• Angelica P. Herrera, DrPH, MPH
• Mary E. Tinetti, MD
• Lisa M. Troy, PhD
  

• XinQi Dong, MD, MPH
• Bruce Leff, MD
• Lené Levy-Storms, PhD, MPH
• Joseph G. Ouslander, MD
• Eileen M. Sullivan-Marx, PhD, CRNP, FAAN
• Irene H. Yen, PhD, MPH (supported by the CDC)

Angelica P. Herrera, DrPH, MPH

Assistant Research Professor

University of California, Los Angeles

Fellowship Placement: Health Resources and Services Administration and Administration on Aging, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Angelica P. Herrera, DrPH, MPH, was previously a Kellogg Scholar in Health Disparities (2007-2008), during which she studied the role of family caregivers in determining the use of home- and community-based services and institutionalized care among older Mexican Americans. During that time, she was involved in a national initiative, Eliminating Disparities in Clinical Trials (EDICT), to advance new health policies and practices to enhance the equitable participation of older ethnic minorities in clinical research. Dr Herrera is currently a Pilot Investigator/Scholar on a study, “The Effects of Adult Day Health Care Use on Mexican American Family Caregivers’ Emotional and Physiological Health” through the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Center for the Health Improvement of Minority Elderly (CHIME), a Resource Center on Minority Aging Research, which is funded by the National Institute on Aging. As a National Institute of Mental Health postdoctoral fellow (2008-2010) in the Division of Geriatric Psychiatry under the Advanced Center for Innovation in Services and Intervention Research at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), she completed a number of studies examining the role of leisure activities and cultural perceptions about successful aging on older Mexican Americans’ emotional health, cognition, and quality of life.  While at UCSD, she was also involved in the County’s evaluation and implementation of evidence-based programs - IMPACT depression care program and Stanford’s Tomando Control De Su Diabetes - in Federally Qualified Community Health Centers (FQHCs) targeting older Mexican Americans. Over the past 15 years, Dr Herrera has demonstrated a commitment to a multi-disciplinary approach to health disparities research and action through health policy and practice.  Her current interests include the development and testing of best practices that improve quality of life for vulnerable older adults; specifically, in bringing new geriatric care coordination models to FQHCs that seamlessly bridge efforts in preventive care and chronic disease management, mental health services, and home- and community-based services. 

Mary E. Tinetti, MD

Gladys Phillips Crofoot Professor of Medicine and Public Health
Director of the Program on Aging and the Claude D. Pepper Center
Yale School of Medicine

Fellowship Placement: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)

Mary Tinetti, MD, is the Gladys Phillips Crofoot Professor of Medicine and Public Health and Director of the Program on Aging and the Claude D. Pepper Center at Yale School of Medicine, where she has been on the faculty since 1984. Through her research, she determined that older adults at risk for falling could be identified, that falls were associated with serious adverse outcomes, that multifactorial risk reduction strategies were effective and cost-effective, and that fall risk assessment and management could be incorporated into the clinical care of older adults. Her current focus is on clinical decision-making for older adults with multiple health conditions, particularly trade-offs among chronic diseases and the need for universal, cross-disease health outcomes. She has over 150 original publications and is an editor for Principles of Geriatrics and Gerontology. Dr. Tinetti provides care to older adults at Yale New Haven Hospital. Dr. Tinetti received her undergraduate and medical degrees from the University of Michigan and completed a geriatric fellowship at the University of Rochester following an internal medicine residency at the University of Minnesota. Dr. Tinetti has been a member of the board of directors of the American Geriatrics Society (AGS) and served on several national advisory committees including the Advisory Council of the NIA, the Beeson Faculty Scholars, the RWJ Generalist Physician Faculty Award, the Brookdale Fellowship, and the Nonprescription Drug Advisory Committee of the FDA. She has received numerous awards including the Humana Award from the AGS; Joseph T. Freeman, Powell Lawton, and Max Pollock Awards from the Gerontological Society of America; the Irving Wright Award from the American Federation for Aging Research; and the John Eisenberg Award from the Society of General Internal Medicine. She is a member of the Institute of Medicine and was recently named a MacArthur Foundation Fellow.

Lisa M. Troy, PhD

Scientist III, Jean Mayer Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy
Tufts University

Fellowship Placement: Office of Senator Robert P. Casey, JR

Lisa M. Troy, PhD, is a Scientist III at Jean Mayer Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging and an adjunct Assistant Professor at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University. Her research interests include the effect of overall diet quality and components of a healthful diet on under-nutrition, obesity, metabolic syndrome and risk factors for diabetes and heart disease. She is also interested in how government programs and policies affect food security, diet quality and public health outcomes. Toward accomplishing these goals, Dr. Troy and her colleagues at Tufts University developed an index to measure adherence to the 2005 Dietary Guidelines for Americans. This index has been used in epidemiologic studies to examine how a diet consistent with federal guidelines relates to bone mineral density and the prevention of chronic diseases of aging including hip fracture, insulin resistance, and the metabolic syndrome. The index is being updated for the 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans.

Dr. Troy has extensive international experience in nutrition program monitoring/evaluation. She has also developed educational materials for use by nutrition program managers world-wide. Dr. Troy serves on the steering committee of the Massachusetts Food Policy Alliance to promote the development of a food policy for the state. She is the former President of Gaining Ground, a non-profit organization that addresses the problem of food insecurity through small-scale, local agricultural production.

XinQi Dong, MD, MPH

Associate Professor of Medicine and Nursing
Rush University Medical Center

XinQi Dong, MD, MPH, is an Associate Professor of Medicine and Nursing at the Rush University Medical Center. Having emigrated from China, he has had long standing interests in human rights and social justice issues in vulnerable populations. Dr. Dong's research is focused on the epidemiological studies of elder abuse and neglect both in the US and China, with particular emphasis on its adverse health outcomes across different racial/ethnic groups. Dr. Dong is a recipient of the Paul B. Beeson Scholar in Aging Award, and his work has been published in major medical journals including the Journal of the American Medical Association.

Dr Dong’s work has been recognized by the American Geriatric Society, American Public Health Association and the Institute of Medicine of Chicago.  He was awarded the Nobuo Maeda International Aging and Public Health Research Award and the Central Society for Clinical Research Award. In addition, Dr. Dong has been working with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute of Aging and National Academies of Sciences on the state-of-the-science for the issues of elder abuse and neglect. Moreover, he has been working with the Chicago Wellbeing Task Force and the Legislative Task Force to revise and ultimately pass the IL Elder Abuse Act. Furthermore, Dr. Dong is actively working with the Chinese communities to promote understanding and civic engagement on the issues of elder abuse and neglect through culturally and linguistically appropriate ways. He currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Chinese American Service League, the largest social services organization in the Midwest serving the needs of Chinese population. 

Dr Dong received his BA in biology (with honors) and economics from the University of Chicago, MD in the problem-based curriculum at Rush University College of Medicine and MPH in epidemiology at University of Illinois at Chicago. Dr. Dong completed his internal medicine residency and geriatric fellowship at Yale University Medical Center.

Bruce Leff, MD

Professor of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Joint Appointment, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health

Lené Levy-Storms, PhD, MPH

Hartford Faculty Scholar/Lewis Center Fellow
Associate Professor of Social Welfare and Medicine/Geriatrics
University of California, Los Angeles

Joseph G. Ouslander, MD

Professor and Associate Dean for Geriatric Programs
Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine, and
Professor (Courtesy)
Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing
Florida Atlantic University

Joseph G. Ouslander, MD, is Professor of and Associate Dean for Geriatric Programs at the Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine, and Professor (Courtesy) at the Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing of Florida Atlantic University (FAU) in Boca Raton Florida. He also serves as Professor of Medicine (Voluntary) in the Division of Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine of the Department of Medicine at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine.
Dr. Ouslander is an internationally recognized geriatrician. He is a graduate of Johns Hopkins University and the Case Western Reserve School of Medicine. He has served as a Professor at the UCLA School of Medicine, where he spent 15 years developing research, educational, and clinical programs. From 1996-2007 he served as the Director of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia where he had responsibility for leading the clinical, teaching, and research programs in Geriatrics. He is a past-President and Board Chair of the American Geriatrics Society, and serves as the Executive Editor of the most widely read journal in Geriatric Medicine, the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. He has published over 200 original articles and book chapters and is a co-author of two popular textbooks, Essentials of Clinical Geriatrics and Medical Care in the Nursing Home, and an editor of a major textbook in Geriatrics, Hazzard’s Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology.  He has been a visiting professor at numerous universities in the US and throughout the world.

Eileen M. Sullivan-Marx, PhD, CRNP, FAAN

Associate Professor of Scholarly Practice
Associate Dean for Practice & Community Affairs
Shearer Endowed Term Chair for Health Community Practice
University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing

Fellowship Placement: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)

Eileen M. Sullivan-Marx, PhD, CRNP, FAAN, is an Associate Professor of Scholarly Practice and Associate Dean for Practice & Community Affairs at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing. She holds the Shearer Endowed Term Chair in Healthy Community Practice. Dr. Sullivan-Marx is currently chair of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Senior Care and Services Study Commission appointed by Governor Rendell to project services and resources needed for Pennsylvanians through 2025. She is a leading researcher on improving functional outcomes of older adults in community and institutional settings and payment for nursing models of care.  She received the Eastern Nursing Society Hartford Geriatric Nurse Research Award in 2008. Dr. Sullivan-Marx is an active international and national consultant on nurse practitioner and geriatric practice issues and oversees the School's practice and community mission that includes the Living Independently For Elders (LIFE), a PACE program for comprehensive integrated health and social services for older adults in West Philadelphia, and the Healthy in Philadelphia Initiative, the Center for Professional Development, Penn Nursing Consultation Service. Under her leadership, the LIFE Program has been recognized by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation as an Innovative Care Model, an Edge Runner program by the American Academy of Nursing and contributed to the University of Pennsylvania receiving the President’s Award by the Corporation for National and Community Service. Dr. Sullivan-Marx will focus on payment and outcomes of community based models of care payment for older adults during her fellowship.

Irene H. Yen, PhD, MPH (Supported by the CDC)

Associate Professor
Division of General Internal Medicine
University of California, San Francisco

Fellowship Placement: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

Irene H. Yen, PhD, MPH, is an Associate Professor in the Division of General Internal Medicine, University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). Dr. Yen is an affiliated investigator with UCSF’s Resource Center for Minority Aging Research and affiliated faculty with the UCSF/UC Berkeley Robert Wood Johnson Health and Society Fellowship Program and the UCSF Center for Obesity Assessment Study and Treatment. Dr. Yen is a social epidemiologist with research expertise in survey design and development and qualitative research methods. Her research focuses on the social determinants of health, with emphases on how neighborhood environment influences health behaviors and health status and the intersections of race/ethnicity and social class. She is the principal investigator of three projects that investigate neighborhood environment and health. One project focuses on older adults from diverse racial/ethnic backgrounds. Dr. Yen is a member of the National Research Advisory Committee for the Association of Asian Pacific Islander Community Health Organizations.