Elder Abuse and Its Prevention Workshop Summary (2014) / Chapter Skim
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Appendix B: Speaker Biographical Sketches
Appendix B: Speaker Biographical Sketches
Pages 133-154
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Thus, Dr. Acierno mixes epidemiological research with treatment outcome research, and keeps close to the clinical world as a clinician-administrator for treatment programs serving both civilian and military traumatized populations.
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She serves as NIA's liaison to the American Federation for Aging Research, American Geriatrics Society, Department of Veteran Affairs, and Gerontological Society of America. Until 2008, Dr.
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In addition, she co-chairs the IOM Forum on Global Violence Prevention. She is also a member of the Fulbright Specialist Roster and does work in collaboration with shelters, governments, criminal justice agencies, schools of nursing, and health care
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ongoing elder justice research grant program through DOJ's National Institute of Justice; launched the federal interagency Elder Justice Working Group; organized the first forum on the medical forensics of elder abuse and numerous other events; and wrote speeches for high-level government officials on elder justice issues, including for members of the Cabinet and Congress. She has testified before Congress and the Elder Justice Coordinating Council (at its inaugural meeting in 2012)
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, and the Board of Directors for the Chinese American Service League, the largest social services organization in the Midwest serving the needs of Chinese populations. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Medicine of Chicago and a member of the IOM Forum on Global Violence Prevention.
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Her clinical appointments have included the Beth Israel Hospital in Boston, the Massachusetts General Hospital, and the NYU-Langone Medical Center. She is a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing, Gerontological Society of America, and New York Academy of Medicine.
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Dr. Jervis is past president of the Association of Anthropology and Gerontology and a current Advisory Board member for the National Indigenous Elder Justice Initiative.
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. In addition, she was policy director for the Alliance of Community Health Plans, an association of nonprofit health plans; program officer with the Pew Charitable Trusts Health and Human Services Program; and senior government relations manager with the American Heart Association. She holds a master's degree in government from the University of Virginia.
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He has investigated issues in dementia drug development, informed consent, quality of life, research and treatment decision making, and voting by persons with dementia. Mark Lachs, M.D., M.P.H., is director of geriatrics for the New York Presbyterian Health System, co-chief of the Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University, and a tenured clinical professor of medicine at the College.
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from Georgetown University Law Center. Susan Lynch, J.D., M.P.H., LL.M., is a trial attorney at DOJ, where she leads national investigations and civilly prosecutes long-term care facilities for failing to adequately care for their residents.
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KP, a large, nonprofit integrated health care organization serving 8.6 million members in nine states and the District of Columbia, has implemented one of the most comprehensive health care responses to domestic violence in the United States. The nationally recognized "systems-model" approach is available across the continuum of care, including outpatient, emergency, and inpatient care; advice and call centers; and chronic care programs.
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O'Brien, M.D., is professor and the Margaret Dorward Smock Endowed Chair in Geriatrics, as well as chair of the Department of Family and Geriatric Medicine at the University of Louisville in Kentucky. He did his undergraduate and medical training at University College in Dublin, Ireland, Family Medicine Residency at Saginaw Cooperative Hospital, and Fellowship in Geriatrics at Duke University.
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The Hebrew Home is a nonsectarian, not-for-profit geriatric service organization that provides residential health care, senior housing communities, and a full spectrum of home care, rehabilitation, and adult day and overnight respite programs offered by its ElderServe community services division. The Hebrew Home serves more than 7,000 older people in the Bronx, Manhattan, and Westchester County.
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Mr. Sabatino is also a part-time adjunct professor at Georgetown University Law Center, where he has taught about law and aging since 1987.
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degree from Harvard Medical School in 1985 and a master of science degree in health policy from the Harvard School of Public Health in 1976. She also holds a certificate of added qualifications in geriatric medicine and was associate clinical professor of health care sciences and of medicine at the George Washington University until 2001.
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and led information security at the former Mellon Financial Corporation. He was previously the chief information security officer and manager of Mellon Financial Corporation's Technology Assurance Services Division, responsible for information security and technology risk management.
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She is a Board member of National Committee for the Prevention of Elder Abuse (NCPEA) ; on the Executive Committee of the Elder Law Section of the New York State Bar Association, where she is chair of the Elder Abuse Committee; and on the Advisory Board of the New York City Elder Abuse Center, of which she was a founder.
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Teaster, M.A., Ph.D., is a professor in the Department of Health Behavior and director of Doctoral Studies in the College of Public Health at the University of Kentucky. She directs the Kentucky Justice Center for Elders and Vulnerable Adults and is president of the Kentucky Guardianship Association.
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Javier Vasquez, LL.M., J.D., has practiced international human rights law with particular emphasis on reproductive rights, the rights of indigenous peoples, disability rights, and the human rights of older persons, among others, for more than 15 years. Currently, he is the human rights law advisor with the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO)
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He is a co-investigator of the Health and Retirement Study and the National Health and Aging Trends Study, two national cohort studies of the health, social, and economic status of older Americans. Mark Yaffe, B.Sc., M.D., C.M., MClSc, CCFP, FCFP, is a tenured full professor in the McGill University Department of Family Medicine in Montreal.
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Elsie Yan, Ph.D., is an assistant professor in the Department of Social Work and Social Administration, UHKº. Her research interests include domestic violence, mainly focusing on factors and impacts associated with elder abuse and intimate partner violence in older couples.
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