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A number of years ago, while making house calls as a nurse practitioner to homebound, low-income elderly patients in West Baltimore, Sarah Szanton noticed that their environmental challenges were often as pressing as their health challenges. Since then she has developed a program of research at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing on the role of the environment and stressors in health disparities in older adults, particularly those trying to 鈥渁ge in place鈥� or stay out of a nursing home. The result is a program called CAPABLE, which combines handyman services with nursing and occupational therapy to improve mobility, reduce disability, and decrease healthcare costs. She is currently examining the program's effectiveness through grants from the National Institutes of Health and the Innovations Office at the Center on Medicaid and Medicare Services. She is also conducting a study, funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, of whether food and energy assistance improve health outcomes for low-income older adults. A former health policy advocate, Dr. Szanton aims her research and publications toward changing policy for older adults and their families.

Eileen Sullivan-Marx, PhD, RN, FAAN, is the dean of the New York University Rory Meyers College of Nursing and the Erline Perkins McGriff Professor of Nursing. She is a distinguished nursing leader, educator, and clinician known for research and innovative approaches in primary care, testing methods of payment for nurses particularly with Medicaid and Medicare, sustaining models of care using advanced practice nurses locally and globally, and developing health policy in community-based settings. 

With a strong belief in the integration of practice, research, education, and interdisciplinary team work, Sullivan-Marx has built and sustained models of team care including a private family practice, growing a Program of All Inclusive Care for Elders (PACE) from 75 to 525 people in five years that saved the state of Pennsylvania fifteen cents on the dollar in Medicaid funding, and launched numerous older adult team programs in academic centers as well as the Veterans Administration. 

Sullivan-Marx will serve as the president of the American Academy of Nursing from October 2019 through October 2021. She is active in regional, state, and national policy, and served as an American Political Science Congressional Fellow and Senior Advisor to the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services Office of Medicaid and Medicare Coordination in 2010, just after the passage of the Affordable Care Act. 

April Temple, an associate professor of health services administration, teaches courses on gerontology, long-term care administration, and U.S. and global health care systems.
Her research areas include the utilization and quality of long-term care services and supports. Her most recent work includes examining how states’ generosity with Medicaid home and community-based services affects health care expenditures by payer. She has also published on pedagogy and program management in health care administration education.
Temple received her doctorate in aging studies and her bachelor’s degree in gerontology from the University of South Florida. She also received her licensure as a nursing home administrator in the state of Florida.