Dr. Terry Fulmer is The Erline Perkins McGriff Professor, Dean of the College of Nursing at the College of Dentistry at New York University, and Co-Director of the Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing. She received her bachelor’s degree from Skidmore College, her master’s and doctoral degrees from Boston College and her Geriatric Nurse Practitioner Post-Master’s Certificate from New York University. Dr. Fulmer’s program of research focuses on acute care of the elderly and specifically, elder abuse and neglect. She has received the status of Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing, the Gerontological Society of America, and the New York Academy of Medicine. She completed a Brookdale National Fellowship and is a Distinguished Practitioner of the National Academies of Practice. Dr. Fulmer was the first nurse to be elected to the board of the American Geriatrics Society and the first nurse to serve as the president of the Gerontological Society of America.
Dr. Barbara Resnick is a Professor in the Department of Organizational Systems and Adult Health at the University of Maryland School of Nursing, holds the Sonya Ziporkin Gershowitz Chair in Gerontology at the School of Nursing, and does clinical work at Roland Park Place, a Lifecare community. Dr. Resnick holds a BSN from the University of Connecticut, an MSN from the University of Pennsylvania, and a PhD from the University of Maryland. Dr. Resnick’s research focuses on: health promotion and disease prevention; outcomes following rehabilitation, functional performance, motivation related to function and exercise, and testing outcomes of restorative care nursing programs and other innovative long-term care projects. Dr. Resnick has over 150 published articles, numerous chapters in nursing and medical textbooks, and books on Restorative Care and Assisted Living Nursing. She has also presented on these topics nationally and internationally. Dr. Resnick’s professional activities include membership in numerous nursing and interdisciplinary organizations and she has served as a board member in many of these organizations and serves on many editorial boards and boards of organizations focused on care of the older adult (e.g. continuing care retirement communities). Dr. Resnick has been recognized through receipt of numerous awards such as the University of Connecticut Researcher of the Year Award, 2001, University of Pennsylvania 2003 Award for Clinical Excellence, the 2003 Founders Week Researcher award at the University of Maryland, 2004 Distinguished Scholar Award from University of Connecticut, 2004 Springer Geriatric Nursing Research Award, the Doris Schwartz award in 2008, and the Nurse Leader in Gerontology award among others. Dr. Resnick’s clinical practice involves providing primary medical management to older adults in a variety of settings, and she bases her work on over 35 years of experience in providing care to older adults.
Katie Maslow is the director for policy development at the Alzheimer’s Association. She has directed the Association’s initiatives on hospital care and care coordination for people with Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias. She also administered the Association’s multi-year project with the John A. Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing at New York University, to develop information and programs to help hospital nurses care for patients with dementia.
Prior to coming to the Alzheimer’s Association in 1995, Katie was a policy analyst and senior associate at the U.S. Office of Technology Assessment (OTA), a congressional research agency. At OTA, she worked on studies concerning aging, life-sustaining treatment decisions, Alzheimer’s disease, and long-term care. Prior to coming to OTA in 1983, Katie worked in public welfare, mental health, and nursing home settings. She has a bachelors degree in sociology and psychology from Stanford University and a masters degree in social work from Howard University.