Brian Lindberg is a Washington, DC-based advocate, policy educator, and lobbyist. He serves as a public policy advisor to several organizations, including the Gerontological Society of America and the National Association for Geriatric Education. Brian has served on many boards and advisory panels, including for the Institute of Medicine, CMS, NAIC, and the Planning Committee for the National Quality Forum (appointed by Vice President Gore). Currently, Brian serves on the Board of Visitors of the College of Public Health at Temple University. Brian worked in Congress for ten years on the House Select Committee on Aging and the Senate Special Committee on Aging. He holds a Bachelor of Social Work degree from Temple University and a Master’s degree in Management of Human Services from Brandeis University. He studied at the University of Stockholm’s International Graduate School.

Robert “Bob” Blancato is the president of Matz, Blancato & Associates in Washington, DC. In that capacity, he serves as the Executive Director of the National Association of Nutrition and Aging Services Programs, the National Coordinator of the Elder Justice Coalition, and the National Coordinator for the Defeat Malnutrition Today coalition. Bob’s prior work includes more than 20 years of public service, including 17 years as a senior staffer in the House of Representatives. President Clinton appointed him to serve as the Executive Director of the 1995 White House Conference on Aging, one of four he has participated in. Bob is a member of the Senior Executive Service. Bob is recognized as a national policy advocate for older adults and has testified on numerous occasions before Senate and House Committees, most recently in 2022 before the House Appropriations Labor-HHS Education Subcommittee. As a volunteer, he currently serves as the second vice chair on the AARP Board of Directors and is a member of the AARP Foundation Board. In 2024, Bob was appointed to the Next50 Foundation’s Board of Trustees. He serves on the National Hispanic Council on Aging Board. He has previously served as the chair of the American Society on Aging and the board of the National Council on Aging. Bob has been appointed to several federal advisory commissions, most recently the National Advisory Committee on Rural Health and Human Services. Bob was inducted into the American Society of Aging’s Hall of Fame in 2022. In 2023, he was awarded Generations United’s highest advocacy award.

Patricia M. D’Antonio, BSPharm, MS, MBA, BCGP is the Vice President of Policy and Professional Affairs for the Gerontological Society of America (GSA) and a board-certified geriatric pharmacist. Ms. D’Antonio directs GSA’s policy initiatives and is responsible for developing relationships with organizations in the aging arena. She represents GSA on several policy coalitions and serves as co-chair for the Adult Vaccine Access Coalition, president of the board of the Protecting Access to Pain Relief, and a member of the steering committee for several federally focused coalitions. Ms. D’Antonio is also the executive director for the National Center to Reframe Aging, the central hub to advance the long-term social change endeavor designed to improve the public’s understanding of what aging means and the many ways that older people contribute to our society. Additionally, she serves on the leadership team of the Resource Centers for Minority Aging Research National Coordinating Center.

Andrew MacPherson is the Founding Principal & Managing Partner at Healthsperien, LLC, with two decades of federal and state healthcare legislative and regulatory policy and political experience. Andrew co-leads a team of over forty experts who specialize in developing comprehensive legislative & regulatory policy strategies, in-depth analyses, and strategic advocacy & communications initiatives for a wide range of health care organizations, including Fortune 100 businesses, public sector purchasers, national health plans, professional associations, issue-based coalitions, health care start-ups and market innovators, and not-for-profit providers. He has a special emphasis and speaks regularly to national audiences on policy and political issues related to person-centered healthcare delivery transformation, including the public health crisis of social isolation and loneliness in the U.S., value-based insurance design (V-BID), and person-centered advanced illness and end-of-life care delivery.