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For Immediate Release
WHCOA Press Office
301-443-2394
Tuesday, May 17, 2005

2005 WHCoA Welcomes Advisory Committee

Dorcas R. Hardy, Chairman of the 2005 White House Conference on Aging (WHCoA) Policy Committee, today 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 later this fall 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:

• 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
• Kathleen 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, Chapel Hill, NC
• 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
• Michael McLendon, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy, Department of Veterans Affairs, Washington, DC
• 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

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