Featured Faculty

• Alex Bardakh, MPP; Director of Public Policy & Advocacy for Post Acute and Long Term Care Medical Association (PALTmed). Alex works for PALTmed’s extensive Public Policy agenda through Advocacy in Congress & Federal Agencies.
• Yvonne Choong; Vice President for Policy with the California Association of Health Facilities (CAHF), California’s trade association representing skilled nursing and other LTC facilities. Yvonne oversees CAHF’s advocacy and lobbying functions.
• Jay Luxenberg, MD; Retired Chief Medical Officer of On Lok; Served as Chief Medical Officer at the Jewish Home, San Francisco; Clinical Professor & Lecturer for UC San Francisco School of Medicine, UC Berkeley, and Stanford; as well as the CALTCM Wave Editor-in-Chief.
• Karl Steinberg, MD, CMD, HMDC; A geriatrician and board-certified family physician with a subspecialty certification in hospice and palliative medicine with over 20 years of experience. CALTCM BOD Member & Past President; Past President, PALTmed; Past-President, National POLST Collaborative; Chair, CMA Council on Ethical, Legal, & Judicial Affairs; and Chief Medical Officer, Mariner & Beecan Health.