PALTC24 Technology Recordings Bundle

Howard Finger, DO, is attending physician and clinical ethics consultant at Coler Rehabilitation and Nursing Care Center and at Henry J. Carter Specialty Hospital and Nursing Facility. He was co-chairperson of the NYC Health + Hospitals Bioethics Council from 2019 to 2022, and currently, he serves on the board of direction of the Empire State Bioethics Consortium (ESBC) and is a member of the AMDA Ethics Subcommittee.  In conjunction with the Bioethics Council, he developed an Algorithm for the Unbefriended to assist care teams in making end-of-life treatment decisions when patients lack both decisional capacity and surrogates, which he applied at Coler. He was lead author of three articles on the subject, the latest of which, “An Interdisciplinary Ethics Panel Approach to End-of-life Decision-Making for Unbefriended Nursing Home Residents,” was published in the 2022 summer issue of The Journal of Clinical Ethics.  For his work, Dr. Finger received the 2020 Foundation for Post-Acute & Long-Term Care Medicine’s Quality Improvement & Health Outcome (QIHO) Award for improving the quality-of-life for persons living in nursing homes.

Timothy Holahan, DO, CMD, is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Rochester School of Medicine. He is Board Certified in Internal Medicine, Geriatric Medicine and Palliative Care. He is a certified medical director and has provided care in multiple nursing homes in the Rochester NY area. He specializes in complex SNF patients and is the medical director of the Monroe Community Hospital SNF long term ventilator unit. He is currently the Chair of the AMDA Ethics Committee and Vice Chair of the AMDA Public Policy Committee.

Juliessa Pavon is Associate Professor of Medicine, Associate Professor in Head and Neck Surgery and Communication Sciences and Senior Fellow in the Center for the Study of Aging and Human Development and fellowship trained in Geriatrics from Duke University School of Medicine. She has multiple publications including Machine Learning Functional Impairment Classification with EHR data. She is Duke Division of Geriatrics Informatics and Data Science champion and Duke Pepper Center Data Science Lead.

Rani Rao, MD, CMD, is Medical Director of Primary care service line for New York Presbyterian Queens Medical Group. Her previous role was Chief Medical Officer for Coler/NYC Health+Hospitals. She is a board certified internist and geriatrician who is fellowship trained in medical ethics at U Chicago McLean Center for Clinical medical Ethics. She has been a speaker in various national forums including annual PALTC meetings and Corser symposium for bio-ethics. She was awarded Medical Director of the Year 2023 by PALTC. She is a member of the PALTC Ethics committee.

Darly Dash, MSc, PhD (c) is a doctoral student at McMaster University in Health Research Methodology focusing on conducting large, population-level observational studies. Her research, funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, focuses on investigating the practices of long-term care physicians to understand the commitment and quality of care delivered to residents by medical care providers. She holds an MSc from the University of Waterloo with expertise in program evaluation and qualitative research, and has experience conducting large research studies nationally and across North America.

Paul Katz, MD, CMD, is Professor in the Department of Geriatrics at Florida State University College of Medicine.  Before coming to the FSU College of Medicine in May 2015, he was Vice President of Medical Services at the Baycrest Health Centre and Professor of Medicine at the University of Toronto. He previously served as Chief of the Division of Geriatrics/Aging at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and for 16 years was medical director at Monroe Community Hospital. Dr. Katz is past president of  Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medical Association. He has co-edited 12 books, has over 150 scholarly publications and is currently a senior associate editor of JAMDA. Dr. Katz has received grants from the National Institutes of Health, the U.S. Veterans Administration, the Health Resources and Service Administration (HRSA), and the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care. He has led studies outlining demographic characteristics of nursing home physicians and their practice patterns, using the results to define links between nursing home medical staff organization and quality outcomes. He is co-PI of a $3.75 million federally funded grant that focuses on the training of the geriatric workforce and family caregivers. Dr. Katz is an active member of the Senior Quality Leap Initiative (SQLI), a consortium of 15 Canadian and US senior care organizations dedicated to quality improvement in nursing homes.  He is currently part of an international team of investigators working to develop medical provider specific quality measures germane to post-acute and long-term care.

Andrew Huang, MS, is a PhD candidate at the Brown University School of Public Health. His interests are in the use of integrated data for causal inference in long term care settings.

Gary Yeung, MD, is a PhD candidate at Amsterdam UMC University Medical Centers in the Netherlands. His research focuses on quality indicators that medical practitioners can use to improve the medical care for nursing home residents.

Laurie Archbald-Pannone, MD, MPH, serves as the Claude Moore Associate Professor of Geriatrics, as well as in Infectious Diseases, at the University Of Virginia School Of Medicine. Dr. Archbald-Pannone has over 15 years of clinical and research expertise in the post-acute and long-term care setting (PALTC). She has been funded by NIH/NIAID to study patient outcomes in nosocomial infection, microbiome profiles associated with delirium and dementia, and novel therapeutics for C. difficile infection. In collaboration with MATRC and West Health Institute, she serves as the medical director for the Center for Telehealth and Aging. She serves as an invited member of the Virginia Department of Health's Long-Term Care Advisory Task Force and, with funding support from VDH, serves as the medical director of the Virginia IMPACT. She is actively involved in medical education, currently serving as College Dean for Student Affairs at the University Of Virginia School Of Medicine. She has been a member of AMDA-PALTC since 2007 and participated as an AMDA Futures Fellow in 2008. She has served on multiple AMDA-PALTC committees, as well as participated in multiple society workshops and webinars.

Maya Mendez, MPH, MSW, serves as the Telehealth Program Manager at the West Health Institute, driving an initiative aimed at enhancing the delivery of age-inclusive telehealth for older adults. With a background in social services, public health, and healthcare administration, she has spent the last ten years dedicated to delivering patient-centered care and leading capacity-building efforts for healthcare facilities.

Dallas Nelson, MD, CMD, FACP, is a Professor of Medicine at the University of the Rochester in the Division Geriatrics and Aging. She is medical director of the UR Medicine Geriatrics Group, a group that serves about 3000 patients across the spectrum of long term care in the Rochester, New York.  Dr. Nelson serves as a leader of Telehealth sub-committee for Society of Post-Acute and Long Term Care Medicine.  Dr. Nelson has published clinical trials on the use of Telemedicine to reduce Emergency Department Use by Geriatric Homes.  She has a passion for improving the care of the geriatric community.

Taboor Flickinger, MD, is a board-certified internal medicine physician and Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Virginia. She has over 15 years of clinical practice and is engaged in teaching and research at the University of Virginia School of Medicine. She attended medical school and residency in internal medicine at the University of Virginia. She completed a fellowship in general internal medicine and Masters in Public Health at Johns Hopkins University. She has serves in leadership for Positive Links initiative. She currently serves as Clinical Technology Lead for Virginia IMPACT (Infection Mitigation, Prevention, and Control through Technology) for long-term care facilities throughout Virginia.