Age-Friendly Health Systems IHI Team and Faculty

• Karen Baldoza, MSW, Vice President (kbaldoza@ihi.org)
• Dylan Balcom, MPH, Project Manager (dbalcom@ihi.org)
• Matt Berry, Marketing Manager (maberry@ihi.org)
• Alice Bonner, PhD, RN, Advisor, Care of Older Adults (abonner@ihi.org)
• Nicole Brandt, PharmD, Faculty
• Cynthia Brown, MD, Faculty
• Donna Fick, MD, Faculty
• Luisana Henriquez Garcia, Project Manager (lgarcia@ihi.org)
• Laura Howell, Senior Project Manager (lhowell@ihi.org)
• Min Ji Kwak, MD, Faculty
• Nicole Korp, Associate Project Manager (nkorp@ihi.org)
• Kevin Little, PhD, Improvement Advisor
• Kedar Mate, MD, President and CEO, Senior Sponsor (kmate@ihi.org)
• Amanda Meier, MA, Project Manager (ameier@ihi.org)
• KellyAnne Pepin, MPH, Project Director (kpepin@ihi.org)
• Leslie Pelton, MPA, Vice President (lpelton@ihi.org​)
• JoAnne Reifsnyder, PhD, MSN, MBA, RN, FAAN, Faculty
• Andrea Schwartz, MD, Faculty
• Christina Southey, Im​provement Advis​or
• Mary Tinetti, MD, Faculty
• Amy Walsh, MSc, Project Manager (awalsh@ihi.org)

Age-Friendly Health Systems Advisory Group​

• ​​​Don Berwick, MD, MPP (chair), President emeritus and Senior Fellow, Institute for Healthcare Improvement, former administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
• Faith Mitchell (co-chair), PhD, Institute Fellow, Urban Institute
• Mary Tinetti, MD (founding co-chair), Gladys Phillips Crofoot Professor of Medicine (Geriatrics) and Professor, Institution for Social and Policy Studies; Section Chief, Geriatrics
• Ann Hendrich, PhD, RN (founding co-chair), Researcher & Content Expert, Health System, Nursing and Safety Executive
• Kyle Allen, DO, AGSF, Vice President Enterprise Medical Director, CareSource
• Kevin Biese, MD Associate Professor, Emergency Medicine; Co-Director, Division of Geriatric Emergency Medicine; Director, Emergency Medicine Residency Program;  Advisor to Gary and Mary West Health Institute
• Alice Bonner, PhD, RN, Advisor, Care of Older Adults, Institute for Healthcare Improvement
• Peg Bradke, RN, MA, Vice President, Post-Acute Care, UnityPoint Health - St. Luke's Hospital
• Nicole Brandt, PharmD, MBA, Professor, Department of Pharmacy Practice and Science, University of Maryland School of Pharmacy; Executive Director, Peter Lamy Center on Drug Therapy and Aging
• Marie Cleary-Fishman, BSN, MS, MBA, CPHQ Vice President , Clinical Quality AHA Center for Health Innovation American Hospital Association
• Lenise Cummings-Vaughn, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine, Washington University's School of Medicine
• Thomas E. Edes, MD, MS, Senior Medical Advisor, Office of Geriatrics & Extended Care, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
• Glyn Elwyn, MD, PhD, The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice
• Wes Ely, MD, MPH, Professor of Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
• Donna Fick, PhD, RN, Elouise Ross Eberly Professor of Nursing and Professor of Medicine and Director of Center of Geriatric Nursing Excellence, Pennsylvania State University; Editor, Journal of Gerontological Nursing
• Terry Fulmer, PhD, RN, President, The John A Hartford Foundation
• Sherry A. Greenberg, PhD, RN, GNP-BC, FNAP, FAANP, FAAN Profesor and Hess Endowed Chair in Nursing Education, Marjorie K. Unterberg School of Nursing and Health Sciences
• Scotte R. Hartronft, MD, MBA, FACP, Executive Director, VA Office of Geriatrics and Extended Care, Veterans Health Administration
• Carrie Hays McElroy, MSN, RN, Gero-BC, ACM, VP Clinical Operations/CNO, Chief Integrity and Compliance Officer, Trinity Health PACE
• Kate Hilton, JD, MTS, Senior Consultant, ReThink Health and Faculty, Institute for Healthcare Improvement
• Ann Hwang, MD, Director of the Center for Consumer Engagement in Health Innovation, Community Catalyst
• Barbara Jacobs, RN, Vice President, Nursing and Chief Nursing Officer, Anne Arundel Medical Center
• Maulik Joshi, DrPH, Chief Executive Officer, Meritus Health
• Doug Koekkoek, MD, Chief Executive, Providence Medical Group
• Bruce Leff, MD, Professor, Johns Hopkins Medicine and Director, The Center for Transformative Geriatric Research, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
• Shari M. Ling, MD, Acting CMS Chief Medical Officer
• Nancy Lundebjerg, MPA, Chief Executive Officer, American Geriatrics Society
• Joe McCannon, Founder, Shared Nation, Formerly Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Billions Institute
• Angela Patterson, DNP, FNP-BC, NEA-BC, FAANP, Chief Nurse Practitioner Officer, CVS Minute Clinic Vice President, CVS Health
• VJ Periyakoil, MD, Director, Palliative Care Education and Training, Stanford University School of Medicine, VA Palo Alto Health Care System, Division of Primary Care and Population Health
• ​Jonathan Perlin, MD, President and CEO, The Joint Commission
• Eric Rackow, MD, Executive Chairman and Co-Founder, eFamilyCare; President Emeritus, NYU Hospital Center; Professor of Medicine, NYU School of Medicine
• ​Stephanie Rogers, MD, MPH Assistant Professor, Medicine, University of California, San Francisco
• Ronnie Rosenthal, MD, Professor of Surgery, Yale School of Medicine and Surgeon-In-Chief, VA Connecticut Healthcare System
• Erica Rossitto, MBA/HCM, BSN, RN, NEA-BC, Chief Nursing Executive, HCA Healthcare American Group, Vice President, Group Clinical Operations
• Nirav Shah, MD, MPH, Adjunct Professor at the School of Medicine, Stanford University
• Albert Siu, MD , Professor and System Chair, Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine, Population Health Science and Policy, General Internal Medicine
• Victor Tabbush, PhD, Adjunct Professor Emeritus, UCLA Anderson School of Management
• Julie Trocchio, MSN, Senior Director, Community Benefit and Continuing Care, Catholic Health Association of the United States

Age-Friendly Health Systems What Matters Advisory Group

• Joann Austin
• Elissa Brown
• MaeMargaret Evans
• Kate Hilton
• Janice Hopper
• Andrea Kabcenell
• Rafael Ruiz
• Robert Small
• Randy Smith
• Madge Street