Dr. Juanita-Dawne Bacsu is the founding director of the Population Health and Aging Rural Research (PHARR) Centre, a Canada Research Chair (Tier II) in Nursing and Population Health, and an assistant professor in the School of Nursing at Thompson Rivers University in British Columbia, Canada. Her research interests include dementia, stigma, rural health, age-friendly environments, and health policy.

Patricia Slattum, Ph.D., Pharm.D., is a pharmacist and geriatric clinical pharmacologist. She works part-time with the Virginia Center on Aging at VCU as the co-director of the Virginia Geriatric Education Center Geriatrics Workforce Enhancement Program. She develops a geriatrics-focused curriculum for interprofessional training and has more than twenty years of experience establishing pharmacy and interprofessional practice models serving older adults. She serves as faculty in the VCU Mobile Health and Wellness Program, an interprofessional teaching and care coordination program in low-income senior housing that she co-founded in 2012. Her role in these efforts is to facilitate the integration of age-friendly practice into primary care. Her strength is in applying team science principles to interdisciplinary community-engaged collaborative projects to facilitate project success. She also serves as a Visiting Scholar at the Gerontological Society of America and as Co-Editor in Chief of The Senior Care Pharmacist.

Dr. Tracey Gendron serves as Chair of the Virginia Commonwealth University Department of Gerontology, Director of the Virginia Center on Aging, and is the author of the book "Ageism Unmasked: Exploring Age Bias and How to End It." Tracey is dedicated to raising awareness and ending ageism through education. Tracey has a Master’s degree in Gerontology, a Master’s degree in Psychology, and a PhD in Developmental Psychology.

Dr. Rich Holden, FGSA, FHFES, is James A. Caplin M.D. Chair in Evidence-Based Public Health, Professor of Health & Wellness Design, and Assistant Dean for Faculty Success at the Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington. He is a systems engineer, psychologist, and implementation researcher specializing in the design and evaluation of interventions for the prevention and care of chronic disease towards “better health, by design.” Dr. Holden’s work appears in 5 books and over 250 other publications and has attracted over $100M in funding. He received the Jack A. Kraft Innovator award for his role as co-founder of the subdiscipline of patient ergonomics, the subject of his 2-volume handbook, The Patient Factor. Dr. Holden’s research is extended through roles as founding associate director of the Center for Health by Design and chief healthcare engineer in the Center for Health Innovation and Implementation Science.

Barbara Resnick, PhD, CRNP is a Professor at the University of Maryland School of Nursing, the Associate Dean of Research, holds the Sonya Ziporkin Gershowitz Chair in Gerontology, and does clinical work in a House Calls program, assisted living communities and provides senior housing clinics. Her research program is focused on optimizing function and physical activity among older adults, physical resilience, and testing dissemination and implementation of interventions in real world settings that optimize health and manage clinical problems such as pain. Dr. Resnick has over 350 published articles, numerous chapters in nursing and medical textbooks, and books on Restorative Care and Resilience. She was the editor of Geriatric Nursing for 17 years and is the co-editor of the Journal of the American Medical Directors Association and on editorial boards for numerous journals. She has held leadership positions in GSA and other organizations.