Committees
AGS/ADGAP 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.
Chair: Lisa Granville, MD, AGSF
Vice Chair: Jonathan Flacker, MD
Staff Contact: Marianna Drootin - E-mail
CLINICAL PRACTICE AND MODELS OF CARE (CPMC) COMMITTEE
MISSION: To ensure every older American receives high quality patient centered care through identifying developing and disseminating best practices in clinical care.
Chair: Mathew McNabney, MD
Vice Chair: Paul Mulhausen, MD
Staff Contact: Mary Jordan Samuel - E-mail
cc. Linda Saunders - E-mail
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.
Chair: Joseph Shega, MD
Vice Chair: Carolin Vitale, MD
Staff Contact: Mary Jordan Samuel - E-mail
cc. Linda Saunders - E-mail
ETHNOGERIATRICS COMMITTEE
MISSION: To ensure every older American receives high quality patient centered care through incorporating an Ethnogeriatrics focus into Society activities through participation in standing AGS Committees.
Chair: Cynthia X. Pan, MD, AGSF
Vice Chair: Carmel Bitondo Dyer, MD, AGSF, FACP
Staff Contact: Li-Chia Ong Chansanchai - E-mail
HEALTH SYSTEMS INNOVATION - ECONOMICS AND TECHNOLOGY COMMITTEE
MISSION: To ensure every older American receives high quality, coordinated, cost-effective, patient-centered care by developing and supporting economic and technologic health system innovation.
Chair: Michael Gloth, MD, AGSF
Vice Chair: Irene Hamrick, MD, CMD, FAAFP
Staff Contact: Alanna Goldstein - E-mail
PUBLIC EDUCATION COMMITTEE
MISSION: To promote public knowledge and awareness of the special health needs of older adults and the role and benefits of quality geriatric health services through public education.
Chair: Moira Fordyce, MD, FRCP, EdD, AGSF
Vice Chair: Alice Pomidor, MD
Staff Contact: Li-Chia Ong Chansanchai - E-mail
cc. Elvy Ickowicz - E-mail
PUBLIC POLICY COMMITTEE
MISSION: To ensure every older American receives high quality patient centered care by providing strategic oversight and planning for AGS public policy efforts.
Chair: Peter Hollmann, MD, AGSF
Vice Chair: Michael Malone, MD
Staff Contact: Alanna Goldstein - E-mail
QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT COMMITTEE (QPMC)
MISSION: To ensure that every older American receives high quality patient-centered care by leading the Society's efforts to influence P4P and quality improvement initiatives so that any quality and P4P systems adopted reflect the unique health care needs of older adults.
Chair: Caroline S. Blaum, MD, MS
Vice Chair: Thomas Von Sternberg, MD
Staff Contact: Ashley Fletcher - E-mail
AGS RESEARCH COMMITTEE
MISSION: To ensure that every older American receives high quality patient-centered care through development, dissemination, and application of new knowledge to improve the health and well being of older adults and;
To foster interdisciplinary research across the full spectrum of research in Geriatrics and Gerontology including basic biomedical, social-behavioral, clinical, health services delivery, and ethics research.
Chair: Jerry Gurwitz, MD, AGSF
Vice Chair: Laura Hanson, MD, MPH
Staff Contact: Ashley Fletcher - E-mail
STEERING COMMITTEE
Mission: The Mission of the Steering Committee is to coordinate activities across committees in order to avoid duplication of efforts and promote efficiency among the individual Committees and to facilitate communication between Committees and the AGS, ADGAP, and FHA Boards. The Committee will also serve as a deliberative body in planning for work on areas that cut across individual committee focus areas.
Chair: Wayne McCormick, MD, MPH, AGSF
Staff Contact: Dennise McAlpin - E-mail
