
Our Geriatric Circle Team

Shirley Girouard, PhD, RN, FAAN
Co-director, Geriatric Workforce Enhancement Program
SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University

Elizabeth Halifax, PhD, RN
Assistant Professor
Department of Social & Behavioral Sciences
University of California, San Francisco

J Taylor Harden, PhD, RN
Executive Director Emeritus
National Hartford Center of Gerontological Nursing Excellence

Nina A. Kohn, JD
College of Law
Syracuse University
Law professor focused on civil rights of older adults, advance planning and health-care decisionmaking,
guardianship and its alternatives, elder abuse, and long-term care.

Christine Kovner PhD, RN, FAAN
Professor Emerita
Rory Meyers College of Nursing
New York University
New York

Albert H. Lam, MD
Geriatrics, Hospice and Palliative Care Medicine, Internal Medicine
Board Member
California Association of Long Term Care Medicine

Caroline Madrigal, PhD, RN
Geriatrics and Extended Care
VA Boston Healthcare System
Boston, Massachusetts

Charlene Harrington, Ph.D. RN, Professor Emerita
Department of Social & Behavioral Sciences
University of California San Francisco

Ann M Kolanowski PhD, RN, FAAN
Professor Emerita
Academy Professor
Ross and Carol Nese College of Nursing
Penn State

Alison Kris, PhD, RN
Professor
Egan School of Nursing and Health Studies
Fairfield University
Fairfield, CT

Ruth Ludwick, PhD, RN-BC, APRN-CNS, FAAN

Diane Feeney Mahoney PhD RN, GNP-ret
Professor Emerita
School of Nursing
MGH Institute of Health Professions
Boston, MA. 02129
Clinical and research career spent supporting older adults and their families across the spectrum of long-term care. Pioneer nurse Gerontechnologist adapting innovative technologies to the functional and safety needs to sustain optimal aging- in- place.

Graham J McDougall Jr PhD, FAAN, FGSA, PMHCNS; GNP-BC
President and Founder Senior WISE.
Wisdom Is Simply Exploration
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Anne Montgomery
Analyst
Affiliated with the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare and the Center
for Innovation
Anne Montgomery is an experienced policy analyst and researcher specializing in LTSS. Her background includes working as a senior legislative aide for Congress, at GAO, and as director of the Center for Eldercare Improvement.