Associate Professor of Pharmacy Practice
Albany College of Pharmacy
Albany, New York
Dr. Michael Brodeur earned his B.S. in pharmacy and Doctor of Pharmacy (Pharm.D.) degrees from St. John's University, College of Pharmacy and Allied Health in Jamaica, New York. He completed his postdoctoral training at the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy where he was a specialty resident in geriatric pharmacotherapy at the Peter Lamy Center. Upon completion of his residency he received board certification in geriatric pharmacy (CGP). He is currently an Associate Professor of Pharmacy Practice specializing in geriatrics at Albany College of Pharmacy. He maintains a clinical practice in geriatric pharmacotherapy at the Eddy Heritage House Nursing Center. This facility serves as clinical practice site for the Doctor of Pharmacy students from the Albany College of Pharmacy and the Geriatric Medicine Fellows from the VA Health System.
Research Director, ASCP Foundation
The American Society of Consultant Pharmacists
Dr. Feinberg received her Doctor of Pharmacy degree from the University of Southern California and her Juris Doctor degree from Loyola Law School. Prior to entering law school, she practiced hospital pharmacy for 12 years and was Assistant Director of Pharmacy at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (CSMC) in Los Angeles, California.
Dr. Feinberg was the Executive Director of the American Society of Consultant Pharmacists Foundation from August 1991 until December 31, 2000, responsible for all aspects of the Foundation's research and education programs and initiatives through the Foundation's Niemerow and Geriatric Drug Therapy Research Institutes. Dr. Feinberg was a chief architect and driving force of the Fleetwood Project, the ASCP Foundation's three-phase initiative to document the value of consultant pharmacists' services. Feinberg also led the development of the Geriatric Risk Assessment Med Guide (GRAM), a unique clinical software tool for use in geriatric patients that identifies medications that may cause, aggravate, or contribute to common geriatric problems; and correlates medication effects with physical, functional, and psychosocial status.
In 1999, Dr. Feinberg received the prestigious George F. Archambault Award - the highest honor bestowed by the American Society of Consultant Pharmacists - in recognition of her outstanding contributions to the consultant pharmacy profession through her extensive publications and her vital role in development of ASCP Foundation traineeship programs, research initiatives, and clinical practice tools. In June 2000, Dr. Feinberg received the Janssen Eldercare Lifetime Achievement Award for her demonstrated initiative, commitment, and excellence in caring and improving the quality of care, treatment, management of elderly patients. In November 2000, Dr. Feinberg was honored with the ASCP Foundation Distinguished Service Award.
Dr. Feinberg currently works as Research Director for the ASCP Foundation, overseeing and managing the Foundation research initiatives, GRAM software, and other programs, and is a frequent lecturer on medication use in the senior population. She is co-chair of the Advisory Board of the Buehler Center on Aging at Northwestern University's School of Medicine, and coordinates the Medicines and Aging Core Curriculum for the annual conference of the American Society on Aging. She is a frequent speaker and writer on topics relating to geriatrics and long-term care, health policy, legislation, and regulation. She has authored more than 90 articles published in the pharmacy and health care literature.
Associate Professor
The Pennsylvania State University
School of Nursing, College of Health and Human Development and School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry
Dr Fick received her Bachelors degree in Nursing Science from Berea College in Berea, KY, her Masters degree in Gerontological Nursing at the University of Cincinnati, and her Ph.D. in Nursing from the University of California, San Francisco. She holds national certification as a clinical nurse specialist in gerontological nursing from the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) and is chair of the Gerontological Society of America- Research, Education, and Practice Committee through 2006. She has over 20 years experience as a registered nurse and 15 years of experience in geriatric nursing. She has practiced in acute, long term care and community settings. Her research expertise is in delirium in persons with dementia and inappropriate medication use in older adults, including the inappropriate use of central nervous system active medications in persons with dementia. The past ten years her research has focused on hospitalized patients with delirium and on medication use in persons 65 and older. She has published multiple studies on health outcomes in medication use and interventions for inappropriate medication use in community-living older adults. Dr. Fick updated and was first author of the Beer's Criteria for inappropriate medication use in older adults which was published in Archives of Internal Medicine in December 2003. She is also principal investigator on a National Institute of Aging funded study on Delirium in Persons with Dementia.
Associate Professor, Georgetown University School of Medicine
President, Cognitive Research Corporation, St. Petersburg, FL
Gary G. Kay is an Associate Professor of Neurology at Georgetown University School of Medicine in Washington, DC and President of the Cognitive Research Corporation, St. Petersburg, Florida. Dr. Kay received his Ph.D. in psychology at Memphis State University, Clinical Neuropsychology Specialty Program and completed his psychology internship at Naval Hospital Bethesda, MD.
In addition to his clinical practice, Dr. Kay teaches and conducts research on the effects of medications on brain functioning. Dr. Kay has conducted research using driving simulators and other computer-based cognitive testing systems to evaluate the effects of medications, environmental stressors, injuries and diseases on cognitive performance. Dr. Kay is the author of CogScreen, a computer-based cognitive test battery originally designed to evaluate the neurocognitive functioning of aviators. He serves as a consultant to government agencies and to the pharmaceutical industry, and he has been an invited speaker at professional meetings around the globe.
Dr. Kay has published peer-reviewed articles that have appeared in Archives of Internal Medicine, British Journal of Pharmacology, European Journal of Urology, British Journal of Urology International, Annals of Allergy, American Psychologist, Human Psychopharmacology, Journal of the American Geriatric Society, and the American Journal of Managed Care.
Director, Center for Medical Consumers
New York, New York
Arthur A. Levin is co-founder and the Director of the Center for Medical Consumers, a New York City based non-profit organization committed to informed consumer and patient health care decision-making, patient safety, evidence-based, high quality medicine and health care system transparency. It receives no funding from the drug, device or health care industry.
Mr. Levin was a member of the Institute of Medicine's (IOM) Committee on the Quality of Health Care that published the "To Err is Human" and "Crossing the Quality Chasm" reports. He also served as a member of the Institute of Medicine committee that evaluated the federal quality effort and made recommendations to Congress in its' report "Leadership Through Example."
He has also served as a member of the Subcommittee on Performance Measures which reports to the IOM's Committee on "Redesigning Health Insurance Benefits, Payment and Performance Improvement Program," is currently a member of a new committee studying "Highly Effective Clinical Service" and is on the Institutes' Board on Health Care Services which has been responsible for overseeing the IOM's decade long effort to improve the quality and safety of America's health care system.
Mr. Levin serves as a member of the NCQA Committee on Performance Measures that is charged with developing performance measures for health plans and most recently, for physician practices. He also is a member of the NCQA Consumer Advisory Committee. He also served on the NQF Steering Committee that developed national performance measures for cardiac bypass surgery and steering committees advising NQF on updating its Serious Reportable Events product and Cardiovascular Consensus Standards product.
Levin has been a long-time member of the FDA's Consumer Nominating Workgroup that recommends consumer representatives for FDA Advisory Committees and has served as a guest expert on risk management at FDA Drug Advisory Committee meetings. He is the consumer member on the FDA's Drug Safety and Risk Management Advisory Committee (DSaRM).
At the state level, Levin has served on numerous state health department task forces and workgroups focused on safety, quality, informed consent and bioethical concerns. He has been the public member of the NYS Department of Health statewide workgroup that redesigned and now oversees the state's hospital incident reporting and adverse event tracking system known as NYPORTS. He served on the Medicaid Pay for Performance workgroup that has formed at the Governor's request and is a member of a workgroup convened by the Commissioner of Health to suggest state policies with regard to office based surgery. Levin has also served as a consultant to DOH on the design and content of its Hospital Report Cards web site.
Levin earned his Masters of Public Health degree from Columbia University School of Public Health and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Philosophy from Reed College.
Chairman, Department of Geriatrics
Director, Internal Medicine/Family Medicine Residency Program
St. Clare's Hospital
Schenectady, NY
Dr. Panneton is a graduate of Harvard University, and received his medical degree from Boston University School of Medicine. He concluded his residency training at Albany Medical Center as Chief Resident, and now maintains Board Certification in both Internal Medicine and Geriatrics. Dr. Panneton presently serves as both the Chairman of the Department of Geriatrics and the Director of the Internal Medicine/Family Health Residency Program at St. Clare's Hospital in Schenectady, New York. He is an active member of the American College of Physicians, the American Society of Internal Medicine, and the New York State Patient Safety Enhancement Committee
He has served as the Medical Director for the Marjorie Doyle Rockwell Center, for the Eddy Visiting Nurse Association, and for several senior living facilities in the Albany area, and is a past member of the NYS Upper Respiratory Infection Project Committee (Abuse of Antibiotics) and the Albany College of Pharmacy Institutional Review Board. He has previously served as Chairman of the Primary Care Committee for the National PACE Program and as the Medical Director for the Community Health Plan (CHP). He also maintained a private practice in Internal Medicine and Geriatrics from 1980-1998.
Bassett Healthcare
Department of Pharmaceutical Care Services
Section of Clinical Pharmacology
Cooperstown, New York
Dr. Rudd is a Clinical Specialist focusing in Primary Care at Bassett Healthcare in Cooperstown, New York. Her clinical interests include Geriatric Pharmacotherapy, Anticoagulation Management and Medication Therapy Management. Dr. Rudd also holds positions as Clinical Preceptors at the Albany College of Pharmacy and the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center School of Pharmacy. She also serves as an Attending Clinical Pharmacologist, mentoring Bassett Healthcare medical residents and Columbia University medical students. Dr. Rudd's current research interests include: medication-related anticholinergic effects on the geriatric population, cost-savings and efficacy analysis of pharmacist managed specialty clinics and strategies to improve active learning within the clerkship experience.
Dr. Rudd received her Pharm.D. from the Albany College of Pharmacy of Union University in Albany, New York. She completed a Primary Care Pharmacy Practice Residency, with emphasis in Family Medicine and Geriatrics, through the University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa and the Siouxland Medical Education Foundation in Sioux City, Iowa. Before joining Bassett Healthcare, Dr. Rudd served as an Assistant Professor of Pharmacy Practice at the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center School of Pharmacy, maintaining both an inpatient Family Medicine practice and an outpatient Geriatrics practice. She earned her Board Certification in Pharmacotherapy designation in 2004.
Dr. Rudd is an active member of the Mohawk Valley American Red Cross (MVARC), serving her community as both a volunteer and Chapter Board Member since 2005. She is the current advisor to the newly established MVARC Youth Council, a dedicated group of local youth working to better their community and themselves. Dr. Rudd is also a member of the American College of Clinical Pharmacy and American Pharmacist's Association. She is a reviewer for, and has published in, both the American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy and Pharmacotherapy. She lives in rural Upstate New York with her husband Tom where they operate an equine training facility.
Associate Professor of Pharmacy
Director, Geriatrics Research Group
Associate Director, Pharmacokinetics/Pharmacodynamics Laboratory
Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
Patricia W. Slattum, PharmD, PhD is Associate Professor and Geriatric Specialist in the Department of Pharmacy at Virginia Commonwealth University. She also serves as Graduate Program Director for the Department. Dr. Slattum's teaching, research and practice interests are improving pharmacotherapy for older adults residing in the community and assisted-living facilities, the effects of medications on cognition, and medication management in Alzheimer's disease. She partners with a pharmacy located in a large retirement community to develop innovative pharmacy practice models to provide care to seniors. She received the 2005 Innovative Practice Award from the Virginia Pharmacists Association. She chairs the Patient and Family Services Committee and serves on the Board of the Greater Richmond Chapter of the Alzheimer's Association. She has also served as Chair of the Geriatric Clinical Pharmacology Section of the American Society of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics. She receives grant support for her research from the Alzheimer's Association, the Commonwealth of Virginia, and the pharmaceutical industry. She was recognized as the 2005 Teacher of the Year by the VCU School of Pharmacy and the 2005 Gerontology Educator of the Year by the Virginia Association on Aging. She received her B.S. in Pharmacy, Certificate in Aging Studies, Pharm.D. and Ph.D. in Pharmaceutics from VCU. She completed an NIH postdoctoral traineeship in drug disposition and aging at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Director, Medicare Part D Projects
IPRO
Albany, New York
Forum Moderator
Dr. Triller received his bachelor's degree in pharmacy from Albany College of Pharmacy in 1989 and received his Doctor of Pharmacy Degree from Albany College of Pharmacy in 1998, graduating magna cum laude. Since completing a 2-year fellowship in home health care, he has served as a tenure-track Assistant Professor at Albany College of Pharmacy in the Department of Pharmacy Practice. He joined IPRO's Health Care Quality Improvement Program (HCQIP) team in March 2006, and directs IPRO's CMS-approved projects relating to the Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit.
His clinical work and research have focused on the identification and resolution of drug-related problems in the community-dwelling elderly and in the development and evaluation of novel care delivery models, such as home-based pharmacist visits, automated drug dispensing systems, and telehomecare services. He has published a number of peer-reviewed manuscripts relating to adverse drug events, drug-related problems, and the medication use system. He has served as either the principal investigator or as a significant contributor to a number of studies competitively funded by private foundations and government agencies.