38th Annual Meeting
California Council on Gerontology & Geriatrics

We’d like to remind you to register today for the upcoming 2018 CCGG Annual Meeting, which will take place on Friday, April 20th, on the campus of University of La Verne. This year’s meeting theme is “Aging in the New Millennium: Cultivating the Next Generation of Leaders and Innovators,” and our agenda (see below) features a number of California’s leading experts in gerontology and geriatrics. Please don’t miss the chance to engage with these professionals as they share their insights on the future of aging – register for the 2018 Annual Meeting today!
Best wishes,
California Council on Gerontology and Geriatrics

PRESENTATION SCHEDULE
9:00 - 9:15 - Welcome address
Tara Gruenewald, PhD, MPH
CCGG President
Associate Professor & Chair of Psychology
Chapman University
9:15 - 9:45 - Organizing Aging Advocates
Brandi Orton, MSG
Director of Government Relations & Advocacy at
St. Barnabas Senior Services
Managing Director of the Los Angeles Aging Advocacy Coalition
9:45 - 10:05 - Ambassadors in Action
CCGG Student Ambassadors
Organized by Roberta Peterson, CCGG Student Ambassador President
University of Southern California
10:15 - 10:45 - Gerontologists as Leaders: Cultural Change, Creativity and Competence
JoAnn Damron-Rodriquez, MSW, PhD
Adjunct Professor of Social Welfare
UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs
University of California, Los Angeles
10:45 - 11:00 - Break
11:00 - 11:30 - Cultivating a More Dementia-Aware World
Laura Wayman, The Dementia Whisperer
11:30 - 12:00 - Poster Connections
Face-to-face time with poster presenters
(posters will remain up all day for viewing)
12:00 - 1:00 - Lunch and lunchtime presentations
12:20 - 12:50 - Aging in Hollywood and the Media
Steve Castle, MD
Professor, Department of Medicine
David Geffen School of Medicine
University of California, Los Angeles
President & CEO, DrBalance, Inc.
12:50 - 1:00 - Awards presentations
1:00 - 2:00 - Creating Age-Friendly Communities
Christina Selder, MSG,
Consumer Advocates for RCFE Reform (CARR)
and
Iveris Martinez, PhD
Archstone Endowed Chair
California State University, Long Beach
2:00 - 2:10 - Break
2:10 - 2:40 - Aging in a Shifting Political Landscape
Fernando Torres-Gil, PhD
Professor of Social Welfare and Public Policy
Director of the UCLA Center for Policy Research on Aging
UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs
University of California, Los Angeles
2:40 - 3:45 - Roundtable Connections
(Join a roundtable discussion and then contribute
to the full-group synthesis that follows)
3:45 - 4:00 - Closing address
Kelly Niles-Yokum, MPA, PhD, FAGHE
Associate Professor of Gerontology
Director of the MS Gerontology Program
University of La Verne
