Maryland Commission on Aging Members
Rose Maria Li, Chair
Rose is President and CEO of Rose Li and Associates (RLA), a science management and research administration firm dedicated to moving science forward in service of humanity. She is Principal Investigator of a grant from the National Institute on Aging (NIA) to serve as the Coordinating Center for the NIA Artificial Intelligence and Technology Collaboratories (AITC) for Aging Research, and also holds a visiting researcher appointment at Georgetown University’s Center for Population and Health. Prior to this, Rose held leadership positions at the National Institutes of Health, including Special Assistant for Policy Development with the Office of Communications and Public Liaison; Chief, Population and Social Processes Branch in the Behavioral and Social Research Division of the NIA; Senior Policy Advisor to the Office of Extramural Research; and as a program official with the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. Dr. Li earned her BA and MBA from the University of Chicago, PhD in Public and International Affairs from Princeton University, and conducted postdoctoral research on aging in Asia at the University of Michigan. She has chaired the Maryland Commission on Aging since 2016, and also served on the Maryland State Board of Education from November 2016 through June 2021; both Governor-appointed positions. She is past president of the Association of Princeton Graduate Alumni, co-chair of the Asian American Alumni Association of Princeton-DC Region, and President of the Li Educational Foundation, a family foundation that seeks to promote, advance, and develop Chinese history, culture, and education.
Mae Beale
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Paula Blackwell
Paula Blackwell, MBA, MHA has more than 20 years of experience developing and leading health and human service programs throughout the region. She is the Executive Director of the Central Maryland Health Education Center. She is also a principal consultant at Elevated Channels providing project management oversight and program development for non-profits throughout the mid-Atlantic. Prior to her position at Central Maryland AHEC, Ms. Blackwell held several positions with Foreign-Born Information and Referral Network (FIRN) including Program Director for Health Education and Promotion. She has also held positions at Bon Secours Health System and the African American Health Alert. Ms. Blackwell is the founder and president-emeritus of her family’s foundation, Another Opportunity, Inc., which coaches and mentors young African American men and each year pays tuition for at least two community college students who are otherwise unable to secure financial aid. She is VP of the board of Just Living Advocacy. In addition she hand serves on the University of Maryland Baltimore Master of Public Health Advisory Committee and the Johns Hopkins University Center to Reduce Cancer Disparities Advisory Committee. She is the proud mother of three children and spends time away from professional commitments enjoying activities with her children and grandchildren.
John G. Haaga
John Haaga retired at the end of 2019 from the National Institute on Aging, part of the National Institutes of Health, where he had been Director of the Division of Behavioral and Social Research. This division funds research on aging and health, including health disparities at older ages and long-term supports and services for the disabled elderly. He had previously served as Director of Domestic Programs at the Population Reference Bureau, a nonprofit research and education organization, and staff director for the Committee on Population of the National Academy of Sciences. In previous jobs he worked on maternal and child health programs and substance abuse policy in the US, Bangladesh, Malaysia and several African countries, for the RAND Corporation and the Population Council. His degrees were awarded by Oxford University, the Johns Hopkins University, and the RAND Graduate School. He has taught at the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland and Georgetown University, and lectured in the OASIS Lifelong Adventure program. John and his wife Elin raised three children in Montgomery County, and now divide their time between homes in Washington and Montgomery counties, and grandchild care in Baltimore.
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Rosanne Buckley Hanratty
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Delegate Terri L. Hill, M.D.
A distinguished surgeon and community leader, Dr. Terri L. Hill was born in Pennsylvania and raised in Columbia, Maryland. She earned her A.B. in bioelectric engineering from Harvard University and her M.D. from Columbia University, later completing a fellowship in craniofacial surgery at the University of Miami. Since 1991, she has maintained a successful solo medical practice and serves as the Medical Director of Visage Rejuvenation Spa. Her clinical expertise is matched by her global humanitarian work as a mission surgeon for Operation Smile, providing reconstructive surgery to children in Venezuela and China. Beyond her medical career, Dr. Hill is a dedicated public servant and advocate. A founding member of the National Congress of Black Women (Howard County) and the Thurgood Marshall Democratic Club, she has been recognized with numerous honors, including the Howard County Women’s Hall of Fame and "Legislator of the Year" awards from MedChi and the Maryland Association of Eye Physicians. An active member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority and St. Bernadine Roman Catholic Church, she continues to blend her professional background in healthcare with a deep commitment to community leadership and legislative advocacy.
Senator Benjamin F. Kramer
Senator Benjamin F. Kramer has dedicated nearly two decades to serving Montgomery County in the Maryland General Assembly. After twelve years in the House of Delegates focusing on economic matters and consumer protection, he was elected to the Maryland Senate in 2018. A Wheaton native and University of Maryland alumnus, Senator Kramer brings his experience as a small business owner to his current roles as Deputy Majority Whip and a key member of the Senate Finance Committee, where he also chairs the Joint Committee on Unemployment Insurance Oversight. Throughout his career, Senator Kramer has been a steadfast advocate for public safety and vulnerable populations, earning "Legislator of the Year" honors from Mothers Against Drunk Driving. His commitment to community welfare is further reflected in his service on the Maryland Commission on Aging since 2019 and his active involvement in the Maryland Veterans, Latino, and Jewish Caucuses. Whether addressing energy transition or cannabis public health, Senator Kramer remains a prominent voice for fiscal responsibility and social advocacy in Maryland.
Barry Liden, JD
Barry Liden is Director of Public Policy for the University of Southern California (USC) Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics, helping measurably improve value in health through evidence-based policy solutions, research excellence, and private and public-sector engagement. Before joining USC in 2022, Liden served as a medical device industry executive at Edwards Lifesciences for almost two decades. His career there culminated as Vice President of Patient Engagement where he created a new function to engage with, learn from and empower patients to improve the healthcare experience. Liden joined Edwards in 2002 as Director of Global Communications, and served in several public affairs positions, including Vice President of Government Affairs. Liden is also Founder and Managing Advisor of Patient Voice Advisors, a resource hub for organizations seeking to empower patients’ perspectives throughout all phases of health technology innovation. For more than three decades, Liden has integrated public policy, government relations, public relations and crisis management practices to provide strategic solutions to unique challenges. His passion is to bring novel approaches that can improve the lives of everyone in this global community. He currently serves as a Member of the Maryland Commission on Aging, serves as chair-emeritus in the Medical Device Innovation Consortium’s patient-focused working groups, and serves on the Health Technology Assessment International’s (HTAi) Patient and Community Involvement Working Group Steering Committee. Liden has a bachelor of science in public administration from the University of Southern California, and a juris doctor from Loyola Law School of Los Angeles. He lives in Garrett Park, Maryland.
Darlene Palmer
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George W. Rebok
George has a BA in Psychology from Muhlenberg College and MA and PhD in Life-Span Developmental Psychology with a specialization in Gerontology from Syracuse University. George did his post-doctoral training in the Dementias of Aging at Johns Hopkins University. He is currently a Professor in the Department of Mental Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and holds joint faculty appointments in the Center on Aging and Health, and the Center on Innovative Care in Aging. George has over 35 years of experience in life-course developmental research and cognitive aging. His research has included studies on cognitive training interventions with the elderly, and the effects of aging and dementia on driving and other everyday life tasks. George has served as the Principal Investigator for two large intervention trials funded by the National Institute on Aging – the ACTIVE trial and the Baltimore Experience Corps® trial. He is a Fellow of the Gerontological Society of America, American Psychological Association, and Association for Psychological Science.
David Roth
David Roth is a Professor in the Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Since 2012, he has served as the Director of the interdisciplinary Center on Aging and Health at Johns Hopkins University. He has over 30 years of experience as a researcher on aging and the psychosocial determinants of health for older adults. He is an accomplished scholar and a co-author on over 200 published, data-based research papers. He has specific interests in the psychological and social effects of chronic health problems for older adults and for their family caregivers. Some of his most recent work is focused on identifying from national epidemiological studies the health benefits of volunteering and from serving as a family caregiver. Prior to joining the faculty at Johns Hopkins, he received a bachelor’s degree in Mathematics from the University of North Dakota, a Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Kansas, and served as a Professor of Biostatistics in the School of Public Health at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
Allen Tien, MD, MHS
Allen Tien is President and Chief Science Officer of Medical Decision Logic, Inc. (“mdlogix”). Allen has spent his entire career dedicated to advancing healthcare and prevention. As well as being a Board-Certified psychiatrist, Allen is knowledgeable about epidemiology, biostatistics, social network science, computational semantics, and software architecture. As faculty in the Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health Department of Mental Hygiene and School of Medicine Department of Psychiatry from 1988 to 1997, his research spanned public mental health epidemiology, services, and prevention, and clinical neuroscience, and he initiated and taught a key course on multi-level life-course etiologic models of mental disorders. In 1997, Allen founded mdlogix to develop organized software tools that bring science and practice together to provide policy makers, scientists, managers, clinicians, and patients with the information technologies, tools, practices, and knowledge they need to improve health outcomes. He has provided vision for and overseen establishment of a systematic user-centered software innovation process that effectively, efficiently, and reliably solves problems for people in different roles in diverse healthcare, education, employment settings, and associated government agencies. Allen is successful in translating science into practice, contributing significantly to developments in the field of health sciences informatics, including innovations in clinical research, team workflow automation, and behavioral health screening and integration. He has received over 30 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and other grants and contracts from the National Institutes of Health, Department of Defense, and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, with several currently underway, and continues to partner with academic colleagues in their research funding, programs, and resultant peer-review publications. Allen is an author of 50 publications in the fields of clinical psychiatry, public mental health, and health sciences informatics. He earned his medical degree from Ohio State University College of Medicine and his Masters in Health Science from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He lives in Towson, Maryland with his wife and three sons.
Diane Ty
Diane Ty is a director at the Milken Institute Center for the Future of Aging and leads its Alliance to Improve Dementia Care. She is a senior advisor at Georgetown University’s Business for Impact at the McDonough School of Business. For Georgetown University, she has led multiple consulting engagements in health and financial security and architected the Center’s AgingWell Hub and Portion Balance Coalition, both multisector collaboratives addressing the needs of older adults and the obesity epidemic, respectively. Ty has led marketing and business development programs for Service Year Alliance, Generations United, and the Silicon Valley startup Super. She was senior vice president of strategic market development at AARP, leading the organization’s under-50/Millennial strategy, recognized with a gold-level International Design Excellence Award in the design strategy category. Ty also led the development of AARP’s Social Security and retirement calculators. As vice president of strategic alliances at AARP Services, she designed and negotiated cross-organizational corporate partnerships. As managing director of US Programs, Ty led Save the Children’s Millennial-focused work and spearheaded the Effie-winner and Emmy-nominated Ad Council campaign “Do Good: Mentor A Child.” Before her nonprofit work, Ty was a vice president at American Express Company, where she held several marketing positions over her 10-plus-year tenure. Ty earned her undergraduate degree from Duke University and, as a Lauder Institute fellow, received a joint MBA/MA from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business and School of Arts and Sciences. Ty’s volunteer roles include serving on Capital Caring Health and Youth Movement Against Alzheimer’s boards and serving on the Maryland State Commission on Aging, an appointment by Governor Larry Hogan.