Part of Influencers in Aging
2016 Influencers in Aging
Updated: November 10, 2020
Additional Influencers of 2016:
- Michael Adams: CEO, Services & Advocacy for GLBT Elders (SAGE)
- Iris Apfel: Model, Designer, Entrepreneur
- Anne Basting: Professor of Theater, Peck School of the Arts, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee; founder and president of TimeSlips Creative Storytelling
- Bob Blancato: President, Matz Blancato and Associates
- Don Blandin: President and CEO of the Investor Protection Trust and Investor Protection Institute
- Phyllis Borzi: Assistant Secretary for Employee Benefits Security, U.S. Department of Labor
- Tim Carpenter: Founder and Executive Director of EngAGE
- Bruce Chernof: President and CEO, The SCAN Foundation
- Carol Fishman Cohen: CEO and Co-Founder, iRelaunch
- Helen Dennis: Principal, Helen Dennis & Associates
- Ken Dychtwald: Founder, President and CEO, Age Wave
- Michael Eisner: CEO, The Tornante Company; Founder of The Eisner Foundation
- Jim Emerman: Executive Vice President, Encore.org
- Elissa Sara Epel: Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco
- John Feather: CEO, Grantmakers in Aging
- Ruth Finkelstein: Associate Director, Robert N. Butler Columbia Aging Center
- Terry Fulmer: President of The John A. Hartford Foundation
- Mary Furlong: President and CEO, Mary Furlong & Associates
- Eric Garcetti: Mayor, Los Angeles
- Teresa Ghilarducci: Director, Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis
- Howard Gleckman: Professor, School of Public Health, University of Illinois at Chicago; and Chief Scientist at Lapetus Solutions
- Michelle Lujan Grisham: Congresswoman
- Sarita Gupta: Caring Across Generations Co-Director and Jobs With Justice Executive Director
- Gail Gibson Hunt: President & CEO, National Alliance for Caregiving
- Paul Irving: Chairman, Milken Institute Center for the Future of Aging, Distinguished Scholar in Residence, USC Davis School of Gerontology
- Karyne Jones: President and CEO, National Caucus & Center on Black Aging
- Kathleen Kelly: Executive Director, Family Caregiver Alliance
- Paul Kleyman: Director, Ethnic Elders Newsbeat, New America Media
- Mark S. Lachs: Co-Chief, Division of Geriatrics and Palliative Care and Chief, Center for Aging Research and Clinical Care at Weill Cornell Medicine and New York-Presbyterian
- Norman Lear: Television Writer and Producer
- Carol Levine: Director, Families and Health Care Project, United Hospital Fund
- Becca Levy: Professor of Epidemiology, Yale School of Public Health and Professor of Psychology, Yale University
- David Lindeman: Director of the Center for Technology and Aging (CTA), Co-Director of the Center for Innovation and Technology in Public Health (CITPH) and Co-Director of Health Care for Center for Information Technology Research in the Interests of Society (CITRIS) at the University of California
- Richard W. (Dick) Lindsay: Professor Emeritus of Internal Medicine and Family Medicine at the UVA Health Sciences Center, Founder of the Division of Geriatric Medicine at UVA
- Jean Makesh: CEO of The Lantern memory care and assisted living facilities
- Siddhartha Mukherjee: Assistant Professor of Medicine, Columbia University
- S. Jay Olshansky: Professor, School of Public Health, University of Illinois at Chicago; and Chief Scientist at Lapetus Solutions
- Susan C. Reinhard: Senior Vice President and Director, AARP Public Policy Institute
- Max Richtman: Chair, Leadership Council of Aging Organizations (LCAO)
- Charlie Sabatino: Director, American Bar Association Commission on Law and Aging
- Andy Sieg: Head of Global Wealth & Retirement Solutions, Bank of America Merrill Lynch
- June Simmons: President and CEO, Partners in Care Foundation
- Betty Reid Soskin: Oldest Full-time Ranger, U.S. National Park Service
- Wendy Spencer: CEO, Corporation for National and Community Service
- Lesley Stahl: '60 Minutes' Correspondent
- E. Percil Stanford: President, Folding Voice and Professor Emeritus, San Diego State University
- Sarah Szanton: Associate Professor, Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing
- Louis Tenenbaum: Founder, Homes Renewed
- Debra Whitman: Chief Public Policy Officer and Executive Vice President, AARP
