Past Age-Friendly Echo Presentations
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Dr. Elizabeth Joy practices Family Medicine and Sports Medicine at the Salt Lake Clinic LiVe Well Center. She is an adjunct faculty member at the University of Utah School of Medicine in the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine and the University of Utah College of Health Department of Nutrition & Integrative Physiology. Dr. Joy is a Past President of both the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM), and the Female Athlete Triad Coalition. She held 2 terms of office on the Board of Trustees for the American Medical Society for Sports Medicine. She is on the Editorial Board for The Clinical Journal of Sports Medicine, and is Associate Editor for Current Sports Medicine Reports. She serves as Chair of the Exercise Is Medicine Governance Committee for the ACSM, and co-chairs the EIM Clinical Practice Committee. In addition, she chairs the Healthcare Workgroup for the National Physical Activity Plan Alliance. She developed and directed the Primary Care Sports Medicine Fellowship Program at the University of Utah from 1998 until 2011. Her research and advocacy interests lie in the areas of physical activity assessment and promotion, the Female Athlete Triad, air quality and health, and diabetes prevention.
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Dr. James Ballard has been a faculty member in the Department of Physical Therapy since 2004. He is currently a clinical assistant professor and the clinical director of the University Balance and Mobility Clinic (formerly Rehabilitation and Wellness Clinic). Dr. Ballard is a board-certified clinical specialist in geriatric and women's health physical therapy. His chief clinical interests are Parkinson's disease, male and female pelvic floor muscle dysfunction, balance evaluation and training and vestibular rehabilitation. He is a member of the Deep Brain Stimulation Team at the University Health Sciences Center.
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Carmen Bowman is a consultant, trainer, author and owner of Edu-Catering: Catering Education for Compliance and Culture Change turning her former role of regulator into educator. Carmen was a Colorado state surveyor for nine years, a policy analyst with CMS Central Office where she taught the national Basic Surveyor Course. As a contractor to CMS, Carmen co-developed the original Artifacts of Culture Change measurement tool and now subsequent Artifacts 2.0, authored the background papers for and facilitated both Creating Home national symposiums. She has a Master's degree in Healthcare Systems, a Bachelor's in Social Work and German, is a Certified Eden Associate and Eden Mentor, Certified Validation Worker, Group Practitioner and Presenter. Carmen co-founded the Colorado Culture Change Coalition, and with Action Pact has authored eight culture change workbooks and has hosted the monthly web culture change talk show Conversations in Culture Change with Carmen over a decade. Carmen is Co-Editor of the international journal Activities, Adaptations and Aging: Purposeful and Dignified Living for Older Adults.
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Nina Caplan, Mallory Capron, Caitlin Fitzgerald, Raina Taylor, and Justin Walker, Physical Therapy Interns, are part of the Associated Health Training (AHT) program at the VA Salt Lake City Health Care System. AHT programs are supported by the Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center (GRECC) network, which serve as a leader in geriatric-/gerontology-specific interprofessional education. Trainees in nursing, pharmacy, psychology, social work, audiology, physical therapy, occupational therapy and many others health professions participate in a variety of educational and clinical activities. Within VA Health Systems around the country, GRECCS train allied health providers to provide patient-directed, team-based care for older adults.
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Dr. Melissa Cheng is an Associate Professor at the University of Utah (UofU). She graduated from the UofU School of Medicine in 2008. In 2003, she earned a Master of Health Science in International Health with an emphasis on complex humanitarian emergencies from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and a Master of Occupational Health from the UofU in 2010. Dr. Cheng is the founder and director of the UofU Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) training program, a universal screening program for substance use disorder. Her research interests include evaluating the effectiveness of opioid use within the workers compensation system, and she has presented locally and nationally on "opioids in the workplace." Dr. Cheng is board-certified in addiction medicine and practices at the University of Utah Hospital Addiction Consult Service. She is also the Clinical Medical Director for Comagine Health where she works on various projects improving the quality and access to care for opioid use disorder.
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Dr. Camille "Cami" Collett was raised in Colorado and came to Utah in 1975 to attend Westminster College in Salt Lake City. She graduated from the University of Utah Medical Center (UUMC) in 1983. Cami completed her Family Medicine Residency at Holy Cross Hospital with the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine (DFPM) at the University of Utah. She has been training young family medicine physicians since 1986. Cami started Family Medicine Residency Program in 1994 that is now based at St. Mark’s Hospital. She returned to Westminster College to complete her Masters of Public Health (MPH) in 2018. Cami studied ways to improve Advance Care Planning (ACP), so patients’ wishes can be followed at the end of life. Her husband is a retired physics professor and her 36 year-old son has his masters in music. She loves singing, hiking, swimming, skiing, bicycling, and spending time with her grandson.
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Jeremy Holloway PhD is Assistant Professor and Director of Geriatric Education at the University of North Dakota. The focus of his research is concentrated on the social determinants of health, specifically self-efficacy, connectedness, and resiliency of older adults. Dr. Holloway developed a curriculum focused on intergenerational programs that include growth mindset, reminiscence therapy, mindfulness, guided imagery, and specific, measurable, attainable, relevant and time-bound (SMART) goal-setting practices to nourish internal qualities and self-agency of older adults. These best practices for wellness and health promotion address needs related to loneliness and social isolation. Dr. Holloway is also an advocate for diversity, equity, and inclusion, especially regarding Social Determinants of Health for all peoples.
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Catherine B. Soehner, BSN, MLS, AHIP, is the Associate Dean for Research and the Director of the Eccles Health Sciences Library at the University of Utah. She has 35 years of experience in librarianship with 25 of those years spent in named leadership positions. Catherine‘s research interests are focused on change management and leadership with publications and presentations focused on systems thinking, conspiratorial thinking in the workplace, and assessment of library programs. She has given over 70 presentations and published two books, one on effective difficult conversations (2017) and the other on strategic planning (2019).
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Adrienne Butterwick, MPH, CHES is a Senior Improvement Advisor at Comagine Health. She is currently working on quality improvement efforts directed by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to improve quality of care for residents living in post-acute and long term care as well as assisted living and home health, as well as an initiative to increase advance care practices in those settings. She completed her Bachelors of Science degree in Behavioral Science and Health at the University of Utah in 2007 and her Master's in Public Health at Westminster College in 2014. She has also earned recognition as a Certified Healthcare Education Specialist (CHES). In her 15 years of public health project management she has also worked in rural health research, provider education programs and care management. She has a strong passion for quality improvement and public health.
Karen Taubert, RN, BSN, MBA possesses 40 years of clinical and administrative leadership experience in acute, home health, nursing facility, and safety net settings. She is currently a Senior Consultant for Comagine Health, a position in which she provides a variety of technical assistance activities related to the company's medical home consulting engagements.
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Dr. Kathie Supiano is a Professor at the University of Utah (UofU) College of Nursing, and the Director of Caring Connections: A Hope and Comfort in Grief Program. She attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison, earning a BS in Psychology, a Master’s Degree in Child and Family Studies (Human Development) and a Master’s Degree in Counseling and Guidance. Kathie earned a PhD from the UofU College of Social Work in 2012. Kathie is a PhD-prepared licensed clinical social worker and have been a practicing psychotherapist in geriatrics, palliative care and grief therapy for over 40 years. Her clinical practice includes care of older adults with depression and multiple chronic health concerns, end-of-life care, and bereavement care. In addition to counseling, Kathie has worked in the areas of elder abuse and neglect, geriatric care management, nursing home advocacy and smoking cessation. Prior to joining the faculty in 2007, she served as social worker to the UofU Hospital Palliative Care team.
- During this session, we will showcase and discuss emerging best practices for interacting with and leveraging the technology in ways that are person-centered for both staff and patients alike. We invite attendees to consider the key elements of team-based approaches to telehealth, focusing on the role of the nurse. The target audience for this session includes any staff at in the nursing or assisted living facility or home health setting who is likely to support or participate in telehealth or virtual service delivery.
Session Objectives:• Walk through a telehealth visit from scheduling to follow-up, capturing best practices along the way specific to how telehealth is received in LTPACs, assisted living or the home health setting• Explore leverage points for nurses and other staff to optimize key elements of the telehealth visit from initiation, patient preparation and documentation to care plans and effective/safe communication• List best practices to ensure safety, quality and patient/staff experience• Up your game by deploying quality improvement and quality assurance strategies, building on the previous session.
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Caroline Stephens, PhD, RN, GNP-BC, FGSA, FAAN is an Associate Professor and the Helen Lowe Bamberger Colby Presidential Endowed Chair in Gerontological Nursing. She obtained her Bachelor of Science degree in Biological Psychology and Human Development and Aging from the University of California, Davis. She subsequently attended the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing where she obtained her Bachelor of Science degree in Nursing, Master of Science degree in Geropsychiatric Advanced Practice Nursing, and Gerontological Nurse Practitioner Post-Master's Certificate. Dr. Stephens then obtained her PhD in Gerontological Nursing and Health Policy at the University of California, San Francisco where she also completed 2 concurrent post-doctoral fellowships - one in the UCSF Division of Geriatrics/San Francisco VA Medical Center as a VA Quality Scholar and the other in the UCSF Dept. of Social and Behavioral Sciences as a John A. Hartford Foundation/Atlantic Philanthropies Claire M. Fagin Postdoctoral Fellow. Prior to joining the faculty at the University of Utah College of Nursing in October 2019, she was a tenured faculty member at the University of California, San Francisco School of Nursing. She has over 20 years of clinical experience caring for vulnerable older adults with complex mental and physical multi-morbidity - from in-home primary care in inner-city Philadelphia, to developing the first APN-led geropsychiatric clinical practice in rural Central Valley California, to consulting in over 100 nursing homes and assisted living facilities in 4 states. Her extramurally-funded program of research is focused on improving the health and health care of this diverse population, particularly those at greatest risk for poor care transitions with unmet palliative care needs, and their caregivers.
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Laura Shane-McWhorter, PharmD, BCPS, BC-ADM, CDCES, FASCP, FADCES, is a Professor (Clinical) Emeritus in the Department of Pharmacotherapy at the University of Utah College of Pharmacy. She is a past member of the Board of Directors of the Association of Diabetes Care and Education Specialists. Laura works via telehealth as a clinical pharmacist and diabetes care and education specialist for CHC, Inc. clinics, working with underserved patients. Dr. Shane-McWhorter also works with an Interprofessional Education team consisting of students from different disciplines to provide care for underserved patients through a virtual format. Finally, she teaches different classes at the College of Pharmacy, including a course on natural product drugs.
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Bret Hicken is the Aging Program Manager with the VHA Office of Rural Health’s Veterans Rural Health Resource Center in Salt Lake City, UT. In addition, he is a Psychologist at the George E. Wahlen Veterans Affairs Medical Center, and a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Counseling Psychology at the University of Utah. Bret received his PhD in clinical/medical psychology and Masters of Public Health from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He completed a clinical internship at the Salt Lake City VA, and a postdoctoral fellowship with the Geriatric Research, Education, and Clinical Center (GRECC) at VA Salt Lake City. His research and policy interests focus on improving access to and quality of healthcare for aging rural veterans, supporting caregivers of rural veterans with dementia, management of problematic behaviors in older adults with cognitive problems, and VA/community partnerships support aging in place for rural veterans.
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Joan Heusser, RD, CD, NBC-HWC, is the Health Promotion Disease Prevention Program Manager and a registered dietitian at the VA Salt Lake City Health Care System. She has worked at the Salt Lake City VA for 37 years in multiple areas of Nutrition, Health Promotion, Patient-Centered Care, Whole Health, and works with various food insecurity programs. Joan leads multiple initiatives at VA Salt Lake City, including a VA Farmers Market with 4 food insecurity programs, a community partnership Produce Prescription program, Culinary Medicine clinical staff education, and employee Whole Health Coaching. She has a Bachelor of Science degree from Brigham Young University and is a National Board-Certified Health and Wellness Coach.
Megan Bowman, MS, is a Registered Dietitian, serving as Assistant Chief of Nutrition and Food Services at the VA Salt Lake City Health Care System. She received her Bachelor of Science in Food and Nutrition from Montana State University in 2005 and her Master of Science in Human Nutrition from Arizona State University in 2007. She is currently detailed to VA Central Office as a Food Security Program Coordinator working to stand up a national office that functions to ensure Veteran food security. Megan is a Health and Aging Policy Fellow and sits on local and national committees geared at ensuring Veteran food security and quality management. She has also held an adjunct faculty position at Salt Lake Community College teaching Nutrition Science, for the last eight years.
Sarah Puig-Holzman is a graduate student in dietetics at the University of Utah. As she completes her coordinated master’s program with the Department of Nutrition and Integrative Physiology, she also serves as a student leader on the University’s Anti-Racism Taskforce, and the College’s Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Committee. She has been heavily involved in efforts to address food insecurity during her studies, completing her graduate research project with the Utah Department of Health to assess the issues facing individuals who are food insecure to understand how to better meet their needs. Currently, she is working with the VA’s Health Promotion & Disease Prevention program on various projects focused on advocating for better access to nutrition and health resources for Veterans experiencing food insecurity. As a dietitian, Sarah plans to work in a community setting to improve food access, provide nutrition education and enable others to take control of their health. When she is not working, she is playing in the mountains, either trail running with her pup, skiing, hiking, or biking.
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Phil Kithas, MD, PhD is an Associate Professor in Internal Medicine and an Adjunct Associate Professor in Family Medicine. His research interests are in geriatric cardiovascular medicine which has been a major focus during his career, e.g. cardiovascular disease, hypertension, hyperlipidemia and anticoagulation management. His clinical work at the Madsen Geriatrics Clinic focuses on geriatrics, cardiovascular disease and preoperative assessment. He is an outstanding teacher and supervises medical students and other trainees at the Madsen Clinic and also in a number of clinics for the underserved where he has been a regular volunteer for many years.
At the George E. Wahlen Salt Lake Veterans Health Care System, Dr. Kithas served as the General Medicine Section Chief from September 1999 to October 2006 prior to joining the Geriatrics Division. After 25 years at the Salt Lake VA Medical Center, Dr Kithas retired and moved to the University of Utah Madsen Geriatric Clinic.
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Andrew Layne is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with Intermountain Healthcare. Since 2019, he has served as the Board President for the Utah Social Work Association. Andrew earned a Bachelor’s in Social Work from Weber State University, and a Master of Social Work from Brigham Young University. As a Hospice Social Worker, he is trained to assess, support and counsel people for depression and suicide risk, which are increased at the end of life. Andrew also assists patients and their families in completing suicide prevention plans, including removing access to lethal means such as firearms and medications.
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Dr. Caroline Stephens is an Associate Professor and the Helen Lowe Bamberger Colby Presidential Endowed Chair in Gerontological Nursing. As a PhD-prepared Gerontological Nurse Practitioner and Geropsychiatric Advanced Practice Nurse with over 20 years of clinical experience, she is a nationally recognized expert in the care of vulnerable older adults with complex mental and physical multi-morbidity. Her interdisciplinary community-engaged program of research is focused on improving the health and health care of this diverse population, particularly those at greatest risk for poor care transitions with unmet palliative care needs, and their caregivers.
Dr. Natalie Sanders is an Associate Professor with the Division of Geriatrics at University of Utah (UofU) Health. She completed osteopathic medical school at Western University in southern California followed by her internship and residency at UofU. After practicing for three years in general medicine, she pursued her passion for geriatrics by completing a geriatrics fellowship at that same institution. She supervises students and provides primary and consultative care to older adults with an emphasis on falls, frailty and identifying patient priorities. She is also the Program Director for the Geriatrics Fellowship Program and the Medical Director for Madsen Geriatrics Clinic.
Dr. Timothy W. Farrell is Professor of Medicine and Geriatrics Division Interim Clinical Co-Chief at the Spencer Fox Eccles School of Medicine at the University of Utah. He also serves as Geriatrics Division Associate Chief for Age-Friendly Care and as a Physician Investigator at the VA Salt Lake City Geriatric, Research, Education, and Clinical Center. Under his leadership, University of Utah Health received Age-Friendly Committed to Care Excellence designation from the Institute for Healthcare Improvement in November 2021. He is active in local and national initiatives to advance age-friendly health systems, including the HRSA-funded Utah Geriatric Education Consortium and the John A Hartford-funded Patient Priorities Care initiative
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Dr. Nicholas Cox is an Assistant (Clinical) Professor at the University of Utah College of Pharmacy. He completed his undergraduate studies at the College of Eastern Utah, and earned his Doctor of Pharmacy degree at the University of Utah. Dr. Cox completed a PGY1 Pharmacy Practice residency and a PGY2 Ambulatory Care residency at University of Utah Health. As clinical faculty, he also practices as a clinical pharmacist at a primary care clinic, the University of Utah Westridge Health Center, in West Valley City, Utah. Dr. Cox leads and teaches the pain module at the University of Utah College of Pharmacy, and is engaged in ongoing research related to the use of opioids. Dr. Emi Radetich was born and raised in Salt Lake City. She completed her undergraduate and PharmD studies at the University of Utah. Dr. Radetich is a PGY-1 Track A pharmacy resident at University of Utah Health, and looks forward to exploring her current areas of interest in informatics, digital health, and artificial intelligence. When not at the hospital, she enjoys spending time with family and friends, running and weight-lifting, and working in pharmacy professional organizations and student-led clinics.
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Dr. Carole Baraldi, M.D., is an associate professor in the Division of Geriatrics at the University of Utah and a faculty member at the George E. Whalen Veterans Affairs Medical Center Geriatric Research, Education, and Clinical Center (GRECC). She is board certified in Geriatrics and Hospice and Palliative Medicine. Her current clinical role involves optimizing care of frail, geriatric surgical patients. Her academic interests include education of medical students, residents and fellows in the clinical setting, multi-disciplinary care models in the care of geriatric surgical patients, transitions of care and end-of-life care models. Dr. Baraldi completed medical school and internal medicine residency at the The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland, then completed fellowship training in Geriatrics at the University of Utah School of Medicine. Since completing her training in 2000, Dr. Baraldi has worked in the Salt Lake City community in skilled nursing care, hospice care and primary care geriatrics. In 2009 she returned to an academic career. She spent over 20 as a medical director in several skilled nursing facilities and hospices in Salt Lake City. She also served as the Geriatric Fellowship Program Director at the University of Utah for 13 years, and as a core faculty educator in the medical school Clinical Methods Curriculum for 4 years. She is currently the medical director for the GRECC demonstration project COGS (Care Coordination in Geriatric Surgery) at the VAMC.
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Dr. Norman Foster is a cognitive and geriatric neurologist specializing in the care of Alzheimer’s disease and related disorders. His research has focused on brain imaging and clinical drug trials. Dr. Foster is currently Professor Emeritus in the Department of Neurology at the University of Utah. He completed his undergraduate training at MacMurray College in Illinois and received his M.D. from the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, where he subsequently completed an internship in Straight Medicine. After completing his residency in Neurology at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, Dr. Foster relocated to Bethesda, Maryland for a three-year fellowship in Experimental Therapeutics with the National Institute of Neurological and Communicative Disorders and Stroke at the NIH. He was on the faculty at the University of Michigan and joined the University of Utah in 2005 to become founding Director of the Center for Alzheimer's Care, Imaging and Research. Dr. Foster also is the Founder and CEO of ProActive Memory Services, Inc., which is developing webbased mobile software using the company’s MemoryCarePartner© educational software platform to provide individualized Alzheimer training for direct care providers in assisted living facilities and personal care agencies.
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Shaun Chatelain, DO, is a geriatrician in the Stansbury Health Center and the Madsen Health Center Geriatrics Clinics. As a geriatrician he enjoys caring for and learning from older adults. Dr. Chatelain’s clinical interests include: bone health and preventing/treating osteoporosis; geriatric behavioral health; and deprescribing to reduce polypharmacy. He received his Bachelor of Science in Biological Engineering from Utah State University 2009, and a Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine at the Arizona College of Osteopathic Medicine in 2014. Dr. Chatelain completed an Internal Medicine Residency at the University of Arizona, followed by a Fellowship in Geriatrics at the University of Utah. In his spare time, he enjoys hiking, skiing, fly fishing and spending time with his wife, son and their Pomeranian.