Tamara Baker, PhD, FGSA, is a professor in the Department of Psychiatry in the School of Medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is an appointed member of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Geriatrics and Gerontology Advisory Committee, the National Institutes of Health Interagency Pain Research Coordinating Committee, and Editor-in-Chief of Ethnicity & Health. Among Dr. Baker’s activities with the Gerontological Society of America (GSA), she is a former GSA Secretary, served as Chair of the GSA Committee on Minority Issues in Gerontology, founder and co-convener of GSA’s Historically Black Colleges and Universities Collaborative Interest Group, former Chair of the Behavioral and Social Sciences Section, and is the GSA Board of Directors Vice President Elect. Her background in gerontology, psychology, and biobehavioral health has evolved into an active research agenda focusing on health disparities/equity as well as understanding the behavioral and psychosocial predictors and outcomes of chronic pain and pain among older Black adults.

Dr. Cacchione is the Ralston House Term Chair in Gerontological Nursing, Professor of Geropsychiatric Nursing at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, and Nurse Scientist at Penn Presbyterian Medical Center. She is a Gerontological Nurse Practitioner who has practiced for over 30 years across the care continuum. She is a nurse innovator. Her research focuses on social robotics for older adults. She is the CEO and Founder of AgingSense, a startup technology company to improve the lives of older adults. Dr Cacchione received her BSN from Villanova University, MSN from Marymount University, and PhD from Saint Louis University. She completed postdoctoral training at the University of Iowa. Dr. Cacchione has over 100 publications and is the Past Editor in Chief of Clinical Nursing Research and International Journal. Dr. Cacchione is a Fellow of the Gerontological Society of America and the American Academy of Nursing.

Laura K.M. Donorfio, PhD, FAGHE, is an Associate Professor at the University of Connecticut in Human Development and Family Sciences. Dr. Donorfio presently serves as the AGHE Vice Chair. She is the co-author of the book The Gerontology Field Placement: Internships and Practicums in Aging (2023, Springer). Her present research interests include the impact of educational innovation and intergenerational experiential learning and, most recently, how social processes impact the health and well-being of older SGM populations. Prior to joining UConn, Dr. Donorfio was a corporate gerontologist and director of consumer research for The Hartford Financial Services Group, collaborating with AARP and the MIT AgeLab. In 2011, she started AGHE’s first Teaching Institute, which is now in its 14th year. Dr. Donorfio holds fellow status in AGHE (2014), was awarded the Clark Tibbitts Award (2022), and was awarded AGHE’s Distinguished Teacher Designation (2009).

Sohyun Kim's research interest focuses on leveraging technology-based interventions such as video chat, wearable devices, virtual reality, AI, and home monitoring to enhance the quality of life for family and formal caregivers and persons living with dementia and older adults. She actively collaborated in NIH-funded clinical trials, including training interventions for nursing home staff to reduce elderspeak communication and resistance to care in residents with dementia, telehealth intervention using video consulting to support caregiver well-being and manage problematic behaviors, interventions targeting family involvement in care for persons living with dementia in nursing home, and the development and testing of a measure assessing dyadic interaction during mealtime between nursing home staff and residents with dementia. Sohyun also conducted research as a primary investigator focusing on Korean dementia family caregivers’ difficulties and coping strategies, systematic reviews of instruments in dementia care, and development and psychometric testing of the instrument assessing dyadic communication between persons living with dementia and their family caregivers. One of her research projects is a feasibility study in providing regular video family visits for residents in LTSS and their family caregivers. Specifically, this intervention consists of using web conferencing and wristbands for real-time monitoring of physiological data.