Susan W. Fox, Ph.D.
Dr. Fox is the President and CEO of the Westchester Institute on Human Development and Director of the Center for Disability and Health at NYMC. Previously, she served as Associate Director of the Institute on Disability and Co-Director of the Center on Aging and Community Living at UNH. She holds master's and doctorate degrees in Sociology from UNH and a Master of Educational Leadership from Lesley University. Her doctoral work focused on the experience of family caregivers of older adults. A key aspect of her lifelong work has been the development of person-centered home and community-based services for older adults and adults with disabilities to prevent unnecessary institutionalization and to support all citizens to live within their home communities. She serves as a peer reviewer for the American Journal on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities. She is the recipient of numerous awards including the Easter Seals NH Service Award, the Granite State Independent Living Community Partner Award, and the Community Resources for Justice Community Hero award.
Melissa Lang, Dr.P.H., M.P.H., M.P.A., M.A.,
Dr. Lang is the CEO at the Agency on Aging of South Central Connecticut which serves as both an access agency for Medicaid waiver programs and a designated Area Agency on Aging to provide services to older adults and their caregivers to help them remain at home. Dr. Lang’s background includes a range of experience in community-based health services, including hospice and palliative care, long-term care and disabilities, cancer care, and aging services. She actively engages in advocacy and policy development on issues related to Medicaid and Medicare, family caregiving, end-of-life care, access to healthcare, and medical ethics. Committed to the dual focus of quality of care and quality of life affecting older adults, she serves on several boards and ethics committees in both NY and CT, including as President at the State Society on Aging NY; Vice Chair, Westchester Collaborative for Palliative Care, The Center for Aging in Place Board of Directors, and Co-Chair, Cancer Committee, Center for Community Engagement and Health Equity, Yale New Haven Health. Dr. Lang is co-author of the book, A Public Health Strategy for Living, Aging and Dying: Designing Elder-Centered and Palliative Systems of Care, Environments, Services and Supports (Routledge, 2018). She received her doctorate in Public Health from New York Medical College, Master in Public Health and Master in Public Administration degrees from Columbia University, and holds advanced certificates and training in bioethics and clinical ethics consultation from Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Columbia University.
Carol Levine, M.A.
Ms. Levine is a Senior Fellow at the United Hospital Fund and former Director of the Fund's Families and Health Care Project, which focuses on developing partnerships between health care professionals and family caregivers, especially during transitions in health care settings. Before joining the Fund in 1996, she directed the Citizens Commission on AIDS in New York City from 1987 to 1991, and The Orphan Project, which she founded, from 1991 to 1996. As a senior staff associate of The Hastings Center, she edited the Hastings Center Report. Ms. Levine is the editor of Always on Call: When Illness Turns Families into Caregivers (2nd ed., Vanderbilt University Press, 2004); co-editor (with Thomas H. Murray) of The Cultures of Caregiving: Conflict and Common Ground Among Families, Health Professionals and Policy Makers (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004); and editor of Living in the Land of Limbo: Fiction and Poetry about Family Caregiving (Vanderbilt University Press, 2014). In 1993, Ms. Levine was awarded a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship for her work in AIDS policy and ethics. She was named a WebMD Health Hero in 2007. Ms. Levine was named one of the Top 50 "2016 Influencers in Aging" by Next Avenue, a digital publication dedicated to covering issues for people 50 and older. In 2018, Ms. Levine received the Friends of the National Library of Medicine Donald A. B. Lindberg Award for excellence in health communication. Navigating Your Later Years for Dummies by Ms. Levine and AARP was published in September 2018 (Wiley).
Past Members
The Center for Long-Term Care is grateful to the following individuals for their past service as members of our Advisory Board: Annette Choolfaian, R.N., M.P.A.; Penny Hollander Feldman, Ph.D.; David Grabowski, Ph.D.; Bruce Jennings, M.A.; Elliott Klein, M.B.A.; James W. Lytle, J.D.; Edward Allen Miller, Ph.D., M.P.A.; Michael N. Rosenblut, M.B.A., LNHA, CASP; Marsha Mailick Seltzer, Ph.D.; and Michael J. Majsak, PT, Ed.D.