BOARD OF DIRECTORS
E. Byron Hensley, Jr.
Founder and CEO
E. Byron Hensley, Jr. founded Seniorlink with a dual objective: To provide seniors with the choice to receive care at home and to support family members and their employers in providing eldercare.
The model for this business came from The Mentor Network, which Mr. Hensley founded in 1983 to deliver support services to families caring for troubled teens, developmentally disabled adults and family members with head injuries. Mentor now operates in 32 states and generates more than $420 million in annual revenues.
It was long before his experience at Mentor, however, that Mr. Hensley conceived Seniorlink's mission. Mr. Hensley recognized the need for greater options in senior care when he witnessed the sadness and loss of independence suffered by his grandfather when he was moved to a nursing home. Later, Mr. Hensley was confronted by care decisions for his own parents, made even more difficult by the geographic distance that separated them. His resulting belief - that every person has the right to age with dignity, including the option to live out his or her life at home - was the impetus for Seniorlink's founding in 2000.
Foster L. Aborn
Foster L. Aborn brings financial and service industry expertise to Seniorlink's Board of Directors. Mr. Aborn made his career at John Hancock Financial Services, Inc., working there from 1968 until he retired in 2000 as the Vice Chairman and Chief Investment Officer. He held positions including the Sector Head of the Investment and Pension Group, Senior Vice President of Treasury and Financial Services and Vice President of the Bond and Corporate Finance Department. Mr. Aborn is now a Director of John Hancock Life Insurance Company and a member of its Committee of Finance. He serves on numerous other boards, including Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Mr. Aborn holds a Bachelor's degree from Dartmouth College and a Master's degree from the Tuck School of Business Administration.
John C. Evans
John C. Evans has a wealth of experience in the capital formation, funding and management of new businesses. Mr. Evans has spent much of his business career at Venture Investment Management Company LLC (VIMAC), an early-stage venture capital firm located in Boston, MA. He has been a Managing Director of VIMAC since 1989 and, prior to that, was engaged as an operations executive for international manufacturers. Mr. Evans has served as a director and advisor to many companies throughout his career as a venture capitalist. Currently, he is an advisor to or sits on the board of Apex Medical, Inc., KaBloom Ltd., Monitoring Technology Corp. and Surgical Sealants, Inc. Mr. Evans attended the Whitmore School of Business and Economics at the University of New Hampshire.
Ambassador Charles Stith
Ambassador Charles Stith provides the Seniorlink Board of Directors with a wealth of experience and cross cultural and ethnic perspective so important when helping elders from varied backgrounds. Prior to assuming his present position as the Director of the African Presidential Archives and Research Center at Boston University, Mr. Stith served as Ambassador to Tanzania, Africa. Ambassador Stith is a graduate of Baker University, the Interdenominational Theological Center's Gammon Theological Seminary in Atlanta, and Harvard University Divinity School (Th.M). He is the founder and former National President of the Organization for a New Equality (O.N.E.), which focuses on expanding economic opportunities for minorities and women. He was one of the architects of the regulations redefining the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA), which has resulted in nearly $2 trillion in credit and capital for low and moderate income communities and communities of color. Prior to heading O.N.E., he was the Senior Minister of the historic Union United Methodist Church in Boston. He was an appointee of Senate Minority Tom Daschle to the US Commission on International Religious Freedom. In addition, he has been an adjunct faculty member at Boston College and Harvard Divinity School. He has served on the National Advisory Boards of FannieMae and Fleet InCity Bank, the editorial board of WCVB-TV, and the boards of West Insurance, Inc and the Wang Center for Performing Arts, among others.
Ambassador Stith is the author of Political Religion (Abingdon Press, 1995) and many articles, which have appeared in such publications as the Wall Street Journal, Denver Post, Atlanta Journal Constitution, Boston Globe, the Boston Herald, USAToday, the Los Angeles Times, New York Times, and the Chicago Sun Times.
Thomas P. Riley
Tom Riley has more than 25 years of senior management experience working with families in various healthcare and education settings. He is the Chairman and CEO of ConnectEdu, a startup education software services company that assists students who are seeking college admission and financial aid. Prior to joining ConnectEdu, Mr. Riley was the Chairman and CEO of The Brown Schools, a $200 million operator of psychiatric facilities and programs, including behavioral services for at-risk youth and boarding schools for students with specialized needs. Mr. Riley served as the President/CEO and, before that, Chief Financial Officer, of National MENTOR, Inc. (now The Mentor Network), which provides housing to adolescents, individuals with developmental disabilities and other specialized populations. He earned his Bachelor's degree from Colby College and Master's degrees in Business Administration and Finance from Boston University.
MEDICAL ADVISORY BOARD
Jennifer Davis Carey, EdD
Prior to joining Commonwealth Medicine in July of 2007, Jennifer Davis Carey served as Secretary of the Executive Office of Elder Affairs. During her years of service she was instrumental in defining, and implementing the state's Community First policy aimed at allowing elders to age in their homes and communities for as long as possible, was a key advocate for the passage of Chapter 211, the Massachusetts Equal Choices Law, and served as a delegate to the 2005 White House Conference on Aging. Prior to her work in Elder Affairs, Secretary Carey served as Director of the Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation where she oversaw nine state regulatory and licensing agencies including the Division of Professional Licensure and the Board of Registration in Medicine.
Jennifer Carey began her career in Massachusetts government as Special Assistant to Governor Cellucci in June, 1998. She oversaw all constituent services and community outreach in the Governor's External Relations Office, worked on a number of education projects, and served as liaison to the black and Latino Legislative Caucuses.
Prior to entering public service, Carey enjoyed a long career in education serving as an Assistant Dean at Ohio University, Senior Admissions and Financial Aid Officer and Director of the Minority Recruitment Program at Harvard and Radcliffe Colleges, and Director of College Counseling at Bancroft School in Worcester.
In 2003 Jennifer Carey was the winner of the YWCA of Central Massachusetts' Catherine Erskine Tribute to Women Award. In January 2004 she received the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Boston/MA Association of Jewish Federations' Executive Achievement Award. She has also received the Advocacy Award from the Massachusetts' Alzheimer's Association, the Founders Award from the Boston Partnership for Older Adults, and a citation from the Suffolk County Caregiver's Alliance.
Jennifer Davis Carey holds a Master's degree and a doctorate from Harvard University's Graduate School of Education. She also earned a Bachelor's degree at Harvard and Radcliffe Colleges.
Eran Metzger, MD
Eran D. Metzger, M.D. received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Haverford College and his medical degree from the Pennsylvania State University. He completed both his residency in Psychiatry and a fellowship in Consultation Liaison Psychiatry at Boston's Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC). Dr. Metzger is board-certified in Psychiatry.
Dr. Metzger was the Director of the inpatient medical psychiatry unit at BIDMC prior to assuming his current position as Associate Director of Geropsychiatry for Hebrew SeniorLife in Boston. In addition to providing psychiatric care at the 700-bed chronic and sub-acute care Hebrew Rehabilitation Center, Dr. Metzger provides consultation for an affiliated 300-bed continuing care retirement community and for the Gerontology practice at BIDMC. Dr. Metzger also serves as chairman of the Ethics Committee for Hebrew SeniorLife.
Dr. Metzger is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and instructs medical students, residents, and fellows. His research and publications have been in the areas of eating disorders, medical complications from psychiatric treatments, and biomedical ethics in long-term care. He currently has a grant from the Practice Change Fellows program to develop a model for improved treatment of geriatric depression in the primary care setting.
In 2007, Dr. Metzger was conferred the designation of Distinguished Fellow by the American Psychiatric Association.
James M. Ellison, MD, MPH
James M. Ellison MD MPH received his MD from UCSF in 1978 and his MPH from the Harvard School of Public Health in 1993. His psychiatry residency training was at Massachusetts General Hospital (1979-1982), where he served as chief resident in Emergency Psychiatry (APS) during his final year.
Subsequently Dr. Ellison has pursued an academic, clinical, and administrative career, serving as chief of a psychiatric emergency service at New England Medical Center (1982-4), developing a psychopharmacology service at The Cambridge Hospital (1984-1991), and providing medical directorship at a for-profit mental health/substance abuse hospital (1991-3). He served as chief of an HMO mental health service (Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates, Burlington Practice, 1993-1998) and as chief of psychiatry at a community hospital psychiatry department (Boston Regional Medical Center, 1998-9) before assuming his current role as Clinical Director, Geriatric Psychiatry Service, at McLean Hospital in Belmont, Massachusetts (1999-present). His clinical work at McLean Hospital focuses on mood disorders and cognitive impairment and he is Director of the hospital's Memory Disorders Clinic. His research interests focus on late life depression and on noncognitive aspects of MCI and dementia. He maintains an active private and consulting practice.
Among the organizations to which Dr. Ellison belongs are the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry (currently on Nominating Committee), the American Medical Association, Alpha Omega Alpha, the American Psychiatric Association (Distinguished Fellow), the American Society of Clinical Psychopharmacology (where he has served on the Curriculum Committee), and the Massachusetts Psychiatric Society (of which he was president in 2003-4). He teaches psychiatric trainees within the Harvard Medical School System, where he is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry. He is a reviewer for several journals, has published in the areas of emergency psychiatry, clinical psychopharmacology, and geriatric psychiatry, and has edited six books on mental health topics. His most recent book is Depression in Later Life, published by Marcel Dekker, Inc. in 2003. He is board certified in adult psychiatry with added qualifications in geriatric psychiatry.
Dr. Ellison was named 2010 Educator of the Year by the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry, citing his work in "curriculum development, teaching, leadership, mentoring, trainee and faculty development" at McLean Hospital in Belmont, Mass.
Barbara Mitzan, RN, BSN
Barbara Mitzan has worked in the healthcare field for over 30 years in a variety of setting and capacities, often engaged in developing new roles and systems for employers with expanding or changing organizational needs.
Ms. Mitzan is currently employed at Commonwealth Care Alliance (CCA) , a special needs plan with a commitment to integrating health services and related social support services to care for medically complex, frail, and disabled people. Her role as Clinical Program Manager involves supporting our primary care partners who provide direct care to members and developing specialized clinical programs to support the needs of the members. She has a special interest in working with seniors and elder care issues. The Senior Care Options Program, a plan for seniors administered by CCA, has allowed continued involvement in this area.
Prior to joining Commonwealth Care Alliance in 2005, Ms. Mitzan worked with a large multispecialty physician practice providing case management services. This role allowed her to help the elder population navigate the health care system through interface with the primary care physicians, specialists, institutions, and community agencies.
Ms. Mitzan holds an RN, BSN from Montana State University.
Robert J. Schreiber, MD
Seniorlink Medical Director
Robert J. Schreiber, MD, is Physician-in-Chief and chief Medical Officer at Hebrew Senior Life, a seven site system of senior health care and housing serving more than 5000 seniors in the Greater Boston area of all faiths, races and creeds. It also is the largest applied geriatric research center and a teaching affiliate of the Harvard Medical School.
Dr. Schreiber has been a physician for more than twenty years. He is presently leading the development of new approaches to improving quality of care in community, long-term care and post-acute care settings at Hebrew SeniorLife and nationally. Board-certified in internal medicine and geriatric medicine, he was the first Chairman of the Department of Geriatrics at Lahey Clinic in Burlington, MA.
Dr. Schreiber is a Clinical Instructor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and is active in educating and mentoring medical students, residents and geriatric fellows about caring for older adults. His specialty interests include prevention and wellness strategies in older adults, care transitions, and developing new models of care that emphasize self-management strategies for older adults. A graduate of Dartmouth College, Dr. Schreiber received his medical degree at Hahnemann Medical College in Philadelphia and he completed his residency at Danbury Hospital in Connecticut.
Dr. Schreiber was named 2010 Medical Director of the Year by the American Medical Directors Association for his "exemplary work as a physician leader, educator, patient advocate and clinician.
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