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WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 22 2014 BRINGING CARING AND DIGNITY TO OLDER NEW YORKERS SINCE 1966 2014 Recognition Dinner October 22 2014 Programme Host Rita Cosby Emmy award-winning TV and radio host bestselling author and CBS Inside Edition special correspondent Welcome EvEnt CommittEE Co-Chair Eva-Maria Tausig Board President remarks Michael F.Tietz sPecial Performance Arts in Action String Quartet Fiorello H. Laguardia High School of Music and Art and Performing Arts keynote sPeaker Jonathan Bowles Executive Director Center for an Urban Future Presentation of aWards leo and Julia forcHHeimer foundation lifetime acHievement aWard Presented by Event Committee Co-Chair Dr.Adi Loebl to Dr. Gary J. Kennedy margaret tietz leadersHiP aWard Presented by Dr. Gary J. Kennedy to Drs. Melinda S. Lantz and Alessandra Scalmati executive director remarks Tanya Figelman community service aWard Presented by NewYork City Councilman Hon. Rory Lancman to Margaret Tietz Nursing Rehabilitation Center A Member Of CenterLight Health System NYFE 2014 Recognition Dinner EVENT COMMITTEE Eva-Maria Tausig CO-CHAIR Adi Loebl M.D. CO-CHAIR Anthony Auliano Eric Buchalter M.D. David Hammerman M.D. Jenny Kennedy Lissette Leon M.D. Yoel Lichstein Paula Marcus M.D. Marcy Mostel M.D. Masha Pearl Yolonda Pickett M.D. Elie Rubinstein Elizabeth Scheines Linda Spiegel Michael F.Tietz DIRECTORS Michael F.Tietz PRESIDENT Ron Elton Michael D. Lissner Masha Pearl Elie Rubinstein Eva-Maria Tausig Tanya Figelman EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR NYFE 2014 Recognition Dinner Dear Friends We are honored to welcome you to the New York Foundation for Eldercares 2014 Recognition Dinner. Tonight we celebrate the 25th anniversary of a pioneering geriatric psychiatry training program a collaboration of Montefiore Medical Center and Albert Einstein College of Medicine with Margaret Tietz Nursing and Rehabilitation Center supported by the NewYork Foundation for Eldercare. The goals of this event are twofold to recognize the leadership of Dr. Gary J. Kennedy and the contributions of two alumnae fellows Dr. Melinda S. Lantz and Dr. Alessandra Scalmati to the field of clinical geriatric psychiatric education and to recognize the Margaret Tietz Nursing and Rehabilitation Center for its ongoing relationship and management of the geriatric psychiatry training program and to raise funds to support additional programs benefiting NewYork City seniors. Your dedication to serving geriatric patients and their families may well have been influenced by your work with our honorees either as a fellow or a colleague. We appreciate your contribution to the Foundation and your presence as we honor them. The New York Foundation for Eldercare NYFE is a unique nonprofit organization that supports the elderly population and Holocaust survivors in the New York metropolitan area especially those residing in nursing homes or other long-term care institutions. Our mission is dedicated to helping seniors enjoy healthier safer more productive and dignified lives. In addition to supporting the collaborative geriatric psychiatry training program NYFE also funds a variety of other programs that provide targeted services for the elderly bringing caring and dignity to older New Yorkers since 1966. A special thanks to our Benefit Committee Co-chairs Eva-Maria Tausig and Dr.Adi Loebl and to all the Event Committee members. On behalf of NYFE we would like to express our deepest gratitude to Jonathan Bowles Rita Cosby and Arts in Action at LaGuardia High School for their contributions to this memorable evening. Michael F.Tietz Tanya Figelman President Executive Director NYFE 2014 Recognition Dinner Jonathan Bowles Jonathan Bowles is Executive Director of the Center for an Urban Future a Manhattan-based think tank that shines a light on the key opportunities and challenges facing New York with a focus on growing and diversifying the citys economy and expanding economic opportunity. During his 15 years at the Center he has been the architect of the Centers policy agenda and is responsible for making it one of NewYorks most innovative and influential organizations. Jonathan has authored and edited more than three-dozen policy reports including New Tech City a widely-heralded study about New York Citys growing start-up tech scene A World of Opportunity about the powerful role of immigrant entrepreneurs in New Yorks economy Branches of Opportunity about the still critical role of the citys public libraries and The New Face of New Yorks Seniors about the rapid growth of older immigrants across the five boroughs.He has also written about the economic importance of NewYorks design industriesthe need to address the skills gap the challenges facing NewYorks middle class and how to better harness the economic potential of NewYorks academic research institutions. He lives in Queens with his wife and his two children. KEYNOTE SPEAKER NYFE 2014 Recognition Dinner THE LEO AND JULIA FORCHHEIMER FOUNDATION LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD The Leo and Julia Forchheimer Foundation the Foundation was established in 1959 to support educational religious and health care-related programs both in the United States and in Israel. It was established by Leo Forchheimera successful businessmanwho had many philanthropic interests the Foundation is named for him and his wife Julia. It has supported programs at institutions such as Albert Einstein College of Medicine Montefiore Medical CenterYeshiva University the Center for Jewish History Shaare Zedek Medical Center in JerusalemHadassah Hospital and the MargaretTietz Nursing and Rehabilitation Center. Members of the Forchheimer family have served on the board of the Foundation and have also served on boards of institutions receiving grants from the Foundation. The Foundation has had a long connection with both the Margaret Tietz Center and the New York Foundation for Eldercare. In 1971The Foundation was instrumental in founding a nursing home which eventually became the Margaret Tietz Center in Jamaica Hills Queens. One of the Foundations trustees was closely involved in the operations of the nursing home and was aware of the increasing need for training and support for geriatric medicine. To that end the Foundation made grants to the New York Foundation for Eldercare in 1982 and 1992 to establish fellowships in geriatric medicine and to fund a unique collaborative geriatric psychiatry program involving professionals from the Montefiore Medical Center and the Margaret Tietz Center. At the time this was a most unusual program with its hands-on geriatric training program in a nursing home setting. Unique to the program is the opportunity for a patient of the MargaretTietz Center to be seen by Geriatric-Psychiatry Program Fellows for purposes of behavioral management psychosocial interventions medication review and recommendations for continued plans of care. The multi-disciplinary sessions have yielded remarkable insights into patient personalities attitudes and care that have had a resounding impact for individual patients and for the participating fellows in geriatric psychiatry. More than 60 Program Fellows have rotated through the program over its 25-year history and many of them are now leaders in geriatrics. NYFE 2014 Recognition Dinner Gary J. Kennedy M.D. Dr. Kennedy is Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science and Director Division of Geriatric Psychiatry and Fellowship Training Program Montefiore Medical Center Albert Einstein College of Medicine. More than sixty psychiatrists with subspecialty training in geriatrics have graduated from the program.The training program is closely allied with Montefiores Geriatric Medicine Fellowship Training Program with shared responsibilities in clinical services case conferences journal clubs and research. He has authored numerous publications on late life mental health and has given a number of invited presentations to educational scientific and public policy organizations in the United States and abroad. His research has focused on cardiac arrhythmias the epidemiology of depression and dementiamental health care in nursing homesprimary care sites and in the community and novel communications approaches between health care providers. He has served as a consultant to the NewYork State Commission on Life and the Law regarding physician-assisted suicide and to the Law Revision Commission regarding guardianship procedures in NewYork States mental health law. He is a Fellow of the Brookdale Center on Aging of Hunter CollegeThe New York Academy of Medicine The American Psychiatric Association and a member of the Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry. He has received a New Investigator Award from the National Institute of Health a travel study fellowship to Israel and the United Kingdom from the United States World Health Organization an Archstone Award for Program Innovation from the American Public Health AssociationAnnual Exemplary Psychiatrists Award National Alliance for the Mentally Ill. The American Journal of Nursing cited his Geriatric Mental Health Care published in 2000 as one of the best books of the year on gerontology. He was also the 2005-2007 chair of the Geriatric Mental Health Foundation a Washington based 501c3 group advocating for the mental health and well being of senior Americans. Since 1992 he has been listed as one of The Best Doctors in America. He has appeared on National Public Radio the Today Show with Katie Couric and ABCsWorld NewsTonight. Born in Dallas Dr. Kennedy is an alumnus of the University of Texas in Austin and the University ofTexas Health Science Center in San Antonio. RECIPIENT OF THE LEO JULIA FORCHHEIMER FOUNDATION LIFE TIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD NYFE 2014 Recognition Dinner MARGARET TIETZ LEADERSHIP AWARD MargaretTietz was a well-known much beloved and influential person in the social work field first in her native Germany and then in the United States after the Second World War. She began her volunteer work in 1912 with social welfare organizations in Cologne Germany by teaching underprivileged children. During World War Ishe served with an organization that provided Jewish nurses to hospitalsco- founded an organization providing homemaker servicesand worked with the Cologne administrator of social work. Soon after Hitlers rise to power in 1933Margaret and her family were forced to leave Germany and settled in Holland. She immediately became active in refugee and social work organizations helping other refugees and emigrs fleeing Nazi persecution. Margaret and her family emigrated to Palestine in early 1940 and settled in Jerusalem where she continued to aid refugees. She emigrated to the United States in 1947.Her already-formidable reputation preceded her and she became the administrator of Newark House an old age cooperative home located in Newark New Jersey. Her goal for Newark House residents was to make their life worthwhile not just breathing from morning til evening and evening to morning and stressing the need to be active and involved in cultural and educational activities throughout their lives. She lived those ideals in her own life and continued to champion social causes until her death in 1972. Margaret actively served as Board Member in many social welfare organizations including SelfHelpAmerican Federation of Jews from Central Europeand the New York Foundation for Nursing Homes now the New York Foundation for Eldercare.She also became involved in developing a new nursing home in Queenswhich was renamed in her honor in 1975.The MargaretTietz Center for Nursing Care is esteemed for its personal and compassionate care of residents and as a special home for Holocaust survivors and Nazi persecutees. Margaret Tietzs vision continues to inspire the New York Foundation for Eldercare to this dayenergizing us to meet the needs of our elderly population. NYFE 2014 Recognition Dinner Alessandra Scalmati M.D. PhD Dr. Alessandra Scalmati is Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx NY where she is Associate Director of the Fellowship in Geriatric Psychiatry. Dr.Scalmati was born in Italywhere she received an MD PhD from the University of Modena. She came to New York to work as a Post Doctoral Fellow at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. She completed a residency training in General Psychiatry at Montefiore Medical Center plus one year as Administrative Chief Resident both at Montefiore Medical Center. Afterwards she completed one year fellowship training in Geriatric Psychiatry under the supervision of Dr. Gary Kennedy. Since her fellowship Dr Scalmati has joined the faculty of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at The Albert Einstein College of Medicine where she teaches supervises maintains an active practice and is engaged in research. Dr. Scalmatis areas of interest are elder mistreatment long term effects of trauma psychiatric care of Holocaust Survivors andVicarious Traumatization of staff. Her work has been presented at local and national workshops and conferences. RECIPIENTS OF THE MARGARET TIETZ LEADERSHIP AWARD Melinda S. Lantz M.D. Dr. Lantz is the Chief of Geriatric Psychiatry and Training Director of the Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship Program at Mount Sinai Beth Israel Medical Center. She is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Prior to joining Mount Sinai Beth Israel Dr. Lantz served as Director of Psychiatry for The Jewish Home Lifecare System. Dr.Lantz completed her residency in Psychiatry at Long Island Jewish Hillside Medical Center. She completed a Fellowship in Geriatric Psychiatry at Montefiore Medical Center under the supervision of Dr. Gary Kennedy. Dr. Lantz serves on the Board of Directors and as SecretaryTreasurer for the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry. She also serves on the Editorial Board of Clinical Geriatrics and the Journal of Long Term Care. Dr. Lantz is active in teaching medical students residents and fellows and has a special interest in behavioral interventions for dementia care. She is the author of numerous publications and presentations in the area of dementia care and treatment of late life mental illness. NYFE 2014 Recognition Dinner MargaretTietz Nursing and Rehabilitation Centera member of CenterLight Health System is a 200 bed not- for -profit health care facility providing short-term rehabilitation and long-term care as well as inpatient hospice and complex clinical care. Established in 1971 for the care of Holocaust Survivors the Tietz Center has grown and evolved to become the premier teaching health care facility in the borough of Queens. Margaret Tietz Center is situated in the most diverse borough in the nation and is proud to continue to serve the needs of people from a variety of ethnicities and backgrounds.The staff is a reflection of the borough as well with employees from a host of countries cultures and backgrounds. This diversity makes the Tietz Center a very unique and welcoming facility. In recent years with the support of the CenterLight Health System the Tietz Center has become a fully Glatt kosher facility under the Supervision of the Vaad Harobonim of Queens with all the amenities in place for the comfort of members of the observant Jewish community. The kosher kitchen a full time Rabbi Shabbos entry doors Shabbos elevatorand Religious Services held dailyas well as special holiday services have made the Tietz Center unique for the entirety of the Jewish community and is credited with the revitalization and increase of those served including Holocaust Survivors. The Tietz Center has also become a draw for new Jewish communities outside the borough of Queens. RECIPIENT OF COMMUNITY SERVICE AWARD NYFE 2014 Recognition Dinner T H E C I T Y O F N E W Y O R K O F F I C E O F T H E M A Y O R N E W Y O R K N Y 1 0 0 0 7 October 22 2014 Dear Friends It is a great pleasure to welcome everyone to the New York Foundation for ElderCares 2014 Recognition Dinner. With our citys senior population predicted to increase significantly over the next few decades it is imperative that we take steps to ensure we can offer quality affordable services to all older New Yorkers. In our efforts to provide our seniors with housing care and compassion we are grateful for the work of the New York Foundation for ElderCare. By offering grants to organizations serving older individuals funding programs that provide training in geriatric medicine to healthcare professionals and raising awareness about the importance of increased advocacy efforts the Foundation is laying the groundwork for a brighter future for all of our over-60 residents. On behalf of our great city congratulations to this years honorees Dr. Gary J. Kennedy Dr. Melinda S. Lantz Dr. Alessandra Scalmati and Margaret Tietz Nursing and Rehabilitation Center. Please accept my best wishes for a wonderful evening and continued success. Sincerely Bill de Blasio Mayor NYFE 2014 Recognition Dinner Congratulations to New York Foundation for Eldercare. We thank our wonderful honorees Dr. Gary J. Kennedy Dr. Melinda S. Lantz Dr. Alessandra Scalmati and Margaret Tietz Nursing and Rehabilitation Center Barbara and Michael Lissner GOLD NYFE 2014 Recognition Dinner Richard Benjamin David Joan Martin Steven Rachel Sophie George Sari Anna Giorgio Laura Massimo Claudia Chris Pepe and many more ... Congratulations to Alessandra Scalmati a wise and loving physician wife mother and friend... GOLD NYFE 2014 Recognition Dinner Years ripen experience into wisdom love turns time into joy - Proverb Wisdom of the ages is really wisdom of the aged - Proverb For the unlearned old age is winter forthe learned it is a season of harvest -TheTalmud Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old - Franz Kafka We dont stop playing because we grow old.We grow old because we stop playing - George Bernard Shaw To honor the elderly is toenrich the future - Proverb Congratulations to all of the Honorees for your decades-long commitment to improving the lives of the elderly. The impacts you made and continue to make are immeasurable and for that we thank you The Tietz and Lewis families Michael Amy and Benjamin Tietz Monica Jeremy and Amanda Lewis SILVER NYFE 2014 Recognition Dinner In honor of New York Foundation for Eldercare we are happy to support our new Executive Director Tanya Figelman who goes above and beyond the call of duty. Inessa and Elie Rubinstein BRONZE NYFE 2014 Recognition Dinner BRONZE InvestmentandInsuranceProducts NOTFDICInsured NOBankGuarantee MAYLoseValue Lorayne Fiorillo Managing Director Investments 1211 Avenue OfThe Americas Fl 27 NewYork NY 10036 Direct 212 455-0728 lorayne.c.orillowellsfargoadvisors.com Wells Fargo Company. Wells Fargo Advisors LLC. All rights reserved. Lorayne Fiorillo is pleased to sponsor Recognition Dinner NYFE 2014 Recognition Dinner BRONZE NYFE 2014 Recognition Dinner WE ARE DELIGHTED TO HONOR DR. MELINDA LANTZ FOR HER OUTSTANDING SERVICE TO THE ELDERLY COMMUNITY AND IN RECOGNITION OF THE MARGARET TIETZ LEADERSHIP AWARD FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHIATRY BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES DIVISION CHIEFS AND LEADERSHIP GROUP NYFE 2014 Recognition Dinner The Divisions of Geriatric Medicine and Geriatric Psychiatry Montefiore Medical Center Albert Einstein salute the contribution of the New York Foundation for Eldercare to the training of all the health professions in caring for nursing home residents and their family members. NYFE 2014 Recognition Dinner The Blue Card congratulates The New York Foundation for Eldercare and the 2014 honorees Dr. Gary J. Kennedy Dr. Melinda S. Lantz Dr. Alessandra Scalmati and Margaret Tietz Nursing and Rehabilitation Center NYFE 2014 Recognition Dinner Congratulations to Dr. Gary Kennedy Ever the teacher Ever the caregiver Ever the gentleman Ever generous with your time and spirit With admiration appreciation and fondest best wishes The Rackow Family Rickey Danny Cristina Jackie ...and especially Terry NYFE 2014 Recognition Dinner NYFE 2014 Recognition Dinner CONGRATULATES Margaret Tietz Nursing Rehabilitation Center For their continuing dedication and commitment to the Quality of Life Your Friends Anthony Cecere Donald Sheldon HOMECARE USAHORIZON HEALTHCARE INC. 118 B Lamar Street Phone631 491-9111 W. Babylon NY 11704 Fax 631 491-9112 NYFE 2014 Recognition Dinner NYFE 2014 Recognition Dinner Congratulations to Dr. Gary J. Kennedy Dr. Melinda S. 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Your dedication and warmth are truly admirable. Carla Abby and families NYFE 2014 Recognition Dinner 171 MADISON AVENUE SUITE 202 NEW YORK NY 10016 WWW.NYFE.ORG NEW YORK FOUNDATION FOR ELDERCARE IS A NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION WHOSE MISSION IS DEDICATED TO HELPING SENIORS ENJOY HEALTHIER SAFER MORE PRODUCTIVE AND DIGNIFIED LIVES.