IOA Speakers & Bios
Patrick Arbore, Ed.D.
Dr. Arbore is the founder and the Director of the Center for
Elderly Suicide Prevention and Grief Related Services (CESP), and serves
as the Director of Professional Development at the Institute on Aging.
He is also a Senior Lecturer in the Human Services Division at Notre Dame
de Namur University in Belmont, CA.
Jeff Chapline, MFA
Mr. Chapline is the Executive Director of the IOA’s the
Center for Elders and Youth in the Arts (CEYA). In 1999, Mr. Chapline’s
innovative program design that promotes cross-generational programming,
won an Award for Excellence in Aging Programs by the United States Committee
of the United Nations.
Tracy Chesna McCloud
Tracy Chesna McCloud is the Program Director for Institute on Aging's Adult Day Health Center and Alzheimer’s Day Care Resource Center. She has worked in the senior service field for over twenty years. Her extensive experience includes working for over a decade as the Activity Therapist in a Geriatric Psychiatiric Day Treatment program in San Francisco and helping to launch a Medical Adult Day Care Facility in New Jersey.
Cheri Jackson, CMC
Cheri Jackson has worked in the geriatric housing, home care
and care management fields for over 20 years. She is a graduate of California
State University, Sacramento, and is a Certified Care Manager and RCFE
(Residential Care Facilities for the Elderly) Administrator.
Cindy Kauffman, MS
Cindy Kauffman is a Certified Rehabilitation Counselor and received
her masters in rehab counseling from San Francisco Sate University. She
is the Vice President of Adult Day Services with Institute on Aging.
Stephne Lencioni, MSW
Stephne Lencioni is a certified geriatric care manager who has
worked in the field of eldercare for over 15 years. She received her undergraduate
degree in social welfare from UC Berkeley and is presently completing
her masters in social work at San Francisco State University.
Heidi Li, Esq.
Heidi Li, Esq. is the Director of the San Francisco Consortium for Elder Abuse Prevention, a program of the Institute on Aging. Prior to this, Ms. Li was a founding Co-Director of Housing and Economic Rights Advocates (HERA), a California statewide fair housing and anti-predatory lending consumer protection legal non-profit. Ms. Li currently serves as the primary trainer on elder abuse and neglect issues for the Consortium and conducts both general elder abuse identification and prevention trainings as well as specific presentations on key topic areas for both professionals and the public. Over the past eight years, Ms. Li has also conducted numerous fair housing, unfair lending, mortgage fraud and predatory trainings in California and at national conferences.
Marillac Mayorga
Born and raised in Nicaragua, Marillac is certified as a Substance
Abuse Specialist and Domestic Violence Counselor. She has 12 years experience
in care management and counseling in the prison system as well as in the
community.
M. Deborah Salach, GCM
Deborah Salach is a Geriatric Care Manager (GCM) with Older Adults
Care Management, a division of Institute on Aging (IOA). She holds a Master’s
in Gerontology at San Francisco State University with emphasis on GCM
and she has an undergraduate degree in Sociology.
Eva M. Schmitt, Ph.D.
Eva Schmitt is the Associate Director - Program Evaluations of
Institute on Aging Research Center and a program evaluator at the University
of California, San Francisco, Department of Medicine-Geriatrics.
Karyn Skultety, Ph.D.
Karyn Skultety is a Supervising Psychologist at the Institute on Aging in San Francisco where she works with older adults and trains students to become geriatric psychologists. Dr. Skultety received her doctoral degree at the University of Massachusetts, and completed both an internship and postdoctoral fellowship in geropsychology at the VA Palo Alto Healthcare System.
Beth St. John, LCSW
Beth St. John is a geriatric care manager who has worked in the
field of eldercare for 4 years. She received her master’s degree
in social work at University of Denver and currently holds a license in
clinical social work (LCSW).
Tessa ten Tusscher, Ph.D.
Tessa ten Tusscher is the Vice President of Clinical Services
at the Institute on Aging. Prior to joining the IOA, Dr. Tessa ten Tusscher
was the founder and president of Bay Area Psychological Testing Associates,
the largest psychological diagnostics company in Northern California.
Rabbi Eric Weiss
Rabbi Eric Weiss is Executive Director of Bay Area Jewish Healing
Center, a program of Institute on Aging. He is formally trained in Jewish
education, clinical pastoral care and spiritual direction. He is a spiritual
direction supervisor.
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