Convener

Christine Beatty
Director
Madison Senior Center
Madison, WI

Members

W. Andrew Achenbaum, PhD
Houston, TX

Kyle Allen, D.O., AGSF
Medical Director
Post Acute & Senior Services
Chief, Division of Geriatric Medicine
Summa Health System
Akron, OH

Mary Altpeter, PhD
Senior Research Scientist
Director of Healthy Aging Initiatives
University of North Carolina Institute on Aging
Chapel Hill, NC

Robert Blancato
President
Matz, Blancato, and Associates, Inc.
Washington, DC

Pat Branson
Executive Director
Senior Citizens of Kodiak, Inc.
Kodiak, AK

Rutherford (Jack) Brice
Decatur, GA

Thomas Brown, Jr., PhD
President & CEO
Lutheran Homes of South Carolina, Inc.
Irmo, SC  

Dr. James Bulot
Executive Director
Governor's Office of Elderly Affairs
Baton Rouge, LA 

James Davis, EdD
Executive Director
Oregon Association for Retired Citizens
Portland, OR 

Nancy Erckenbrack
Vancouver, WA

Msgr. Charles Fahey
Program Officer
Milbank Memorial Fund
Fordham University
Bronx, NY 

Carol Farquhar
Executive Director
Grantmakers in Aging
Dayton, OH 

Ronald Field
Vice President
Ledge Counsel, Inc.
Alexandria, VA 

Frankie Freeman, Esq.
The Towne House
St. Louis, MO 

Mary Furlong
CEO
Mary Furlong & Associates
Lafayette, CA 

Lura Hawkins, MBA
Director of Member Services
California Association of Physicians Groups
Los Angeles, CA 

Barbara Hoenig
Consultant
CVS Caremark
Mature Workers and Workforce Development
Washington, DC 

Carol Hunt
Executive Director
Jamaica Service Program for Older Adults
Jamaica, NY 

Marcia Kerz
President
The Oasis Institute
St. Louis, MO 

Sandra King
Jewish Family Service of Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA 

Carol Kratz
Program Director
The Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust
Scottsdale, AZ 

Douglas Kurtz
President/CEO
United Adult Ministries
Flushing, NY 

Jorge Lambrinos
Roybal Institute for Applied Gerontology
Leonard Davis School of Gerontology
Ethel Percy Andrus Gerontology Center
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA 

Anne McKinley
Evergreen, CO 

Molly Mettler
Senior Vice President of Mission
Healthwise, Inc.
Boise, ID 

Robin Mockenhaupt
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Princeton, NJ 

Jan Nestler
Executive Director
Elder & Adult Day Services
Bellevue, WA

Nora O'Brien, MA
Senior Program Officer
The John A. Hartford Foundation
New York, NY

Bob Pitman
Senior Center Services of Bartholomew County
Columbus, IN 

Patricia Polansky
Assistant Commissioner
Division of Aging and Community Services
Department of Health and Senior Services
Trenton, NJ 

Joseph Prevratil 
President & CEO
Archstone Foundation       
Long Beach, CA 

Howard Rodgers
Executive Director
New Orleans Council on Aging
New Orleans, LA 

Ronald Schoeffler, EdD
Amsterdam, NY 

Beth Schwartz
Executive Director
Jewish Family Service
Cincinnati, OH

Vicki Shepard
Senior Vice President
Strategic and Government Relations
Healthways
Franklin, TN 

June Simmons
CEO
Partners in Care Foundation
San Fernando, CA 

Eugene Smiley
President
LifeSpan Solutions, Inc.
Cincinnati, OH 

James Sykes
Madison, WI 

Laura Trejo 
City of Los Angeles Department of Aging
Los Angeles, CA 

David Turner
Program Manager, Center Program
Salt Lake County Aging Services
Salt Lake City, UT 

William Wasch
William Wasch & Associates
Middletown, CT 

Lawrence Weiss, PhD
CEO
Center for Healthy Aging
Reno, NV

Stephen Wing
Director Government Programs
CVS Pharmacy
Twinsburg, OH 

Peter Wyckoff
National Consultant
Community Catalyst
Boston, MA 

Carol Zernial
Executive Director
WellMed Charitable Foundation
San Antonio, TX

Staff
Peter Lowet, peter.lowet@ncoa.org