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Alan Dengiz, MD, CMD
Director of Geriatric Medicine
St. Joseph Mercy Health System
Ann Arbor, MI
Alan Dengiz received his MD and medical training at the University of Michigan from 1970 to 1978. He was on the faculty of Washington University Medical School in St. Louis Missouri from 1978 to 1980. He returned to the University of Michigan as a faculty member from 1980 to 1984 and was appointed Interim Chair of the Section of Geriatric Medicine. From 1984 to the present he has been Director of Geriatric Medicine at St. Joseph Mercy Hospital and Health System. He is also Corporate Medical Director of Glacier Hills Retirement Community and Medical Director of Huron Woods Alzheimer's Residential Center. He is Board Certified in Internal Medicine, Geriatric Medicine, Palliative Care and Hospice Medicine and is a Certified Medical Director.
Dr. Dengiz has been recognized with the following awards:
- Michigan Geriatrician of the Year, Awarded by-Michigan Affiliate of the American Geriatric Society-1991
- Outstanding Geriatric Community Service Award - Senior Citizen's Guild of Ann Arbor-1992
- Best Doctors in Michigan in Geriatrics and Internal Medicine - Detroit Freepress-1998
- Best Geriatric Physicians and Best Alzheimer's Diagnostic Physicians - Detroit Hour Magazine-2000-2007
- Dual award for Best Geriatric Physicians and Internal Medicine Physicians- Best Doctors in America-2001-2007
Dr. Dengiz has a special interest and expertise in the diagnosis and management of Alzheimer's Disease. He has provided care to thousands of patients with dementia and has been involved in clinical research in Geriatric Medicine. He lectures nationally on Successful Aging, Alzheimer's Disease as well as many other areas of Geriatric Medicine. He is recognized as a leading expert in Alzheimer's Disease and other dementias. He directs and performs in community theater and has done a regular radio program answering questions on medical concerns of older adults. He is married with 3 children and owes his success to them for all their support.
William Hall, MD
Professor of Medicine
Director, Center for Healthy Aging
University of Rochester School of Medicine
Rochester, NY
William J. Hall, MD, MACP is an internist-geriatrician, Professor of Medicine, and Director of the Center for Healthy Aging at the University of Rochester School of Medicine. Dr. Hall received his MD degree from the University of Michigan and completed his residency in Internal Medicine at Yale University. His major professional interest is in developing and teaching strategies for successful aging. Dr. Hall is the founding Medical Director of the Center for Lifetime Wellness, a non-profit fitness and educational program for adults over age 50 in Rochester. The Center recently was commended by the Department of Health and Human Services as one of the top senior fitness programs in the country. Dr. Hall has been very active in the American College of Physicians, serving as President in 2001-2002. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of AARP.
Gail Gibson Hunt
President and CEO
National Alliance for Caregiving
Washington, DC
Gail Hunt is President and CEO of the National Alliance for Caregiving, a non-profit coalition dedicated to conducting research and developing national programs for family caregivers and the professionals who serve them. Prior to heading NAC, Ms. Hunt was President of her own aging services consulting firm for 14 years. She conducted corporate eldercare research for the National Institute on Aging and the Social Security Administration, developed training for caregivers with AARP and the American Occupational Therapy Association, and designed a corporate eldercare program for EAPs with the Employee Assistance Professional Association. Prior to having her own firm, she was Senior Manager in charge of human services for the Washington, DC, office of KPMG Peat Marwick. Ms. Hunt attended Vassar College and graduated from Columbia University in New York. In May of 2004, she was appointed by the White House to serve on the Policy Committee for the 2005 White House Conference on Aging. She is also very involved in international activities in caregiving.
Barry J. Jacobs, Psy.D
Director of Behavioral Sciences
Crozer-Keystone Family Medicine Residency
Author, "The Emotional Survival Guide for Caregivers"
Swarthmore, PA
Barry J. Jacobs, Psy.D. is a Clinical Psychologist, Family Therapist and the Director of Behavioral Sciences for the Crozer-Keystone Family Medicine Residency Program in Springfield, PA. He is the author of, "The Emotional Survival Guide for Caregivers--Looking After Yourself and Your Family While Helping an Aging Parent" (Guilford, 2006). A former journalist, he writes an advice column for "Take Care!", the newsletter of the National Family Caregivers Association, edits the "In Sickness & Health" column for the journal "Families, Systems & Health" and co-writes regular articles on family caregiving for HealthCentral.com. For the past two years, he has been a national spokesperson on family caregiving for the American Heart Association. He was previously a national expert panel on cancer and caregiving, organized by the Rosalyn Carter Institute for Caregiving. He has given hundreds of public presentations on family caregiving around the country to caregivers, physicians, nurses, social workers and mental health providers. He has been quoted on family caregiving in such national publications as The New York Times, AARP Magazine, Prevention, and Woman's Day. Visit http://www.emotionalsurvivalguide.com for more information.
Kathleen Kelly, MPA
Executive Director
Family Caregiver Alliance
San Francisco, CA
Kathleen Kelly has been with Family Caregiver Alliance since 1979, and has served as Executive Director since 1990. As Director, she oversees programs of the Bay Area Caregiver Resource Center, which provides direct services to families and providers within the San Francisco Bay Area, the Statewide Resources Consultant, which provides technical assistance and consultation to the statewide system of Caregiver Resource Centers, and the National Center on Caregiving.
During her tenure with FCA. Ms. Kelly has held seats on a variety of national, state and local advisory committees concerned with long term care and public policy. Recently, Ms. Kelly has been focusing on the integration of information technologies into the nonprofit sector and in service delivery to FCA's clients with Link2Care, an Internet-based program of direct services to caregivers integrated with the Caregiver Resource Centers and a web-based CRC client record system. She has lectured extensively on family caregiving, long-term care, advocacy, service delivery, information technology and nonprofit management. Ms. Kelly has authored or co-authored numerous articles and chapters on caregiving and information technology. Ms. Kelly holds a Bachelor's degree in Health Science from San Francisco State University and a Master of Public Administration from Golden Gate University.
Carol Levine, MA
Director, Families and Health Care Project
United Hospital Fund, New York City
Author, "Always on Call" and "The Culture of Caregiving"
New York, NY
Carol Levine joined the United Hospital Fund in New York City in 1996. She directs the Families and Health Care Project, which focuses on developing partnerships between health care professionals and family caregivers. She directed the Citizens Commission on AIDS in New York City from 1987-91 and The Orphan Project 1991-96. As a senior staff associate of The Hastings Center, she edited the Hastings Center Report. In 1993 she was awarded a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship for her work in AIDS policy and ethics. She edited Always On Call: When Illness Turns Families into Caregivers (2nd ed., Vanderbilt University Press, 2004), and with Thomas H. Murray, co-edited The Cultures of Caregiving: Conflict and Common Ground among Families, Health Professionals and Policy Maker (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004).
Suzanne Mintz
President and Co-founder
National Family Caregivers Association (NFCA)
Kensington, MD
Suzanne Mintz is a social entrepreneur. She took a personal experience, her husband's diagnosis of MS and its ensuing impact on their lives, and built a national organization to improve the lives of family caregivers, the National Family Caregivers Association (NFCA). She has transformed the lens through which healthcare professionals, public policy makers, the media and the general public view family caregiving and has empowered hundreds of thousands of individual family caregivers to take charge of their own lives and speak up on behalf of themselves and their loved ones.
Ms. Mintz is currently president of the organization she co-founded 15 years ago as the only national organization for all family caregivers, regardless of their loved one's age or diagnosis. She recognized early in this journey that the impact of family caregiving goes beyond individual families and has become a national healthcare and social policy issue. Suzanne has testified before Congress and is often quoted by the national press.
In 2006 she was one of 15 winners, out of an initial pool of 1,200 for the first-ever Purpose Prize, a national award for Americans 60 and above who are leading a new age of social innovation. Suzanne is also the 2004 recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Eli Lilly Welcome Back initiative.
Her latest book, A Family Caregiver Speaks Up: It Doesn't Have to be This Hard is full of advice for family caregivers, tips for interacting with the healthcare system to better meet the needs of families dealing with chronic illness, and a cogent presentation of how public policy has a profound effect on even the most intimate details of life in caregiving families. In addition to her book Suzanne is the author of numerous articles and educational pamphlets.
Ms. Mintz is on the board of the National Health Council, the Board of Governors of the National Patient Safety Foundation, Advisory Board of the Partnership to Fight Chronic Disease and serves as an advisor to numerous other projects and committees.
Suzanne holds a bachelors degree in English from Queens College University of the City of New York and a master's degree in human ecology from the University of Maryland.
She lives in Kensington MD with her husband Steven and their cat KC.
Barbara Moscowitz, MSW
Coordinator Geriatric Social Work
Geriatric Medicine Unit, Mass General Hospital
Boston, MA
Barbara Moscowitz grew up in the Northeast and stayed in the area for college, receiving her Bachelor's degree from Brandeis University and her Master's degree in Social Work (MSW) from Boston College. She has spent her entire professional career at Mass. General Hospital in the Departments of Social Services and Geriatric Medicine, and has now been practicing at MGH for over 27 years. While working as an inpatient social worker in General Medicine, most of the patients Barbara encountered were older adults. This experience expanded her education and knowledge base and sparked an interest that inspired her to seek out further learning and training opportunities in that area.
Barbara finds the opportunity to meet patients and families as outpatients before crisis, and to provide counseling and education that empowers them to make important choices and decisions, to be the most rewarding part of her job. She enjoys the chance to be "proactive rather than reactive." As a health care professional, Barbara recognizes the importance of providing guidance to both the individual patient and their family. She offers support as patients and their families learn about available resources, make lifestyle changes, and adjust to changing roles as an "aging family".
Beyond the clinical setting, Barbara is currently conducting research on a wellness curriculum in the frail outpatient population, and her goal is to explore interventions that will enable chronically ill individuals to remain in their homes. She is also the Director of MGH Senior HealthWISE, a community-based program that aims to enhance the health and well being of older adults.
Outside of her dedication to her work and her patients, Barbara is a reading, film, and art enthusiast
Peter V. Rabins, MD, MPH
Director of Division of Geriatric Psychiatry & Neuropsychiatry
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Author, "The 36-Hour Day" and "Practical Dementia Care"
Towson, MD
Dr. Peter Rabins has been on the faculty of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine since 1978 and is now Professor of Psychiatry and Director of the Division of Geriatric Psychiatry and Neuropsychiatry. He also is a member of the Berman Institute of Bioethics and an adjunct family member of the Bloomberg school of Public Health, both at the Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Rabins has focused his career on the study of psychiatric symptoms in the elderly and in persons with neurological illnesses. He is the author of "The 36-Hour Day", "Practical Dementia Care", and "Getting Old Without Getting Anxious".
View a complete list of Video Press programs with Dr. Rabins online at: http://www.videopress.umaryland.edu/Peter_Rabins.html
Beth Witrogen
Author, Journalist, Speaker
Author, "Caregiving: The Spiritual Journey of Love, Loss and Renewal"
www.witrogen.com
Antioch, CA
Beth Witrogen is a writer, speaker, and consultant on spirituality, caregiving, and renewal at midlife. She is a double Pulitzer Prize nominee, one for her book Caregiving: The Spiritual Journey of Love, Loss, and Renewal (Wiley) and one for her groundbreaking newspaper series ("The Caregivers") at The S.F. Examiner.
Drawing on deep personal and professional experience, Beth has earned many national and regional awards for her writing. She has published in many key markets, including Good Housekeeping, SELF, Family Circle, Health, Cooking Light, the Wall Street Journal, and Aging Today, and on Web sites including WebMD, ThirdAge, and Consumer Health Interactive. She was editor of Rodale Press's And Thou Shalt Honor, a companion book to the 2002 PBS series on which she was a consultant. She was key editor for Dr. Mary Furlong's Turning Silver Into Gold (Prentice-Hall, 2007) and for Who Shall Pay For Long-Term Care?
Beth is a national speaker regarded for her inspiration and insight. She gives keynotes and workshops on conscious aging, wellness for caregivers, and women's issues. She has been interviewed widely on television (including the "Today" show), radio (NPR and Wisdom Radio), in print (Los Angeles Times, USA Today, Body & Soul, Newsday, Time, Christian Science Monitor, Prevention, and Money), and the web (HealthDay). She originated the nation's first online caregiving support group, for AARP; developed the Caregiving Channel for ThirdAge.com; and has consulted on four PBS programs on caregiving. For five years she taught "Taking Care of Your Aging Parents" at Barnes & Noble University Online, a course she created.
Beth is also a professional photographer specializing in wildlife; her work has been featured in shows and galleries in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is writing a new book on women's renewal at midlife, and blogs as the relationships/caregiving expert for SmartNow.com.
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