Board of Directors

In Steve’s 30+ years of his career, he has worked to develop and disseminate competency-based, interprofessional education products and approaches; mentored early career geriatricians and other clinicians, especially with a DEI lens; and enhanced elder care by promoting new care models. As a geriatric medicine fellowship director for 23 years and past chair of the AGS/ADGAP Fellowship Program Director’s Group, Steve has been able to work with many educators negotiating regulatory and educational requirements together. His AGS work includes being a member of the Teachers Section, Chair of the AGS Education Committee, being AGS representative for the Alliance of Academic Internal Medicine, and serving on the ADGAP Board of Directors.

Marie’s career in geriatrics includes work as an educator of interprofessional students and as a clinician and administrator in primary care, long term care, acute care, and community-based care. Marie continues to work with interprofessional teams on NIH-funded research and programs such as the Pennsylvania Teaching Nursing Home Project and Age-Friendly Care, PA, a collaboration between the Penn State Ross College of Nursing and the Primary Health Network. Her service to AGS includes serving on the Clinical Practice and Models of Care Committee, the editorial board for Journal of the American Geriatrics Society (JAGS) and the Journal of Geriatric Emergency Medicine, and an associate editor for the AGS Geriatric Nursing Review Syllabus (4^th- 7^th editions).

Reena is a clinician who has cared for patients for over 20 years with a commitment to maximizing their independence and quality of life, an educator who is passionate about the integration of geriatric medical education into health professions training across the continuum, and a strong advocate for health equity, anti-racism and justice. An AGS member since 2001, Reena has volunteered in several roles, including as Chair of the AGS Education Committee, a member of various mentoring programs, a dedicated research abstract reviewer, and Chair of the 2019 Annual Meeting Program Committee. In 2006, she developed the Medical Education Paper Session for the AGS Annual Meeting, and, over 15 years later, it still serves as an annual opportunity to showcase the best scholarship in geriatrics and palliative care education. 

Susan joined the Department of Family and Community Medicine in the Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University in 1994. Appointed Director of the Geriatrics Fellowship Program in 2002, Susan helped enhance the popularity and prestige of the fellowship program. Since 2006, Susan has also led the development of palliative care services at Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals. More recently, she also helped develop an outpatient geriatric practice dedicated to providing patient and family-centered care for older patients.

As a geriatrician with additional training in urology, Neil helped to pioneer the field of geriatric voiding dysfunction. He founded America’s first Continence Center, and his research led to a paradigm shift in the understanding and management of incontinence and of other geriatric syndromes too. It also helped to lay the groundwork for national and international guidelines from AHRQ, Medicare, and the WHO. In addition he has served as a Medicare Innovation Advisor; Chief of Geriatrics at both Harvard’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the University of Pittsburgh/UPMC; and as past director of the fellowship program as well as the training core of the University of Pittsburgh’s NIH Pepper Center.

Ramona is a geriatrician and researcher who is passionate about examining disparities in health care for older adults and those at the end of life.  Previously an Associate Professor of Internal Medicine at UT Southwestern Medical Center, she currently serves as Associate Director for Health Services Research for the Geriatric Research, Education, and Clinical Center of the Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System and Associate Professor in the Department of Geriatrics at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. Ramona joined the AGS as a member in 2006 and became a fellow in 2013. She has served on the AGS Ethics Committee as a member, as vice-chair, and now chair. She is also Section Editor for Ethnogeriatrics and Special Populations for the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.  

Caroline is involved in geriatric curriculum development, teaching and mentoring within medical and interprofessional education, both as the University of Michigan Geriatric Medicine fellowship program director and through her role as the Associate Director for Education and Evaluation at the Ann Arbor VA Geriatric Research, Clinical, and Education Center (GRECC) .  As a dedicated AGS member, Caroline has served on the AGS Ethics Committee for over ten years and is proud to have served as Ethics Committee Chair.  Committed to enhancing the quality of life of all older adults, Caroline is especially focused on areas within Geriatrics that include ethical decision-making, geriatric education, and efforts to understand physician and interprofessional roles in care decisions affecting older adults, especially those with dementia.

Heather is an internist, geriatrician and clinical investigator.  Her overall goal is to optimize independence and resilience in people with multiple chronic conditions and she has particular expertise related to how the aging process and comorbidities affect the brain. She co-leads the PRIME Collaborative, a multi-institutional research initiative to identify mechanisms and predictors of recovery after common health stressors (e.g., surgery, hip fracture, vision loss).  Through several institutional and national leadership roles, Heather coordinates and facilitates efforts to broaden the evidence base and research workforce to improve knowledge and care decisions for medically complex older patients. In addition to the roles above, she is Co-Director of the Duke/UNC Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center. 

Megan provides primary care for older adults in their homes through the Boston Medical Center (BMC) home care program – the oldest of its kind in the country.  She is also an Assistant Dean of Student Affairs and Clerkship Director for the required 4th year Geriatrics Clerkship at her institution. Her scholarly work is grounded in her love of medical student education and her care for homebound patients. Given that greater than 60% of the patient population she cares for is racially and ethnically minoritized and 25% are considered to have low-English proficiency, she views it as her responsibility to participate in efforts that address such issues and develop strategies to change the status quo.  One example of that commitment is to serve as the Section of Geriatrics Champion for the BMC Racial Equity Committee.  Within AGS, Megan is concluding her role as Chair of the AGS Teachers Section and as an appointed member on the AGS/ADGAP Education Committee.