Lina Walker, PhD
Senior Vice President, Global Thought Leadership AARP
Senior Vice President, Global Thought Leadership AARP
Lina Walker is Senior Vice President of Global Thought Leadership at AARP, the largest nonprofit, nonpartisan organization in the United States dedicated to empowering people 50 and older to choose how they live as they age. Dr Walker heads three departments: AARP International, Brain Health, and Thought Leadership. She leads her team to influence U.S. and global leaders to catalyze change domestically and globally, to promote age-inclusive innovations, practices, and protections that enable older adults to thrive and contribute as they age.
Walker has deep and broad knowledge of aging issues. Prior to leading AARP’s Global Thought Leadership team, she spent over 20 years working on U.S. domestic policy to strengthen access to healthcare, long-term care, and financial security in academia, state government, congressional agency, and the non-profit sector. Her career includes working at the Brookings Institution, where she worked on private-sector solutions to promote retirement savings; at Georgetown University Public Policy Institute, where she worked on long-term care solutions; at the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, where she worked on Social Security and disability policy proposals; and for the Maryland General Assembly in the nonpartisan Office of Policy Analysis, where she evaluated state legislative proposals on taxes, health and long-term care.
Dr Walker sits on the board of The Leapfrog Group, a non-profit, patient-safety and data transparency organization. She holds a master’s and doctorate degrees in economics from the University of Michigan. She is an avid gardener, and lives with her family in Washington D.C.
Deputy Director for Quality & Value, Center for Clinical Standards & Quality, CMS
Dr. Schreiber is currently the Deputy Director of the Center for Clinical Standards and Quality for the Centers (CCSQ) and the Director of the Quality Measurement and Value-Based Incentives Group at CMS. Dr. Schreiber is a general internal medicine physician with over 25 years of health care experience. Most recently, she was the Senior Vice President and Chief Quality Officer of Henry Ford Health System (HFHS) in Detroit, Michigan. Prior roles at HFHS included the Division Head of General Internal Medicine, and the SVP of Clinical Transformation and IT Integration, where she was the clinical lead of the systemwide Epic implementation. The Epic implementation and use earned HFHS a Davies Award in 2018. She has also held senior leadership roles at the Detroit Medical Center, where she was the Chief Quality Officer, and with Trinity Health System where she was the national system Chief Medical Officer, and acting interim Chief Medical Information Officer.
In addition to her health system roles, Dr. Schreiber has served on numerous quality committees including Michigan Hospital Association statewide quality committee, and Board of Directors for the MHA Keystone Center and the Patient Safety Organization, the Board of Directors of MPRO (Michigan Peer Review Organization – the Michigan QIO), the Board of Directors of Health Alliance Plan insurance company, the National Quality Forum Patient Safety Metrics Committee, and the National Quality Partners. She has worked with the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) including as part of its Leadership Alliance, and an initiative to enhance Board of Trustees engagement in quality through a partnership with IHI and National Patient Safety Foundation. Dr. Schreiber has also served as a member of the Epic Safety Forum, and the Cerner Academic Advisory Group.
Dr. Schreiber’s interests are quality improvement, quality measures, and the intersection with electronic medical records to advance quality and quality measures.
Dr. Schreiber is married, with 2 children (one a physician at Johns Hopkins and one a committed non-physician). She graduated from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio with degrees in humanities/comparative literature and biology, and also attended medical school at CWRU. She completed her internal medicine training at New York Hospital/Weill Cornell University Medical Center in New York City.
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Liron Sinvani, MD, AGSF, FHM, is a professor of medicine and nationally recognized clinician-scientist dedicated to improving care for older adults. As a board-certified geriatrician and internist, she brings dual clinical expertise to the study of dementia, delirium and oropharyngeal dysphagia during hospitalization—a period of heightened vulnerability for adverse outcomes in older adults.
Dr. Sinvani is the founding co-director of the SinMak Lab for Aging Research, the research engine of the Northwell Institute for Healthy Aging. Since 2019, she has served as principal investigator or multi-principal investigator on seven NIH-funded grants from the National Institute on Aging and the National Institute of Nursing Research and serves as co-investigator on the NIA-funded Northwell Roybal Center for Personalized Trials and an NIA/NINDS R01 on stroke outcomes. Her landmark study on dysphagia diets in patients with dementia, published in JAMA Internal Medicine, was featured in The New York Times and led to the establishment of the Nancy and Neal S. Kaplan Dysphagia Program at Northwell—the first hospital-based program of its kind.
Dr. Sinvani has been elected to serve as chair of the American Geriatrics Society Annual Meeting Program Committee (2024–2025), is a standing member of the NIH Aging Systems and Geriatrics (ASG) study section and was selected for the NIA Butler-Williams Scholars Program and the Tideswell/AGS/ADGAP Emerging Leaders in Aging Program.
Alex Makhnevich, MD, is a leading physician-scientist whose research is directly inspired by the clinical challenges of caring for complex older patients. His work is centered on improving the care of hospitalized older adults by developing rigorous evidence and leveraging technology and artificial intelligence to improve patient-centered outcomes.
Dr. Makhnevich is the founding co-director of the SinMak Lab for Aging Research, the research engine of the Northwell Institute for Healthy Aging. He serves as principal investigator or multi-principal investigator on multiple NIH-funded grants from the National Institute on Aging, including studies focused on oropharyngeal dysphagia in hospitalized patients with dementia, caregiver burden reduction and physical activity interventions in older adults with cognitive impairment. His landmark study with Dr. Sinvani on dysphagia diets in patients with dementia, published in JAMA Internal Medicine, was featured in The New York Times and led to the establishment of the Nancy and Neal S. Kaplan Dysphagia Program at Northwell.
Dr. Makhnevich’s expertise spans machine learning model development, electronic health record data harmonization and digital health interventions. He has developed innovative EHR-based methods combining diagnosis codes, nursing documentation, natural language processing and surrogate markers to identify conditions that are traditionally under-documented in hospitalized older adults. He is also a dedicated medical educator, recognized with multiple teaching awards throughout his career.
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