2019 Annual Meeting Faculty

Margherita Aikman, RN, BSN, PharmD, BCPS, BCACP, CACP, CDE

Supervisor, Clinical Pharmacy, Pharmacy Services, Dignity Health Medical Foundation

William Artigliere, Esq.

Partner, Garcia, Artigliere & Medby 

Neurobehavioral Consultant & Clinical Psychologist

Debra Bakerjian, Ph.D., APRN, FAAN, FAANP

Senior Director for NP/PA Clinical Education and Practice; Associate Adjunct Professor,
Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing, UC Davis Health System

Alex Bardakh, MPP, PLC

Director, Public Policy & Advocacy at AMDA - The Society for Post-Acute
and Long-Term Care Medicine

Jason Belden

Disaster Preparedness Program Manager; OSHPD Policy Analyst; Fire Life 
Safety Analyst at CAHF – California Association of Health Facilities

Teresa Caipang, BSN, RN, MSN

Director of Nursing, Norwalk Skilled Nursing & Wellness Centre

Erika Castile, MSG, LNHA, RCFE

Erika Castile is leading the team at Brookdale Carmel Valley, 
Vice President of the San Diego Chapter of CAHF.

Wendy Coulston, Esq.

Attorney, LaFollette Johnson DeHaas Fesler & Ames

Rebecca Ferrini, MD, MPH, CMD 

Medical Director Edgemoor DP SNF, Behavioral Health Services
Health and Human Services Agency, County of San Diego, CA

Kathy Gamboa, RN, BSN

Registered Nurse, Edgemoor DP SNF

Robert Gibson, PhD, JD

Senior Clinical Psychologist; Edgemoor DPSNF, Santee, CA 

Timothy Gieseke, MD, CMD

Multi-Facility Medical Director, Santa Rosa, CA; 
Associate Clinical Professor, University of California, San Francisco

Janice Hoffman, PharmD, EdD, APh, BCPG, FASCP

Director, Postgraduate Residency Program, Jewish Home for the Aging; 
Associate Professor of Pharmacy, Practice and Administration, 
Western University of Health Sciences College of Pharmacy

Ashkan Javaheri, MD, CMD

Geriatrician, Mercy Medical Group – Dignity Health Medical Foundation;
Head of the Geriatric Division, Assistant Clinical Professor, UC Davis School of Medicine

Albert Lam, MD

Attending Physician, SNF Specialist, Palo Alto Foundation Medical Group; 

Co-Principal investigator, CALTCM SNF 2.0® program

Jay Luxenberg, MD

Chief Medical Officer, On Lok; Program Faculty Geriatric Care and Outcomes,
Clinical Professor, Department of Medicine, UCSF

Vanessa Mandal, MD, MS, CMD

Post-Acute Care and Geriatric Consultation, Mercy Medical Group;

Assistant Professor, Internal Medicine Program, UC Davis School of Medicine

Patricia Marks

Social Worker, Edgemoor DP SNF

 
Ofelia Martinez, RN-BSN

Supervising Nurse, Infection Prevention, Edgemoor DP SNF

Maribeth Nono, RN, MAN

Infection Control, Quality Assurance Supervising Nurse, Edgemoor DP SNF

Dan Osterweil, MD, FACP, CMD
President, Medical Director at Scan Healthcheck Assessment Center; 
Medical Director/VP, SCAN Health Plan; Professor of Medicine, 
Associate Director Multi Campus Program in Geriatrics & Gerontology, 
David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA

Peter Patterson, MD, MBA, FCAP, FACMQ

Principal, Patterson LTC Consults; Medical Director,
Diagnostic Laboratories and Radiology, Arizona

Teresa Rogers-Marsh, RN

Inservice Education Coordinator, Director of Staff Development,
Edgemoor DP SNF

Karl E. Steinberg, MD, CMD, HMDC

Chief Medical Officer, Mariner Health Care; Editor-in-Chief, Caring for the Ages; 

Chair, Public Policy Committee, AMDA; President & CEO,
Stone Mountain Medical Associates, Inc.

Indira Subramanian, MD

Director, SouthWest PADRECC VA Parkinson Disease Center of Excellence; 
Health Sciences Full Clinical Professor, Department of Neurology, UCLA

Michelle Tello

Supervising Nurse, Edgemoor DP SNF

Merlyn Trinidad, RN-BSN

Director of Nursing, Edgemoor DP SNF

Kimberly A. Valentine, Esq.

Owner, Valentine Law Group

Kerry Weiner, MD, MPH

Chief Clinical Officer, Care Connect MD

Christine Wilson, RN, JD, MS-HCE

Partner, Tyler & Wilson, LLP

William C. Wilson, Esq.

Founding Member, Wilson Getty LLP

Thomas Yoshikawa, MD

Associate Chief of Staff for Geriatrics & Extended Care, Clinical Liaison for
GLAHS & West LA State Veterans Home, VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare
System; Distinguished Professor of Medicine, Geriatric Medicine & Infectious Disease, 
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA; Research Professor, Charles R. Drew
University of Medicine & Science; Editor in Chief Emeritus, Journal of the 
American Geriatrics Society

Michael Zweiback, Esq.

Founding partner, Zweiback, Fiset & Coleman LLP