Speakers

COURSE CO DIRECTORS:

Dennis H. Sullivan, MD
Director, Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center (GRECC)
Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System
Professor of Geriatrics, Vice-Chair for Clinical Research
Donald W. Reynolds Department of Geriatrics
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences College of Medicine
Little Rock, AR

Ronni Chernoff, PhD, RD, FADA
Associate Director for Education and Evaluation
Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center (GRECC)
Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System
Director, Arkansas Geriatric Education Center (AGEC)
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences College of Medicine
Little Rock, AR

Kay Guthrie
Administrative Officer
Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center (GRECC)
Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System
Little Rock, AR

PLANNING COMMITTEE

Donald L. Bodenner, MD, Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System, UAMS
Ronni Chernoff, PhD, RD, Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System; AGEC
Kay Guthrie, AO, Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System
Rebecca M. Reach, MSN, RN, BC, Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System
Dennis H. Sullivan, MD, Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System, UAMS

FACULTY

Robert Coker, PhD
Assistant Professor
Reynolds Department of Geriatrics
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
College of Medicine
Little Rock, AR

Vivian Fonseca, MD, FRCP
Professor of Medicine and Pharmacology
Tullis Tulane Alumni Chair in Diabetes
Chief, Section of Endocrinology
Tulane University Health Sciences Center
New Orleans, LA

Robert G. Frykberg, DPM, MPH
Chief, Podiatry
Carl T. Hayden VA Medical Center
Phoenix, AZ

Michele J. Saunders, DMD, MS , MPH
Associate Director for Education/Evaluation GRECC
South Texas Veterans Health Care System
Professor and Director, South West and Panhandle Consortium GEC of Texas
Department of Medicine,
University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
San Antonio, TX

Kimberly R. Watson, PharmD
Diabetes Firm Pharmacist
Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System
Little Rock, AR

Jeff D. Williamson, MD, MHS
Head, Division of Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine
Director, Roena Kulynych Center for Memory and Cognition Research
Clinical Director, J. Paul Sticht Center on Aging
Associate Professor of Internal Medicine
Wake Forest University School of Medicine
Winston-Salem, NC

Judith Wylie-Rosett, EdD, RD
Professor of Epidemiology and Population Health
Division Head for Behavioral and Nutritional Research
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Bronx, NY