Thomas B. Elin, JD Chairman of the Board
Thomas Elin, President and CEO of LightBridge, has been dedicated to developing state-of-the-art care programs for those with Alzheimer’s disease since 1980. He has developed, owned, and operated numerous residential projects with an emphasis on housing for the elderly. In addition, he has developed, owned, and operated research centers, which have been integrated into these Alzheimer care programs. In his quest to develop new and innovative care programs for persons with Alzheimer’s, he has incorporated and integrated research relating primarily to the behavioral issues affecting persons with Alzheimer’s disease through direct affiliations with major university health science centers, with an emphasis on medical and nursing schools. These affiliations with institutions of higher education have led Elin to expand his mission to encompass the development and distribution of educational materials using innovative technologies such as CD-ROM based video, Telemedicine and other distance learning vehicles for physicians, nurses, and other health care professionals.
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Janet D. Allan, PhD, RN, FAAN
Dr. Janet Allan is currently Dean and Professor at the University of Maryland School of Nursing. She received her BS degree from Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York; her Master’s degree and certification as an Adult Nurse Practitioner form the University of California, San Francisco; and her PhD in Medical Anthropology from the University of California at Berkeley and San Francisco. She came to the University of Maryland from the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio where she was Dean of the School of Nursing. Previously, she was a Full Professor in the School of Nursing at the University of Texas at Austin. In her national role, Dr. Allan represents the American Association of Colleges of Nursing on the Healthy People Curriculum Task Force (2004-2010) and serves as the AACN Maryland Grassroots liaison. She is currently a member of RWJ Advisory Council on the five-year project, “Prescription for Health.” She was recently appointed to the Advisory Board of the Institute for Health Protection and serves on Congressman Ben Cardin’s Health Advisory Committee. Dr. Allan was Vice-Chair of the 15-member U.S. Preventive Services Task Force from 1998 to 2004. She served as the spokesperson for the Task Force when Tommy Thompson, Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, announced new federal recommendations on breast cancer screening and more recently was the major spokesperson for the Task Force’s obesity recommendations.
Dr. Allan is a past member of the Board of Directors of the American Academy of Nursing. Dr. Allan has been president of the National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties and the Southern Nursing Research Society (SNRS). In 1996, she had a USPHS Primary Care Policy Fellowship. She has received numerous awards including the Nursing Excellence Award for Service to the profession from Nurseweek magazine, the NONPF Lifetime Achievement Award and the SNRS Researcher Award.
Dr. Allan is a nationally recognized scholar in the area of women’s health, specifically weight management among multi-ethnic populations of women. She has published more than 150 articles, book chapters and abstracts and currently serves on various editorial boards and panels.
Edward J. Condon, Jr.
Ed Condon is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of The Paradigm Group, Ltd. in Chicago. Paradigm, a company Condon formed in July 1993, specializes in financial advisory, refinancing, and venture investments. Condon was Vice President and Corporate Treasurer of Sears, Roebuck and Company. He retired in 1993 after 27 years with the company. He was first elected Assistant Treasurer in 1976 and in 1984 assumed additional responsibilities as Corporate Director of Banking worldwide. In this capacity he oversaw banking for all Sears entities including their principal subsidiaries -- Allstate Insurance Company, Dean Witter Reynolds, and Coldwell Banker. As the company’s primary representative to the financial community, Condon worked with more than 3,500 banking relationships and arranged for committed credit facilities in excess of $16 billion. He developed Sears’ cash management operations which ultimately led to Sears’ industry leadership in electronic data interchange.
Additionally, Condon was one of the four members of the task force that established the viability of Sears’ entry into the multi-purpose credit card, now the widely used “Discover Card.” As Sears’ Treasurer, Condon held various management and director responsibilities throughout the company. Principal among these were Director and Chairman of the Executive Committees of Sears Roebuck Acceptance Corp. and Discover Credit Corp.; President and Chief Executive Officer of Sears Receivables Financing Group, Inc. and Sears Credit Corp.; and Senior Managing Director of Sears Overseas Finance Company, N.V. He also served on the investment committee of Sears Profit Sharing and Pension Plan.
Condon currently serves as a Member of the Board of Trustees and Chairman of the Audit Committees of Northern Trust Company’s family of mutual funds in Chicago; Member of the Board of Advisors of AAVIN Venture Capital, Cedar Rapids, IA; Member of the Board of Directors of the Alzheimer’s Research and Resource Foundation, Washington, D.C.; Member of the Board of Directors of LightBridge Healthcare Research Inc., San Antonio, TX; Founding Member and on the Board of the Illinois Venture Capital Association; Member of the Board of Trustees of Dominican University, River Forest; Member of the Board of Directors of the Chicago Children’s Museum; Member of the Board of Governors of The Metropolitan Club; Member of the National Advisory Board of the National Domestic Violence Hotline; past Director and Chairman of the Audit Committee of Financial Pacific Company, Seattle; and past Member of the Board of Managers and Audit Committee Chair of The Liberty Hampshire Company LLC, Chicago. Professional memberships include the National Association of Corporate Treasurers, Financial Executives International, Japan America Society of Chicago, and Investor’s Circle. A native of Chicago, Condon is a 1963 graduate of the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts. He served as a First Lieutenant in the United States Air Force. He and his wife, Cathy, reside in Hinsdale, Illinois. They have four grown children.
Jeanne M. Emerson, CPA
Jeanne Emerson is a partner with the public accounting firm of Larson, Ludwig & Stokes LLP in San Diego. Jeanne graduated summa cum laude from San Diego State University in 1980 and enrolled in the University's graduate school, where she taught several tax and accounting courses. She received the degree of Master of Science in Taxation. Following graduate school, she joined the San Diego office of Deloitte LLP, an international accounting firm, in 1982. In 1988, Jeanne formed her own accounting firm and, in 1994, Jeanne merged her accounting practice with Larson, Ludwig & Stokes LLP.
As a tax manager with an international accounting firm, Jeanne developed special expertise in personal and estate tax planning, partnership taxation, and tax planning for closely held businesses. She also developed a special expertise in real estate transaction analysis, and was an active member of the firm's Real Estate and Construction Industry Group.
Her clients are privately held businesses and individuals in service businesses, the professions and the health care industry, including physicians, attorneys, professional athletes, and business owners.
Jeanne is a Certified Public Accountant and is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, including the Institute's Tax Division. She has also been an active member of the California Society of CPAs, the Construction Financial Management Association and the Estate Planning Council of San Diego.
Debra Fetherston MD, FACP
Dr. Debra Fetherston, Senior VP, Medical Education and Research, is board certified in Internal Medicine and Geriatrics. She is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians. She has written a chapter on Geriatric Medicine for Appleton and Lange publications in 1995 for their book Primary Care of Women. She has served on the faculty of Johns Hopkins University in the Division of Geriatrics and Gerontology (1988-1991). She was the Assistant Medical Director of Charlestown Retirement Community and Medical Center in Catonsville, MD (1989-1991). (A life care community which had over 2000 members at the time of her service). Her focus here included clinical care of residents; management of the extended care and assisted living facility; regular patient forums on education and Johns Hopkins University Medical Resident (PGY-1) education rotations in Geriatric Medicine. Over the last 15 years has been an active Instructor in Medicine at the University of Washington Medical School (providing medical student elective rotations in Geriatric and Internal Medicine) and Virginia Mason Medical Center in Seattle Washington providing educational opportunities for PGY-1 through PGY-3 residents.
Martyn C. Glen, MAI, CRE, FRICS
Martyn Glen has been actively engaged in real estate valuation and consulting since 1967, entering the appraisal profession as a valuer in the Valuation Department of the Inland Revenue in Scotland. During his time with the Valuation Department, he was personally involved in the valuation of all types of heritable property for taxation purposes and in connection with the acquisition and disposal of property by other government departments. These properties included commercial and industrial real estate in the City of Aberdeen, agricultural properties including extensive and intensive farming enterprises in northeast Scotland together with timber valuations and valuations concerning shooting and fishing rights and mineral properties. He was also involved in the practical appraisal of sheep stations and rural agricultural properties throughout both the north and south islands of New Zealand. In 1976, Mr. Glen came to the United States of America and joined a local firm of real estate appraisers and in 1990 established The Glen Company locating operations in San Antonio, Texas.
The Glen Company became a member of Integra Realty Resources in 2000 as Integra Realty Resources – San Antonio. Mr. Glen has a broad range of experience in valuation and analysis of all types of real estate including neighborhood and community shopping centers, apartment complexes, single and multi-tenanted industrial buildings, low to high rise office buildings, mixed used facilities, ranches, and vacant land for different uses. Mr. Glen received a Bachelor of Science Degree in Agriculture from the University of Aberdeen, Scotland and a partial Diploma of Valuation and Farm Management from Lincoln College, Christchurch, New Zealand. He has been a member of the teaching faculty of the San Antonio Board of Realtors and was also a member of the teaching faculty of San Antonio College. In 1988, he was a member of the Conference Faculty of the University of Texas School of Law and was an active panel participant in the Conference on Valuation of Assets in Bankruptcy held that year. In 2000, 2001 and 2002 he was again a member of the Conference Faculty of the State Bar of Texas and wrote papers on the valuation of water rights and delivered these papers at the conference. Mr. Glen received the MAI designation in 1978; he was elected by his peers a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (FRICS) in 1980, and awarded the CRE designation in 1987. He is a Certified General Real Estate Appraiser in the State of Texas and is licensed as a Real Estate Broker by the Texas Real Estate Commission.
Karen S. Kauffman, PhD, CRNP, BC
Dr. Karen S. Kauffman is a board certified Gerontological Nurse Practitioner and President of Life Passages Care Consultants, Inc. She is also Associate Professor at the University of Maryland School of Nursing and serves as Chair of the Department of Family and Community Health. Formerly, Dr. Kauffman was Assistant Dean for Masters Studies and Program Director of Community/Public Health Nursing. With Life Passages Care Consultants, Dr. Kauffman provides long term care consultation for older adults and their families living in the community, most of whom are struggling with Alzheimer’s disease. She has extensive experience providing education about Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias to other long term care professionals, including Judges in the Circuit, District, and Orphan’s Courts, elder law attorneys, financial planners, long term care insurance agents, and primary health care providers. She was named One of Maryland’s Top 100 Women for 2004 and Who’s Who Among Executives and Professionals for 2005.
As Associate Professor, Dr. Kauffman teaches Program Planning and Evaluation to Community/Public Health graduate students and Masters in Public Health (MPH) students and was selected to Who’s Who Among American Teachers. She is a member of the Work and Health Research Center, the first Center of Excellence at School of Nursing, and of the developing Center of Excellence in Palliative Care Across the Lifespan. She has numerous publications in national and international peer reviewed journals on older adult populations, including an article on Alzheimer’s disease and public policy. Dr. Kauffman was appointed by the Secretary of Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to serve on the Advisory Committee for CommunityChoice, a proposed mandated managed care program for all people in Maryland who are eligible for both Medicare and Medicaid.
Additionally, she is a Governor-appointed member of the State Advisory Council on Quality Care at the End of Life and has led the initiative to improve care for people with Alzheimer’s disease. From 2001 – 2003, Dr. Kauffman sat on the workgroup of the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Assisted Living representing the National Conference of Gerontological Nurse Practitioners. She is a member of several professional organizations, including the American Nurses Association, the American Public Health Association, the Gerontological Society of America, and the National Association of Professional Geriatric Care Managers. She sits on the State and National Boards of Directors of the Alzheimer’s Association. She earned her PhD in Nursing with emphases in Nursing, Gerontology and Sociology from the University of Pennsylvania in 1992. Dr. Kauffman is a caregiver for her mother with Alzheimer’s disease.
Melvina McCabe, MD
Dr. Melvina McCabe has been dedicated to medicine and furthering the field of Geriatric health for over 20 years. She currently serves as Chairperson of Geriatrics in the Department of Family Medicine in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Medical Director of the Horizon Health Care Center, and an Associate Professor at the University of New Mexico in Family Medicine/Geriatrics. Dr. McCabe is Director of the Geriatric Education Center, and was appointed by the Governor to serve on the NM Health Policy Commission. She is also a grant reviewer for the Alzheimer’s Association and an active member of the Association of American Indian Physicians, the American Geriatric Society and the American Medical Association. As an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation, Dr. McCabe has made major contributions to understanding health attitudes among elderly Native Americans through research, publications, and many lectures on subjects such as Alzheimer’s in general and in Native American populations, as well as diversity issues in health care. She received her Doctor of Medicine from the University of New Mexico School of Medicine in 1984 and has a Certificate of Added Qualifications in Geriatrics.
Edwin J. Olsen, MD, MBA, JD
Dr. Edwin Olsen has made major contributions to the field of medicine, specifically to the area of Gerontology, throughout his 30 year career. Areas of specialty include Geriatric psychiatry, health policy, and general adult psychiatry. He serves as Professor of Clinical Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Vice Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry, Chief of the Division of Geriatric Psychiatry, and Associate Director for Education with the Center on Adult Development and Aging, among other roles at the University of Miami School of Medicine. He is also Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry with Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami Beach, Director of a Miami Area Geriatric Education Center and Associate Chief of Staff at V.A. Medical Center Psychiatry Service. Dr. Olsen has lectured nationally and internationally, led funded research efforts, and published books and articles on a range of topics in the area of Gerontology. He is a member of the American Geriatrics Society and the Association for Gerontology in Higher Education and serves on the Editorial Board of the Gerontologic Society of America. Dr. Olsen received his MD from the Ohio State University College of Medicine in 1968 and an MBA and JD from the University of Miami in 1995.
Martha Pelaez, PhD
Martha Pelaez, Ph.D. recently retired as Regional Advisor on Aging and Health at the Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO). In this capacity, she pioneered a multi-country population study of older adults, developed a Latin American Academy of Medicine of Aging and implemented multiple health promotion programs in primary health care settings in Latin America. For many years prior to joining the World Health Organization, Dr. Pelaez headed the education and training activities of the Southeast Florida Center on Aging at Florida International University.
Throughout her 23 year career in the field of aging and health, Dr. Pelaez has served in leadership positions with a number of national and international organizations, including the National Council on Aging, the American Society on Aging, the National Hispanic Council on Aging, the International Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics and Help Age International. She now consults and volunteers with numerous local, national and international organizations. She has published numerous articles on Latin American and Caribbean aging and health and on ethics and aging.
Last Modified 07/14/2009