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Appendix D

Biographical Sketches of the Speakers and Committee Members

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF THE SPEAKERS

Betty Ferrell, R.N., Ph.D., M.A., CHPN, FAAN, FPCN, has been in nursing for 44 years and has focused her clinical expertise and research in pain management, quality of life, and palliative care. Dr. Ferrell is the director of nursing research and education and a professor at the City of Hope Medical Center in Duarte, California. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Nursing, and she has more than 480 publications in peer-reviewed journals and texts. She is principal investigator of the End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium (ELNEC) project. She directs several other funded projects related to palliative care in cancer centers and quality-of-life issues. Dr. Ferrell was cochairperson of the National Consensus Project for Quality Palliative Care. Dr. Ferrell completed a master’s degree in theology, ethics, and culture from Claremont Graduate University in 2007. She has authored 11 books, including the Oxford Textbook of Palliative Nursing (5th edition, 2019) published by Oxford University Press. She is coauthor of the text, The Nature of Suffering and the Goals of Nursing (Oxford University Press, 2008) and Making Health Care Whole: Integrating Spirituality into Patient Care (Templeton Press, 2010). In 2013 Dr. Ferrell was named one of the 30 visionaries in the field by the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine. In 2019 she was elected a member of the National Academy of Medicine. In 2021 Dr. Ferrell received the Oncology Nursing Society Lifetime Achievement Award, and she was inducted as a Living Legend by the American Academy of Nursing.

Suggested Citation:"Appendix D: Biographical Sketches of the Speakers and Committee Members." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2022. Mechanisms for Organizational Behavior Change to Address the Needs of People Living with Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias: Proceedings of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/26772.
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Lisa Gwyther, M.S.W., LCSW is a clinical social worker with 42 years of experience working with older adults and dementia-specific services. She is an associate professor emerita at the Duke School of Medicine’s Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, and a senior fellow at Duke University’s Center for Aging. Ms. Gwyther is the founding director (1980) of the Duke Dementia Family Support Program, a community-based program offering education, consultation, support, and engagement opportunities for individuals living with dementia, their families, and the professionals serving them. Program services are provided at no cost and are not limited to Duke patients. Ms. Gwyther was principal investigator for education, minority engagement, and outreach for an NIA Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center at Duke from 1985 to 2011. Her 160 peer-reviewed research articles, books, award-winning documentary films, and book chapters focus on developing and testing effective educational and support strategies targeting individuals living with dementia and their families to improve the quality of care and decision-making for individuals while reducing the negative health, emotional, and financial consequences for families providing that care. Ms. Gwyther served on two recent American Bar Association (ABA) panels representing interests of families of persons living with dementia, and she currently serves on the ABA Commission on Law and Aging. She was a consensus panelist on the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine 2016 report, Families Caring for an Aging America, and she co-chaired the North Carolina 2016 Dementia-Capable NC State Plan. Ms. Gwyther was the first John Heinz Congressional Fellow in Health and Aging, and she served for nine years on the first U.S. federal Alzheimer’s Advisory Panel. Ms. Gwyther was named the 2019 NC Pioneer in Aging by the NC Coalition on Aging representing all state aging services, policy, and advocacy organizations. She is a former president of the Gerontological Society of America.

Jennie Chin Hansen, M.S., is the immediate past CEO of the American Geriatrics Society, the largest professional membership organization of geroclinicians committed to the care of older adults living with care complexity. Prior to this position she completed her role as president of the 38 million member AARP during the negotiations and development of the Affordable Care Act. She currently contributes in content areas of dementia, workforce, chronic complex care, and health equity. Her primary career includes nearly 25 years in San Francisco providing integrated, globally financed, and comprehensive medical and community-based service, including home care sites for nursing home–eligible older persons. Its groundbreaking fully capitated, integrated, and coordinated service delivery system became the prototype for the 1997 federal law that established the Program of All Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) into the Medicare and Medicaid programs. PACE now oper-

Suggested Citation:"Appendix D: Biographical Sketches of the Speakers and Committee Members." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2022. Mechanisms for Organizational Behavior Change to Address the Needs of People Living with Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias: Proceedings of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/26772.
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ates extensively in California and in 30 other states. She has served as a federal commissioner on MedPAC (Medicare policy and payment) and serves or has served on several boards related to health care and philanthropy (including 12 years on the SCAN Foundation). In 2021 she completed her formal role as one of the stakeholders who crafted the first ever California MasterPlan for Aging.

Peter Hollmann, M.D., is chief medical officer for Brown Medicine, the practice group of the Brown University, Warren Alpert School of Medicine Department of Medicine. Until 2015, he was associate chief medical officer for Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island. He has a part-time geriatric primary care practice in Rhode Island. He has more than 30 years of experience in medical management, including as a medical director of a health maintenance organization (HMO) with a Medicare product, a Medicaid plan, and a commercial preferred provider organization (PPO). He has been a long-term care hospital, nursing home, home care, and Medicare shared savings program ACO medical director. He chairs the American Geriatrics Society (AGS) committee that works on the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule, is a member of the AGS Beers criteria panel, and is the AGS board chair. He has been active in creating geriatric measures for Medicare and the National Center for Quality Assurance. He is past chair of the CPT Editorial Panel and currently vice chair of the resource-based relative value scale (RBRVS) Update Committee. He is chair of the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) Council on Graduate Medical Education (COGME). His major duties presently involve practice transformation, development of systems of care, and population management. Much of his career has been devoted to quality improvement at the local and national level.

Hyobum Jang, M.D., M.P.H., is the technical officer responsible for long-term care in the Ageing and Health Unit at the World Health Organization. Dr. Jang joined WHO in 2015 and has worked at global, regional, and country levels, in the Philippines, Samoa, and Fiji, and now WHO headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. His professional experience covers a wide range of health program areas, including community-based primary health care, noncommunicable diseases, climate change and health, sexual and reproductive health and rights, and most recently healthy aging and long-term care. Dr. Jang received his medical degree from Seoul University College of Medicine and his master’s degree in public health from Harvard School of Public Health.

Helen Lamont Ph.D. is the director of the Division of Disability and Aging Policy, where she manages a team of professional staff that conduct policy analysis, research, and evaluation related to disability, aging, and long-term care issues and programs. Helen also leads the implementation of the National

Suggested Citation:"Appendix D: Biographical Sketches of the Speakers and Committee Members." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2022. Mechanisms for Organizational Behavior Change to Address the Needs of People Living with Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias: Proceedings of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/26772.
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Alzheimer’s Project Act, coordinating both the Advisory Council on Alzheimer’s Research, Care, and Services as well as an interagency group that writes the annual National Plan to Address Alzheimer’s Disease. Helen also leads a portfolio of research in dementia, including a project to examine use of inpatient psychiatric facilities by people with dementia. She works on family and informal caregiving, as well as elder justice and adult maltreatment. Helen has worked across the department on disability data issues and has a current project to explore the feasibility of using an internet panel study to collect data on disability. She joined Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation in 2007 and has a Ph.D. in aging studies from the University of South Florida and a B.S. in human development from Duke University.

Emily Largent, J.D., Ph.D., R.N., is the Emanuel and Robert Hart Assistant Professor of Medical Ethics and Health Policy; she holds a secondary appointment at Penn Law. Dr. Largent’s work explores ethical and regulatory aspects of human subjects research and the translation of research findings into care with a particular focus on Alzheimer’s disease and the patient–caregiver dyad. Her research is supported by the National Institute on Aging and the Greenwall Foundation.

Sarah Lenz Lock, J.D., is senior vice president for policy and brain health in AARP’s Policy, Research, and International Affairs Department. Ms. Lock leads AARP’s policy initiatives on brain health and care for people living with dementia, including serving as the executive director of the Global Council on Brain Health, an independent collaborative of scientists, doctors, and policy experts. Ms. Lock also coordinates AARP’s role in the Leadership Council of Aging Organizations. Previously at AARP, Ms. Lock directed the Office of Policy Development and Integration, where she led the office responsible for the development of AARP’s public policies. Her first role at AARP was as a senior attorney/manager at AARP Foundation Litigation conducting health care impact litigation on behalf of older persons. She has authored numerous amicus briefs in appellate courts all over the country on health care issues affecting older Americans. Ms. Lock is a frequent writer and public speaker on issues related to healthy aging. She has been quoted or appeared in numerous media outlets, including the New York Times, NPR, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, CBS News, the Baltimore Sun, and the Chicago Tribune.

Kate McEvoy, J.D., is a program officer for the Milbank Memorial Fund. In this capacity, she leads the Fund’s state leadership programs and network and guides the Fund’s healthy aging work. Ms. McEvoy was previously director of health services in the Connecticut Department of Social Services, where she oversaw care delivery and payment reform work in Medicaid, CHIP, and long-

Suggested Citation:"Appendix D: Biographical Sketches of the Speakers and Committee Members." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2022. Mechanisms for Organizational Behavior Change to Address the Needs of People Living with Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias: Proceedings of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/26772.
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term services and supports. She is a former president and vice president of the National Association of Medicaid Directors Board of Directors and served on the steering committee of the Reforming States Group, the predecessor to the Milbank State Leadership Network. She also contributed to state health reform initiatives as assistant comptroller for the State of Connecticut. An elder law attorney by training, Ms. McEvoy spent her early career working for a regional Agency on Aging and as a legislative liaison for the Connecticut Association of Area Agencies on Aging. She is a past chair of the Elder Law Section of the Connecticut Bar Association, is the author of a treatise on elder law, and led several major coalition-based projects around advance directives. She has a J.D. from the University of Connecticut School of Law and a B.A. in English and economics from Oberlin College.

Amol Navathe, M.D., Ph.D., is codirector of the Healthcare Transformation Institute and director of the Payment Insights Team at the University of Pennsylvania, where he is also an associate director of the Center for Health Incentives and Behavioral Economics. He is also physician and core investigator at the Philadelphia Veterans Affairs Medical Center. He is a commissioner of the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission, a nonpartisan agency that advises the U.S. Congress on Medicare policy, and he serves as an advisor to the governments of Singapore and Canada on health care financing and delivery models. Dr. Navathe is also a cofounder of Embedded Healthcare, a health care technology company that brings behavioral economics solutions to improving health care affordability and quality.

Dr. Navathe is a leading scholar on payment model design and evaluation, particularly bundled payments. His scholarship is unique because of its bi-directional translation between scientific discovery and real-world practice, including focus on (1) the impact of value-based care and payment models on health care value; (2) financial and nonfinancial incentive design, including applications of behavioral economics, to drive clinician practice change; and (3) a mix of pragmatic clinical trials and observational data analyses. He has published over 100 peer-reviewed articles in Science, the New England Journal of Medicine, the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), Health Affairs, and other leading journals, as well as the New York Times and other news outlets. Dr. Navathe completed medical school at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and internal medicine residency at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital at Harvard Medical School. He obtained his Ph.D. in Health Care Management and Economics from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

Leslie Pelton, M.P.A., is an outcome-oriented leader who catalyzes innovation in health systems and transforms passion into impactful action. Throughout

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her 24-year career, Leslie has brought these talents to the improvement of health and health care of adults of all ages in community, health care practice, hospital, and nursing home–based care. Leslie listens deeply to the challenges that executives and frontline teams face. She collaboratively designs responses and leads the application of improvement science to build on will and drive improved outcomes.

Leslie is a nationally recognized leader in the Age-Friendly Health Systems movement improving the health and health care of older adults across the United States. With funders, national partners, leading health systems, and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement team, she designed the campaign that has resulted in improved care of older adults in 1,000 places of care across the United States. Throughout her career, Leslie has consulted with major academic medical centers, including building new models of integrating research, clinical care, and policy resulting in improved outcomes. She built and led her own consulting firm and served as faculty for the Institute for Healthcare Improvement. Leslie also built a practice at Deloitte Consulting addressing the human factors associated with strategy and operational innovations.

David B. Reuben, M.D., is the director, Multicampus Program in Geriatrics Medicine and Gerontology, and chief, Division of Geriatrics at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Center for Health Sciences. He is the Archstone Foundation chair and professor at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and director of the UCLA Alzheimer’s and Dementia Care Program. Dr. Reuben is a past president of the American Geriatrics Society and the Association of Directors of Geriatric Academic Programs. He served for 8 years on the American Board of Internal Medicine’s Board of Directors, including as chair from 2010 to 2011. Since 2016, Dr. Reuben has served as a trustee of the American Board of Internal Medicine Foundation. In 2000, Dr. Reuben received the Dennis H. Jahnigen Memorial Award for outstanding contributions to education in the field of geriatrics and, in 2008, he received the Joseph T. Freeman Award from the Gerontological Society of America. He was part of the team that received the 2008 John M. Eisenberg Patient Safety and Quality Award for Research–Joint Commission and National Quality Forum, for Assessing Care of the Vulnerable Elderly. In 2012, he received the Henderson Award from the American Geriatrics Society. In 2012, Dr. Reuben received one of the first CMMI Innovations Challenge awards to develop a model program to provide comprehensive, coordinated care for patients with Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias. In 2014, he was one of three principal investigators to be awarded a multicenter clinical trial (STRIDE) by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) and the National Institute on Aging (NIA) to reduce serious falls-related injuries; it is the largest grant that PCORI has awarded. In 2018, he was awarded a multisite

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PCORI- and NIA-funded pragmatic trial to compare the effectiveness of health system–based dementia care versus community-based dementia care versus usual care. Dr. Reuben was cochair of the 2020 National Research Summit in Care, Services, and Supports for Persons with Dementia and their Caregivers. He is a member of the National Advisory Council on Aging for the National Institute on Aging. Dr. Reuben continues to provide primary care for frail older persons, including attending on inpatient and geriatric psychiatry units at UCLA, and making house calls.

Julie Robison, Ph.D., a gerontologist and health services researcher, is a professor of medicine and public health science in the Center on Aging at the University of Connecticut (UConn) School of Medicine. She conducts evidence-based health services research and intervention studies focused on aging families and long-term services, supports, and policy, using quantitative and qualitative research methods. Her research aims to improve quality of life and quality of care for people who need long-term services and supports (LTSS) and their families.

Dr. Robison is the director of the UConn Center on Aging’s Evaluation and Population Assessment Core and Recruitment and Community Engagement Core. She studies how well LTSS funded by Medicaid, Medicare, and other public-sector sources affect health and well-being outcomes. Specific areas of expertise include effectiveness of LTSS for older adults and their families, designing evaluations of innovative LTSS designed to promote person-centered care and independent living, LTSS for individuals with dementia, and health disparities in the population needing LTSS. The results of her work have a direct impact on the implementation of policies and programs that serve extremely vulnerable populations in Connecticut and nationally.

Dr. Robison has served as principal investigator or coinvestigator on more than 60 funded research studies and regularly presents research findings in national and community forums. She has published more than 80 scientific articles and book chapters and many legislative and policy reports. Dr. Robison is the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Applied Gerontology, an international forum for research with clear and immediate applicability to the health, care, and quality of life of older adults, providing comprehensive coverage of all areas of gerontological practice and policy.

Eric Schneider, M.D., M.Sc., leads National Center for Quality Assurance’s (NCQA’s) measurement, research, and contracting agenda as executive vice president of the Quality Measurement and Research Group. In this role, he helps drive NCQA’s efforts to create a more equitable health care system and to advance the move to digital quality measurement. Dr. Schneider came to NCQA from the Commonwealth Fund, where he was senior vice president

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for Policy and Research and a member of its executive management team. He has a long history with NCQA, most recently as cochair of its Committee on Performance Measurement. He served on that committee for more than 10 years, including 9 as cochair. Prior to his tenure at the Commonwealth Fund, Dr. Schneider was principal researcher at the RAND Corporation and held the RAND Distinguished Chair in Health Care Quality. As the first director of RAND’s Boston office, Dr. Schneider built its highly regarded multidisciplinary team of health services researchers. As a professor at the T. H. Chan Harvard School of Public Health and Harvard Medical School, Dr. Schneider taught health policy and practiced primary care internal medicine for 25 years. Widely regarded as one of the nation’s preeminent health services researchers, Dr. Schneider has authored more than 125 published, peer-reviewed research investigations and dozens of other scientific or medical research publications, reviews, chapters, editorials, and more. His work has focused on four aspects of health care quality: performance measurement methods; evaluation of quality and safety measurement in public reporting and financial incentive programs; use of health care quality measures to assess racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic disparities in health care quality; and evaluation of innovative approaches in health insurance, organization and financing of health care, and the organization of health care delivery. Dr. Schneider trained in health services research, public health, and primary care general internal medicine. He holds a bachelor of science, cum laude, in biology from Columbia University and a master of science from the University of California, Berkeley. He earned his medical degree from the University of California, San Francisco. He is a member of the AcademyHealth Board of Directors and a fellow of both the American College of Physicians and the National Academy of Social Insurance.

Meena Seshamani, M.D., Ph.D., is an accomplished, strategic leader with a deep understanding of health economics and a heartfelt commitment to outstanding patient care. Her diverse background as a health care executive, health economist, physician, and health policy expert has given her a unique perspective on how health policy affects the real lives of patients. She most recently served as vice president of Clinical Care Transformation at MedStar Health, where she conceptualized, designed, and implemented population health and value-based care initiatives and served on the senior leadership of the 10 hospital, 300+ outpatient care site health system. The care models and service lines under her leadership, including community health, geriatrics, and palliative care, have been nationally recognized by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement and others. She also cared for patients as an assistant professor of otolaryngology–head and neck surgery at the Georgetown University School of Medicine. Dr. Seshamani also brings decades of policy experience to her role, including recently serving on the leadership of the Biden–Har-

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ris Transition HHS Agency Review Team. Prior to MedStar Health, she was director of the Office of Health Reform at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, where she drove strategy and led implementation of the Affordable Care Act across the department, including coverage policy, delivery system reform, and public health policy. She received her B.A. with honors in business economics from Brown University, her M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, and her Ph.D. in health economics from the University of Oxford, where she was a Marshall Scholar. She completed her residency training in otolaryngology–head and neck surgery at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and practiced as a head and neck surgeon at Kaiser Permanente in San Francisco.

Tisamarie Sherry, M.D., Ph.D., is a deputy assistant secretary in the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). ASPE conducts policy research, coordinates policy across HHS, and advises the Secretary of HHS on policy development. Dr. Sherry leads ASPE’s Office of Behavioral Health, Disability, and Aging Policy, which also coordinates dementia care research and policy across HHS through its role overseeing implementation of the National Alzheimer’s Project Act, including convening the Advisory Council on Alzheimer’s Research, Care, and Services, and updating the National Plan to Address Alzheimer’s Disease. Her previous experience includes working as a policy researcher at the RAND Corporation, and as a primary care physician. Dr. Sherry is a health economist and general internist whose research has investigated health care delivery, financing, and policy strategies to improve the health and economic status of adults with chronic medical conditions. Dr. Sherry has also served as a fellow with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Global AIDS Program, and has served on the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Committee on Identifying Disabling Medical Conditions Likely to Improve with Treatment. She received her B.A. in molecular biology and public policy from Princeton University, and her M.D. and Ph.D. in health policy (concentrating in economics) from Harvard University, and she completed residency training in internal medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.

Bruce C. Vladeck, Ph.D., currently serves as a senior advisor to the Greater New York Hospital Association and LiveOnNY, and he is a consultant to a number of other health care organizations. He is chairman emeritus of the Board of Medicare Rights Center and serves on the boards of Penn Medicine and the Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital. During his professional career, Vladeck held a number of senior positions, including assistant commissioner, New Jersey State Department of Health; president, United Hospital Fund;

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administrator, Health Care Financing Administration (now called CMS); senior vice president, Mount Sinai Medical Center; and interim president, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. At the Health Care Financing Administration, Vladeck was the principal federal official responsible for Medicare and Medicaid. Of his many accomplishments in that position, he is proudest of refocusing the organization on services to beneficiaries. Previously, Vladeck also served as full-time faculty at Columbia University and the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, and as a trustee or director of many organizations, including New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation, Ascension Health, the Hadassah Hospital, the Kaiser Family Foundation, Health Care for the Homeless, the Primary Care Development Corporation, and the March of Dimes. He is also an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine, the New York Academy of Medicine, and the National Academy of Social Insurance. Vladeck received his B.A., magna cum laude, from Harvard College, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in political science from the University of Michigan. He is the author of Unloving Care: The Nursing Home Tragedy (Basic Books, 1980), still considered the standard reference on nursing home policy in the United States, and of more than 100 articles in the professional literature.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF PLANNING COMMITTEE MEMBERS

Richard G. Frank, Ph.D. (Chair), is a senior fellow in economic studies and director of the USC–Brookings Schaeffer Initiative on Health Policy. He is the Margaret T. Morris Professor of Health Economics, Emeritus, in the Department of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School. From 2014 to 2016 he served as assistant secretary for planning and evaluation in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. His research is focused on the economics of mental health and substance abuse care, long-term care financing policy, health care competition, implementation of health reform, and disability policy. Dr. Frank served as an editor for the Journal of Health Economics from 2005 to 2014. Dr. Frank was awarded the Georgescu-Roegen Prize from the Southern Economic Association, the Carl A. Taube Award from the American Public Health Association, and the Distinguished Investigator Award from AcademyHealth. He was elected to the Institute of Medicine (National Academy of Medicine) in 1997. He is coauthor with Sherry Glied of the book Better but Not Well (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006).

Elisabeth Belmont, J.D., serves as corporate counsel for MaineHealth, which is ranked among the nation’s top 100 integrated health care delivery networks and has combined annual revenues of nearly $2 billion. She is responsible for

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a myriad of complex issues faced by an integrated delivery system on a daily basis and has a specialty concentration in health information and technology. Ms. Belmont has participated in a number of national initiatives where quality improvement, patient safety, and information technologies intersect including events sponsored by the HHS Office of the National Coordinator, HHS Office of the Inspector General, American Health Lawyers Association, American Society of Healthcare Risk Management, and American Association for the Advancement of Science. She serves as a member of the Division Committee of the Health and Medicine Division of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. She is a former member of the National Academies’ Board on Health Care Services of the Health and Medicine Division, and participated as a member of the National Academies’ Consensus Study Committees on Improving Diagnosis in Health Care and Systems Approaches to Improve Patient Care by Supporting Clinician Well-Being. Additionally, Ms. Belmont is a past president of the American Health Lawyers Association, former chair of the Association’s Health Information & Technology Practice Group, and former chair of the Association’s Quality in Action Task Force. She was also appointed cochair of the National Quality Forum’s Health IT Patient Safety Measures Standing Committee. She previously served on the advisory boards of Bloomberg’s Health Law Reporter and Health Law & Business News. Ms. Belmont coauthored agency guidance, EHR Contracts Untangled: Selecting Wisely, Negotiating Terms and Understanding the Fine Print, for the HHS Office of the National Coordinator. She is the recipient of numerous honors, including being named by Modern Healthcare as one of the 2007 Top 25 Most Powerful Women in Healthcare, being selected to receive the American Health Lawyers Association 2014 David J. Greenburg Service Award, and being named by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine as a 2016 National Associate for outstanding contributions to the work of the National Academies.

Terry Fulmer, Ph.D., R.N., FAAN, is the president of the John A. Hartford Foundation in New York City, a foundation dedicated to improving the care of older adults. Established in 1929, the Foundation has a current endowment of more than $650 million. She serves as the chief strategist for the Foundation, and her vision for better care of older adults is catalyzing the Age-Friendly Health Systems social movement. She is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine and recently served on the independent Coronavirus Commission for Safety and Quality in Nursing Homes established to advise the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. She previously served as distinguished professor and dean of health sciences at Northeastern University. Prior, she served as the Erline Perkins McGriff Professor and Founding Dean of the New York University College of Nursing. She received her bachelor’s

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degree from Skidmore College, her master’s and doctoral degrees from Boston College, and her geriatric nurse practitioner post-master’s certificate from NYU. She completed a Brookdale National Fellowship, and she is the first nurse to have served on the board of the American Geriatrics Society. She is also the first nurse to have served as president of the Gerontological Society of America, which awarded her the 2019 Donald P. Kent Award for exemplifying the highest standards for professional leadership in the field of aging.

Scott D. Halpern, M.D., Ph.D., is the John M. Eisenberg Professor of Medicine, Epidemiology, and Medical Ethics and Health Policy at the University of Pennsylvania, and a practicing critical care doctor. He is the founding director of the Palliative and Advanced Illness Research Center, which generates evidence to advance policies and practices with the goals of improving the lives of all people affected by serious illness and removing the barriers to health equity that commonly face seriously ill patients. He is also director of the NIA-funded Penn Roybal P30 Center on Palliative Care in Dementia. His research awards include AcademyHealth’s Alice S. Hersh New Investigator Award, the Young Leader Award from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the American Federation for Medical Research’s Outstanding Investigator Award for the best scientist in any field under the age of 45, and the Association of Clinical and Translational Science’s Distinguished Investigator Award. His mentoring awards include the John Hansen-Flaschen Award for Outstanding Mentor-ship and the Arthur K. Asbury Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award. He is an elected member of the American Society of Clinical Investigation and the Association of American Physicians, an elected fellow of the Hastings Center, and serves on the editorial boards of the Annals of Internal Medicine and the American Journal of Bioethics.

Sharon K. Inouye, M.D., M.P.H., is the director of the Aging Brain Center at the Hinda and Arthur Marcus Institute for Aging Research, Hebrew SeniorLife in Boston, Massachusetts. She holds the Milton and Shirley F. Levy Family Chair and is a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School (Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center). Her research focuses on delirium and functional decline in hospitalized older patients, resulting in more than 300 peer-reviewed original articles to date. Currently, she is the overall principal investigator of the Successful Aging after Elective Surgery (SAGES) study, an $11 million program project on delirium funded by the National Institute on Aging, as well as other active research projects. The purpose of the SAGES study is to examine the interface of delirium and dementia, whether delirium alters the course of dementia, and whether delirium leads to long-standing cognitive impairment and pathologic changes in the brain. Dr. Inouye is committed to improving the health and quality of life for older persons and

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their families. Dr. Inouye developed and validated the Confusion Assessment Method, the most widely used instrument for the identification of delirium. She conceptualized the multifactorial model for delirium, which focuses on identification of predisposing and precipitating factors for delirium. Her work involves translating theories of clinical investigation into practical applications that directly improve the quality of life for older adults. She developed the Hospital Elder Life Program (HELP), a multicomponent intervention strategy designed to prevent delirium by targeting six delirium risk factors. HELP was successful in reducing delirium by 40 percent and was published in a landmark study in the New England Journal of Medicine. This study was the first to show that a substantial proportion of delirium is preventable. Additionally, HELP has been shown to reduce falls, functional decline, and hospital costs, and to improve patient, family, and nursing satisfaction. The HELP program has been adopted by hundreds of hospitals worldwide.

Faith Mitchell, Ph.D., is an institute fellow at the Urban Institute, working with the Center on Nonprofits and Philanthropy and the Health Policy Center. She is also developing Urban’s American Transformation project, which looks at the implications—and possibilities—of this country’s racial and ethnic evolution. Over several decades, her career has bridged research, practice, and social and health policy. Previously, Mitchell was president and CEO of Grantmakers In Health, a Washington, D.C.–based national organization that advises, informs, and supports the work of health foundations and corporate giving programs. Before that, she held leadership positions at the National Academies (National Research Council and Institute of Medicine), U.S. Department of State, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, and the San Francisco Foundation. Mitchell has a doctorate in medical anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley. She has written or edited numerous policy-related publications and is the author of Hoodoo Medicine, a groundbreaking study of Black folk medicine. She cochairs the advisory group for the John A. Hartford Foundation/Institute for Healthcare Improvement Age-Friendly Health Systems initiative; serves on the advisory committee of the National Collaborative for Health Equity, the editorial board of Health Affairs, and the boards of directors of Community Wealth Partners and the Jacob & Valeria Langeloth Foundation; and is a member of the Board on Health Care Services of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.

Julie Robison, Ph.D., a gerontologist and health services researcher, is a professor of medicine and public health science in the Center on Aging at the University of Connecticut (UConn) School of Medicine. She conducts evidence-based health services research and intervention studies focused on

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aging families and long-term services, supports, and policy, using quantitative and qualitative research methods. Her research aims to improve the quality of life and quality of care for people who need long-term services and supports (LTSS) and their families.

Dr. Robison is the director of the UConn Center on Aging’s Evaluation and Population Assessment Core and Recruitment and Community Engagement Core. She studies how well LTSS funded by Medicaid, Medicare, and other public-sector sources affect health and well-being outcomes. Specific areas of expertise include effectiveness of LTSS for older adults and their families, designing evaluations of innovative LTSS designed to promote person-centered care and independent living, LTSS for individuals with dementia, and health disparities in the population needing LTSS. The results of her work have a direct impact on the implementation of policies and programs that serve extremely vulnerable populations in Connecticut and nationally.

Dr. Robison has served as principal investigator or coinvestigator on more than 60 funded research studies and regularly presents research findings in national and community forums. She has published over 80 scientific articles and book chapters and many legislative and policy reports. Dr. Robison is the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Applied Gerontology, an international forum for research with clear and immediate applicability to the health, care, and quality of life of older adults, providing comprehensive coverage of all areas of gerontological practice and policy.

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Patients diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD) rely on family members, their community, and the health care system for progressively increasing support over the course of their disease. These people receive care through a frequently siloed health care system across hospitals, nursing homes, ambulatory care settings, and long-term care settings, as well as community- and home-based care. As the number of people living with a diagnosis of ADRD continues to grow, so does the need to provide better support for these people and their caregivers. The National Institute on Aging (NIA) Division of Behavioral and Social Research suggests that organizational behavior change will be needed for health care systems to integrate all of the services and supports required to provide high-quality care for people with ADRD.

NIA sponsored a workshop hosted by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to explore mechanisms to improve the quality of care for people living with ADRD and the potential of innovative payment models to incentivize health care systems to make the necessary systemic changes. The workshop convened a diverse array of experts in fields including nursing, geriatrics, health care economics, health care services research, quality measurement, social work, medical ethics, law, health care finance, and health care policy. This publication summarizes the presentation and discussion of the workshop.

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