CEAL Advisory Council
CEAL’s Advisory Council serves a critical role to help accomplish the goals and objectives of CEAL. Participants on the Advisory Council represent a wide diversity of stakeholders. The Advisory Council meets four times each year in Washington, DC. Recommendations from the Advisory Council are valuable and help to shape and inform CEAL’s goals and objectives.
Individual Members:
Brad Klitsch
SVP Direct Supply
Mauro Hernandez
CEO Concepts in Community Living, Inc.
Patti Cantillo-Kodzis
HealthSense, LLC
Robert Lightfoot
von Briesen & Roper
Member Organizations and Representative(s):
American College of Health Care Administration (ACHCA)
Marianna Grachek
American Geriatrics Society
Barbara Resnick
American Medical Directors Association
Daniel Haimowitz
American Society of Consultant Pharmacists
Tom Clarke
CARF-CCAC
Susan Ganson
Gerontological Society of America
Sheryl Zimmerman & Paula Carder
Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing
Ethel Mitty
HHS/Agency for Health Research & Quality (AHRQ)
Bill Spector & D.E.B. Potter
HHS/Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) (observer)
Gavin Kennedy & Emily Rosenoff
HHS/Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
Dan Timmell
National Association of Boards of Examiners LTC Admin (NAB)
Randy Lindner
National Association of Professional Geriatric Care Managers (GCM)
Linda Aufderhaar
National Association of State Ombudsmen Programs
Beverley Laubert
National Association of State Units on Aging
Jessica Barker
National Association of Social Workers
Chris Herman
National Certification Council for Activity Professionals
Bonnie Ruechel
National Conference of Gerontological Nurse Practitioners
Debra Bakerjian
National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO)
Judi Lund Person
National Multiple Sclerosis Society
Dorothy Northrop

