External Board
The RCMAR National Coordinating Center Advisory Board Members support our efforts to provide national linkages and professional networking between research users (i.e. program directors, policy makers, and other academics) and RCMAR Scientists. They contribute ideas about emerging trends in minority aging health issues that would benefit from new research by emerging scholars, and inform us of available resources (e.g. study sites, data sources, funding).
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Tamara Baker, PhD
Dr. Baker is a former GSA Secretary and MCUAAAR Scientist. She is currently a Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the Department of Psychiatry. Her research focuses on understanding the behavioral and psychosocial predictors and outcomes of chronic pain and symptom management among older adults from historically marginalized populations. She also examines health disparities and inequities in the access and availability of pain treatment, care, and resources.
https://www.med.unc.edu/psych
Mohsen Bazargan, PhD
Dr. Bazargan is the Principal Investigator of the RCMI Translational Research Network (R-TRN). He is also a Professor and Director of Research at the Department of Family Medicine and Public Health program at Charles R. Drew University of Medicine & Science. In his research, he focuses on medication utilization among African-American elders and the role of R-TRN in scientific workforce development
www.rtrn.net/
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Erwin Tan, MD
Dr. Tan is the Director of Thought Leadership, Health at AARP. He is also a board certified internist and geriatrician. His areas of expertise include geriatric and integrative medicine, health longevity, volunteering, and perceptions of aging.
www.aarp.org
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Deidre Woods-Walton JD, MSN, RN-PHN
Dr. Woods-Walton is the Immediate Past President of the National Black Nurses Association. Her areas of expertise include nursing research, provider preparation/education, and older adult CPS/vaccinations.
www.nbna.org/
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Mr. Paul Kleyman
Mr. Kleyman is the National Coordinator of the Journalists Network on Generations and edits it’s e-news, Generations Beat Online. He spent 20 years as Editor of Aging Today, the newspaper of the American Society on Aging; and nine years as Elders Newsbeat Editor at New America Media/Pacific News Service. In his work, he addresses issues related to ageism and the lack of a coordinated long-term care system in the U.S.
GBO News Twitter
Elena Rios MD, MSPH
Dr. Rios is the President and CEO of the National Hispanic Medical Association. Her efforts include providing support and education to caregivers, shifting prevention research towards healthy aging, and the recruitment of Hispanics into the scientific workforce (e.g. STEM in community colleges pipeline issues).
NHMA Twitter | NHMA Facebook
Beverly Quintana
Ms. Quintana is the Director of Development and Public Affairs at the Association of Asian Pacific Community Health Organizations. Her efforts include cultivating strategic initiatives and partnerships to support the association’s commitment to ensuring vulnerable populations served at community health centers and other community-based organizations—including Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander older adults—have better access to culturally and linguistically responsive health care programs and services to help them thrive.
AAPCHO Twitter | AAPCHO Facebook
Maria Carrillo, PhD
Dr. Carrillo is the Chief Science Officer at the Alzheimer’s Association. Under her leadership, the Association is the world’s largest nonprofit funder of Alzheimer’s research and an internationally recognized pioneer in convening the dementia science community to accelerate the field.
Alzheimer’s Association Twitter | Alzheimer’s Association Facebook