AGS Committees support the important work we do to promote the health, independence, and quality of life of all older adults across key focus areas in academic research, clinical practice, public education, and workforce empowerment.
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AGS/ADGAP Education Committee
Mission: To ensure every older American receives high-quality, person-centered care through promotion of geriatrics education for all trainees/students and health professionals.
Chair: Steve Barczi, MD
Vice Chair: Lisa Strano-Paul, MD
AGS Staffer: Marianna Drootin
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Clinical Practice and Models of Care (CPMC) Committee
Mission: To ensure every older American receives high-quality, person-centered care by identifying, developing, and disseminating best practices in clinical care.
Chair: Belinda Setters, MD, AGSF
Vice Chair: Ariel Green, MD, AGSF
AGS Staffer: Mary Jordan Samuel
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Ethics Committee
Mission: To ensure every older American receives high-quality, person-centered care by improving public and professional understanding of ethical and moral issues intrinsic in caring for frail older adults.
Chair: Timothy Farrell, MD, AGSF
Vice Chair: Aruna Josyula, MD, MPH, CMD
AGS Staffer: Mary Jordan Samuel
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Ethnogeriatrics Committee
Mission: To ensure every older American receives high-quality, person-centered care by incorporating an ethnogeriatrics focus into AGS activities through participation in standing AGS Committees.
Chair: Ugochi Ohuabunwa, MD
Vice Chair: Michi Yukawa, MD, MPH, AGSF
AGS Staffer: Elisha Medina-Gallagher
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Health Systems Innovations & Technology Committee
Mission: To ensure every older American receives high-quality, coordinated, cost-effective, person-centered care by developing and supporting economic and technologic health system innovation.
Chair: Ariba Khan, MD, MPH, AGSF
Vice Chair: Thomas Triantafillou, MD
AGS Staffer: Alanna Goldstein and Anna Kim
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Public Education Committee
Mission: To ensure every older American receives high-quality, person-centered care by promoting public knowledge and awareness of the special health needs of older adults and the role and benefits of quality geriatric health services.
Chair: Alicia I. Arbaje, MD, MPH, PhD
Vice Chair: Maryjo Cleveland, MD
AGS Staffer: Aimee Cegelka
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Public Policy Committee
Mission: To ensure every older American receives high quality, person-centered care by providing strategic oversight and planning for AGS public policy efforts.
Chair: William Hung, MD, MPH
Vice Chair: Audrey Chun, MD, MPH, AGSF
AGS Staffer: Alanna Goldstein
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Quality and Performance Measurement Committee (QPMC)
Mission: To ensure that every older American receives high-quality, person-centered care by leading AGS efforts to influence pay-for-performance and quality improvement initiatives so that any quality and payment systems adopted reflect the unique healthcare needs of older adults.
Chair: Sei J. Lee, MD, MAS
Vice Chair: Michael Perskin, MD
AGS Staffer: Aimee Cegelka
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AGS Research Committee
Mission: To ensure that every older American receives high-quality, person-centered care through the development, dissemination, and application of new knowledge to improve the health and well-being of older adults; To foster interdisciplinary research across the full spectrum of geriatrics and gerontology, including basic biomedical, social-behavioral, clinical, health services delivery, and ethics research.
Chair: Cynthia Boyd, MD, MPH
Vice Chair: Sarah Berry, MD, MPH
AGS Staffer: Erin Obrusniak
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Steering Committee
Mission: To coordinate activities across AGS Committees to avoid duplication of efforts and promote efficiency and facilitate communication between Committees and the AGS, ADGAP, and the Health in Aging Foundation Boards; To serve as a deliberative body in planning for work on areas that cut across individual committee focus areas.
Note: This Committee consists of the Chairs and Vice Chairs from other AGS Standing Committees. Members cannot apply for service on this committee.
Chair: G. Michael Harper, MD, AGSF
AGS Staffer: Denise McAlpin
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