Michigan Dementia Coalition

Alice Frame is the Program Coordinator for the Disability Health Unit at the Michigan Department of Health & Human Services.

Alzheimer’s Association Michigan Chapter is able to speak throughout Michigan on a variety of subjects related to Alzheimer’s disease.

Dr. Amanda Leggett is an Associate Professor in the Institute of Gerontology and Department of Psychology at Wayne State University, Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Michigan, and Co-Chair of the Michigan Dementia Coalition

Dr. Beth Nolan is Director of Research and Policy for Positive Approach to Care.

Dr. Carol Robinson is a Certified Hospice and Palliative Nurse (CHPN), serves on the Area Agency on Aging of Western Michigan’s Caregiver Resource Network, and owns So We May Know, LLC

Christina Wall is an End of Life Doula, hospice volunteer, and professor at Eastern Michigan University.

Dr. Courtney Polenick is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Michigan Medical School and Faculty Associate in the Aging & Biopsychosocial Innovations Program of the Survey Research Center at the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research.

Dr. Fei Sun is a Professor at the School of Social Work at Michigan State University, a National Health & Policy Aging Fellow, and a member of the MDC Steering Committee.

Dr. Irving Vega is an Associate Professor of Translational Neuroscience at the Michigan State University College of Human Medicine, on the faculty of the Michigan Alzheimer’s Disease Research Core and Michigan Center for Contextual Factors in Alzheimer’s Disease, and a member of the MDC Steering Committee. Dr. Vega gives seminars in English and Spanish.

James Mangi is a retired scientist, long -time care partner for his wife, Co-Chair of Dementia Friendly Services, and a member of the MDC Steering Committee.

Dr. Kristine Ajrouch is Director of the Michigan Center for Contextual Factors in Alzheimer’s Disease at the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research and a member of the MDC Steering Committee.

Leslie Dubin is a Geriatric Social Worker with the University of Michigan Health System, and Adjunct Lecturer at the University of Michigan School of Social Work.

Lynn Breuer is the Senior Director of Community Outreach & Wellness for Jewish Family Service of Metropolitan Detroit.

Martha York is the Community Education Coordinator for Region 2 Area Agency on Aging.

The National Council of Dementia Minds is a Michigan-based nonprofit led by persons living with dementia. Members are available to speak with audiences of persons living with dementia, health care professionals, researchers, families and care partners, policymakers, and communities at large.