Ethics Committee
Mission: To ensure every older American receives high quality patient centered care through improving public and professional understanding of ethical and moral issues intrinsic in caring for frail older adults.

Getting Involved

Staff Contact
Joseph Douglas (jdouglas@americangeriatrics.org)
cc. Linda Saunders (lsaunders@americangeriatrics.org)

Chair
Seema Modi, MD
The Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina
Greenville, NC

Vice Chair
Andrea R. Fox, MD, MPH
VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System
Pittsburgh, PA

Members (* = new member as of May 2008)

Susan Charette, MD
University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA

Karen Feldt, PhD, APRN, GNP
College of Nursing, Seattle University
Seattle, WA

Kathy Kemle, PA-C*
The Medical Center of Central Georgia
Macon, GA

Fred Kobylarz, MD, MPH
Ethnogeriatrics Committee Representative
Florida State University College of Medicine
Tallahassee, FL

James Lai, MD, ScM
Yale Institution
New Haven, CT

Solomon Liao, MD (Outgoing Vice Chair)
University of California at Irvine
Irvine, CA

Daniel Mendelson, MD, MS
University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry
Rochester, NY

Aanand Naik, MD
Houston Center for Quality of Care
Houston, TX

Sandra Sanchez-Reilly, MD
University of Texas Health and Science Center at San Antonio
San Antonio, TX

Joseph Shega, MD
University of Chicago School of Medicine
Chicago, IL

Elizabeth Vig, MD
VA Puget Sound Health Care System
Seattle, WA

Caroline Vitale, MD
New York Medical College
New York, NY

Angelo Volandes, MD, MPH*
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, MA

Internal Liaisons
Rachelle Bernacki, MD
Fellows-in-Training Section
University of California at San Francisco
San Francisco, CA

Greg A. Sachs, MD
AGS Board of Directors
University of Chicago
Chicago, IL