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Advisory Committee

Kansas 4M Advisory Committee members provide strategic guidance, share expertise, and foster partnerships to advance the goals of the Kansas 4M Geriatrics Workforce Education Program. They contribute to program development, evaluation, improvement, coordination, collaboration, and implementation, ensuring efforts are aligned with the 4Ms framework-What Matters, Medication, Mentation, and Mobility-and are responsive to the needs of older adults and their care partners across Kansas.

Name

Agency

Mary Beth Warren (Chair)

Retired (former Executive Director of KU Medical Center Area Health Education Center and Office of Continuing Education and Professional Development)

Alice Weingartner, Chief Strategy Officer

Community Care Network of Kansas

Leslie A. Anderson, Executive Director

Kansas Association of Area Agencies on Aging & Disabilities

Polly Berkley, Vice President of Operations and Education

Kansas Health Care Association/Kansas Center for Assisted Living

Karen Braman, Senior Vice President, Clinical and Strategic Initiatives

Kansas Hospital Association

Rachel Monger, President, Chief Executive Officer

LeadingAge Kansas

Jodi Schmidt, Executive Director, Care Collaborative

Community Care Network of Kansas

Bruce Troen, Director

Landon Center on Aging

Kristi Williams, E. Jean Hill Professorship

KU School of Nursing

Linda Redford

Retired (formerly Director, Central Plains Geriatric Education Center, KU Medical Center)

Emma Uridge, Analyst, Facilitator, Age-Friendly Public Health Systems

Kansas Health Institute

Joyce Grayson, Director

KU Medical Center Rural Health Education and Services

Kimberly Reynolds, Commissioner of Aging Services

Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services

Glenda DuBoise, State Director

AARP Kansas

Lainey Faulkner, Director, Bureau of Health Promotion, Public Health Medicaid Liaison

Kansas Department of Health and Environment

Kansas 4M

Kansas 4M
KU School of Nursing
3901 Rainbow Boulevard
Kansas City, KS 66160
kansas4M@kumc.edu