William L. (Larry) Minnix, Jr., D.Min.
President and Chief Executive Officer
Larry Minnix is President and CEO of the American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging, a position he has held since 2001.

Dr. Minnix has been in mental health and aging services fields for over 35 years. He was associated with the Wesley Woods Center of Emory University for 28 years, where he started as an administrative intern in 1972 and rose to the position of CEO, a position he held for 10 years until he joined AAHSA. Wesley Woods is a comprehensive aging services organization, with acute, outpatient, outreach, housing, and nursing home care within the academic context of Emory University.

Dr. Minnix is a frequent speaker on long term care, quality, ethics, and policy. He has served on numerous commissions and boards.

He earned undergraduate and graduate degrees from Emory University. He received his Doctor of Ministry degree there and is an ordained elder in the United Methodist Church.

Areas of expertise: Continuing care retirement communitites, Culture Change in Aging Services and Trends in Senior Living

Name and Title	Areas of Expertise
Dr. Majd Alwan Director, Center for Aging Services Technologies	Technology for the Aging
Barbara Gay Director of Information	Nursing Homes
Marsha R. Greenfield Senior Legislative Counsel	Liability Reform and Long-term Care Financing
Nancy Libson Director of Housing Policy	Senior Housing
Stephen Maag Director, Assisted Living and Continuing Care	Assisted Living, Continuing Care Retirement Communities and legal regulatory affairs
Barbara Manard, Ph.D. Vice President of Long-term Care/Health Strategies	Long-term Care Financing and Nursing Homes
Evvie Munley Senior Health Policy Analyst	Nursing homes, surveying and certification
Peter Notarstefano Director, Home- and Community-Based Services	Home- and Community-Based Services
Katrinka (Katie) Smith Sloan Chief Operations Officer and Senior Vice President, Member Services	Not-for-profit aging services and trends
Robyn I. Stone, Dr.P.H. Executive Director, Institute for the Future of Aging Services	Aging Services Research
Suzanne Weiss Senior Vice President, Advocacy	Aging Services and Public Policy

Dr. Majd Alwan
Director, East Coast, Center for Aging Services Technologies
Dr. Majd Alwan, a noted researcher and authority on aging-services technologies, is the East Coast Director of the Center for Aging Services Technolgies (CAST). Dr. Alwan is responsible for creating and leading a network of technology companies, providers and research institutions focused on technology solutions for an aging society.

Prior to joining CAST, Alwan served as an assistant professor and a the Director of the Robotics and Eldercare Technologies Program at the University of Virginia's Medical Automation Research Center. His research interests there included passive functional and health assessment, biomedical instrumentation, medical automation, as well as eldercare and assistive technologies.

Dr. Alwan chairs the Funding Aging Services Technologies committee and is a member of the IEEE’s Engineering in Medicine and Biology, and Robotics and Automation Societies. He is is also a member of IEEE-USA’s Medical Technology Policy Committee and the Geriatric Care Workgroup.

Dr. Alwan received his Ph.D in intelligent robotics from Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, a master's degree in control engineering with distinction from Bradford University and a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Damascus University.

Areas of expertise: Technology for the Aging


Barbara Gay
Director of Information
Barbara Gay is Director of Information for the American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging (AAHSA). She has primary responsibility for initiating and coordinating the flow of information on policy issues from AAHSA to the members and to AAHSA's leadership. Gay has been with AAHSA for ten years, during which time she also has lobbied on AAHSA's behalf and done grassroots work with the members. Prior to working at AAHSA, Gay spent 16 years working on Capitol Hill, primarily as Legislative Director to Congressman Matthew J. Rinaldo of New Jersey, who was the ranking minority member of the House Select Committee on Aging. She has a law degree from George Washington University.

Areas of expertise: Nursing Homes


Marsha R. Greenfield
Senior Legislative Counsel
Marsha Greenfield is senior legislative counsel for the American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging (AAHSA). She represents AAHSA on all health care issues, including Medicare and Medicaid, patient safety, elder abuse, and medical liability reform, and issues concerning not for profit status and taxation. Previously, she served as senior attorney in the advocacy division, where she handled issues involving not-for-profit status, professional liability and insurance, patient safety, disability law, fair housing, and continuing care and assisted living. She has served as AAHSA's liaison to the Department of Justice, the Office of Inspector General at HHS, and outside groups involved in elder justice, consumer and other issues.

Greenfield is a regular presenter at educational and business meetings conducted by AAHSA and its state affiliates. She also has been an invited presenter at the National Patient Safety Foundation Congress and the Long Term Care Conference of the American Health Lawyers Association.

Greenfield was a civil litigator for over 20 years, practicing primarily in family law. She has practiced in New York, Michigan and Maryland. Most recently she was of counsel in the Washington, D.C. office of Leonard Frost Levin & VanCourt, a Texas firm representing clients in environmental, municipal and non-profit matters. Prior to joining AAHSA in 1998, she served as founding executive director of a consumer organization for family members and residents of assisted living communities. In this capacity she testified before the Institute of Medicine on quality in long term care. She has also directed research studies for jury selection in high-publicity criminal and civil cases, and served as executive director of the task forces on racial, ethnic and gender bias in the District of Columbia Courts.

She received her A. B. from the Vassar College and her J.D. from Rutgers Law School, Newark, N.J. She is admitted to practice in New York and Maryland.

Areas of expertise: Liability Reform, Assisted Living and Long Term Care Financing


Nancy Libson
Director of Housing Policy
Nancy Libson is the Director of Housing Policy at the American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging. AAHSA represents non-profit organizations dedicated to providing high-quality health care, and housing and services to the nation's elderly. Libson's work focuses on developing policy and positions related to affordable service enriched senior housing in conjunction with AAHSA members; providing technical assistance to members; improving housing programs; advocating for policy changes in Congress and within the Department of Housing and Urban Development and for adequate appropriations for housing; and developing coalitions among housing public interest groups and organizations. Prior to joining AAHSA in June, 2003, Nancy had more than 30 years experience in affordable housing policy development, program implementation, technical assistance and training, and advocacy. She worked as senior legislative advisor for the Department of Housing and Urban Development, staff director of the Housing Subcommittee of the then Banking Committee of the House of Representatives, legislative director of Hessel and Aluise, PC, administrator of the housing program of the Appalachian Regional Commission, vice president for development of a developer of affordable housing, and for the National Center for Housing Management in its infancy.

She has a Masters of Public Administration from the University of Pittsburgh's Graduate School of Public and International Affairs and a B.A. from Cornell University.

Areas of expertise: Senior Housing


Stephen Maag
Director of Assisted Living and Continuing Care
Stephen Maag is the Director of Assisted Living and Continuing Care at the American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging (AAHSA). Maag is responsible for establishing and implementing AAHSA’s policies and programmatic priorities in the area of assisted living and continuing care retirement communities. Prior to joining AAHSA, Maag spent 18 years as a partner at the Seattle law firm of Ryan, Swanson and Cleveland. There, specialized in providing strategic counsel to aging-services providers on issues including reimbursement, licensure, corporate compliance, managed care contracting and survey and certification. He has also served as a member of AAHSA’s legal committee since 1990. Before entering private practice, Maag was the Deputy Director for Governmental Affairs at the Washington State Health Facilities Association and Director of Legal and Regulatory Affairs for the Washington Health Care Association.

Maag is a published author and a regular presenter at educational events hosted by AAHSA and its state affiliates. He has also presented at the American Health Care Association’s Annual Meeting and the Long Term Care Conference of the American Health Lawyers Association. Maag received his B.A. from the University of Washington and his J.D. from the University of Puget Sound. He is admitted into practice in the state of Washington.

Areas of expertise: Assisted Living, Continuing Care Retirement Communities and legal regulatory affairs


Barbara Manard, Ph.D.
Vice President of Long Term Care/Health Strategies
Barbara Manard, a health policy researcher and consultant with over twenty years experience, joined the American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging (AAHSA) in 2003 as Vice President of Long Term Care/Health Strategies. Prior to joining AAHSA, Dr. Manard served as Vice President of The Lewin Group (1981-1987) and subsequently as President of a Maryland-based research and consulting firm, the Manard Company (1998-2002). In 1998, she served as a Special Expert Consultant to the Office of the Secretary (ASPE), United States Department of Health and Human Services, to assist with technical and policy issues related to implementing post acute care Medicare payment system changes mandated by Congress. In 2001, she assisted ASPE with a project regarding post acute care assessment instruments, reference vocabularies, and electronic medical records. Prior to joining the Lewin Group, Dr. Manard served as a Policy Analyst at ASPE and as an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of California (Riverside). She received her Doctorate in Sociology from the University of Virginia, a Certificate in Health Planning from the U. VA. School of Medicine, and an AB from Vassar College.

Areas of expertise: Long Term Care Financing and Nursing Homes


Evvie Munley
Senior Health Policy Analyst
Evvie Munley is AAHSA's Senior Health Policy Analyst for on nursing facility regulatory, end of life, and quality issues. Munley is AAHSA's primary staff liaison to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on implementation of long term care and OBRA-related regulations including survey, certification, and enforcement; staffing, end-of-life, and other quality and related policy issues. She also works with other federal agencies having regulatory authority or policy-related interest in nursing facilities, such as the Food and Drug Administration (FDA); the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), and the Institute of Medicine (IOM), of the National Academy of Sciences. Munley joined AAHSA in 1986 and is the premiere expert on nursing home regulations.

Prior to joining AAHSA, Munley was employed by the State of NJ, Department of Developmental Disabilities for approximately 11 years. She spent the first five years as both a social worker and social work supervisor, and the next six years in the Office of Licensing and Inspections as surveyor and surveyor supervisor. She holds a Bachelor's Degree in Social Work from Temple University.

Areas of expertise: Nursing Homes


Peter Notarstefano
Director of Home and Community Based Services
Peter Notarstefano is the Director of Home and Community Based Services (HCBS) at the American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging. He is responsible for developing and implementing AAHSA’s HCBS policy agenda and helping providers establish and enhance community service programs. Before joining AAHSA, Notarstefano spent more than 27 years in the aging-services field, including 15 years as the director of the geriatric assessment and case management program at the Catskill Regional Medical Center in Sullivan County, New York. There, he helped individuals receive a variety of specialty health care services. He also spent eight years managing an adult day services program that was part of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s "Partners in Caregiving" Dementia Care Project. His other community service expertise includes work in faith-based outreach and volunteer and recreation services across New York state. Notarstefano has a Masters in Gerontology the College of New Rochelle and a B.A. from York College of the City University of New York.

Areas of expertise: Home- and Community-Based Services


Katrinka (Katie) Smith Sloan
Chief Operations Officer and Senior Vice President, Member Services
Katrinka (Katie) Smith Sloan is Chief Operations Officer and Senior Vice President, Member Services of the American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging. In this position, she is the key leader for all of AAHSA's operations and membership-related initiatives and services.

Sloan is responsible for building stronger and more effective relationships among the association's key stakeholders, including state associations and their leadership, member organizations, and AAHSA partners. She leads the Association's Quality First initiative. She is also responsible for managing the operational aspects of the Association to enable the Association to grow and ensure its financial strength.

She joined AAHSA in April 2002, after having served in a number of key leadership positions at AARP. As a member of AARP's senior leadership team, Sloan was responsible for major social marketing initiatives to carry out the association's strategic priorities in health, economic security, and consumer protection.

Sloan has a strong commitment to the consumer movement, and serves as secretary-treasurer of the Consumer Federation of America. She has a master's degree from The George Washington University and a bachelor's degree from Middlebury College.

Areas of expertise: Not-for-profit aging services and trends


Robyn I. Stone, Dr.P.H.
Executive Director, Institute for the Future of Aging Services
Senior Vice President of Research
Robyn I. Stone, a noted researcher and leading international authority on aging and long-term care policy, joined AAHSA to establish and oversee the Institute for the Future of Aging Services (IFAS).

Stone came to AAHSA from the International Longevity Center-USA in New York, NY, where she was executive director and chief operating officer. Previously, she worked for the Federal Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (now known as the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality). Stone also served the White House as deputy assistant secretary for disability, aging and long-term care policy and as acting assistant secretary for aging in the Department of Health and Human Services under the Clinton Administration. She was a senior researcher at the National Center for Health Services and at Project Hope's Center for Health Affairs. She was on the staff of the 1989 Bipartisan Commission on Comprehensive Health Care and the 1993 Clinton Administration Task Force on Health Care Reform.

She holds a doctorate in public health from the University of California, Berkeley.

Areas of expertise: Aging Services Research


Suzanne Weiss
Senior Vice President, Advocacy
Suzanne Weiss is the Senior Vice President, Advocacy of the American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging. In this role, she coordinates the association's public policy development and government relations efforts for housing, continuing care, assisted living, health care, and community-based services.

Before joining AAHSA more than 19 years ago, Weiss was a consultant to the US Department of Health and Human Services on health manpower issues before. She also practiced law in Colorado and Wisconsin.

Prior to assuming the post of Senior Vice President for Advocacy, she was Vice President for Public Policy and Counsel to the Policy Division.

Her bachelor's degree is from Viterbo College in La Crosse, Wisconsin. She has a master's from the Ohio State University and a law degree from Georgetown University in Washington, DC.