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Ann
Abrams, MSW, LCSW
Michael V. Drake, M.D.
Diane Driver, Ph.D.
Linda Jones, M.A.
Diane Katz, M.A., M.P.H.
Catherine Nancarrow
Cathryn L. Nation, M.D.
Mark Robinson, MSW
Joan B. Wood, Ph.D.
Ann
Abrams, MSW, LCSW, joined
the University of California, Irvine as the Associate
Training Director in 1999 and became the UCI AGRC
Campus Planner in December 2000. She is responsible
for facilitating learning experiences in geriatric
medicine for medical students, residents, fellows,
and the community. Ms. Abrams responsibilities
also include monitoring program compliance with
educational policies and changes according to ACGME
and other regulatory agencies.
At
UCI, she participates as an instructor in courses
for medical students and residents, teaching about
the importance of including a psychosocial assessment
in treatment planning and in the continuity of care
for geriatric patients, providing two particular
lectures: "The Value of an Interdisciplinary
Team," and "Community Agencies Pertinent
to Health Care for Older Patients." As an instructor
within the community, Ann facilitates a course entitled
Advances in Medicine at California State College,
Fullerton in their Continuing Learning Experience.
This is a lecture series that draws over sixty older
adults each semester. Ms Abrams also facilitates
educational events for Orange County Adult Protective
Services social workers and for the Orange County
Alzheimer's Association with lectures on "Navigating
the Hospital Environment," "Referring to
Hospice," and related topics of concern to patients,
families, caregivers.
She
has extensive experience in medical social work,
which includes providing service to patients and
their families in psychiatric hospitals, rehabilitation
care units, transitional care facilities, on medical/surgical
floors, and in hospice settings. In each of these
arenas, she has also provided education to clinical
staff.
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Michael
V. Drake, M.D.,
is the Vice President for Health Affairs, University
of California, Office of the President, and Steven
P. Shearing Professor, Department of Ophthalmology,
University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)
School of Medicine. The Vice President for Health
Affairs has oversight authority for the AGRP and
three major statewide research programs - Breast
Cancer, AIDS and Tobacco-related Disease. In addition,
Dr. Drake is responsible for long-range planning,
general policy oversight, and liaison with The
Regents on behalf of the University's 15 health
professions schools and their supporting teaching
hospitals and medical centers. He is a graduate
of the UCSF School of Medicine.
Prior
to his leadership role in the Office of the President,
Dr. Drake was Senior Associate Dean in the School
of Medicine, Vice Chair of the Department of Ophthalmology,
a practicing ophthalmologist and an active instructor
at UCSF (he continues to practice and teach on a
limited basis). While at UCSF, his efforts were recognized
by the School of Medicine's Clinical Teaching Award,
the ophthalmology department's Samuel J. Kimura award
for resident teaching, and several awards for public
service, mentoring, and various research activities.
During the 1990s, he was twice selected by the graduating
class as commencement speaker for the School of Medicine
and also was selected as the UCSF School of Medicine's
Alumnus of the Year. Dr. Drake's research and educational
interests include the detection, prevention, and
treatment of glaucoma, the prevalence of which is
higher in the older population; ocular surgery; and
training sufficient numbers of health care professionals
to provide quality health care to all segments of
the population.
Dr.
Drake has on several occasions represented the University
before the Legislature and has acted as a consultant
to other universities on faculty and student development
issues. In 1998, he was elected to the National Academy
of Sciences' Institute of Medicine.
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Diane
Driver, Ph.D., has been the AGRC Campus Planner
at the University of California, Berkeley since
1985. Dr. Driver received her Ph.D. from the School
of Social Welfare at Berkeley in 1988 with an emphasis
in gerontology. Her dissertation was on the organization
and financing of long-term care in the United States
with a focus on spend-down in nursing homes. Prior
to coming to Berkeley, she received a Master's
degree and Bachelor of Arts degree in Social Work
from California State University, San Diego.
Dr.
Driver has worked as a psychiatric social worker
and case manager with older adults. She has authored
or co-authored numerous journal articles and edited
several conference proceedings on various aspects
of aging. She is the editor of the AGRC's biweekly
email newsletter "Resources on Aging," and
maintains the AGRC's extensive Web site. Dr. Driver
belongs to numerous professional associations on
aging, serves on various boards and committees, and
gives talks on various topics on aging both locally
and abroad.
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Linda
Jones, M.A., has been University of California,
San Diego's Campus Planner since 1991. Her position
has gradually expanded from 50 percent to 100 percent
as campus activities in aging have increased over
the years, thanks to the support and encouragement
of campus' advisory committee and the School of
Medicine. Her primary areas of interest are education
and preventive medicine, both for the elderly and
their health care providers. She is currently participating
in two courses on aging. One provides overview
information on aging and preventive practices for
older people in the general public; the other teaches
first- and second-year medical students how to
conduct a basic medical assessment of homebound
elderly patients using telemedicine technology.
Ms.
Jones's other activities include periodically assessing
the curriculum for geriatric content, providing technical
guidance and support to faculty and students who
participate in the Mini-grant Program, and coordinating
the medical students' geriatric interest group. She
also facilitates updates of two primary publications.
One provides information on resources and services
for seniors in San Diego County; the other describes
courses, programs, and faculty in aging at the UCSD
campus.
In
April 1999, she co-chaired, with the UCLA Campus
Planner, the AGRP's systemwide faculty development
conference. The conference was designed to enhance
teaching skills in geriatrics and the use of educational
resources. It was also designed to encourage intercampus
collaboration and to increase the development of
course content in geriatrics. She also organized
a systemwide Web site workshop for the Campus Planners
in 1998, which was held at the Learning Resources
Center.
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Diane
Katz, M.A., M.P.H., became
the University California, Los Angeles Campus Planner
in July 2001. Ms. Katz received an M.A. in English/Education
from UCLA in 1976 and a Master's in Public Health
in Health Education from UCLA in 1982. As Campus
Planner, Ms. Katz is responsible for coordinating
the geriatric academic activities within the four
health sciences schools, the Department of Social
Welfare in the School of Public Policy and Social
Research, the College of Letters and Sciences,
the Center on Aging, and the Multicampus Program
in Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology (MPGMG).
She is the administrator for several other education
programs of the MPGMG.
Ms.
Katz has worked in the field of education from the
elementary school level through community college.
She has been involved in geriatrics as an educator,
writer, administrator, and program developer. She
has extensive experience with community-based geriatric
programs. Her fields of interest include geriatric
medicine misuse and health promotion for the elderly.
Her publications include Memory Power: A Memory Improvement
Workshop for Older Adults and Geriatric Use and Misuse
of Medication.
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Catherine
Nancarrow is the Administrator of the Academic
Geriatric Resource Program and member of the Academic
Health Sciences program staff in the Academic Health
Sciences in the Office of the Vice President for
Health Affairs. When coming to UC in 2003, Ms.
Nancarrow brought broad experience in health sciences
project and publications management. She
has held senior editorial staff posts at two peer-reviewed
academic medical journals; was the development
editor involved in the production of over 30 health
sciences texts published by Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins
and W.B. Saunders; and most recently, served as
the managing editor wjm-western journal of
medicine, at that time co-owned by UC and
the BMJ Publishing Group.
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Cathryn
L. Nation, M.D., serves as the Director, Academic
Health Sciences, in the Office of the Vice President
for Health Affairs. Dr. Nation completed her undergraduate
studies at UC Davis and earned her medical degree
from University of California, San Francisco in
1989. She accepted a career position as Special
Assistant to the Vice President for Health Affairs
in 1993, and since then has held positions of increasing
programmatic, budgetary, and administrative responsibility.
In her current role, Dr. Nation's duties include
coordination of health sciences academic affairs,
development of medical and health sciences enrollment
plans for the University's 15 health sciences schools,
monitoring of state and national health professions
workforce needs, liaison with health sciences leadership
on matters of educational policy and program planning,
representation of health sciences programs internally
and externally, coordination and liaison with Student
Health Centers, and oversight of the systemwide
AGRP.
Dr.
Nation has extensive knowledge of undergraduate and
graduate medical education, physician workforce issues,
and matters related to academic program review and
accreditation. She has authored numerous University
reports and studies addressing medical and health
sciences education. She serves as Chair of the Graduate
Medical Education committee and has recently coordinated
a statewide survey of the residency program graduates
of California's major academic medical centers. Dr.
Nation has volunteered considerable time with health
and public service organizations, including rural
immunization programs based in Ecuador and Nicaragua,
the Division of Children's Protective services of
the Yolo County Department of Health Services, Planned
Parenthood, and the "Flying Wedge," an
HIV-educational program for San Francisco High School
students. In addition to medical education, her professional
interests include medical ethics, health care financing,
and women's and children's health.
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Mark
Robinson, MSW, is the University of California,
Davis Campus Planner and has been the Director
of Education Programs for the Center for Aging
and Health since 1998. Mr. Robinson has coordinated
and served as liaison on several School of Medicine
curricular initiatives. He provides coordination
and acts as liaison for the School of Medicine's
fourth-year clerkship in the Department of Epidemiology, "Geriatrics
in Community Health" and serves as the only
non-physician facilitator in the second-year "Longitudinal
Case-based Discussion course." Other curricular
activities include representation on the School
of Medicine's Underserved Topics Workgroup where
he facilitated the work of Geriatric Curriculum
Committee that identified geriatric content for
pre-clinical coursework. He also coordinated the
development of an interactive Web-based, continuing
medical education course to train physicians how
to screen for dementia and manage Alzheimer's disease
in a primary care setting.
Mr. Robinson received his MSW in 1976 and attended a summer fieldwork and practicum
in Gerontology through the American River College in 1973. His career experience
includes working with the families of trauma patients in the emergency room
at the UCD Medical Center, and providing monthly lectures to internal medicine
residents in the emergency room on methods of delivering the news of life threatening
injury or illness. From 1981 through 1995, he developed and managed a hospice
program at Kaiser-Permanente Sacramento, and he currently participates as a
member of Kaiser's Bio-ethics Consultation Committee. He has served as president
for two years and continues to serve as a board member of the Hospice Consortium
of Sacramento, is a founding board member of the California State Hospice Association,
and works on the National Hospice Association Education Committee. From 1995
to 1998, Mr. Robinson worked at Catholic Healthcare West where he provided
patient care coordination for frail elders in a primary care setting. Since
1979, he has presented over 300 local and national lectures at medical schools,
hospitals, health care agencies and conferences on a variety of aging and health-care
topics.
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Joan
B. Wood, Ph.D., came on board as the University
of California, San Francisco Campus Planner on
March 1, 2000. Prior to coming to UCSF, she was
Associate Director of the Virginia Geriatric Education
Center (VGEC) and Associate Professor of Gerontology
and Psychology at Virginia Commonwealth University.
Her primary research has been in the areas of family
caregiving for older adults with cognitive impairment,
aging with developmental disability, ethnic and
cultural issues in health care, and rural aging.
She has taught graduate courses in the Psychology
of Aging, Geriatric Rehabilitation, and Research
Methods in Aging.
She
has extensive experience in planning, developing,
implementing, and evaluating distance-learning programs
in geriatrics and gerontology. Under her leadership,
the VGEC began nationwide educational programming
using distance-learning technologies in the mid-1980s.
She has also consulted on the development of distance
learning programs in aging for other universities,
private corporations, and professional organizations.
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