Course Chair

Dan Osterweil, MD, FACP, CMD (also course faculty)

Clinical Professor of Medicine/Geriatric Medicine,
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA; CALTCM Past-CEO;

Retired Vice President and Medical Director, SCAN Health Plan;

Los Angeles, CA

Course Faculty (Click names for biographies.)

Pouya Afshar, MD, MBA

Chief Executive Officer, Presidium Health; San Diego, CA

Romilla Batra, MD, MBA

Chief Medical Officer, SCAN Health Plan, Long Beach, CA; Lecturer,
Paul Merage School of Business at UC Irvine; Irvine, CA

Darin Buxbaum, MBA
Co-founder & COO, Wider Circle; Lecturer at the
Stanford Center for BioDesign; Redwood City, CA

Joshua Chodosh, MD, MSHS, FACP

Michael L. Freedman Professor of Geriatric Research

Professor of Medicine in the Division of Geriatric Medicine and Palliative Care

Department of Medicine, NYU Grossman School of Medicine; New York, NY

Ethan Cumbler, MD, FACP, FHM
Ethan Cumbler MD, FHM, FACP is a Professor of Medicine at the
University of Colorado School of Medicine and is the President of the 
Medical Staff of the University of Colorado Hospital (UCH). Aurora, CO

Alfredo Czerwinski, MD
Chief Medical Officer, Lawson & Associates; Sacramento, CA

Rebecca Ferrini, MD, MPH, CMD
Medical Director Edgemoor DP SNF, Behavioral Health Services
Health and Human Services Agency, County of San Diego, CA; San Diego, CA

Janice Hoffman-Simen, Pharm.D., EdD, APh, BCGP, FASCP
Director, Postgraduate Residency Program, Jewish Home for the Aging
Associate Professor of Pharmacy Practice and Administration
Western University of Health Sciences College of Pharmacy; Moorpark, CA

Dominic Lim, MPH
Senior Director of Provider Integration at SCAN Health Plan; Masters in Public Health

with a focus in Health Management from the Yale School of Public Health and a Bachelor
of Arts in Integrative Biology from the University of California, Berkeley; Long Beach, CA.

Kemi Reeves, RN, MSN, GNP-BC
Dementia Care Specialist, UCLA Alzheimer's and Dementia Care Program;
Supervisor Nurse Practitioner, HealthCHEC Comprehensive Health Evaluation Center;
Assistant Clinical Professor-Volunteer, UCLA School of Nursing;
Coach and Mentor, CALTCM SNF 2.0® Training Program; Los Angeles, CA

Karl E. Steinberg, MD, CMD, HMDC

Immediate Past-President of AMDA: The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine;
CALTCM BOD member; Chief Medical Officer of Mariner Health Care; San Diego, CA

Michael Wasserman, MD, CMD

Geriatrician; CALTCM Immediate Past-President; Los Angeles, CA