AMDA announces 2020-2021 Board of Directors

AMDA – The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine has elected its 2020-2021 Board of Directors.

Among new members:

David A. Nace, M.D., MPH, CMD, president;
Karl Steinberg, M.D., HMCD, CMD, president-elect; and
Suzanne Gillespie, M.D., RD, CMD, vice president.

Nace is an assistant professor of medicine in the Division of Geriatric Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. He is the director of long-term care and flu programs for the school and as chief of medical affairs for UPMC Senior Communities.

Steinberg has been a nursing home and hospice medical director since 1995. He is chief medical officer for Mariner Health Central, a 20-facility California corporation, and is medical director at Life Care Center of Vista, Carlsbad by the Sea Care Center, and Hospice by the Sea. Steinberg also makes home visits on behalf of Scripps Healthcare. He chaired AMDA’s Public Policy Committee for many years, has been editor in chief of Caring for the Ages since 2009, and is an associate editor of JAMDA.

Gillespie is associate professor of medicine in the Division of Geriatrics / Aging and associate professor of emergency medicine at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry. She also is associate chief of staff for geriatrics extended care and rehabilitation and serves as medical director of the nursing home of the Canandaigua Veterans Affairs Medical Center in the Finger Lakes VA Healthcare System. She has served AMDA in a variety of capacities — chair of the House of Delegates, chair of the Annual Meeting Program Planning Committee, vice chair of the Public Policy Committee, and chair of the Workgroup on Telemedicine — to name just a few.

Additional members:

Secretary: Rajeev Kumar, M.D., CMD, FACP, Chicago, IL (returning).

Treasurer: Jeffrey N. Nichols, M.D., CMD, New York, NY (returning).

Chair, House of Delegates: Wayne Saltsman, MD, PhD, CMD, Burlington, MA (newly elected).

State Presidents Council representatives: Leslie Beth Eber, MD, CMD, Englewood, CO (Returning); John Potomski, DO, CMD, Melbourne, FL (returning); Victoria Walker, MD, CMD, Vermillion, SD (newly elected).

House of Delegates Representatives: Alice Bonner, Ph.D., APRN, GNP, Westborough, MA (returning); Mary P. Evans, M.D., CMD, Charlottesville, VA (returning); Swati Gaur, M.D., MBA, CMD, Gainesville, GA (newly elected).