Meet the 2012 AGS Fellows
Peter H. Cheng, MD, CMD, AGSF
Head, Palo Alto Division Geriatric Medicine Program, Palo Alto Medical Foundation
Dr. Cheng, an honors graduate of Harvard College, is a native Texan who returned home for medical school and residency at Baylor College of Medicine. He completed his geriatric medicine fellowship at Johns Hopkins, where he received the Geriatric Academic Career Award and was nominated for the Humanism in Medicine Award.
Kathryn Daniel, PhD, RN, ANP-BC, GNP-BC, AGSF
Assistant Professor, College of Nursing, University of Texas at Arlington
Dr. Daniel has served on the AGS Clinical Practice and Models of Care Committee and the GAPNA Research Committee. She has reviewed Omnicare guidelines for AGS. In 2009 and 2010, she was the recipient of UT Arlington Sigma Theta Tau grants and co-authored articles published in Geriatric Nursing and the Journal of Gastroenterology Nursing.
Michael John Dolamore, MD, CMD, FAAFP, AGSF
Medical Director, Long-term Care and Rehabilitation, Hudson Valley, NY
Dr. Dolamore completed his fellowship in Geriatrics at Mount Sinai Medical Center. His professional interests include the use of hypodermoclysis in nursing facilities, palliative care, pharmacology and dementia. He has championed both full-time medical directors and closed medical model staffing as a means to improving quality of care.
George W. Drach, MD, FACS, FCPP, AGSF
Professor Emeritus of Urology/Surgery, Universities of Arizona and Pennsylvania
Dr. Drach graduated from Western Reserve University and completed a urology residency at Wake Forest University in North Carolina. From 1970 to 1996 he taught at the University of Arizona. Dr. Drach has been a long-term, active leader in the AGS Geriatrics-for-Specialists Initiative.
Ellen Flaherty, PhD, APRN, BC, AGSF
Instructor in Medicine, Dartmouth Medical School, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center
Marissa C. Galicia-Castillo, MD, MSEd, CMD, FACP, AGSF
Sue Faulkner Scribner Professor of Geriatrics and Geriatrics Fellowship Director
Dr. Galicia-Castillo completed her medical school, internal medicine residency and geriatrics fellowship at Eastern Virginia Medical School. Board certified in Internal Medicine, Geriatrics, and Hospice and Palliative Medicine, she is Medical Director for Sentara Norfolk General’s Palliative Medicine Service and Harbor’s Edge.
Monica Horton, MD, MSc, AGSF
Clinical Assistant Professor, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio Medical Director, South Texas Veterans Health Care System in San Antonio
Dr. Horton graduated from Texas A & M University Health Science Center in College Station. She is a member of the Medication Aggregate Root Cause Analysis Team at the VA and the American Board of Quality Assurance and Utilization Review Physicians.
Adrienne Mims, MD, MPH, AGSF
Medical Director, Medicare Quality Improvement at Alliant/GMCF, Adjunct Faculty, Morehouse School of Medicine
Dr. Mims is a board certified family medicine/geriatrician with over 25 years of primary care, consultative and home care geriatrics experience. She has been a medical administrator for 18 years. She currently serves on the Boards of the American Geriatrics Society and the Georgia Academy of Family Physicians.
Lynn McNicoll, MD, FRCPC, AGSF
Associate Professor, Director of Education, Division of Geriatrics, Alpert Medical School of Brown University
Dr. McNicoll graduated from McGill University, completed her residency in Internal Medicine at Northwestern University in Chicago and a fellowship in Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology at Yale University. She specializes in quality improvement initiatives for hospitalized older persons.
Sandra Y. Moody, MD, AGSF
Associate Professor, Department of Medicine/Division of Geriatrics University of California, San Francisco, Professor-in-Residence, Kameda Medical Center, Japan
Dr. Moody is certified in Internal Medicine, Geriatric, and Hospice & Palliative Medicine. She has been a member of the AGS Ethnogeriatrics and Research committees, has been published in JAGS, and has volunteered as an AGS mentor. She has received teaching awards from the UCSF Geriatrics Division as well as grants from the VA and HRSA.
Ann Marie Nye, PharmD, FASCP, CGP, AGSF
Associate Professor of Pharmacy Practice, Geriatrics, Campbell University Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Family Medicine, East Carolina University
Dr. Nye graduated from Virginia Commonwealth University, Medical College of Virginia and completed a geriatric pharmacy residency at Audie L. Murphy Memorial Veterans Hospital and The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio.
Donna I. Regenstreif, PhD, AGSF
GeroConcepts, Inc.
Barbara Resnick, PhD, CRNP, FAAN, FAANP, AGSF
Professor, Sonya Ziporkin Gershowitz Chair in Gerontology, University of Maryland School of Nursing
Dr. Resnick is Co-Director of the Adult/Gerontological Nurse Practitioner Program and the Lifespan Research Center of Excellence. Her research is focused on optimizing function, physical activity and overall health among older adults. She is the currently Chair of the AGS Board of Directors.
Vivyenne Roche MD, AGSF
Associate Professor, Internal Medicine UT Southwestern at Dallas
Dr. Roche attended medical school at the Royal College of Surgeons, in Ireland, and completed her geriatrics fellowship at the University of Colorado. She has been a member of the AGS Ethnogeriatrics and Program committees and has just become a member of the Ethics committee.
Debra Saliba, MD, MPH, AGSF
UCLA Anna & Harry Borun Endowed Chair in Geriatrics; GLA VA GRECC
Dr. Saliba directs the UCLA/JH Borun Center for Gerontological Research. A physician in the VA GRECC, she is strategic program lead for Long Term Care & Aging and Associate Director for Education in the VA HSR&D Center of Excellence for the Study of Healthcare Provider Behavior. She is a senior scientist at RAND. She is currently an AGS Board member.
Cathy C. Schubert, MD, AGSF
Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine, Indiana University Section Chief of Geriatrics, Indianapolis VAMC
Dr. Schubert completed her fellowship in Geriatrics at Indiana University. She serves on numerous committees, including the Alzheimer’s Association Medical and Scientific Advisory Board, the Indiana Alzheimer’s Disease and Dementia Support Task Force, and the AGS Clinical Practice and Models of Care Committee.
Inna Sheyner MD, CMD, AGSF
Associate Professor, University of South Florida College of Medicine/James A. Haley VA Hospital
Dr. Sheyner completed her Geriatrics fellowship at the University of South Florida. She has added qualifications in geriatric and palliative care medicine, and is a Certified Medical Director and attending physician and medical director of a 120-bed long-term care facility. She is President of the Florida Geriatrics Society.
Laurence M. Solberg, MD, AGSF
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine Chief, Geriatrics Consult Service and Medical Director, Rehabilitation Services, Vanderbilt University Hospital
Dr. Solberg completed his geriatric fellowship at Yale. A recent Geriatric Academic Career Award recipient, he is focusing on resident and medical student education concerning delirium, consultative geriatrics, and electronic medical record integration.
Caroline A. Vitale, MD, AGSF
Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Geriatric and Palliative Medicine at the University of Michigan and GRECC, VA Ann Arbor Healthcare Center
Dr. Vitale is the geriatric fellowship program director at University of Michigan. Her clinical and academic interests include geriatric palliative care. She also is Vice Chair of the AGS Ethics Committee.
