Ariel Green, MD, PhD, MPH is an assistant professor of medicine in the Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Her research focuses on improving communication between older adults, care partners and health care professionals about unnecessary and potentially harmful interventions, including medication use. As a member of the American Geriatrics Society (AGS) Clinical Practice Committee, Dr. Green co-wrote the Society’s recommendations for Choosing Wisely, a national initiative that promotes patient-physician conversations about unnecessary medical tests and procedures. Dr. Green received the AGS Choosing Wisely Champion Award for leading efforts to reduce overuse in medicine. Her research, supported by the NIA, is evaluating the impact on patient and care partner outcomes of pragmatic interventions to optimize prescribing for older adults with dementia in primary care. A former award-winning health journalist, Dr. Green has published personal essays and op-eds in Annals of Internal Medicine, The Washington Post, and The New York Times, among other publications.

Laura C. Hanson, MD, MPH, is a tenured professor in the Division of Geriatric Medicine, Department of Medicine, The University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill and director of the UNC Palliative Care Program. As a board-certified physician in internal medicine, geriatric medicine, and hospice and palliative medicine, she provides care for frail and medically complex older patients, and adults of all ages with serious and potentially life-limiting illness. Dr. Hanson leads a research program to measure and improve quality of palliative care for people living with late-stage AD/ADRD, nursing home residents and other vulnerable populations. She leads the Measurement Core for the NINR-funded Palliative Care Research Cooperative group, and has developed quality measures endorsed by the National Quality Forum and applied nationwide in hospice care. Her recent research focuses on AD/ADRD clinical trials to improve shared decision-making and palliative care outcomes.

Jill Harrison, PhD, is an executive director at the NIA IMPACT Collaboratory and an associate professor in the Department of Health Services, Policy and Practice at Brown University School of Public Health. Prior to joining the IMPACT Collaboratory, Dr. Harrison served as the director of research of an international non-profit organization focused on implementing person-centered care initiatives in healthcare settings around the world. Her research interests include: pragmatic trials in real-world settings, engaging residents of long-term care communities as evaluators of care quality, developing culturally congruent person-centered care approaches in healthcare systems, and organizational cultural change. She completed her post-doctorate at Brown University in health services research.

Nancy Hodgson, PhD, RN, FAAN, is professor and chair in the Department of Biobehavioral Health and the Claire M. Fagin Leadership Professor of Nursing at the University of Pennsylvania. She brings 30 years of experience in developing, evaluating, disseminating, and implementing interventions that ease neuropsychiatric symptoms and promote function and quality of life for diverse populations of people living with dementia and their caregivers. This work has helped to inform care practices for people living with dementia and their caregivers through the development of dementia care protocols that address the leading symptoms in dementia that cause distress or impair quality of life. As a clinician and educator, Dr. Hodgson seeks out implementation strategies to foster academic-community partnership by linking research and practice in order to move evidence-based findings into dementia care practice.

Jason Karlawish, MD, is a professor of medicine, medical ethics and health policy, and neurology at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine. He is board-certified in geriatric medicine. Dr. Karlawish leads the Penn Program for Precision Medicine for the Brain (P3MB), and is co-associate director of the Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center, co-director of the Penn Memory Center, and director of the Alzheimer’s Disease Center’s Outreach, Recruitment and Education Core. He is the author of The Problem of Alzheimer’s: How Science, Culture and Politics Turned a Rare Disease Into a Crisis and What We Can Do About It.