Better Mental Health for Older People

IPA Committees, Task Forces and Regional Initiatives

The volunteers of IPA play a key role within our organization. Our volunteers help to shape the direction of IPA and their hard work is one of the reasons we are such a special and unique community within the Field of Psychogeriatrics.

If you are interested in volunteering for one of IPA’s Committees or would like to become involved with a Task Force or Regional Initiative, please contact the Chair or the IPA Secretariat at info@ipa-online.org.

Committees

Advocacy Committee
Carlos de Mendonça Lima, Chair

Corporate Strategy
Jill Rasmussen, Chair

Finance Committee
Jacobo Mintzer, Treasurer
Jill Rasmussen, Treasurer-Elect

Governance
Jay Luxenberg, Chair

Meetings Committee
João Carlos Barbosa Machado, Chair
Horácio Firmino, Deputy Chair

Membership Committee
Masatoshi Takeda, Chair
Susan Benbow, Deputy Chair
Publications Committee
Michael Davidson, Chair

International Psychogeriatrics
- David Ames, Editor-in-Chief
- Nicola Lautenschlager, Deputy Editor
- John T. O’Brien, Deputy Editor

IPA Bulletin
- David G. Folks, Editor
- Ajit Shah, Deputy Editor

IPA On-line and Learning Portal
- Jay Luxenberg, Editor
- Brian Draper, Deputy Editor
- Yung-Jen Yang, Deputy Editor

Award Selection Committees

IPA Awards for Research in Psychogeriatrics
Bengt Winblad, Chair
Luigi Amaducci Research Award Selection
Alistair Burns, Chair

Task Forces

Service Delivery Task Force, Gregory Swanwick, Chair
Mental Health Economics, Guk-Hee Suh, Chair
Mental Health Services in Residential Care Facilities, John Snowdon, Chair
Testamentary Capacity and Undue Influence, Sanford Finkel, Chair and Kenneth Shulman, Deputy Chair

Regional Initiatives

For more information about IPA’s regional initiatives please click here or contact the chair:
- Africa, Olsegun Baiyewu, Chair
- Asia Pacific, Sarvada Tiwari and Xin Yu, Co-Chairs
- Eastern Europe, Nicoleta Tataru, Chair
- Latin America, Ricardo Allegri, Chair

Shared Interest Groups

For more information on IPA’s shared interest groups please click here or contact the chair:
- Nurses, Sally Chan and Gaby Golea, Co-Chairs
- Occupational Therapists, Meredith Gresham, Chair
- Psychologists, Jiska-Cohen Mansfield, Chair
- Primary Care Physicians, Jill Rasmussen, Chair
- Social Workers, Darby Morhardt, Chair

 


 



 

 

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