Rev. Kenneth V. Daniel, MPA, FACHCA is the President and Chief Executive Officer for United Church Homes, Marion, Ohio, where he has led acquisition and expansion resulting in addition of 40% in new residents and net revenues over 8 years. He completed strategic plan implementation, centralization of corporate services and functions, and an executive team development program. Recently started a joint venture hospice company and a population health service line. Rev, Daniel manages 8 senior leadership direct reports.

Rev. Daniels established joint venture hospice program to serve all 8 Ohio campuses and wider communities which led to first service line development and enhanced resident care and satisfaction. He created new Service Coordination program and Population Health Management program that position the organization to adapt to changing customer needs and reimbursement opportunities.

Rev. Daniel also has partnered with academic, religious, health care and human service organizations to begin a community education, advocacy, and collaborative engagement resulting in expanded public relations and research relationships with the Ohio State University and Vanderbilt University.

Education:Master of Public Administration (Long Term Health Care Administration) Marywood University 2001; Master of Arts in Pastoral Counseling Moravian Theological Seminary 1985; Master of Divinity, United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities 1981; Bachelor of Arts, English Kutztown University of Pennsylvania 1977.

Beth (Elizabeth) Long-Higgins, MDiv, is the Executive Director (and Founding Director), Ruth Frost Parker Center for Abundant Aging, United Church Homes. The Parker Center is involved in engagement, education and advocacy to transform aging with congregations and community partners since 2017. Prior to this position she served as Director of Church and Community Relations and then Director of Mission Integration working with the advancement and marketing departments, supporting the work of the board of directors and reporting directly to the president and CEO.

Beth has been passionate about older adults since childhood. She worked as a nurse aid in a nursing home and took the only gerontology course offered during her college tenure. Her first field placement in graduate school was in a retirement community. Her ministry for 25 years allowed her relationships with many older adults and their adult children as they navigated late life opportunities and challenges. She served on the Board of Directors for United Church Homes for 6 ½ years prior to joining the staff.

Beth completed the Nollau Leadership Institute through the Council for Health and Human Service Ministries in 2014 and currently serves on the Board for CHHSM (2020 to present). Beth also participates on the National Advisory Committee for the development of the Long-term Care Equality Index with the Human Rights Campaign and SAGE (2019 to present).

Education: Master of Divinity, United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities, BA from Heidelberg University, Tiffin, Ohio with a double major in psychology and music and a minor in sociology.

Carl V. Hill, Ph.D., MPH, is the chief diversity, equity and inclusion officer for the Alzheimer’s Association®, overseeing strategic initiatives to strengthen the Association’s outreach to all populations, and providing communities with resources and support to address the Alzheimer’s crisis.

In this role, Dr. Hill is responsible for developing cross-functional partnerships with organizations to advance diversity, equity and inclusion. As a result of his leadership, the Association has broadened its reach to previously diverse communities with partners such as the African Methodist Episcopal Church and the Buddhist Tzu Chi Foundation.

Within the Association, Dr. Hill collaborates with human resources to attract talent and develop resources that champion staff diversity and a culture of inclusion. He authored an editorial in the Journal of New England Medicine (JAMA) Neurology highlighting the need for more diverse perspectives to address disparities and pursue equity in dementia science.

Dr. Hill previously served as the Association’s vice president, Scientific Engagement. Prior to joining the Association, he served as director, Office of Special Populations at the National Institutes on Aging (NIA). Throughout Dr. Hill’s six years in this role, he led the development of the NIA Health Disparities Research Framework, which stimulates studies focused on health disparities related to aging. He also directed the NIA Butler-Williams Scholars Program, which provides yearly training for early career investigators interested in aging research.

Dr. Hill earned his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan School of Public Health, where he trained with the Center for Research on Ethnicity, Culture and Health (CRECH) and the Program for Research on Black Americans (PRBA). He is an alumnus of the National Medical Fellowships Inc./W.K. Kellogg Foundation Health Policy Fellowship Program. Dr. Hill holds a master’s degree in public health from Morehouse School of Medicine, and he received its Distinguished Alumnus Award in 2019. As a member of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Public Health Prevention Service, a training and leadership program, he helped to establish the Center for Bioethics in Research and Healthcare at Tuskegee University.

The Alzheimer’s Association is a worldwide voluntary health organization dedicated to Alzheimer’s care, support and research. Our mission is to lead the way to end Alzheimer’s and all other dementia — by accelerating global research, driving risk reduction and early detection, and maximizing quality care and support. Our vision is a world without Alzheimer’s and all other dementia®. For more information, visit alz.org.

Dr. Mitchell’s interdisciplinary research examines how patient-centered communication between older African American men, their families and physicians can be leveraged to improve men’s cancer and chronic disease outcomes and patient experiences. She also develops, tests and adapts eHealth and psycho-educational interventions designed to support the communication efficacy and disease self-management of older Black men. In her role as Co-Director and Co-Investigator of the Community Liaison and Recruitment Core for the Michigan Center for Urban African American Aging Research (MCUAAAR), Dr. Mitchell helps to oversee a research infrastructure grounded in recruiting and retaining older Black adults for health sciences research with the goal of increasing their representation in health discoveries. A key component of that work includes co-managing a community advisory board and participant research registry of Black older adults at the Healthier Black Elders Center in Detroit. Currently, Dr. Mitchell is overseeing a major expansion of MCUAAAR’s research recruitment activities and infrastructure to Flint, Michigan with a newly funded NIH R24 grant “Recruiting and Retaining Older African Americans into Research (ROAR)”- this grant, for which Dr. Mitchell serves as principal investigator, will provide public education, programming, and disseminate tools on best practices for engaging older African Americans into NIH relevant research, in addition to establishing a community-based infrastructure for bringing investigators together with diverse older research participants. Most recently, Dr. Mitchell has taken on the role of Assistant Director of Clinical Research Participation at Michigan Medicine’s Rogel Cancer Center. In this role, she is supporting investigators in their efforts to diversify cancer clinical trials by providing evidence-based tools for investigators, bolstering community outreach and engagement, and contributing to the evidence-base on disparities in clinical research participation in cancer care. Her work operates at the intersection of aging, social work, public health, cancer and chronic disease care, and health communication.

Cynthia Valdez Dougherty, MSW, PhD is the Director, Office of Geriatrics and Interprofessional Aging Studies, Ohio State University College of Medicine where she develops and leads all aspects of the Office of Geriatrics and Interprofessional Aging Studies, including distance education programs, the Champion Intergenerational Education and Enrichment Center, and the Graduate Interdisciplinary Specialization in Aging. Oversees and directs collaborative efforts related to educational programming, grants administration, and community partnerships. Guides geriatric and gerontological educational programming and curriculum development in the College of Medicine and across the University.

Cynthia leads and oversees all aspect the OSU involvement at the Champion Intergenerational Center. Establishes and develops a strategic plan for the Office in an effort to move to long-range plans for a ‘Center of Aging’ on the OSU campus. Develops, establishes, and supports aging-related research, interdisciplinary training, and development-related opportunities. She ensures adherence to the requirements set for by the state legislature for establishment of offices of geriatric medicine in universities across the State of Ohio.

Education: Doctor of Philosophy, The Ohio State University, College of Social Work 2016; Master of Social Work, The Ohio State University Concentration: Administration, College of Social Work 2005: Bachelor of Arts, Ohio University , Political Science 2002.

Rev. Kenneth V. Daniel, MPA, FACHCA is the President and Chief Executive Officer for United Church Homes, Marion, Ohio, where he has led acquisition and expansion resulting in addition of 40% in new residents and net revenues over 8 years. He completed strategic plan implementation, centralization of corporate services and functions, and an executive team development program. Recently started a joint venture hospice company and a population health service line. Rev, Daniel manages 8 senior leadership direct reports.

Rev. Daniels established joint venture hospice program to serve all 8 Ohio campuses and wider communities which led to first service line development and enhanced resident care and satisfaction. He created new Service Coordination program and Population Health Management program that position the organization to adapt to changing customer needs and reimbursement opportunities.

Rev. Daniel also has partnered with academic, religious, health care and human service organizations to begin a community education, advocacy, and collaborative engagement resulting in expanded public relations and research relationships with the Ohio State University and Vanderbilt University.

Education:Master of Public Administration (Long Term Health Care Administration) Marywood University 2001; Master of Arts in Pastoral Counseling Moravian Theological Seminary 1985; Master of Divinity, United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities 1981; Bachelor of Arts, English Kutztown University of Pennsylvania 1977.