COURSE CO‑DIRECTORS

DENNIS H. SULLIVAN, MD
Director, Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center (GRECC)
Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System
Professor of Geriatrics, Vice-Chair for Clinical Research
Donald W. Reynolds Department of Geriatrics
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences College of Medicine
Little Rock, AR

RONNI CHERNOFF, PhD, RD, FADA
Associate Director for Education and Evaluation
Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center (GRECC)
Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System
Director, Arkansas Geriatric Education Center (AGEC)
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences College of Medicine
Little Rock, AR

KAY GUTHRIE
Administrative Officer
Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center (GRECC)
Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System
Little Rock, AR

FACULTY

HUGO E. JASIN, MD
Staff Physician
Rheumatology Division – Medicine Service
Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System
Professor of Medicine-Division of Rheumatology
College of Medicine-University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
Little Rock, AR

CAROLE B. LEWIS, PT, DPT, GCS, GTC, MPA, MSG, PhD, FAPTA
President of Great Seminars and Books and the Center of Evidence
Editor-in-Chief, Topics in Geriatric Rehabilitation
Adjunct Professor, George Washington University
Department of Geriatrics, College of Medicine
Bethesda, MD

ELEANOR LIPSMEYER, MD
Staff Physician
Rheumatology Division – Medicine Service
Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System
Professor of Medicine
Division of Rheumatology
College of Medicine
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
Little Rock, AR

TED R. MIKULS, MD, MSPH
Director, RA/DMARD Clinic
VA Medical Center
Associate Professor
Department of Medicine
Division of Rheumatology and Immunology
University of Nebraska Medical Center
Omaha, NE

ROBERT A. ORTMANN, MD
Chief, Rheumatology Division
Medicine Service
Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare Center
Associate Professor of Internal Medicine
Director , Division of Rheumatology
College of Medicine
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
Little Rock, AR

ANTHONY M. REGINATO, PhD, MD
Staff Physician
VA Medical Center
Director, Rheumatology Research and Musculoskeletal Ultrasound
University Medicine Foundation/RIH
Assistant Professor in Medicine
The Warren Alpert Medical School at Brown University
Providence, RI

ELIZABETH BARRETT RUSSELL, MD, FACP
Staff Physician
Rheumatology Division – Medicine Service
Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System
Associate Professor
Program Director – Rheumatology Fellowship
Division of Rheumatology
Department of Internal Medicine
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
Little Rock, AR