Professional Education Executive Committee

Mission: The Professional Education Executive Committee is responsible for developing and overseeing continuing professional education programs for health care professionals that promote better understanding of the aging process and its unique clinical challenges, and update them about the latest advances in geriatrics.

Getting Involved

Staff Contact
Linda Saunders (Lsaunders@americangeriatrics.org)
cc. Nancy Lundebjerg (Nlundebjerg@americangeriatrics.org)

Chair
Thomas W. Jackson, MD
Palmetto Health Senior Primary Care
Columbia, SC

Vice Chair
G. Paul Eleazer, MD
University of South Carolina, School of Medicine
Columbia, SC

Members (* = new member as of May 2008)

David P. Elliott, BSC, PharmD
West Virginia University, School of Pharmacy
Charleston, WV

Ellen Flaherty, PhD, MSN
GNRS Editor; 2009 Annual Meeting Program Chair
Village Nursing Home of New York City
New York, NY

John M. Heath, MD, AGSF
Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
Univeristy of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey
New Brunswick, NJ

Annette Medina-Walpole, MD
2008 Program Committee Chair
University of Rochester
Rochester, NY

James Pacala, MD, AGSF
GRS Editor, AGS Board of Directors
University of Minnesota Medical School
Minneapolis, MN

Gail Sullivan, MD, AGSF
GRS Question Editor
University of Connecticut Health Sciences Center
Farmington, CT

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