Eric B. Larson - (Chair)
Eric B. Larson, MD, MPH, is Vice President for Research and Health Care Innovation, Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of Washington, and Executive Director and Senior Investigator, Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute. A graduate of Harvard Medical School, Dr. Larson trained in internal medicine at Beth Israel Hospital, in Boston, completed a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars and M.P.H. program at the University of Washington, and then served as Chief Resident of University Hospital in Seattle. He served as Medical Director of University of Washington (UW) Medical Center and Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs from l989-2002. His research spans a range of general medicine topics and has focused on aging and dementia, including a long running study of aging and cognitive change set in Kaiser Permanente Washington (formerly known as Group Health Cooperative) - The UW/Group Health Alzheimer's Disease Patient Registry/Adult Changes in Thought Study. Dr. Larson has served as President of the Society of General Internal Medicine, Chair of the OTA/DHHS Advisory Panel on Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders and was Chair of the Board of Regents (2004-05), American College of Physicians. He is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine.

Marilyn Albert
Marilyn Albert, PhD, is Director, Division of Cognitive Neuroscience and Professor of Neurology and Director, Division of Cognitive Neuroscience at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She is also Director of the Johns Hopkins Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center. She received her Ph.D. degree in Physiological Psychology from McGill University in Montreal and completed a fellowship in Neuropsychology at Boston University School of Medicine. She served on the faculty of the Harvard Medical School for over 22 years and has been at Johns Hopkins for over 15 years. Now a Professor of Neurology at Johns Hopkins and Director of the Division of Cognitive Neuroscience, Dr. Albert focuses on the cognitive and brain changes associated with aging and Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Her work has delineated the cognitive changes associated with aging and early AD, along with potential methods of early identification of AD. She has also identified lifestyle factors that promote maintenance of mental abilities with advancing age. Dr. Albert’s research currently focuses on the early identification of AD, and potential ways of monitoring the progression of disease to permit early intervention.

Maria P. Aranda
María P. Aranda, PhD, MSW, MPA, LCSW is Associate Professor, USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work, and Executive Director, USC Edward R. Roybal Institute on Aging at the University of Southern California. She joined the social work faculty in 1995 and holds a joint appointment with the USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology. Dr. Aranda’s research, teaching, and practice interests address the study of psychosocial care of adult and late-life psychiatric disorders including depression and Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. She is interested in examining racial and ethnic diversity in the delivery of health and mental health services, disparities in health and health care, and testing of psychosocial interventions to alleviate illness burden among persons living with medical and psychiatric illnesses and their family caregivers. Dr. Aranda has served as principal investigator or co-investigator on several key studies funded by and/or in collaboration with the National Institute of Mental Health, National Cancer Institute, Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute, The John A. Hartford Foundation/The Gerontological Society of America, the California Community Foundation, National Institute of Rehabilitation and Research, Alzheimer’s Association/Health Resources and Services Administration, Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health, and the Larson Endowment for Innovative Research. She co-pioneered a state-of-the-art family support program (“El Portal”) for low-income, Spanish-speaking families dealing with neurodegenerative disorders which is a national model for family caregiving in hard-to-reach communities. She has served on local and national boards and committees dedicated to the enhancement of practice, policy, research and advocacy related to underrepresented minority populations. Dr. Aranda has served on several consensus committees at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine on the geriatric workforce in mental health and substance use service sectors, family caregiving to older adults with functional limitations, financial capacity determination and functional assessments among Social Security beneficiaries. She is a licensed psychotherapist with 30 years of experience providing bilingual and bicultural mental health services to middle-aged and older adults and their families.

Marilyn Blum
Marilyn Blum, BA, was a caregiver for her husband, Steve, who was diagnosed in 2005 with mild cognitive impairment, probable Alzheimer’s Disease, at age 59. In 2006, Ms. Blum became involved with Alzheimer’s advocacy and awareness activities, in conjunction with the Greater Maryland chapter of the Alzheimer’s Association. She has testified before the Aging Subcommittee of the U. S. Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee in support of increased funding for AD research and to raise public awareness of the impact of younger-onset dementia on patients and families; visited members of Congress on Capitol Hill for the same purposes; from 2008 to present, acted as Facilitator for a monthly support group for relatives and friends of people with dementia; and participated in work groups and on caregiver panels at various events. Ms. Blum was employed at the Social Security Administration (SSA) in Baltimore since 1966. She retired in 1999 as Director of the SSA’s Center for Supply Management. Ms. Blum received her B.A. from University of Maryland Baltimore County in 1976.

Christopher Callahan
Christopher M. Callahan, MD, is the Chief Research and Development Officer at Eskenazi Health and Professor of Medicine at the Indiana University School of Medicine. He served as the Director of the Indiana University Center for Aging Research from 1997-2018. He is also an Investigator at the Regenstrief Institute, Inc. and a Master in the American College of Physicians. His research seeks to improve outcomes for older adults with late life depression and dementia, focused on innovative models of care that support the caregiver and generalist physician in their day-to-day provision of health to older adults. Dr. Callahan has spent more than two decades developing and exploring new treatment options for older adults. He was recognized in 2016 with the Edward Henderson Award from the American Geriatrics Society. Dr. Callahan attended the St. Louis University School of Medicine, completed his internship and residency at Baylor College of Medicine, and fellowship at the Indiana University School of Medicine.