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Education Committee
Mission: To ensure every older American receives high quality patient centered care through promotion of geriatrics education for all trainees/ students and health professionals.

Getting Involved

Staff Contact
Elvy Ickowicz (Eickowicz@americangeriatrics.org)

Chair
Lisa Granville, MD
Florida State University
Tallahassee, FL

Vice Chair
Peggy Szwabo, PhD, ACSW, RN, APN, CCS
Szwabo and Associates
St. Louis, MO

Members (* = new member as of May 2008)

Sandra Bellantonio, MD
Tufts University School of Medicine
Springfield, MA

Mary Cadogan, DrPH, RN, GNP-C
University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA

Marissa Galicia-Castillo
Glennan Center for Geriatrics and Gerontology
Norfolk, VA

Thomas L. Griebling, MD
University of Kansas Medical Center
Kansas City, KS

Reena Karani, MD
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
New York, NY

Sharon A. Levine, MD
Boston University School of Medicine
Boston, MA

Karen Novielli, MD
Jefferson Medical College
Philadelphia, PA

Peggy Soule Odegard, PharmD
University of Washington
Seattle, WA

VJ Periyakoil, MD
Ethnogeriatrics Committee Representative
VA Geriatrics and Palliative Care Clinics VAPAHCS
Stanford University School of Medicine
Palo Alto, CA

Donna Regenstrief, PhD
GeroConcepts
Jensen Beach, FL

Marc Rothman, MD
Fellows-in-Training Section Past Chair
Yale University School of Medicine
New Haven, CT

Don Scott, MD
University of Chicago
Chicago, IL

Daniel L. Swagerty, Jr., MD, MPH
University of Kansas Medical Center
Kansas City, KS

Internal Liaisons
Thomas W. Jackson, MD, AGSF
Chair, Professional Education Executive Committee
Palmetto Health Senior Primary Care
Columbia, SC

Barbara Resnick, PhD, CRNP, FAAN, FAANP
AGS Board of Directors
Columbia, MD

Andrew Rosenzweig, MD
Fellows-in-Training Chair
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA

Annette Medina-Walpole, MD
Teachers Section Chair
University of Rochester
Rochester, NY

External Liaisons
Christine Ann Arenson, MD
Society for Teachers of Family Medicine
Jefferson Medical College
Philadelphia, PA

Judith L. Howe, PhD
AGHE
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Bronx, NY