Joe Gaugler is the Robert L. Kane Endowed Chair in Long-Term Care & Aging in the School of Public Health and a Distinguished McKnight University Professor at the University of Minnesota. He is the Director of the Center for Healthy Aging and Innovation, Director of the CDC-funded BOLD Public Health Center of Excellence on Dementia Caregiving, Director of the National Institute on Aging-funded EMBRACE AD/ADRD Roybal and State Alzheimer's Research Support Centers, and Editor-in-Chief of The Gerontologist. His research focuses on dementia care innovation.

Spero M. Manson, Ph.D. (Little Shell Chippewa) is Distinguished Professor of Public Health and Psychiatry, occupies the Colorado Trust Chair in American Indian Health, and directs the Centers for American Indian and Alaska Native Health in the Colorado School of Public Health at the University of Colorado Denver’s Anschutz Medical Center. His programs include 10 national centers, which pursue research, program development, training, and collaboration with 200 Native communities. Dr. Manson has acquired >$260 million in sponsored research to support this work, and published 300 articles on the assessment, epidemiology, treatment, and prevention of physical, alcohol, drug, as well as mental health problems over the developmental life span of Native people. He has received over 30 national from the NIH, CDC, APHA, AAMC, IHS, numerous professional organizations, and the National Academy of Medicine. He is widely acknowledged as one of the nation’s leading authorities regarding Native health.

Marcia G. Ory, Ph.D., M.P.H., is a Regents and Distinguished Professor in the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Texas A&M School of Public Health (SPH) in College Station, Texas. Working with interdisciplinary teams in the TAMU Board of Regents Center for Community Health and Aging (CCHA), her primary goal is to reframe healthy aging as the new normal through innovative research, education, and service. Dr. Ory is an international leader in translating research into practice through investigations of behavioral, social, environmental, policy, and/or technological solutions to enhance health and quality of life for all. She has a long-standing commitment to aging and public health research, with a particular interest in dementia research that focuses on both individuals living with dementia and their care partners.

Dr. Lauren J. Parker, PhD, MPH, is an Associate Scientist at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Her research advances dementia care and support for all families, with a focus on communities who experience higher prevalence and greater risk of dementia. She develops and implements culturally tailored, community-based interventions to ensure that services and resources reach those most in need, with the goal of achieving parity in dementia care. Dr. Parker is Principal Investigator of an NIA-funded K01 study examining biological and psychosocial stress pathways among caregivers and serves as Co-Investigator with the State Alzheimer’s Research Support Center (StARS) and the Implementation Core of the NIA-funded IMPACT Collaboratory. A national leader in dementia caregiving science, Dr. Parker works at the intersection of research, policy, and practice to strengthen support for people living with dementia and their caregivers.

Dr. Sidney M. Stahl served as the Chief of the Individual Behavioral Processes Branch at the National Institute on Aging (NIA), National Institutes of Health (NIH) from 1996 until retiring in 2012. He promoted diversity in aging research by creating the Resource Centers for Minority Aging Research (RCMAR) program and initiating NIA’s research programs on elder abuse. After retiring, he served as elder abuse research consultant to the U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Administration for Community Living/Administration on Aging. He helped implement part of the Affordable Care Act creating the Cabinet-level Elder Justice Coordinating Council. The Gerontological Society of America (GSA) chose Dr. Stahl as the 2012 recipient of the Donald P. Kent Award. Prior to his career at NIH, he was a professor of medical sociology and social gerontology at Purdue University for over 20 years.