Speaker Biosketches
Georgia J. Anetzberger, PhD, ACSW, LISW
Georgia J. Anetzberger, PhD, ACSW, LISW, is Assistant Professor for Health Care Administration at Cleveland State University, a consultant in private practice, and a Fellow in the Gerontological Society of America. She has spent over thirty years addressing the problem of elder abuse, initially as an adult protective services worker and most recently as a researcher, administrator, and educator concerned with the dynamics and consequences of elder abuse situations. Her past employment includes: Vice President for Community Services with the Benjamin Rose Institute, Director of the Western Reserve Geriatric Education Center, Executive Director of the Western Reserve Area Agency on Aging, and Senior Planning Associate for the Federation for Community Planning, all located in Cleveland, Ohio.
Dr. Anetzberger is the new Editor for the Journal of Elder Abuse & Neglect, beginning with volume 19. She was the architect of Ohio’s protective services law for adults and various subsequent amendments. She established the Ohio Coalition for Adult Protective Services and Consortium Against Adult Abuse (both Affiliates of the National Committee for the Prevention of Elder Abuse, in which she serves as Vice President) as well as the Greater Cleveland Elder Abuse/Domestic Violence Roundtable. Dr. Anetzberger has developed training curricula on elder abuse for organizations like the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services and Ohio Domestic Violence Network. She served as principal investigator for the project “A Model Intervention for Elder Abuse and Dementia,” which won the American Society on Aging 2000 Best Practice in Human Resources and Aging Award.
Maggie Baker, PhD, RN
Dr. Maggie Baker is anAssistant Professor inthe Department of Biobehavioral Nursing at the University of Washington School of Nursing. She is the lead faculty for graduate pathways in Forensic Nursing. Her research is focused onelder mistreatment; specifically, elder mistreatment, frailty, stress, and early mortality; domestic violence in later life; sexual abuse of older adults; and,forensic markers of elder neglect. Dr. Bakeris Principal Investigator for the Seattle site of a multicenter research studyfunded by the National Institute of Justice. She serves as Chairperson of the King County Elder Abuse Council andas a member of the King County Medical Examiner's Advisory Committee and theInvestigation and Prosecution Work Group of theAttorney General of Washington Vulnerable Adult Summit.
Bonnie Brandl, M.S.W.
Bonnie Brandl is the Director of the National Clearinghouse on Abuse in Later Life (NCALL), a project of the Wisconsin Coalition Against Domestic Violence (WCADV). NCALL provides technical assistance, training and consultation on domestic abuse in later life. Ms. Brandl has worked with battered women and their children for over 20 years and the WCADV for over 16 years. She recently co-authored a book titled “Elder Abuse Detection and Intervention: A Collaborative Approach.” Her numerous published articles, manuals and booklets on domestic abuse in later life have been distributed throughout the country. For more than a decade, she has presented at national, regional, statewide and local conferences on domestic violence and elder abuse. Ms. Brandl has a Masters in Social Work from the University of Wisconsin – Madison. She currently lives near Boulder Colorado with her family.
Marie-Therese Connolly, JD
Marie-Therese Connolly is a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington DC where she is writing a book about elder abuse. Prior to the fellowship she coordinated the US Department of Justice’s Elder Justice and Nursing Home Initiative and was a Senior Trial Counsel in the Department’s Civil Division. She managed a $1 million/year budget that funded elder abuse research, development of training curricula, program evaluation, and the advancement of elder abuse forensics. Ms. Connolly also coordinated the Department’s efforts in failure of care prosecutions pursued against providers that bill federal programs for worthless or nonexistent care, often with catastrophic consequences for vulnerable residents.
Ms. Connolly worked with the Senate Special Committee on Aging to draft the Elder Justice Act and continues to work with myriad federal, state, local and international, public and private entities. She is a frequent public speaker, has published articles, and won various awards for her work. Ms. Connolly joined the Department of Justice following a clerkship with the late Honorable Paul H. Roney of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.
Carmel Bitondo Dyer, M.D.
Carmel Bitondo Dyer, M.D. graduated from Baylor College of Medicine in 1988. She is board certified in Internal Medicine and Geriatrics. Dr. Dyer established and directed the Geriatrics Program at the Harris County Hospital District from 1993-2006. In January of this year she became the director of a new division of Geriatric Medicine in the Department of Internal Medicine at the University of Texas Medical School at Houston. Dr. Dyer established and codirects the Texas Elder Abuse and Mistreatment (TEAM) Institute, a collaboration between UT Houston, Baylor, the Harris County Hospital District, and the Texas Department of Protective and Regulatory Services. Her research and publications are in the area of elder neglect and the interdisciplinary approach to abused or neglected elders and leads a county-wide elder abuse fatality review team. She has made over 150 presentations, including testimony before the U.S. Senate Finance committee on behalf of mistreated elders. She is the co-editor of a recently published book on interdisciplinary elder mistreatment teams and the PI of a number of federal grants.
Melanie Gironda, Ph.D, M.S.W.
Melanie Gironda, Ph.D, M.S.W., is an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Division of Public Health & Community Dentistry at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) School of Dentistry. She received a BA in Communication Studies from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and both an MSW and PhD from UCLA, in Social Gerontology. Dr. Gironda worked as a clinical social worker at the Los Angeles Veteran’s Administration, Geriatric Research and Education Center (GRECC) and her research examines the influence of social integration on health outcomes among various populations with a special focus on the nature of social support networks and hardiness among socio-demographically disadvantaged adults. She has co-authored a number of manuscripts and book chapters on the centrality of social networks to the health and wellbeing of adults as well as psychosocial factors that influence postoperative recovery. She currently co-facilitates courses on Ethics, Culture & Health, and Behavior Science for the School of Dentistry. She is the principal investigator on a grant to increase dental health professionals’ awareness of elder abuse and neglect, funded by the Archstone Foundation’s Elder Abuse and Neglect Initiative. She is also a co-investigator on two NIDCR funded studies; an R01 examining patient preferences for treatment of mandibular fractures among underserved African American and Hispanic subjects, and an R03 examining the influence of culture and health literacy on accessing preventive services in a dental clinic.
Michael Gargiulo, Deputy-In-Charge, Elder Abuse Section, Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office
Michael Gargiulo, a graduate of University of Southern California and Southwestern University School of Law, is a Deputy District Attorney with the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office. Mr. Gargiulo is a 19-year veteran prosecutor, who from 1993-2005, focused primarily in prosecuting sex crimes and child abuse cases. In January 2002, Mr. Gargiulo was recognized by the Association of Deputy District Attorneys for his work in prosecuting the first "cold hit" in Los Angeles County. Additionally, Mr. Gargioulo received the Justice for Homicide Victims Outstanding Prosecutor Award in 2004. Mr. Gargioulo currently serves as the Deputy-In-Charge of the District Attorney's Elder Abuse Section.
Eileen Goldman, LCSW, Consultant, Principal, Aging Associates
Eileen Goldman, LCSW, was the Director of Seniors-At-Home, a program of Jewish Family and Children's Services (JFCS) of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties until January 2001 when she began her own consulting firm, “Aging Associates”. She has been working in the field of aging for the last 25 years. In addition to her leadership role at JFCS, where she supervised a team of over twenty geriatric specialists, Eileen has also been very active in senior support activities in the community at large. She served as the chair of the multi-disciplinary team of the San Francisco Consortium for Elder Abuse Prevention for 10 years, on the board of the Western Regional Chapter of the National Association of Professional Geriatric Care Managers, and also on a leadership committee of the Health and Aging Network of the American Society on Aging.
Presently, Eileen provides supervision and training to organizations that provide geriatric social work, both in the non-profit and for-profit arena. In addition, Eileen was a consultant to the San Francisco Probate Court on a project that addressed the issue of increasing access to the court.
Richard Harruff, M.D., Ph.D.
Richard Harruff, M.D., Ph.D. is Chief Medical Examiner in the Seattle - King County Medical Examiner's Office, where he has worked since 1993. In addition to several scientific publications and presentations, he has lectured extensively on several topics important to medical providers, especially topics related to domestic violence. He is a member of the multiagency King County Elder Abuse Council and has directed numerous investigations involving allegations of abuse and neglect.
Kim Hubbard, Esq.
Kim R. Hubbard is an attorney who has been in practice for 27 years and who has specialized in Elder Law for the last 16 years. Ms. Hubbard chaired the Elder Law section of the Orange County Bar Association in 1995, was the President of that organization in 2004 and is a Past-Chair of the Orange County Bar Association's Delegation to the Conference of Delegates of the State Bar. She also serves on the board of CSP, Inc. (Community Service Programs), LASOC (Legal Aid Society of Orange County) and ASAAPS (American Society of Adult Abuse Professionals and Survivors). Ms. Hubbard is a founding member of the Orange County Hoarding Task Force and Chair of the OAS (Older Adult Services) sub-committee of the Orange County Mental Health Board. Ms. Hubbard teaches a portion of the Professional Fiduciary credentialing program at Cal State Fullerton and was on the Advisory board that established the program. Ms. Hubbard has been a frequent lecturer for the Orange County Bar Association, the Public Law Center and CEB. Her practice concentrates on conservatorship (probate and LPS), probate guardianships, small estate planning and vulnerable adult abuse. She became the Coordinator of the FAST (Financial Abuse Specialist Team) for Orange County through the Council on Aging in 2003 and is also the chair of Los Angeles County FAST in 2006. Ms. Hubbard is Interim Director of Elder Abuse Prevention Program at WISE Senior Services.
Associate Professor Susan Kurrle, M.D.
Sue Kurrle holds the Curran Chair in Health Care of Older People in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Sydney and Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital in northern Sydney. She is a geriatrician who has had a long interest and involvement in research into elder abuse, and has published in the local and international medical literature on this issue. She has been a professional member of the New South Wales Guardianship Tribunal since 1992, and also deals with the management of cases of elder abuse in her day to day clinical work. She is the Oceania representative for the International Network for the Prevention of Elder Abuse.
Betty F. Malks, MSW, CSW
Betty F. Malks has over 30 years experience in Adult Services. Since 1997, as department director, she has spearheaded the creation of the Santa Clara County Social Services Agency’s Department of Aging and Adult Services (DAAS), bringing together all adult programs under one umbrella, including Adult Protective Services, Public Administrator/Guardian/Conservator, In-Home Supportive Services, and Senior Nutrition. Most recently, Ms. Malks has been appointed as the North American Regional Representative for the International Network for the Prevention of Elder Abuse (INPEA) and is a member of the Education Committee of the National Committee for the Prevention of Elder Abuse (NCPEA). Additionally, Ms. Malks was the architect of the Financial Abuse Specialist Team (FAST) which has recovered/prevented the loss of $157 million of client assets. She created Elder and Dependent Adult Law Enforcement Protocol with support from all 15 police jurisdictions and Developed a model Adult Protective Services (APS) Regional Training Institute to provide additional training resource for social service professionals in the Bay Area.
Linda R. Phillips, R.N., Ph.D., F.A.A.N.
Linda Phillips is currently a professor of nursing and the Audrienne H. Moseley Endowed Chair in Nursing at the UCLA School of Nursing. She received her bachelors and masters degrees from the University of Pittsburgh and her PhD from the University of Arizona. For close to 30 years, Dr. Phillips has been involved in the study of elder abuse in the home setting. She has completed a number of research projects on elder abuse funded by the National Institutes of Health and is currently funded by the Retirement Research Foundation to study elder abuse in assisted living facilities. She has published many journal articles on the topic and has been invited to speak about the topic both nationally and internationally. She has also studied the quality of elder caregiving in Anglo and Mexican American families, end-of-life caregiving and improving care to institutionalized elders, particularly elders with dementia. Formally, Co-Director of the Arizona Center on Aging and Director of the Arizona Geriatric Education Center, Dr. Phillips is currently professor emeritus at the University of Arizona.
Elizabeth Podnieks, RN, Ed D.
Dr. Podnieks is a founding member of the International Network for the Prevention of Elder Abuse (INPEA), the Canadian Network for the Prevention of Elder Abuse (CNPEA), and the Ontario Network for the Prevention of Elder Abuse (ONPEA). She is currently Vice-President of INPEA and founder of World Elder Abuse Awareness Day (WEAAD). Dr. Podnieks has been on the faculty of Nursing/Community Services at Ryerson University for over 25 years. She has published both nationally and internationally on senior abuse. Current research as principal investigator, project consultant or project partner includes: “WorldView on Elder Abuse Environmental Scan”, “Enhancing the Capacity of a Diverse Faith Community to Address Elder Abuse”, and “A Way Forward: Promising Approaches to Prevent Elder Abuse, Institute for Life Course and Aging, University of Toronto.” Dr. Podnieks’ Canadian and international contributions include work as Canadian Coordinator for the WHO/INPEA research project “Missing Voices”, Co-Chair of the Roundtable for the Ontario Elder Abuse Strategy to Combat Elder Abuse, Board of Directors of the National Committee on Elder Abuse (NCPEA) USA, and Board of Managing Directors for the Journal of Elder Abuse and Neglect. Dr. Podnieks was awarded the Order of Canada for work in elder abuse prevention.
John F. Randolph, M.D.
John Franklin Randolph, M.D., currently serves as Director for the Arrowhead Regional Medical Center Geriatric Medicine Program. Dr. Randolph has practiced medicine in California since 1981, and has been active as a teacher of Family Medicine, particularly in the field of Geriatric Medicine, with past clinical appointments at several medical schools, including Loma Linda University, U.C. Irvine, and Western University.
His interest area lies in comprehensive assessment of older adults to uncover impairment in function and special syndromes such as dementia, delirium, falling, and incontinence, and elder abuse including the syndrome of self-neglect. He has served for many years on elder abuse multidisciplinary teams in both Riverside and San Bernardino Counties. He established elder abuse medical assessment teams at both County hospitals in the Inland Empire, developing protocols and assessment instruments for each team. He is a past President of the state medical director’s association (CAMD), renamed the California Association of Long Term Care Medicine, for which he continues as a Board member, and has served as a member or chair for multiple committees in that organization.
Robin Roth, M.S.
Robin Roth, M.S., is a Health Educator and tenured faculty member in Health Education and Community Health Studies at City College of San Francisco. She directs the Elder Abuse Alert project developing curricula to increase detection and reporting of elder abuse by frontline allied health personnel such as Emergency Medical Technicians & Paramedics, Health Care Interpreters, Community Health Workers, Aides, etc. Curricula will be available as training materials, as tech-enhanced and online courses. Ms. Roth teaches CCSF’s introduction to gerontology course, Health and Aging, as well as Women’s Health Issues, Hepatitis ABCs, and other courses.
Diana Schneider, MD
Diana Schneider, MD is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Family Medicine and Internal Medicine at the University of Southern California School of Medicine. She is board certified in Family Medicine and Geriatric Medicine. Dr. Schneider completed a two-year fellowship in Geriatric Medicine at Oregon Health Sciences University in June of 2000. She is the Medical Director of the Geriatrics Clinic and Adult Protection Team at LAC+USC Medical Center and in this role serves as a consultant to Los Angeles County Adult Protective Services. She also spearheaded the development of the Los Angeles County Elder Abuse Forensic Center in January 2006. She has lectured on elder abuse for the California Medical Training Center and as a representative of the Violence Intervention Program. In April 2002, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office and its Victim Witness Assistance Program recognized Dr. Schneider for her dedication to assisting elderly victims of crime. In March 2006, Dr. Schneider was named a “Woman of the Year” by the Los Angeles County Commission on Women.
Aileen Wiglesworth, Ph.D.
Aileen Wiglesworth, Ph.D., is an Assistant Clinical Professor in UCI's Program in Geriatrics. She received her Ph.D. in Gerontology from the University of Kentucky in 2002. She joined the Program in Geriatrics in early 2004. With Laura Mosqueda, M.D., and other colleagues at UCI she has coauthored successful elder abuse grant proposals with National Institutes on Aging, National Institutes of Justice, California Department of Health Services, and the Archstone Foundation. She also conducted a program evaluation of the first Elder Abuse Forensic Center in the United States. She will be talking about challenges and findings from recently completed and ongoing elder mistreatment research projects.
Laura Mosqueda, MD is a board-certified family physician and geriatrician. She is the Director of Geriatrics at the University of California, Irvine School of Medicine where she is also a Professor of Family Medicine. One of her major areas of interest is in elder mistreatment. At the local level, she was the founder of a medical response team that provides consultation on abuse cases, an elder abuse forensic center, and an Elder Abuse Prevention Coalition. On the national front, she was the co-chair of a Department of Justice forensic forum on elder abuse, and served on a National Academies Panel that published Elder Mistreatment: Abuse, Neglect, and Exploitation in an Aging America.
Dr. Mosqueda has extensive experience in developing, implementing, and teaching courses on elder abuse for physicians, law enforcement officers, and prosecutors. She directs an Elder Mistreatment Training Institute funded by the UniHealth Foundation. Her areas of research are in abuse of persons with dementia and forensic markers of elder mistreatment.