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AGS Board of Directors

Staff Contact
Dagmara Podwyszynska (dpodwyszynska@americangeriatrics.org)

Function and Responsibilities of Board Members

Getting Involved


Officers

John Murphy, MD
Chair
Professor of Medicine and Family Medicine
Brown Medical School;
Director of GME Rhode Island Hospital

Cheryl Phillips, MD, CMD, AGSF
President
Chief Medical Officer
OnLok

Sharon A. Brangman, MD, AGSF
President-Elect
Professor & Division Chief, Geriatric Medicine
Director, Central NY Alzheimer's Disease Center
SUNY Upstate Medical University

James T. Pacala, MD, MS
Treasurer
Associate Professor and Distinguished University Teaching Professor
Univ. of MN Medical School

Barbara Resnick, PhD, CRNP, FAAN, FAANP
Secretary
University of Maryland


Directors (* = New Director)

Cathy Alessi, MD, AGSF
Associate Director, Clinical Programs GRECC
VA Greater Los Angeles Health System Sepulveda
GRECC 11E; VA Medical Center

Sally L. Brooks, MD
Central Region Medical Director
Evercare

Steven Counsell, MD, AGSF*
Director of Geriatrics
Indiana University Medical Center

Jeffrey E. Escher, MD
Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine
New York Medical College

Ellen Flaherty, PhD, APRN, BC*
New York, NY

Keela Ann Herr, PhD, RN, FAAN
Professor & Chair, Adult Gerontological Nursing
College of Nursing, 452 NB
The University of Iowa

Don Jurivich, DO
Chief, Geriatric Medicine
WSVA Hospital



AGS Executive Vice President
Linda Hiddemen Barondess
Ex Officio

Charles Seth Landefeld, MD
Professor of Medicine & Chief
UCSF Division of Geriatrics
University of California, San Francisco

Wayne C. McCormick, MD, MPH, AGSF
Professor of Medicine
University of Washington
Division of Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine
Harborview Medical Center

Adrienne Mims, MD, MPH*
Medical Director - GAMMP
APS Healthcare

Peter V. Rabins, MD
Professor and Vice-chair for Academic Affairs
Department of Psychiatry
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

Greg A. Sachs, MD
Professor of Medicine
Chief, Division of General Internal Medicine and Geriatrics
Department of Medicine
Indiana University School of Medicine

Thomas T. Yoshikawa, MD, AGSF
Ex officio
Senior Academic Advisor, Office of Research
Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science