David Gifford, MD, MPH, serves as the chief medical officer as well as the director of the Center for Health Policy Evaluation in Long Term Care at the American Health Care Association​. He established the Center and the Quality Department at AHCA. His interests are in improving and measuring quality in LTC as well as how regulatory and payment policies impact quality. He has developed 8 new quality measures for nursing homes that all received NQF e​ndorsement. He oversees a team of data analysis working with national MDS data, Medicare Claims, and Cost Reports to develop quality measures and conduct policy evaluations. Dr. Gifford also serves on the Board of the Advancing Excellence in America’s Nursing Homes campaign and the Baldrige Foundation Board and chairs the Department of Veterans Affairs Geriatric and Gerontology Advisory Committee. He serves on the NQF Measures Applications Partnership (MAP).

Andrea Gilmore-Bykovskyi, PhD, RN, is an associate professor in the BerbeeWalsh Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, where she also serves as Vice Chair for Research and The John and Tashia Morgridge Chair of Emergency Medicine Research. Dr. Gilmore-Bykovskyi also serves as co-director of the Establishing Mechanisms of Benefit to Reinforce the Alzheimer’s Care Experience (EMBRACE) AD/ADRD Roybal Center and deputy director of the UW-Madison Center for Health Disparities Research (CHDR). Dr. Gilmore-Bykovskyi leads a funded program of research focused on improving care for people living with and impacted by dementia, including addressing the needs of professional and family caregivers.

Crystal Glover, PhD, is an applied social psychologist, mixed methodologist, and associate professor with tenure in the Department of Neurology at the University of California, Irvine (UCI) School of Medicine. She has designed and built a program of research focused on addressing challenges related to brain health and facilitating optimal outcomes in aging. Her research program consists of two interconnected components that examine: 1) decision making associated with complex, nuanced, and sensitive topics in older age; and 2) protective and risk factors of brain health. Her research has led to the design, development, and implementation of engagement approaches, educational materials, and intervention strategies. Dr. Glover has widely published her peer-reviewed work in several high-impact scientific journals, including Alzheimer’s & Dementia: The Journal of the Alzheimer’s Association, CHEST, and Human Genetics. She continues to present her research at international and national scientific meetings and belongs to several intercontinental and domestic professional committees and groups. Overall, Dr. Glover dedicates her work to service and strategies for optimal aging for all - globally, nationally, and locally.

Cory Goldstein, PhD, MA, is a postdoctoral fellow in the Clinical Epidemiology Program at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute and the School of Epidemiology and Public Health at the University of Ottawa. As a philosopher specializing in research ethics, his research focuses on ethical issues raised by pragmatic randomized controlled trials that use innovative designs and electronic health records. Dr. Goldstein is currently working with an international team of ethicists, health providers, scientists, trialists, patient partners, and members of the public to co-develop and disseminate ethics guidance for cluster randomized trials.