Our faculty is comprised of a distinguished group of physicians, nurses, nurse practitioners, pharmacists, academicians, and other experts who will present topics highlighting new evidence-based care as well as care processes and procedures aimed at enhancing safe patient care practices in the post-acute and long-term care setting.
2018 Annual Meeting Faculty
 Elizabeth Akhparyan, PharmD
PGY1 Geriatric Resident at Western University
 William Artigliere, Esq.
Partner, Garcia, Artigliere & Medby
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
 Wendy Coulston, Esq.
Attorney, LaFollette Johnson DeHaas Fesler & Ames
 Randall Espinoza, MD, MPH
Clinical Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Rebecca Ferrini, MD, MPH, CMD
Medical Director Edgemoor DP SNF, Behavioral Health Services Health and Human Services Agency, County of San Diego
 Janice Hoffman, PHARM.D. CGP, 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
 Cindy Keenan
Area Director of Operations/Owner, Sojourn Hospice and Palliative Care Sacramento
 Vanessa Mandal, MD, MS, CMD
Post- Acute Care and Geriatric Consultation, Mercy Medical Group, Sacramento
 Lawrence S. Miller, MD, FACP
UCLA Clinical Professor of Medicine
 Jocelyn Montgomery, RN
Nurse Consultant
 Leah Morris, RN, FNP, MPH, MS
Nurse Practitioner
 KJ Page, RN-BC, LNHA
Administrator, Chaparral House
 Paul L. Schneider, MD, FACP
Clinical Professor of Medicine, UCLA School of Medicine Chairman, Southern California Bioethics Committee Consortium
 Lisa Seo, MD
Palliative inpatient and outpatient physician with Mercy Medical Group, Sacramento
Karl E. Steinberg, MD, CMD, HMDC
Chief Medical Officer, Mariner Health Care Central; Editor-in-Chief, Caring for the Ages;
Chair, AMDA Public Policy Committee; President, Stone Mountain Medical Associates, Inc.
 Michael Su, MD
Assistant Clinical Professor UCLA Department of Neurology, California Rehabilitation Institute
 Kimberly A. Valentine, Esq.
Owner, Valentine Law Group
 William C. Wilson, Esq.
Partner, Wilson Getty LLP
 Michelle R. Zeidler, MD
UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
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