USC Morton Kesten Summit

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Date/Time: Thursday, October 20, 2016 from 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Location: Andrus Gerontology Center Auditorium and Courtyard

Description: The 2016 Summit will examine new research applications, advancements in public and private innovations, and explore the future of aging in place in three major areas:

Universal Design and Home Modifications
Fall Prevention
Service Connections

This year’s Summit will be national in scope, and special attention will be paid to pressing topics that will impact our future: aging in place technologies and the effects of air pollution on the older adult population. With opportunities for networking and poster displays, the Summit aims to build the capacity of providers and professionals to support aging in place. Click here to view the Agenda.

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Cost - $40 before Friday, September 30; $45 after
Deadline is Monday, October 10
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Schedule

Event	Time
Registration and Light Refreshments	8:30 am - 9:00 am PDT, October 20, 2016
Welcome and Opening Remarks	9:00 am - 9:15 am PDT, October 20, 2016
Panel 1 –The Promise of Recent Research: Applications to Aging in Homes and Communities	9:15 am - 10:35 am PDT, October 20, 2016
Break	10:35 am - 10:55 am PDT, October 20, 2016
Panel 2 – Innovations from Public and Private Sector Programs: Lessons from the Field	10:55 am - 12:15 pm PDT, October 20, 2016
Lunch, Poster Sessions	12:15 pm - 1:35 pm PDT, October 20, 2016
Panel 3 – What’s Next? Looking to the Future	1:35 pm - 3:20 pm PDT, October 20, 2016
Closing Remarks	3:20 pm - 3:30 pm PDT, October 20, 2016
Reception featuring 2015 Universal Design Competition Awards with music and refreshments	3:30 pm - 4:30 pm PDT, October 20, 2016

Speakers

Jennifer Ailshire, PhD

Dr. Ailshire is an Assistant Professor of Gerontology at the USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology. Her research addresses questions that lie at the intersections of social stratification, urban sociology, and the sociology of health and aging. In particular, her research focuses on the importance of the neighborhood environment and social relationships in determining health over the life course. A consistent theme throughout her work is an interest in gender, socioeconomic, racial, and ethnic inequality in health. Current projects include research on social factors associated with poor sleep; neighborhood determinants of racial and ethnic disparities in obesity; associations between the neighborhood environment and disability, social participation, and cognition among older adults; unequal exposure to particulate air pollution and consequences for cognitive function, inflammation, and lung function; and the social, psychosocial, and health correlates of exceptional longevity among U.S. adults. Dr. Ailshire received her PhD in Sociology with training in Demography from the University of Michigan.

Gretchen Alkema, PhD, LCSW

Gretchen E. Alkema, Ph.D., LCSW, serves as Vice President of Policy and Communications for The SCAN Foundation. Prior to joining the Foundation, she was the 2008-09 John Heinz/Health and Aging Policy Fellow and an American Political Science Association Congressional Fellow, serving in the office of Senator Blanche L. Lincoln (D-AR). She advised Senator Lincoln on aging, health, mental health, and long-term care policy during the 2009 health care reform debate. Dr. Alkema holds a Ph.D. from the University of Southern California’s Davis School of Gerontology and was awarded the John A. Hartford Doctoral Fellow in Geriatric Social Work and AARP Scholars Program Award. Dr. Alkema also earned a master’s in social work with a specialist in aging certificate from the University of Michigan. As a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, she practiced in government and non-profit settings including community mental health, care management, adult day health care, residential care, and post-acute rehabilitation.

Grant Baldwin, PhD, MPH

Dr. Grant Baldwin is the Director of the Division of Unintentional Injury Prevegbalwinntion at the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. He has served in this capacity since 2008. Dr. Baldwin has helped raise the profile of motor vehicle injury prevention and scaled up CDC’s response to the prescription drug overdose epidemic. He has also advanced the work in older adult fall prevention and CDC’s efforts traumatic brain injury prevention. Dr. Baldwin received his PhD in Health Behavior and Health Education at the University of Michigan. He received a MPH in Behavioral Sciences and Health Education from Emory University, and is currently an affiliated professor at Emory University. Dr. Baldwin has given keynote addresses or provided remarks at over 60 state, national and international conferences and meetings, has authored or coauthored more than 40 peer-reviewed publications, and has received awards of excellence for his leadership and teaching.

Kathleen A. Cameron, BS Pharm, MPH

Kathleen A. Cameron has over 25 years of experience in thk-cameron_photoe health care field as a pharmacist, researcher and program director focusing on falls prevention, geriatric pharmacotherapy, mental health, long-term services and supports, and caregiving. Ms. Cameron is currently Senior Director at the National Council on Aging (NCOA) where she oversees the Administration on Aging-funded National Falls Prevention Resource Center. Ms. Cameron was previously with JBS International as director of a SAMHSA-funded technical assistance center aimed at educating the aging network, mental health providers and policy makers about behavioral health conditions among older adults. She has also held positions at the American Society of Consultant Pharmacists Foundation and the National Council on Aging. She has served as a consultant to various aging and health care organizations in the Washington DC area. Ms. Cameron received her BS degree in pharmacy from the University of Connecticut and her MPH from Yale University. The topic of her Master’s thesis was medication use and risk of falling among community-dwelling older adults.

Lisa D’Ambrosio, PhD

Dr. Lisa D’Ambrosio is currently working on research with Dr. Joe Coughlin on thldambrosioe social aspects of aging. The questions focus what an aging population will need to enhance and improve the quality of life, and to enable elders to live independently longer. The focus is on not what products and services will be technologically feasible over the coming decades, but rather what will be socially and personally acceptable to this population, with its changing demands for transportation, need for re-design of physical spaces (including the home and workplace), and power in the consumer and employment markets. Dr. Coughlin and Dr. D’Ambrosio are in the process of designing a Delphi study to explore some of these questions.

Carrie Graham, PhD, MGS

Carrie Graham, Ph.D., MGS, is a health services researcher with a dc-graham_photooctorate in Medical Sociology from UCSF and a master’s degree in Gerontological Studies. She holds faculty appointments at both the UC Berkeley School of Public Health and the UCSF Institute for Health and Aging. Her work currently focuses on evaluations of programs that promote community living for seniors and people with disabilities. She is currently conducting several studies examining the Village model and is also the PI of an evaluation of California’s dual financial alignment demonstration, funded by The SCAN Foundation.

Jordana Maisel, PhD

Jordana Maisel, Ph.D., is the Director of Research Activities at the Centerjmaisel for Inclusive Design and Environmental Access (IDeA), located at the University at Buffalo (UB). She also serves as a Project Lead for the Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center on Universal Design and the Built Environment (RERC-UD) and the Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center on Accessible Public Transportation (RERC-APT). Dr. Maisel is a Research Assistant Professor in the School of Architecture and Urban and Regional Planning at UB. She is the co-author of Universal Design: Creating Inclusive Environments (Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2012). She holds a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering/Human Factors at the University at Buffalo, a Master’s degree in Urban and Regional Planning from the University at Buffalo, and a B.S. in Human Development from Cornell University. Her primary interest includes creating a built environment that improves public health. Her current research includes projects on the effectiveness of universal design, policy and planning issues related to inclusive housing design strategies and streetscape design, and evidence based guidelines for universal design.

Jon Pynoos, PhD

Jon Pynoos is the UPS Foundation Professor of Gerontologj-pynoos_photoy, Policy and Planning at the USC Andrus Gerontology Center. He is also Director of the National Resource Center on Supportive Housing and Home Modification and Co-Director of the Fall Prevention Center of Excellence. Dr. Pynoos has spent his career researching, writing, and advising the government and non-profit sectors concerning how to improve housing and long term care for the elderly. In addition to conducting applied research projects based on surveys and case studies of housing, aging in place and long-term care, Dr. Pynoos has written and edited six books on housing and the elderly and he teaches courses on Social Policy and Aging. Pynoos has been awarded both Guggenheim and Fulbright Fellowships. Before moving to USC in 1979, Pynoos was Director of an Area Agency on Aging/Home Care Corporation in Massachusetts that provided a range of services to keep older persons out of institutional settings. He has both a Masters and PhD in Urban and Regional Planning from Harvard University.

Gretchen Swanson, DPT, MPH

Dr. Swanson holds a post professional clinical doctorate in phg-swanson_photoysical therapy from the University of Southern California and a master’s degree in public health in health education and behavioral science from UCLA. She sits on the LA Fall Prevention Coalition Steering Committee and Co-coordinates the Statewide Fall Prevention Coalition “StopFallsCalifornia.Org”. Dr. Swanson’s portfolio consists of research and program development in the area of safety and function of older adults, and she is an advisor with Heart of Ida – a non-profit that monitors the safety net of 43,000 older adults in Long Beach, CA. Dr. Swanson is has extensive experience in the implementation of the evidence-based fall prevention programs, including Otago, Stepping On, and Tai Chi: Moving for Better Balance, she is a Master Trainer in A Matter of Balance.

Fernando Torres-Gil, PhD

Fernando M. Torres-Gil’s is a Professor of Social Welfare and Public f-torres-gil_photoPolicy at UCLA, Director of the UCLA Center for Policy Research on Aging, and an Adjunct Professor of Gerontology at USC. He has written six books and over l00 publications. His research spans the topics of health and long-term care, disability, entitlement reform, and the politics of aging. Professor Torres-Gil also has an impressive portfolio of public service and international recognition as a spokesperson on demographics, aging, and public policy. He earned his first presidential appointment in 1978 when President Jimmy Carter appointed him to the Federal Council on Aging. He was appointed by President Bill Clinton as the first-ever U.S. Assistant Secretary on Aging in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. In 20l0, he received his third presidential appointment when President Barack Obama appointed him as Vice Chair of the National Council on Disability, an independent federal agency that reports to the Congress and White House on federal matters related to disability policy. In 2013, he received the coveted John W. Gardner Legacy of Leadership Award from the White House Fellows Foundation and Association.

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Andrus Gerontology Center Auditorium and Courtyard

3715 McClintock Avenue

Los Angeles, CA US

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