The Bronstein Center for Healthy Aging and Wellness is proud to sponsor the Bronstein Keynote Speakers at the Mid-America Institute on Aging and Wellness (MAIA), an annual conference held at USI. MAIA is a two-day conference providing practical tools and ground-breaking information to enable the attendee to incorporate current guidelines and best practices in successful aging and wellness through interprofessional collaborative practice.
To advance the educational mission of the Bronstein Center, the Bronstein Keynote must be a content expert in the area of dementia or advance care planning (ACP).
Caption: Dr. Nadine Coudret, Dean Emerita of the College of Nursing and Health Professions, and Dr. Katie Ehlman, Director of the Bronstein Center for Healthy Aging and Wellness, welcomed the Bronstein Keynote, Dr. Gregory Jicha, at the 2022 Mid-America Institute on Aging and Wellness.
2024 Bronstein Keynote
Gary Small, MD
Gary Small, MD, is an internationally renowned psychiatrist and neuroscientist, and expert on brain aging, Alzheimer’s disease, and dementia prevention. He was professor of psychiatry and director of the UCLA Longevity Center until 2020, when he became chair of psychiatry at Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine and behavioral health physician-in-chief for Hackensack Meridian Health’s 19 hospitals and 500,000+ patients. His memory training and healthy aging lifestyle programs are available throughout the U.S., and he has been featured in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, London Times, Washington Post, Time Magazine, Newsweek, AARP Magazine, CNN, ABC Evening News, Good Morning America, and The Today Show. NJBIZ, New Jersey’s leading business journal, placed him among the top 50 health care influencers in the state, and Scientific American magazine named him one of the world’s top 50 innovators in science and technology.