Rosann Corcoran
Rosann Corcoran, LCSW, is a Clinical Social Worker in the Counseling Program at CJE SeniorLife and is coordinator of CJE SeniorLife’s Linkages program, which provides information and referrals to seniors who have adult children with disabilities. In this capacity, she is continually challenged with helping families and other professionals navigate both aging and disability service delivery systems. Prior to coming to CJE, Ms. Corcoran worked at Thresholds Older Adult Program where she was a clinical supervisor and team leader of the Thresholds Older Adult Partial Hospitalization Program.
Sharon Dornberg-Lee
Sharon Dornberg-Lee, LCSW, is a Clinical Social Worker at CJE SeniorLife, where she has worked for 14 years, providing psychotherapy and care management services for older adults. She also provides regular in-service training for care managers and care coordinators in the agency's Managed Community Care Program. Ms. Dornberg-Lee is a frequent presenter on topics related to effective clinical practice with older adults. She is a Lecturer at SSA where she teaches Aging and Mental Health.
Nancy Flowers
Nancy Flowers, LCSW, is the Social Work Manager for Rainbow Hospice and Palliative Care. She has over thirty years of clinical and management experience working with older adults in hospital, home health care, hospice, assisted living, long-term care and municipal settings. Ms. Flowers is the former chair of the Illinois Department on Aging’s Long Term Care Council and was a member of the Illinois Department on Aging’s Elder Self-Neglect Steering Committee. She is a past president of the Illinois Association of Long-Term Care Ombudsmen.
Kate Krajci
Kate Krajci, LCSW, provides clinical services to older adults and family caregivers, with expertise in assessment, care coordination, mental health and the long-term impact of chronic illness and disability on individuals and families. She is responsible for the strategic direction and management of social work interventions integrated into primary and specialty care clinics, as well as a variety of mental health and skill-building services for older adults and family caregivers. Ms. Krajci serves on the Board of Directors for the Illinois Coalition on Mental Health and Aging, is a member of the American Society on Aging’s Mental Health and Aging Network Leadership Council, and was instrumental in the development of the Chicago Bridge, a grassroots organization for professionals in the early to mid stages of their careers in the field of aging.
Daniel Kuhn
Daniel Kuhn, LCSW, is the Community Educator for Rainbow Hospice and Palliative Care. For the past 35 years he has been a social worker and educator in the fields of aging and health care in various settings in the Chicago area. Since 1987 he has focused on dementia care, end-of-life care, and family caregiving issues. He is currently directing a project to enhance the care of people with advanced dementia and to create the first “dementia-friendly” hospice organization in the Midwest.
Stanley G. McCracken
Stanley G. McCracken is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration. Mr. McCracken has thirty years of experience as a clinician, educator, and consultant specializing primarily in mental health, chemical dependence, and dual disorders. He has extensive experience in teaching motivational interviewing. Mr. McCracken is a licensed clinical social worker and registered dual disorder professional.
Darby Morhardt
Darby Morhardt, LCSW, is Research Associate Professor and the Director of the Education and Information Transfer Core for the Cognitive Neurology and Alzheimer’s Disease Center (CNADC) at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. Ms. Morhardt has 25 years of clinical experience (counseling, education and care coordination) with cognitively impaired individuals and their families. She is also responsible for organizing the CNADC’s community education and outreach programs throughout Chicago and has worked to build Alzheimer’s awareness in limited English proficiency communities.
Anthony J. Perry
Anthony J Perry, MD, is the Associate Vice-President for Clinical Affairs at Rush University Medical Center (RUMC). In this role he serves as the Chief Medical Officer for Rush University Medical Group, which is RUMC’s 450 member employed physician practice, as an Associate Chief Medical Officer for RUMC, and as the director of the Johnston R. Bowman Health Center. The Bowman Center houses leadership for RUMC’s campus wide programs in Health and Aging. He has been working at Rush University Medical Center since 1991 and is also an Associate Professor of Internal Medicine.
Grisel Rodriguez-Morales
Grisel Rodriguez-Morales, LCSW, is a social worker with Health and Aging (formerly Older Adult Programs) at Rush University Medical Center. She has lectured on cultural competency, depression in late life, and mental health disparities at local and national levels. The American Society on Aging (ASA) selected Ms. Rodriguez-Morales to be a member of the class of 2011-2012 for its New Ventures in Leadership (NVL) program. She was the recipient of a Geriatric Partnership Program scholarship from the John A. Hartford Foundation and the Social Work Leadership Institute of the New York Academy of Medicine for her interest in aging as field of practice.
Louise Starmann
Louise Starmann is the Director of Social Service at Aging Care Connections. Ms. Starmann has worked in the field of aging for over thirty years providing community based assessments, elder abuse investigation and case work, information and referral, and family resources to caregivers of older adults. She has served on the Department on Aging Community Care Advisory Board and held office with Illinois Council of Case Coordination Units in planning statewide training for Case Managers.