Blum Center Program: Understanding and Living with Dementia
Barbara Moscowitz, MSW, LICSW, discusses the differences in memory issues, how to proceed with an evaluation, and how people with dementia and their caregivers can adapt.
Palliative Care & Geriatric Medicine Team
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Palliative Care Staff
Our staff are dedicated and experienced clinicians and clinical educators in the field of palliative care.
Doctors
Corinne Alexander Cole, MD
Physician
Kate Brizzi, MD
Physician
Brook Calton, MD
Physician
Bethany-Rose Daubman, MD
Physician
Carine Davila, MD
Physician
Kathleen Doyle, MD
Physician
Alexis Drutchas, MD
Physician
Kirsten Engel, MD
Physician
Julia Gallagher, MD
Physician
Vicki Jackson, MD, MPH
Physician
Mihir Kamdar, MD
Physician
Khadidjatou Kane, MD
Physician
Stephanie Kiser, MD
Physician
Eric Krakauer, MD
Physician
Karen O’Brien, MD
Physician
Laura Petrillo, MD
Physician
Christine Ritchie, MD
Physician
Leah Rosenberg, MD
Physician
Jaclyn Shameklis, MD
Physician
Jennifer Shin, MD
Physician
Mark Stoltenberg, MD
Physician
Erica Wilson, MD
Physician
Nurse Practitioners
Simone Rinaldi, MSN, ANP-BC, ACHPN
Director of Nursing
Outpatient Palliative Care Clinic
Heather A. Carlson, MSN, APRN, ACHPN
Nurse Practitioner
Leslie Cartagena, MSN, FNP-C, ACHPN
Nurse Practitioner
Theresa Evans, MSN, APRN, ACHPN
Nurse Practitioner
Inpatient Palliative Care Consult Team
Alison R. Kavanaugh, MSN, ACNP-BC, ACHPN
Lead Nurse Practitioner
Kristin Cina, MSN, AGPCNP-BC, ACHPN
Nurse Practitioner
Sara D’Arpino, MSN, AGPCNP-BC
Nurse Practitioner
Candice Ellis, MSN, AGPCNP-BC, ACHPN
Nurse Practitioner
Nancy M. Mason, MSN, CNP, CPNP, ACHPN
Nurse Practitioner
Christine E. McCarthy, MSN, BS, AGNP-BC, ACHPN, CCRN
Nurse Practitioner
Sudha Natarajan, AGPCNP-BC, ACHPN
Nurse Practitioner
Janet Sweeney Rico, PhD, MBA, MSN, FNP-BC, GNP-BC, FNAP
Nurse Practitioner
Michaela Rowland, MSN, AGPCBC-NP, AOCNP, ACHPN
Nurse Practitioner
Home-Based Palliative Care
Martha A. Quigley, MS, GNP-BC, ACHPN
Lead Nurse Practitioner
Pamela Woo Williams, MSN, ANP-BC, ACHPN
Nurse Practitioner
Sarah Koontz, MSN, AGPCNP-BC, ACHPN
Nurse Practitioner
Anne Carr, RN, MSN, GNP-BC
Nurse Practitioner
Geriatric Medicine
Sindhura Pulluru, MSN, AGACNP-BC
Geriatric Medicine Clinic APRN Lead
Andrea Kurkul, MSN, AGPCNP-BC
Nurse Practitioner
Jennifer L. McGlynn, RN, BSN
Registered Nurse
Haley Shainker Redstone, MSN AGPC-NP
Nurse Practitioner
Joan Braccio, BSN, RN
Registered Nurse
MCI (Memory Care Initiative/Dementia Care Collaborative)
Gabrielle Rex, MSN, AGPCNP-BC
Nurse Practitioner
Social Workers and Chaplains
Todd Rinehart, LICSW, ACHP-SW-C
Social Work Director, Division of Palliative Care and Geriatric Medicine
Palliative Care
Sarah Byrne-Martelli, DMin, BCC
Chaplain & Bereavement Coordinator – Inpatient Palliative Care Service
Andrea Corriveau, MSW, LICSW
Clinical Social Worker
Kyle Kozelka, LICSW
Palliative Care Social Work Lead
Annie Lebowitz, LICSW, APHSW-C
Clinical Social Worker – Home-Based Palliative Care Service
Bethany Myers, MDiv, MSW, LICSW
Clinical Social Worker, Palliative Care
Katie Rimer, MDiv
Chaplain
Dementia Care Collaborative
Kelsey Anderson-Gandhi, LCSW
Clinical Social Worker, Memory Care Initiative
Barbara Moscowitz, MSW, LICSW
Founder and Dementia Care and Education Specialist, Dementia Caregiver Support Program
Katrina Rudd, LICSW, C-ASWCM
Clinical Social Worker, Parkinson’s and Movement Disorders Center
Chris Wight, LCSW
Clinical Social Worker, Dementia Caregiver Support Program
Geriatric Medicine
Emily Sterling-Graves, LICSW
Clinical Social Worker, Geriatric Medicine
Geriatric Medicine Staff
Section Chief of Geriatric Medicine
Medical Director
Doctors
Warren Backman, MBBS
Physician
Esteban Franco Garcia, MD
Physician
Kathryn Hanley, MD
Physician
Masaya Higuchi, MD
Physician
Deborah S. Lee, MD
Physician
Sharon Levine, MD
Physician
Charles Pu, MD
Physician
Matthew Russell, MD
Physician