Sara J. Czaja, PhD, is the Gladys and Roland Harriman Professor of Medicine and Professor of Gerontology and the Director of the Center on Aging and Behavioral Research and the Director of the Center for the Study and Support of Caregivers in the Division of Geriatrics and Palliative Care at Weill Cornell Medicine She is the Director of the NIA funded multi-site Center for Research and Education on Aging and Technology Enhancement (CREATE) and the Co-Director of the ENHANCE (Enhancing Neurocognitive Health, Abilities, Networks, & Community Engagement) Center, funded by the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research, with a focus on how technology can support older adults with a cognitive impairment. Her research interests include aging and cognition, aging and technology, caregiving, training, and functional assessment. She is a fellow of the American Psychological Association, the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society and the Gerontological Society of America.

Dr. Kelly McConnell is an Attending Psychologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Her research examines rates of distress and the evaluation and implementation of psychological interventions to reduce distress in older adults with cancer and their caregivers. She also evaluates interventions to promote advance care planning in patients with advanced cancer. Her work has been funded by the National Institutes of Health, American Cancer Society, Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute, and foundations. She is a Fellow of the American Psychosocial Oncology Society.

I am the Irving Sherwood Wright Professor of Medicine, and since 2009 the Director of Cornell’s NIA-funded Roybal Center, i.e., the Translational Research Institute of Pain in Later Life (TRIPLL). I am a clinical epidemiologist and geriatric medicine physician whose work over the past 2 decades has focused on the epidemiology and treatment of various persistent pain disorders in older adults in a variety of care settings including hospital and community-based settings. This work has involved elucidating risk factors for poor outcomes (e.g., declines in physical performance), evaluating the risks and benefits of current therapies for managing persistent pain in older adults, as well as the development and testing of non-pharmacologic interventions to improve care outcomes. More recently my work has expanded to focus on the role of technology and how it can improve outcomes in patients receiving chronic illness care as well as care at the end of life.