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A number of years ago, while making house calls as a nurse practitioner to homebound, low-income elderly patients in West Baltimore, Sarah Szanton noticed that their environmental challenges were often as pressing as their health challenges. Since then she has developed a program of research at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing on the role of the environment and stressors in health disparities in older adults, particularly those trying to 鈥渁ge in place鈥� or stay out of a nursing home. The result is a program called CAPABLE, which combines handyman services with nursing and occupational therapy to improve mobility, reduce disability, and decrease healthcare costs. She is currently examining the program's effectiveness through grants from the National Institutes of Health and the Innovations Office at the Center on Medicaid and Medicare Services. She is also conducting a study, funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, of whether food and energy assistance improve health outcomes for low-income older adults. A former health policy advocate, Dr. Szanton aims her research and publications toward changing policy for older adults and their families.

Sarita A. Mohanty, MD, MPH, MBA, serves as the President and Chief Executive Officer of The SCAN Foundation. The SCAN Foundation is one of the largest foundations in the United States focused on improving the quality of health and life for older adults. Its mission is to advance a coordinated and easily navigated system of high-quality services for older adults that preserve dignity and independence. 

The SCAN Foundation has been a national leader in the development and scaling of person-centered care models for vulnerable adults with complex needs, including those served by Medicare and Medicaid. The foundation has been at the forefront of policy discussions regarding health care for older adults and coordinating services both for older adults and their caregivers.

Previously, Sarita served as the Vice President of Care Coordination for Medicaid and Vulnerable Populations at Kaiser Permanente. Sarita was previously Assistant Professor of Medicine at USC; Chief Medical Officer of COPE Health Solutions, a health care management consulting company; and Senior Medical Director at L.A. Care, the largest U.S. public health plan. Sarita was recently named a National Quality Forum (NQF) Quality Policy Fellow and has served on several NQF committees related to quality measurement. 

Sarita completed her Internal Medicine residency at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and research fellowship at Harvard Medical School. She earned her MD from Boston University, MPH from Harvard University, and MBA from UCLA. She completed undergraduate work at UC Berkeley. She currently is an Associate Professor at the Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine and is a practicing internal medicine physician with Kaiser Permanente. Sarita enjoys international travel, tennis, and spending time with her husband and three children.

Julie Sacks currently serves as President and Chief Operating Officer (COO) of the Home Centered Care Institute (HCCI), a national non-profit focused on advancing home-based primary care to ensure that chronically ill, medically complex, and the more than 7 million people who are homebound or home-limited have access to high-quality care in their home. As President and COO, Sacks plays an integral role in evaluating strategic opportunities and partnerships, developing relationships with donors and foundations, and serving as spokesperson. Since she joined HCCI, the organization has made significant strides toward creating universal access to house call programs. Julie has been with HCCI since 2015. She previously served as vice president of operations and advancement where she orchestrated the development and implementation of the organization’s annual plan and strategic three-year roadmap while managing HCCI’s executive team, oversaw daily operations, and served as the primary liaison to the HCCI board of directors. Prior to joining HCCI, Sacks was senior director of programs and services of the National Young Onset Center for the American Parkinson Disease Association. She graduated with a bachelor’s degree in advertising from the University of Texas at Austin. After working in marketing for almost 10 years, she earned a master’s degree in social work from the University of Texas at Arlington.

Wendy A. Rogers, Ph.D., is Shahid and Ann Carlson Khan Professor of Applied Health Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.  She is the ; the ; Program Director of  (Collaborations in Health, Aging, Research, and Technology); and Director of the .  Her research interests include design for aging; technology acceptance; human-automation interaction; aging-in-place; human-robot interaction; aging with disabilities; cognitive aging; skill acquisition; and training.  Dr. Rogers’ research is funded by the National Institutes of Health through the National Institute on Aging and through the National Institute of Nursing Research.  In addition, her work is funded by the Department of Health and Human Services through the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research.

Daryl Friedman is global president and CEO of CEDIA, the Association for Smart Home Professionals™. Daryl is an expert on connected home issues, from emerging technology and smart home trends to the labor shortage for skilled trades and the standards and best practices that guide the industry.
Under his leadership, CEDIA has experienced record-breaking new membership acquisition rates, with members now represented in over 80 countries. As a result, he can speak to the global adoption of smart home integration as well as differences across countries and regions in trends, interconnectivity policies, privacy issues and more. He has also expanded the association’s advocacy efforts and can speak to how CEDIA promotes policies that advance the interests of the smart home industry while protecting integrators. 
A nonprofit and association executive for more than 30 years, Friedman also has experience leading branding campaigns as well as advising members of Congress and coalition partners. He previously held a senior leadership role at the Grammy Awards where he oversaw membership, industry relations, advocacy and the recording engineer's wing. He received his M.A. in arts management from American University in Washington, D.C., and his B.A. in economics from the University of California, Santa Cruz.