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