The ADC Program Team
David B. Reuben, MD
University of California, Los Angeles
Dr. Reuben is Director, Multicampus Program in Geriatrics Medicine and Gerontology and Chief, Division of Geriatrics at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Center for Health Sciences. He is the Archstone Foundation Chair and Professor at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and Director of the UCLA Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Center and the UCLA Alzheimer's and Dementia Care program.
He sustains professional interests in clinical care, education, research and administrative aspects of geriatrics, maintaining a clinical primary care practice of frail older persons and attending on inpatient and geriatric psychiatry units at UCLA.His bibliography includes more than 190 peer-reviewed publications in medical journals, 33 books and numerous chapters. He is lead author of the widely distributed book, Geriatrics at Your Fingertips.
Dr. Reuben is a past President of the American Geriatrics Society and the Association of Directors of Geriatric Academic Programs. He served for 11 years on the Geriatrics Test Writing Committee for the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) and for 8 years on the ABIM's Board of Directors, including as Chair from 2010-2011.
Michelle T. Panlilio, DNP
University of California, Los Angeles
Dr. Michelle Panlilio has been a Dementia Care Specialist in the UCLA Alzheimer's and Dementia Care Program since 2013. She graduated with a Bachelor's Degree in nursing from Mount St. Mary's College and completed her Master's and Doctoral Degrees from UCLA. Prior to joining the ADC Program, Dr. Panlilio worked in Internal Medicine, Cardiology, Dermatology, and clinical research trials about Alzheimer's Disease. While Dr. Panlilio sees patients in the Westwood and Santa Monica offices, she also contributes to the national dissemination efforts of the UCLA Alzheimer’s and Dementia Care Program with the John A. Hartford Foundation.
Leslie C. Evertson, DNP
University of California, Los Angeles
Dr. Leslie Evertson has served as a Dementia Care Specialist for the UCLA Alzheimer’s and Dementia Care (ADC) program since 2012 and is a geriatric nurse practitioner with experience in primary and long-term care. She graduated from the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs Beth-El College of Nursing and Health Sciences with a Master of Science in Nursing as an Adult/Geriatric Nurse Practitioner and Forensic Clinical Nurse Specialist. Dr. Evertson obtained her Doctor of Nursing Practice from the Northern California State University Consortium.
Kathy S. Serrano, MPH
University of California, Los Angeles
Kathy Serrano is a Project Manager and has worked with the UCLA Alzheimer’s and Dementia Care Program from 2012-2015 and again in 2017. She graduated from the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health with a Master of Public Health in Health Policy and Management. In addition to her vast experience working with UCLA’s Department of Geriatrics, Kathy also spent time as a Project Manager with Kaiser Permanente Southern California, Member Service & Performance Improvement.
Andrea I. Centeno, MS
University of California, Los Angeles
Andrea Centeno received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Gerontology and Master of Science degree in Health Policy and Management from Mount St. Mary's University. Before joining the UCLA Alzheimer’s and Dementia Care Program (ADC), Andrea had experience in skilled nursing facility social services and case management. Andrea continues to work with the local ADC Program as the lead Dementia Care Assistant and as a project manager for the ADC national dissemination efforts.
Jagrup Kaur, MPH
University of California, Los Angeles
Lee Jennings, MD, MSHS
University of Oklahoma
Dr. Lee A. Jennings, MD, MSHS, Assistant Professor, Reynolds Department of Geriatric Medicine at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, is a geriatrician and health services researcher whose work focuses on improving care delivery and health outcomes for persons with dementia and their caregivers and developing patient goals as patient-centered outcome measures for dementia care. Her work is supported by New Investigator Awards from the Alzheimer’s Association and Presbyterian Health Foundation. She is PI and Director of the Oklahoma Healthy Aging Initiative and 2016-17 Chair for the American Geriatrics Society Junior Faculty Research Special Interest Group.
Education Development Center
Rebecca J.Stoeckle, BA
Rebecca Jackson Stoeckle is an EDC vice president and the director of Private Sector Partnerships, where she directs initiatives in health, technology, aging, and systems change.
For over three decades, Stoeckle has designed innovative, technology-based projects to address some of the world’s foremost challenges in health and economic opportunity. Her signature projects have improved health care for older adults with dementia and for those who have experienced abuse, created breakthrough opportunities for youth in developing countries to be part of the emerging digital economy, and designed digital tools and systems to improve veterans’ access to mental health services. Her current work at EDC focuses on the intersection of innovation and impact in the design of interventions.
Stoeckle is the director and co-investigator of the Elder Mistreatment Initiative and the co-investigator for the national dissemination of the UCLA Alzheimer’s and Other Dementia Care (ADC) model for community-based care. She is a member of the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine Forum on Aging, Disability, and Independence as well as the World Health Organization’s G7 Advisory Group on Aging and the Environment.
Stoeckle received a BA from Stanford University and was a Sage Fellow at Cornell University.
Kristin Lees-Haggerty, PhD
Education Development Center
Kristin Lees-Haggerty, an experienced public health researcher, focuses on designing, testing, and disseminating innovations to improve health care for older adults. An expert in the prevention and remediation of elder mistreatment, Lees-Haggerty specializes in formal and nonformal approaches for improving elder mistreatment identification and response.
Lees-Haggerty is the project director for the National Collaboratory to Address Elder Mistreatment, a team of elder mistreatment experts and clinicians from across the country who are designing and testing a care model for identifying and responding to elder mistreatment in emergency departments. Lees-Haggerty is also leading the development of an online elder mistreatment training curriculum for emergency medical services providers and works on the dissemination of UCLA’s Alzheimer and Dementia Care program.
In addition to publishing her work in peer-reviewed journals and presenting at refereed conferences, Lees-Haggerty is honored to serve as guest editor for an upcoming issue of the American Society on Aging’s Generations focused on elder mistreatment.
Lees-Haggerty holds a PhD in Population Health from Northeastern University and an MA in Applied Psychology from New York University.
Gary Epstein-Lubow, MD
Education Development Center
Gary Epstein-Lubow, EDC distinguished medical scholar and geriatric psychiatrist, is a national leader in dementia-related research and policy. Epstein-Lubow’s work focuses on enriching the lives of people living with dementia and their family members by improving the quality of dementia care and expanding access to care through workforce development and healthcare system transformation. His work also includes a focus on advancing health equity for groups disproportionately negatively affected by dementia due to race, ethnicity, poverty, and other factors.
Epstein-Lubow is on the leadership team to disseminate the UCLA Alzheimer’s and Dementia Care (ADC) Program. He leads or co-leads dementia-related research and systemic change initiatives funded by the National Institutes of Health, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and The John A. Hartford Foundation.
Epstein-Lubow publishes extensively, contributing to the science of depression in the elderly, dementia care, family caregiver health, and suicide prevention. He is a staff psychiatrist at Butler Hospital and an associate professor at Brown University.
Epstein-Lubow holds an MD from the Ohio State University College of Medicine and Public Health.
Ellen Tambor, MA
Education Development Center
Ellen Tambor, an expert in stakeholder engagement in research, has led and contributed to a wide range of projects aimed at meaningfully engaging patients, clinicians, and other stakeholders in all aspects of the research process. She currently serves as Associate Lead of the NIA IMPACT Collaboratory Stakeholder Engagement Team where she works to develop guidance for investigators on engaging stakeholders in the development and implementation of embedded pragmatic clinical trials for people living with dementia and their caregivers. As a project director at EDC, she is helping to build a national learning collaborative for the ADC Program. Ellen holds an MA in psychology from Wake Forest University.
Maddie Johnson
Education Development Center
Madelyn Johnson, EDC project coordinator, specializes in project organization, instructional design, and educational content writing. She utilizes her experience as a student, educator, and coordinator to create meaningful learning opportunities for students worldwide.
Lynn Spragens, MBA
Spragens & Associates, LLC
Lynn Spragens, MBA, president of Spragens & Associates, LLC has thirty years of experience as a healthcare executive, including nine years with Kaiser Permanente, and twenty-one as a business and operations consultant to health care organizations and national non-profit initiatives across the nation. Ms. Spragens’ work includes extensive work since 2000 with the Center to Advance Palliative Care (www.capc.org) to promote increased access to palliative care. She serves as faculty for all CAPC conferences, a consultant to the Palliative Care Leadership Centers, author of business tools and curriculum utilized by CAPC, and has served as a consultant for the design and implementation of numerous hospital and health system palliative care programs. Her firm has analyzed data from numerous active programs to identify financial impact and opportunities for program expansion. Ms. Spragens has provided strategic planning support to geriatric initiatives such as NICHE, HELP, GRACE, Hospital at Home, and the Medicare Innovations Collaborative (Med-IC), as well as several nursing home quality initiatives (Greenhouse Project and Pioneer Network) and current work with UCLA/ ADC, several initiatives through the American Geriatrics Society, and work with CAPABLE (Johns Hopkins School of Nursing). In 2017, Ms. Spragens received the Innovation Award from the Center to Advance Palliative Care and in 2011 received the Presidential Citation from the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Care (AAHPM) for contributions to the field.