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Board of Directors
Board Nominations
Board Members Discuss
Challenges and Solutions in Late-Life Mental Health Care
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Martha L. Bruce, MPH, PhD (Chair)
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Dr. Bruce is a Professor of Sociology in Psychiatry at Weill
Medical College of Cornell University, whose current research
focuses on psychosocial risks factors and outcomes of depression
in later life, and the relationship between depression and functional
disability. Her work on suicidal ideation and depressive symptoms
on older primary care patients was published in the March 3,
2004, issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association. |
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Sanjay Gupta, MD (Vice-Chair)
Dr. Gupta is a Clinical Professor with the University of Buffalo,
Department of Psychiatry and Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry
at Olean General Hospital in New York. Both a practitioner and
researcher, Dr. Gupta’s current projects include the study
of older adults with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder in residential
care and weight gain and metabolic disturbances in patients
with severe and persistent psychiatric illness. Dr. Gupta is
a member of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry’s
Board of Directors. |
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Frederic C. Blow, PhD (Secretary/Treasurer)
Dr. Blow is the Director of the National VA Serious Mental Illness
Treatment Research and Evaluation Center (SMITREC) at the Department
of Veterans Affairs and an Associate Professor and Senior Associate
Research Scientist in the Department of Psychiatry at the University
of Michigan. His research interests include serious mental illness,
alcohol abuse, older adults, and mental health services research. |
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Stephen J. Bartels, MD, MS
Dr. Bartels is a Professor of Psychiatry at Dartmouth Medical
School and Director of the Aging Services Research Program and
Director of the Behavioral Health Policy Institute at the New
Hampshire-Dartmouth Psychiatric Research Center. He served as
a consultant to the President’s New Freedom Commission
on Mental Health’s Subcommittee on Older Adults. Dr. Bartels
is a past president of the American Association for Geriatric
Psychiatry. |
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C. Nelson Berigtold, MSW
Mr. Berigtold, of White Hall, Maryland, brings to the GMHF Board
personal knowledge of the impact of depression and a wealth
of experience gained from more than forty years of various roles
in social services, including consultation, evaluation, training,
mentoring, volunteer recruitment, and management. Retired from
full-time work, Mr. Berigtold enjoys various part-time and volunteer
activities. For much of his career, Mr. Berigtold was with Big
Brothers Big Sisters, a youth mentoring organization with agencies
across the country. |
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Richard C. Birkel, PhD
Dr. Birkel, a longtime advocate for the mentally ill, is the
former executive director of the National Alliance for the Mentally
Ill and the Lt. Joseph P. Kennedy Institute, a social agency
for people with developmental disabilities. |
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Peggy Eastman
Ms. Eastman, a freelance writer based in Washington, D.C., is
the author of Godly Glimpses: Discoveries of the Love That Heals.
Ms. Eastman was the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry’s
2002 Images of Aging Communications Award recipient for her
article “Up From Depression: Wiser Diagnosis, Better Treatment
Offer New Hope,” which appeared in the February 2001 issue
of the AARP Bulletin. |
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Warachal E. Faison, MD
Dr. Faison is the clinical services director for Alzheimer’s
research and clinical programs at the Medical University of
South Carolina. Dr. Faison’s major areas of interest include
depression and psychosis in the elderly, risks and protective
factors in the development of Alzheimer’s disease, minority
recruitment in clinical trials, behavioral and psychological
signs and symptoms of dementia. |
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Michael B. Friedman, LMSW
Michael Friedman is the chairman of the Geriatric Mental Health
Alliance of New York, and has over thirty-five years experience
as a mental health clinician, advocate, administrator, and policy
maker in New York City and the Hudson Valley. He has served
as Director of Network Development, New York Hospital; Regional
Director (Deputy Commissioner), NYS Office of Mental Health;
Executive Director MHA of Westchester; and Director of Operations
of The Jewish Board of Family and Children's Services. He has
also served on numerous advocacy and advisory groups, including
The Mental Health Action Network, The Children's Justice Taskforce,
the NAMIs (National Alliance for the Mentally Ill) of New York
City and of Westchester, The Coalition of Voluntary Mental Health
Agencies and The Greater New York Hospital Association. |
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Robyn L. Golden, MA, ACSW, LCSW
Ms. Golden is the incoming chair of the Board of Directors of
the American Society on Aging and the Director of Older Adult
Programs at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago. She was
a Heinz Legislative Fellow in the office of Sen. Hillary Rodham
Clinton (D-New York) from September 2003 to September 2004.
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Gary J. Kennedy, MD
Dr. Kennedy, a past president of the American Association for
Geriatric Psychiatry, is a geriatric psychiatrist with the Montefiore
Medical Center in New York, and specializes in Alzheimer’s
disease and other dementias, depression, psychopharmacology,
and psychosomatic medicine. |
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Maria D. Llorente, MD
Dr. Llorente is a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences
at the Miller School of Medicine at the University of Miami
School of Medicine, in the division of geriatric psychiatry.
She is also the chief of psychiatry for the Miami VA Healthcare
System. Her primary research interests are in the area of improving
mental health services delivery to the geriatric population,
particulary ethnic and racial minority older adults, in both
long-term and primary care settings. |
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Gary S. Moak, MD
Dr. Moak, president of the American Association for Geriatric
Psychiatry, is the director of the Moak Center for Healthy Aging,
a geriatric psychiatry group practice in Westborough, Massachusetts,
and a clinical associate professor of psychiatry at the University
of Massachusetts Medical School. Dr. Moak lectures frequently
about geriatric psychiatry, Alzheimer's Disease, nursing home
practice and regulatory compliance, geriatric psychiatry practice
management, and fraud and abuse prevention. |
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Burton V. Reifler, MD, MPH
Dr. Reifler is a geriatric psychiatrist and a Professor of Psychiatry
at the Wake Forest University School of Medicine in Winston-Salem,
North Carolina. His areas of expertise include the diagnosis
and management of Alzheimer's disease, the relationship between
Alzheimer's disease and depression, caregiving, and the development
of adult day centers. |
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