Joyce Dubow

Joyce Dubow is Senior Advisor, AARP Office of Policy and Strategy.

 

Dubow has responsibility for a broad health portfolio related to AARP's health care reform initiatives, with a special focus private health plans in the Medicare program and health care quality.

 

Dubow is the chair of the Consensus Standards Approval Committee (CSAC) of the National Quality Forum; the coordinator of the consumer sector committee of the Institute of Medicine's Roundtable on Evidence Based Medicine; a member of the National Committee for Quality Assurance's Committee on Physician Programs and its Measurement Panel on Geriatrics; the Technical Advisory Committee for Implementation of Ambulatory Care CAHPS; the Public Advisory Group on Health Care Quality of the Joint Commission; the National Committee on Evidence-based Benefit Design of the National Business Group on Health; and the National Advisory Board of the Practice Change Fellows Program.

 

She also participates in activities of the Hospital Quality Alliance and the AQA as well as other ad hoc groups focusing on health care quality and consumer decision making.

 

In a "former life," Dubow was the executive vice-president of the Georgetown University Community Health Plan, a university-sponsored prepaid group practice plan. She was also the Director of Policy and Legislation in the federal Office of Health Maintenance Organizations.

 

Dubow holds a B.A. in political science from the University of Michigan and a master's in urban planning from Hunter College of the University of the City of New York.

 

Dr. G. Paul Eleazer

Dr. G. Paul Eleazer directs the Division of Geriatrics at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine, and the University of South Carolina School of Medicine-Palmetto Health Geriatrics Fellowship Program.

 

An internal medicine professor in the School of Medicine, Dr. Eleazer is also the project director of the South Carolina Center for Older Adult Independence—a South Carolina Center of Economic Excellence that focuses on multidisciplinary research to foster independence in older seniors. (Learn more)

 

After operating his own private practice in Kentucky, he held positions as co-medical director of the Lowman Nursing Home Center, director of the James F. Byrnes Center for Geriatric Medical Education and Research, medical director of Palmetto Richland Memorial Hospital/Palmetto Senior Care, and director of professional services for C.M. Tucker, Jr. Human Resources Center.

 

An alumnus of the University of South Carolina and the Medical University of South Carolina, Dr. Eleazer was appointed to the faculty at the School of Medicine in 1988.

 

Dr. Eleazer's innvoative Senior Mentor Program, which matches senior citizens with medical students, has been featured on CBS-TV's "Evening News" and in Parade magazine.

 

Dr. Patrick Hickey

Dr. Patrick Hickey is a clinical assistant professor in the University's College of Nursing.

 

He had a Kellogg Foundation Fellowship in international development through Partners of the Americas and did extensive humanitarian work in the Caribbean and Latin America. He has served on the National Board of Directors for the Association of periOperative Registered Nurses and continues to be involved with its workplace safety committee.

 

Dr. Hickey, however, is probably best known at the University and across the country as the first nurse in the world to climb the Seven Summits. A registered nurse, he realized that the lack of scholarship monies was discouraging the brightest and most talented students from considering South Carolina as their academic destination.

 

His personal challenge to stand atop the apexes turned into a fundraising challenge to friends of the University to give $1 for each of the 29,000 feet he climbed to reach the top of Mount Everest. Dr. Hickey made it to the top in May 2007, but the dollar goal has not yet been achieved.

 

Once the goal is reached an annual scholarship will be established in the College of Nursing. (Learn more)