PARTICIPATING EXPERTS

Participating Experts

Ira Stewart Wiesner, Attorney at Law

Nationally recognized elder law attorney, former President of the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys

www.wiesnerlaw.com

Linda Cramer, MHA, CMC

President of Florida Geriatric Care Managers Association, Inc. Expert on the training and preparation of caregivers for the elderly

http://www.fgcma.org/

Richard E. Goble, CPA

Forensic Accountant at Kerkering, Barberio & Co.
Expert on elder financial exploitation/white collar crime

http://www.kbgrp.com/index.cfm

Kathleen J. Houseweart, MBA

Administrator of Geriatric Services & Coordinator Memory Disorder Clinic - Sarasota Memorial Health Care System
Expert on Alzheimer’s, dementia, and other forms of geriatric cognitive impairment

http://www.smh.com/p.aspx?p=106

Kathy Black, PhD

Geriatric Social Worker & Associate Professor at University of South Florida, Sarasota-Manatee, College of Arts and Sciences.
End of Life Planning/Advance Directives, decision-making issues older adults face mentally, cognitively, emotionally, spiritually, practically, etc.

http://www.sarasota.usf.edu/academics/CAS/faculty/black.php

The Honorable Kim R. Hubbard

A thirty-plus year veteran expert on elder law, particularly on
financial abuse of elders, she has taught and testified nationally
on the subject. In the four years preceding her appointment to the
bench, she worked almost entirely as a consultant and head of a
non-profit organization whose mission was to battle financial
elder abuse.