Professional Training

Join the National Dementia Care Collaborative (NDCC) for a free virtual event that will share key lessons and strategies to support comprehensive dementia care implementation. The event will be hosted by NDCC and is made possible by the generous support of The John A. Hartford Foundation.

During the event, speakers from UCLA and Oschner Health will provide insight into building and sharing the value for dementia programs.

David Reuben, MD Dr. Reuben is an Archstone Professor at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and is Director of the UCLA Alzheimer’s and Dementia Care Program and the UCLA Medicare & Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) program.  In 2012, Dr. Reuben received one of the first CMMI Innovations Challenge awards to develop a model program to provide comprehensive, coordinated care for patients with dementia.

Lynn Spragens, MBA Lynn is the president of Spragens & Associates, LLC, and has more than thirty years of experience as a business consultant partnering with clinical innovators in health care with a focus on Geriatrics and Palliative Care. Ms. Spragens has provided strategic planning support to geriatric initiatives such as CAPABLE, Hospital at Home, NICHE, HELP, GRACE, and the Medicare Innovations Collaborative (Med-IC), as well as several nursing home quality initiatives. She has worked closely with UCLA and the ADC model for more than 7 years.

John Sawyer, II, PhD, ABPP-CN Dr. Sawyer is the Medical Director of Neuroscience Value at Ochsner Health. In this role he helps develop, measure, and scale value-based care programs. Specific to value-based care and dementia, he has been particularly focused on helping health systems rethink the business case around dementia care. This work has helped health systems understand the financial mechanisms to create and sustain critically needed dementia care programs. He is a co-investigator in a NIH/NIA national consortium study of dementia care management led by UCSF. He was recently asked to chair the Alzheimer’s Association newly formed workgroup focused on the business case for care navigation.

You are welcomed and invited to attend the PEACE 2025 virtual Munch and Learn Series beginning June 19^th  12:00- 1:00 PM  HST with an interactive case-based presentation on Medical Ethics by Jennifer Kwok LCSW and Alan Gamble LCSW.

The PEACE (Program, Promoting Engagement, Aloha, & Compassion in the Everyday Care of People Facing Serious Illness) is a continuing training series for social workers, and others, who are interested in developing their knowledge, understanding and skills working with individuals and families who are experiencing serious illness. This includes a focus on the unique contributions that professional social workers provide on the interdisciplinary team.  

This training is provided by Hui Pohala, Social Work Special Interest Group and co-sponsored by Hawaii Pacific Health.  This training is at no cost to participants.