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Dr. Gupta is the Founder and CEO of Tembo Health, a telemedicine startup seeking to revolutionize healthcare delivery, and is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at both the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and the Zucker School of Medicine. He received his MMSc in clinical informatics from Harvard Medical School, earned his MD and MBA degrees from the University of Michigan and, after training in emergency medicine at Mount Sinai Beth Israel in NYC, completed a postdoctoral NIH/NLM research fellowship at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. He is board certified in both emergency medicine and clinical informatics, and board eligible in addiction medicine.

A practicing emergency medicine physician, Dr. Gupta brings clinical insight along with business acumen to provide impactful solutions to healthcare systems and organizations. Within his tenure at BWH, he developed multiple clinical decision support algorithms to impact real-time clinical care, resulting in improved utilization of healthcare resources; funded by the NIH, led to numerous publications. During his time at Northwell Health, Dr. Gupta led transformation teams on several initiatives improving efficiency, quality, and cost across 20 hospitals. While at the Boston Consulting Group, Dr. Gupta focused on healthcare strategy across Pharma, MedTech, and Providers, working with C-level executives to help shape long term strategic initiatives (e.g., growth strategy, organizational transformation, M&A, etc.). While at Imagen, a medical device startup building radiology artificial intelligence algorithms, Dr. Gupta served as both Head of Clinical Operations and Head of Strategic Partnerships, driving product development, managing a physician team of 30, collaborating with engineering and AI scientists on research development, and supporting FDA regulatory pathways.

Dr. Gupta's passion for innovation and curious nature have led to entrepreneurial projects, peer-reviewed publications, and speaking engagements.

Topics:

• Seniors' lack of access to healthcare resources
• Telemedicine services for seniors
• Specialty care versus emergency care
• COVID-19 impact on seniors and telemedicine

Dr. Gupta’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anuragmdmba/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/igupta03

DeAnne Clune is a 30-year sales and marketing veteran, specializing in marketing senior living communities and organizations since 1999. She has worked with both forprofit and not-for-profit communities, serving in corporate, regional, and consulting roles. Her expertise includes a variety of community types, such as CCRC’s/LPC’s, Independent Living, Assisted Living, Memory Care, Affordable communities (bond and tax credit) and Active Adult (55+) communities. She also has experience with both entrance fee and monthly rental agreements.

DeAnne is passionate about helping others in the senior living sector to successfully launch new brands and effectively address challenges of existing communities to reach their full potential. She approaches all of her projects in a collaborative manner and enjoys finding creative solutions and achieving results.

DeAnne is a frequent speaker at industry conferences such as Leading Age, Argentum,  MASH, and Environments for Aging.

While she aspires to continually learn and grow, her formal education includes a Bachelor’s Degree in Communications, from Oregon State University and she has earned the professional designation of Certified Senior Advisor.

Topics Covered:

• DeAnne's current project, Seniors Better Together
• Message of Seniors Better Together to potential community partners and how does pooling resources make the group of community partners stronger as a whole?
• What is the message of Seniors Better Together to senior consumers? How do we reassure seniors in the aftermath of COVID-19 that communal living is a safe option?
• What are communities doing to prevent social isolation in the time of COVID-19?

DeAnne's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/deanneclune/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/3rdAgeMktg
Zola Consulting: https://zolaconsulting.com/
Seniors Better Together: https://www.seniorsbettertogether.com/

Victoria Kozar found her passion for geriatrics as one of the pioneer participants in the groundbreaking Students-in-Residence program, spending a year living with the older adults of an assisted living community. After one of her neighbors and close friend from the experience began to struggle with cognitive decline, she dove head first to learn all she could about Alzheimer’s and other dementias. She went on to share her friendship and story on the Steve Harvey show and ABC World News and continues to inspire other young people to see the value of intergenerational relationships.

Ms. Kozar has brought her unique perspective to a state and national level, advocating for Alzheimer’s research, education, and political reform and serves as a Community Dementia Educator. She is also a Certified End-of-Life Specialist and was recognized in 2019 with the LeadingAge CT Aging Services Award of Excellence. Ms. Kozar continues to work towards positively influencing care and reframe how others view aging, as she pursues her medical education at University of Connecticut School of Medicine, where she hopes to continue to improve outcomes and infrastructure.

Topics covered:

• Importance of intergenerational experiences to improve social support and allow individuals to live independently and actively in the community longer
• Improving early medical student exposure to geriatrics/Alzheimer’s to improve outcomes and early diagnosis
• How COVID-19 has disproportionally affected those with Alzheimer’s (social isolation, depression, quicker decline, elder abuse at home)
• Some pertinent policy as an advocate like the elder abuse act, and HOPE for Alzheimer’s (improving physician education/care-planning tools)
• Victoria's experience living in an assisted living community and the perspective that she gained (I.e. her neighbors feeling their role in their care was passive, concerns not taken seriously) and the effect of ageism/assumptions in care outcomes

Victoria's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/victoria-kozar-842231108/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Tia_atPondRidge

Dr. Krystal L. Culler, DBH, M.A. is the Founder of the Virtual Brain Health Center powered by Your Brain Health Matters, LLC. She is a Doctor of Behavioral Health and a Senior Atlantic Fellow for Equity in Brain Health with Global Brain Health Institute at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, where she completed her residency training on dementia prevention.

Topics discussed:

1. Entry into the field & background (why interest in brain health)
2. What is brain health?
3. Why does brain health matter?
4. Review of lifestyle factors that impact brain health optimization and performance that are also linked to dementia risk reduction (head/body)
5. Development/implementation of award-winning brain health in memory care programs and the recent launch of the Virtual Brain Health Center

Krystal's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/klculler/

Anne Kenny, MD, author of "Making Tough Decisions about End-of-Life Care in Dementia", is a Professor of Medicine with specialty training and board certification in Geriatric Medicine, and Palliative and Hospice care. She has been a practicing physician for over 30 years and has been recognized by her peers as a “Top Doc” in Geriatric Medicine. She has been honored with a Brookdale National Fellow and the prestigious Paul Beeson Physician Faculty Scholar awards.

Dr. Kenny has worked clinically as a geriatrician in nursing homes, assisted living, rehabilitation and clinical outpatient settings. Dr. Kenny has found joy in her work with individuals and their families managing issues related to the diagnosis of dementia. Her experience in partnering in the care of these families touched close to home when her own mother was diagnosed with dementia.

Dr. Kenny joined with her mother and her brothers and sister to provide the best care for her mother during the early and middle years following her mother’s diagnosis. Her expertise, coupled with her mother’s playful spirit and her sibling’s openness, support, intelligence and compassion, allowed for the highest functioning and independence of her mother for several years.

Dr. Kenny’s expertise and experience in inpatient and outpatient Palliative and Hospice care were called on when her mother reached the final stages of living with dementia. The Kenny family worked together for their mother’s graceful exit from this planet.

In addition to her clinical practice, Dr. Kenny lectures to both healthcare professionals and the public on aging related issues including navigating dementia, exercise, nutrition, hormone therapy, death and dying, and frailty. She is an educator of medicine and research skills. She has over 100 scientific publications and presentations focused on improving the care and functioning of older adults.

Dr. Kenny is the author of "Making Tough Decisions about End-of-Life Care in Dementia", published by Johns Hopkins University Press in September 2018. The book outlines care and communication issues at endof-life in dementia. In addition, she hosts a blog focusing on issues common to Alzheimer’s and related dementias and caregiving.

Anne's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anne-kenny-b1809b19a/
Personal Website: https://annekennymd.com/

James-Robert Sellinger, Principal. Mr. Sellinger is a real estate executive with over 25 years experience in diverse institutional and entrepreneurial environments. James has a successful career in transactional commercial real estate and a track record in formulating creative financial structures within the capital, property and real estate asset markets.

James has recently become interested in green housing and is involved in funding ground-up land development for senior housing properties as a Principal of SLD.James-Robert is also CFO and Partner in Built Environment, a benefits corporation committed to integrating sustainability and resiliency efforts to safeguard property, critical infrastructure and natural systems from the effects of climate change.

As former Chairman of the Tenafly (NJ) Planning Board, James was instrumental in advocating its Green Agenda; sustainability and resilience efforts to alleviate storm water Runoff.

James' past positions have included Manager and Senior Underwriter at Merrill Lynch Mortgage Capital, Senior Director at the hedge fund Palisades Financial, Mortgage Banker at Northmarq Capital, and Manager with AT & T Real Estate.

James has a B.B.A from University of MA, Amherst; an M.B.A. from Cornell University. Mr. Sellinger currently is an Adjunct Professor in the graduate program at the Schack Real Estate Institute, New York University.

We cover the topics:

• Creative funding of senior living facilities, trends and issues - post COVID19
• Green development, and how important this is to include in facility design and operations
• And more...

James' LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamessellinger/
The Natural Resilience Foundation: http://natresilience.org/

Chai Chuah, until February 2018, was the Director-General of Health and Chief Executive of the New Zealand Ministry of Health. He is a Chartered Accountant, born in Malaysia, educated in Malaysia and New Zealand, and now resides in New Zealand. He has nearly 30 years of operational, strategic, and policy experience in healthcare services and systems. He is the first and only Asian to have held a Chief Executive position in the New Zealand public service. He currently speaks, writes, and provides advice on "Future of Health Systems, Developing Leaders We Need and Better Care for Our Seniors."

Chai's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chai-%E3%80%82%E4%BB%81%E6%9D%90-chuah-%E8%94%A1-4801855a/

As Chief of Staff at PopID, a Cali Group company, Yale Goldberg is responsible for developing and launching the PopID brand and products, generating brand and product awareness and sharing the vision, benefits and story with partners and end users. Prior to joining PopID he was a management consultant for Black & Veatch, a global engineering consulting firm. While at Black and Veatch Yale worked on projects for leading international technology and mining companies, helping them to implement production efficiencies and establish cyber security standards.

Yale holds a B.S and M.S from Stanford University in Science, Technology & Society and Management Science & Engineering, respectively. While at Stanford he captained the Men's Tennis Team and founded a student enterprise.

Topics:

• Staying compliant with government guidelines
• Keeping COVID outside the walls
• Guest management

Yale's Links:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yale-goldberg/

Michael Hartman is responsible for CSH’s Active Living platform, which focuses on investing in assets catering to residents who are Over 55. This opportunity includes acquiring and renovating existing assets, as well as developing new assets that are uniquely tailored to this community. Michael brings more than two decades of commercial real estate principal and advisory expertise to his role with CSH.

Prior to joining CSH, Michael was director of Investments, Senior Housing for Cortland Partners focusing exclusively on Active Living assets. Over a two-year period, he executed six transactions totaling over 1,200 units and deployed $140 Million of capital. Prior to that, he ran the Real Estate Division of Cohn Reznick Capital Markets, providing services that included debt and equity financing, M&A advisory, due diligence, and strategic investment advisement.

Michael’s extensive experience also includes a previous stint with CSH where he was part of the team that launched the original effort in 2003. In the past, Michael served as Vice President for Sunrise Senior Living, Inc. and Deutsche Banc Alex Brown, respectively. Michael has also worked as an associate and analyst for Prudential Securities Incorporated and The Yarmouth Group, respectively. Michael began his finance career as a loan officer with Shawmut Bank in Boston, Massachusetts.

Michael received his MBA in Finance and Real Estate from The Wharton School and holds his bachelor’s degree in Economics from Connecticut College.

Michael's 2nd appearance on the show (May 23, 2021, Season 2, Episode 117).

Michael's Links: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-hartman-1738097/
Capital Seniors Housing: https://capitolseniorshousing.com/

Catherine McCarty, PhD, ADC

Dr. Catherine McCarty is a Gerontologist and dementia coach whose clinical experience includes over forty years of creating quality of life for individuals with dementia.

Catherine has a broad range of experience in Long Term Care. Starting as a nursing assistant, she knows the value of personalized care when providing physical care. As a memory engagement specialist, Catherine applies passion for creating quality of life experiences.

Throughout Catherine's Master’s in Thanatology and my PhD in Aging Studies, her focus has been on the best in memory care, always Creating a Thriving Environment.

Starting as a nursing assistant she learned the value of personalized care when providing physical care.   As an activities professional she has a passion for creating opportunities for quality of life.  Through years of nursing and activities care, she spent many hours at the side of dying individuals.  She has taken her passion and her commitment to improving life to include end-of-life care.

Catherine was one of the first graduates of the Master’s of Thanatology program at Hood College. Holistic care is her commitment;  conducting and translating research that enhances it is her mission.  In 2012 Catherine received a doctorate in Aging Studies from University of South Florida.

Catherine's Links:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cate-mccarty-phd-8300651b/
Personal Website: https://catemccarty.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/mc_cate