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Rutgers Center for State Health Policy/National Academy for State Health Policy Team

Robert Mollica, EdD

is the Senior Program Director for the National Academy for State Health Policy (NASHP) will co-lead the Rutgers CSHP team. NASHP is a non-profit, non-partisan organization directed by state leaders elected to guide NASHP's work to assure its policy relevance. NASHP has 14 years of experience working with state officials to help them develop innovative approaches to complex long-term care challenges. NASHP provides a unique forum for productive interchange across agencies. Each year, NASHP conducts policy research, primarily through case studies and surveys, provides technical assistance to states, and convenes meetings of experts from the public and private sectors. NASHP is frequently involved in state and national efforts to develop or improve long-term care services and delivery systems. In recent years, the organization has prepared a report to the National Governor's Association's Health Reform Task Force dealing with long-term care issues and conducted case studies in several states. Dr. Mollica, conducts health policy and long term care research. He also provides technical assistance to state health policy leaders on long-term care and assisted living. He is the Project Manager for NASHP's contract with the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, User Liaison Program to organize workshops and other activities to disseminate research addressing the priorities of state policymakers. He managed and co-authored five national studies on state assisted living policy and regulation. He is a consultant to the National Cooperative Bank Development Corporation "Coming Home" program and has prepared a policy manual for states on assisted living. He is also a consultant to the Balancing Long Term Care Systems Fellows program directed by Robert and Rosalie Kane at the University of Minnesota. He has also worked with states to examine their long-term care systems and describe options for state changes. Prior to joining the Academy, he held an appointment as the Assistant Secretary of Policy and Program Development in the Massachusetts Executive Office of Elder Affairs.

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Roger Auerbach, JD

is the President of Auerbach Consulting, Inc, Roger is the former Administrator of Oregon's Senior and Disabled Services Division responsible for managing all long-term care programs for older adults and adults with physical disabilities. He administered the Older Americans Act programs, as well as the Medicaid home and community-based care waiver program, all long-term care licensing and quality assurance and employment services for adults with disabilities. During his tenure as Administrator, he led work that dramatically increased community care and reduced institutional care, created a new consumer-controlled personal care option, developed employment programs for workers with disabilities and implemented numerous quality improvement initiatives.

Roger is also a Senior Consultant to The Lewin Group and specializes in the development and implementation of innovative systems to minimize institutional care.

He also served as Vice-Chair of the National Association of State Medicaid Directors, Chair of the Long-Term Care Workgroup and Executive Committee Liaison ands Interim Chair of the Long-Term Care Technical Advisory Group of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. He was 2nd Vice-President of the National Association of State Units on Aging and was Chair of its Health and Long-Term Care Committee.

Roger holds a J.D. degree from the Boston University School of Law.

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Michael Morris, JD

is the Director of the National Disability Institute at the National Cooperative Bank Development Corporation (NDI/NCBDC), has been providing expertise in a range of disability TA areas, including access to assistive technology, expanding housing options and enhancing asset development and financial services for persons with disabilities nationwide. Morris is the former national executive director of United Cerebral Palsy Associations, Inc. and currently co-directs part time the Research and Training Center on Workforce Investment and Employment Policy for Persons with Disabilities (RRTC) funded by NIDRR, U.S. Department of Education.

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Nirvana Huhtala Petlick

is the project assistant at Rutgers Center for State Health Policy for the Community Living Exchange Collaborative. She has worked at the Cancer Institute of New Jersey where she managed a research study on the impact of psychosocial factors in breast cancer screening and University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey School of Public Health where she worked as a field monitor for the NJ Youth Tobacco Survey.

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Jennifer Farnham, MS

is a Research Analyst at the Center for State Health Policy at Rutgers University, where she is working on the Community Living Exchange Collaborative. Prior to this, Ms. Farnham worked for a New Brunswick nonprofit on affordable housing issues. In Wisconsin, Ms. Farnham worked on a project researching lawyers' collaboration with nonlawyers providing services to low and moderate income people. She also worked on a project investigating economic strategies of non-metropolitan Wisconsin households.

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Leslie C. Hendrickson, Ph.D.

is a Visiting Professor at the Center for State Health Policy where he manages a long-term care technical assistance grant for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). He also manages other contracts with states for long-term care technical assistance. Dr. Hendrickson spent eleven years with Oregon Medicaid, first as the Senior Budget Analyst in the Medicaid Budget Office and then as a manager in the division responsible for the long-term care of seniors and persons with disabilities.

For five years, as an Assistant Commissioner in the New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services, he supervised a $1.5 billion nursing home reimbursement program and Medicaid waiver programs for seniors and persons with physical disabilities. For the last four years, he has consulted on state long-term care programs, Medicaid financial issues, and the mapping of age, income and health characteristics by geographical regions.

He has written Center reports about global budgeting in long term care, the cost effectiveness of nursing home transition programs, and the minimum data set (MDS).

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