orion Bell, President and CEO, Benjamin Rose Institute on Aging

Donna Benton, PhD, Director, University of Southern California (USC) Family Caregiver Support Center; Associate Research Professor of Gerontology, USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology

Shawn Bloom, CEO, National PACE Association

Alice Bonner, PhD, RN, Director of Strategic Partnerships, CAPABLE Program, Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing; Senior Advisor for Aging, Institute for Healthcare Improvement

Malaz Boustani, MD, Richard M. Fairbanks Professor of Aging Research, Center for Health Innovation and Implementation Science, Indiana University

Katie Brandt, Director of Caregiver Support Services, Massachusetts General Hospital

Tracey Brown, Executive Director, Amazing Place

Shawna Callaghan, Senior Manager, Healthcare Initiative, Meals on Wheels America

Kim Campbell, Alzheimer's Advocate, Author, and Public Speaker; Founder, Kim & Glen Campbell Foundation; Founder, CareLiving.org

Wynnelena Canio, MD, Regional Dementia Care Clinical Lead, Northern California Kaiser Permanente and Chief, Kaiser Permanente San Rafael Geriatric Medicine

Fiona Carragher, Chief Policy and Research Officer, Alzheimer’s Society UK

Jennifer Carson, PhD, Director, Dementia Engagement, Education and Research Program, University of Nevado, Reno School of Public Health

Debra Cherry, PhD, Executive Vice President, Alzheimer’s Los Angeles

Anna Chodos, MD, Executive Director, Dementia Care Aware; Associate Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco

Joshua Chodosh, MD, Michael L. Freedman Professor of Geriatric Research in Medicine and Interim Director, Division of Geriatric Medicine and Palliative Care, New York University Grossman School of Medicine

Carolyn Clevenger, DNP, RN, Associate Dean for Transformative Clinical Practice, Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing, Emory University; Clinical Director, Integrated Memory Care Clinic (IMCC)

Diana Cose, Founding Executive Director, Lorenzo’s House

Teresa Cronin, Senior Director, Corporate Advocacy, Eisai US*

Jolie Crowder, PhD, National Elder Services Consultant, Division of Clinical & Community Services (DCCS), Indian Health Service

Yanira Cruz, DrPH, President & CEO, National Hispanic Council on Aging

Lenise Cummings-Vaughn, MD, Associate Professor of Internal Medicine, Division of Geriatrics and Nutritional Science, Washington University in St. Louis*

Robob “Ruby” Dehkharghani, Director of Public Policy, Alzheimer‘s Foundation of America

Sharon Denny, Senior Director of Programs, The Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration (AFTD)

Paul Estes, President, Cognivue*

Christie Ethridge Diez, Journalist and Anchor, WXIA-TV Atlanta, NBC Affiliate

Peggye Dilworth-Anderson, PhD, Professor, Health Policy and Management, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina

William H. Dow, PhD, Director, Center on the Economics and Demography of Aging, UC Berkeley School of Public Health

Michael Ellenbogen, International Dementia Advocate & Connecter

Christian Elliot, Founder, CareVirtue

Mary Ek, Director, Community Care Corps and Dementia Friendly America, USAging

Gary Epstein-Lubow, MD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior and Associate Professor of Medical Science, The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University

Dominick Esposito, Vice President, Health Research, Westat Insight

Julianne Ewen, DNP, Assistant Professor, University of Kentucky College of Nursing

Maureen Feldman, Director, Social Isolation Impact Project, Motion Picture and Television Fund

Kristen Felten, Dementia Specialist, Office on Aging, Wisconsin Department of Health Services

Phyllis Barkman Ferrell, Independent Advisor, PBFerrell LLC

Howard Fillit, MD, Founding Executive Director and Chief Science Officer,​ Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Foundation*

Anna Fisher, PhD, Director of Quality and Education, Hillcrest Health Services

Ellen Flaherty, PhD, Director, Dartmouth Centers for Health & Aging, Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth College

Nicole Fowler, PhD, Director of Research, Division of General Internal Medicine and Geriatrics, Indiana University School of Medicine; Associate Director and Research Scientist, Indiana University Center for Aging Research at Regenstrief Institute

Jessica Fredericksen, Director of Brain Health, Goodwin Living

Marla Fronczak, Chief Executive Officer, AgeGuide Northeastern Illinois

Terry Fulmer, PhD, RN, President, The John A. Hartford Foundation*

Lisa Gables, CEO, American Academy of PAs (AAPA)

Joseph E. Gaugler, PhD, Professor and Robert L. Kane Endowed Chair in Long-Term Care and Aging; Director, Center for Healthy Aging and Innovation and Director, Public Health Center of Excellence on Dementia Caregiving, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota

Robyn Golden, Professor, Associate Vice President of Population Health and Aging, Rush University Medical Center

David Grabowski, PhD, Professor of Health Care Policy, Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School

Aaron Greenstein, MD, Head of the Policy Committee, American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry

Suma Rao-Gupta, Senior Manager Patient Advocacy and Communications, Lundbeck*

Betsy Hall, CEO and Founder, For Their Thoughts Foundation

Sharon Hall, Family Care Partner, Young Onset Dementia Advocate; Co-Founder, Innovative Care Partners with Real Experience (iCARE)

S. Duke Han, PhD, Director, Neuropsychology Division, Department of Family Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California

Jennie Chin Hansen, Independent Consultant, Hirsch Philanthropic Advisors

Ula Hwang, MD, Professor, Clinician Scientist, Department of Emergency Medicine, Yale School of Medicine; Co-PI Geriatric Emergency Department Collaborative and PI Geriatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network

Peggy Jacober, Senior Strategist, Reputation Management – Corporate Citizenship, Edward Jones* 

Maureen Japha, JD, Executive Director, Alzheimer’s Corporate Affairs, Lilly Neuroscience, Eli Lilly and Company

Andreas Jeromin, PhD, Chief Scientific Officer, Cohen Veterans Bioscience

Karyne Jones, President & CEO, National Caucus and Center on Black Aging

Christian Jung, PhD, Partner, Dementia Discovery Fund*

Scott Kaiser, MD, Founder & CEO, Determined Health; Director of Geriatric Cognitive Health, Pacific Brain Health Center

Jason Karlawish, MD, University of Pennsylvania, Penn Memory Center & P3MB, the Penn Program for Precision Medicine for the Brain

Kathleen Kelly, Executive Director, Family Caregiver Alliance

Dani Klein Modisett, Founder and CEO, Laughter on Call

Ian Kremer, JD, Executive Director, Leaders Engaged on Alzheimer’s Disease Coalition

Helen Lamont, PhD, Long-Term Care Policy Analyst, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation

Joshua Lang, MD, Founding Medical Director and Senior Vice President, Roon; Cardiologist, Brigham and Women's Hospital

Eric B. Larson, MD, Clinical Professor, University of Washington School of Public Health, Health Services

Ronald Lazar, PhD, Professor, Evelyn F. McKnight Endowed Chair for Learning and Memory in Aging, Director, Evelyn F. McKnight Brain Institute, and Division Director, Neuropsychology, University of Alabama at Birmingham Heersink School of Medicine

Michael Lepore, PhD, Professor, Department of Organizational Systems and Adult Health and Co-Director, Center for Health Equity and Outcomes Research, University of Maryland School of Nursing

Allan Levey, MD, PhD, Director of the Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center, Emory University

Melody Libby, Head of Global Community Affairs, Biogen*

Shari Ling, MD, Deputy Chief Medical Officer, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

Sarah Lenz Lock, JD, Senior Vice President Policy & Brain Health; Executive Director, Global Council on Brain Health, AARP*

Marci Lobel-Esrig, JD, Founder, CEO, and General Counsel, SilverBills

Erin Long, Team Lead, Alzheimer’s Disease Programs Initiative, Administration for Community Living

Nancy Lundebjerg, CEO, American Geriatrics Society

Shelley Lyford, CEO, West Health; Chair, Gary and Mary West Foundation; West Health Institute; West Health Endowment*

Nancy Lynn, Senior Vice President, Strategic Partnerships, BrightFocus Foundation*

Tim MacLeod, PhD, Director, Systems Preparedness Program, Davos Alzheimer’s Collaborative (DAC)

Anne Mancini, President, Peachtree Christian Health

Kedar Mate, MD, President and Chief Executive Officer, Institute for Healthcare Improvement

Soeren Mattke, DSc, Research Professor of Economics and Director, Center for Improving Chronic Illness Care, University of Southern California Dornsife

Lisa McGuire, PhD, Lead, Alzheimer’s Disease and Healthy Aging Program, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Kim McRae, Co-Founder, Culture Change Network of Georgia; President, Have a Good Life

Diane E. Meier, MD, Director Emerita and Strategic Medical Advisor, Center to Advance Palliative Care

Sarita Mohanty, MD, President and CEO, The SCAN Foundation*

John Morley, MD, Dammert Professor of Gerontology, Saint Louis University School of Medicine

Lori Nisson, Family & Community Services Director, Banner Alzheimer’s Institute Phoenix, Banner Alzheimer’s Institute Tucson, Banner Sun Health Research Institute

Margaret “Peggy” Noel, MD, Founder and Medical Director, MemoryCare

Beau Palin, Vice President, Operational Excellence & Strategic Projects, Eleanor Health

Nikhil Patel, Founder and CEO, Craniometrix*

Leslie Pelton, Senior Director, Institute for Healthcare Improvement

Eli Perez, Senior Director of Patient Advocacy and Stakeholder Management, Otsuka*

Adam Perry, MD, Regional Medical Director, DispatchHealth

Susan Peschin, President & CEO, Alliance for Aging Research

Evan Plys, PhD, Center for Health Outcomes and Interdisciplinary Research at Massachusetts General Hospital; Faculty Member in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School

Elena Portacolone, PhD, Associate Professor, Institute for Health & Aging, University of California San Francisco

Katherine Possin, PhD, John Douglas French Alzheimer’s Foundation Endowed Professorship Professor, University of California San Francisco; Principal Investigator, Care Ecosystem

Melinda Power, ScD, Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Director of the George Washington University Institute for Brain Health and Dementia

Kevin Prindiville, JD, Executive Director, Justice in Aging

David B. Reuben, MD, Director, Multicampus Program in Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology, Chief, Division of Geriatrics, UCLA

Brenda Roberts, Executive Director, National Council of Dementia Minds

Lauren Miller Rogen, Screenwriter, Director, Producer, and Philanthropist; Co-Founder, HFC*

Cara Rossi, Senior Director, Strategic Supports and Solutions – Complex Care, Population Health and Clinical Operations, Centene Corporation

Marc Rothman, MD, Founder & President, DementiaSpring

Marisa Scala-Foley, Director, Aging and Disability Business Institute, USAging

Angelika Schlanger, PhD, Executive Director, The McKnight Brain Research Foundation

Stephani Shivers, Chief Innovation Officer, CaringKind

Mike Simmons, President and CEO, Bridge Builder Strategies

Dawn Simonson, President and CEO, Trellis

Nani M. Sinha, Founder and Executive Director, Music Heals Minds

Katie Smith Sloan, President and CEO, LeadingAge; Executive Director, The Global Ageing Network

Diana Slowiejko, Principal Medical Scientific Director, Neurology and Neuro Rare Diseases, Genentech*

Wanda Smith, Frontotemporal Dementia Advocate

Mary Ann Spanos, Director, Office for the Aging, Chautauqua County Government

Michael Splaine, Owner and Principal, Splaine Consulting

Erin Mulcahy Stein, Executive Director and Director of Development, Women’s Alzheimer’s Movement

Mark Sterling, JD, Chief Innovations Officer, Coalition to Transform Advanced Care (C-TAC)

MaryAnne Sterling, Advocate and Family Caregiver; Executive Vice President, Caregiver Experience, Livpact

Alan Stevens, PhD, Centennial Chair in Gerontology, Baylor Scott & White Health; RAISE Family Caregiving Non-Federal Advisory Council Member

Rajesh Tampi, MD, Chairman, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Cleveland Clinic Akron General; Chief, Section for Geriatric Psychiatry, Cleveland Clinic

Angela Taylor, Senior Director of Research and Advocacy, Lewy Body Dementia Association

Jim Taylor, President and CEO, Voices of Alzheimer’s

Jamie Teuteberg, Life Stages Manager, Washington State Health Care Authority; 2021 Health and Aging Policy Fellow

Kali Thomas, PhD, Associate Director of Health Services Research, Center for Equity in Aging, Johns Hopkins University

Karen Tracy, Vice President, Strategic Alliances and Integrated Communications, The Gerontological Society of America

Martha Villanigro-Santiago, JD, Advocate and Caregiver

George Vradenburg, JD, Chairman, UsAgainstAlzheimer’s

Kai Walker, Director, Head of Inclusion Transformation, Retirement & Personal Wealth Solutions, Bank of America*

Jennie Ward-Robinson, PhD, Chief Executive Director, Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine (SIDM)

Joan Weiss, PhD, RN, Deputy Director, Division of Medicine and Dentistry, Health Resources and Services Administration

Kathryn Westland, Executive Director, Friendship Center Adult Day Services

Kina L. White, DrPH, Director, Office of Community Health Improvement, Mississippi State Department of Health

Nancy Wilson, Associate Professor, Department of Medicine-Geriatrics, Huffington Center on Aging, Baylor College of Medicine 

Michael Wittke, Vice President, Research & Advocacy, National Alliance for Caregiving

Carol Zernial, Vice President, Social Responsibility and Foundation Executive Director, WellMed Medical Management

*Steering Committee Members