Advisory Committee

Dorcas R. Hardy, Chairman of the 2005 White House Conference on Aging (WHCoA) Policy Committee, welcomed the 22 members of the WHCoA Advisory Committee appointed by the President on May 13, 2005.

The role of the WHCoA Advisory Committee is advise the Policy Committee on the content and direction of the WHCoA, to be held December 11 to 14, 2005 in Washington, DC. As the 17-member bipartisan Policy Committee continues, through public input, to develop the substance, emphasis and focus of the WHCoA, the Advisory Committee will contribute to the development of resolutions and background materials for the delegates and make recommendations to the Policy Committee that will add to the success of the WHCoA. The WHCoA Advisory Committee members represent a broad range of issues associated with aging and planning for the future. “I am pleased to have these individuals on the WHCoA team. Their unique expertise, knowledge and perspective will be extremely useful as we move forward with the preparations for the historic WHCoA,” said Chairman Hardy. The 2005 WHCoA will be the fifth such Conference in history. The purpose of the White House Conference on Aging is to make recommendations to the President and the Congress that will help shape policies on aging over the next ten years and beyond.

The 22 individuals appointed by President Bush to the WHCoA Advisory Committee are as follows:

Advisory Committee Members
Chairman
	Michael McLendon Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy, Department of Veterans Affairs, Washington, DC
Members
	Rodolfo Arredondo Professor of Neuropsychiatry and Director, Southwest Institute for Addictive Diseases, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Lubbock, TX
	Lupo Carlota President, Medical Acupuncture Research Institute of America, Lakeland, TN
	Juanita K. Correa Executive Director, Laguna Rainbow Corporation, Casa Blanca, NM
	Joseph F. Coughlin Director, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Age Lab, Cambridge, MA
	Anthony M. DiLeo Partner, Stone Pigman Walther Wittmann, LLC, New Orleans, LA
	Peggye Dilworth-Anderson Director, Center for Aging and Diversity, Institute on Aging & Professor, Health Policy and Administration, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
	T Bella Dinh-Zarr National Director of Traffic Safety Policy, American Automobile Association, Washington, DC
	Margaret Lynn Duggar President and CEO, Margaret Lynn Duggar and Associates, Tallahassee, FL
	Katherine Freund President and Executive Director, Independent Transportation Network (ITN America), Westbrook, ME
	F. Michael Gloth President and Associate Professor of Medicine, Victory Springs Senior Health Associates and Johns Hopkins University, Reisterstown, MD
	Carolyn Gray Partner, Barnes and Thornburg, and Chairperson of the Disability Practice Group, Washington, DC
	Carole Green Secretary, Florida Department of Elder Affairs, Tallahassee, FL
	Cynthia Hughes Harris Dean and Professor, Florida A & M University, Tallahassee, FL
	Edward Martinez Executive Director, San Ysidro Health Center, San Ysidro, CA
	Melvina McCabe Associate Professor, Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Albuquerque, NM
	Lawrence Polivka Director, Florida Policy Exchange Center on Aging, Tampa, FL
	Sandra Schlicker Executive Officer, American Society for Clinical Nutrition, Bethesda, MD
	Isadore Rosenfeld Rossi Distinguished Professor of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical Center, New York, NY
	William J. Scanlon Senior Policy Advisor, Health Policy R & D, Washington, DC
	Joanne Schwartzberg Director of Aging and Community Health, American Medical Association, Chicago, IL
	William J. Turenne, Sr. President, Turenne and Company, Irvington,VA