MONICA GILBERT, M.D.

Dr. Gilbert graduated from College of William and Mary (BS), and from University of Virginia School of Medicine (MD). She is board certified family physician and has a Certificate of Added Qualification in Geriatric Medicine. Dr. Gilbert has also completed both a Family Practice Residency and Geriatric Medicine Fellowship at Carilion Health System in Roanoke, Virginia.

Dr. Gilbert previous experience includes the Lewis Gale Clinic where she worked as a campus doctor for Friendship Manor Retirement Community, including Independent Living, Assisted Living and a Nursing Home. She provided both skilled and intermediate care to residences. Also, Dr. Gilbert served as a Geriatric Physician for the Physicians Associates of Virginia. She was the Medical Director of Ambulatory Medicine while she continued on campus outpatient care and inpatient hospital at Roanoke Memorial Hospital and Lewis Gale Medical Center.

Dr. Gilbert is a member of the American Academy of Family Physicians, the American Geriatrics Society, as well as the Virginia Academy of Family Physicians. In her spare time the volunteered at the Bradley Free Clinic and Nerofibromatosis, Inc.

JOSEPH G. OUSLANDER, M.D.

Joseph G. Ouslander, M.D., is a Professor of Medicine and Nursing at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. He serves as the Director of the Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology, Chief Medical Officer of Wesley Woods Center, and Director of the Emory Center for Health in Aging. At the Atlanta VA Medical Center, he serves as a research scientist in the Birmingham/Atlanta VA Geriatric Research, Education and Clinical Center, and a faculty member in the Geriatrics and Extended Care Service.

Dr. Ouslander’s primary areas of research interest are geriatric urinary conditions and long term care quality. With the support of several National Institute on Aging, VA, Agency for Health Care Research and Quality, and Foundation grants, he has published over 200 original articles and book chapters, as well as edited special volumes on these topics. He has served as a consultant to numerous organizations and has been on several national and international panels focusing on these issues. He is a co-author of Essentials of Clinical Geriatrics and Medical Care in the Nursing Home, an editor of Principles of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology, and served as co-chair of a multi-organization panel that produced a Consensus Statement and Policy Recommendations on Mental Health Care in Nursing Homes in 2003.

Dr. Ouslander graduated from Johns Hopkins University (BA), and from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine (MD). He is board certified in internal medicine and has a Certificate of Added Qualification in Geriatric Medicine from the American Board of Internal Medicine. Dr. Ouslander has also been on the faculty of the UCLA School of Medicine and the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.

Dr. Ouslander served on the Board of Directors of the American Geriatrics Society (AGS) and an Associate Editor of the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society for ten years. In 1999-2000 he served as President of the AGS, and as its Board Chair in 2000-2001. He currently serves on the Boards of the AGS Foundation for Health in Aging and the American Federation for Aging Research, and as the Deputy Editor of the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. He has lectured extensively at national and international meetings, including visiting professorships lecturing on these topics in Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, China, Turkey, Israel, and Singapore.