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I served as director of the Gerontology Institute at UMass Boston until my retirement in 2021. The Institute is the research, policy and public service arm of UMass Boston’s gerontology program—one of the oldest and largest aging studies programs in the world. Its main areas of focus are health and healthcare, long-term services and supports, economic security, productive aging—with a special emphasis on low-income and minority older adults. Before coming to UMass Boston, I was CEO of Hebrew SeniorLife, New England’s largest non-profit provider of senior housing and healthcare. During my tenure, HSL became an affiliate of Harvard Medical School, serving as the school’s clinical research and academic teaching site in geriatrics. I also led HSL’s transformation from a long-term care organization to an integrated healthcare and housing system, serving seniors of all faiths and incomes--increasingly in community-based settings. Before joining HSL, I was CEO of Leading Age, in Washington D.C., which represents 6,000 non-profit senior housing and healthcare providers, serving over two million seniors in the U.S. and Canada. I served in the cabinet of New Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman as commissioner of the Department of Health and Senior Services. For a decade prior to that, he practiced health care law in NJ and PA.

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