ACT-IAC Health COI March 2021 Virtual Meeting

Thursday, March 18, 2021 - 12:00 PM - 01:30 PM EDT

Featured Topic: Using AI to Predict Adult Maltreatment

Join the ACT-IAC Health Community of Interest for a member meeting featuring invited speakers Scott Cory, CIO for HHS Administration on Community Living (ACL) and Stephanie Whittier Eliason, Elder Rights Team Lead, ACL. They will discuss how AI is a transformative technology that predicts adult mistreatment. Learn about AI 's profound and positive effect on people's lives.

About the Invited Speakers

Scott Cory is the Chief Information Officer at the Administration for Community Living, where he leads efforts with partners in the aging and disability network to use technology to better support services provided to people, regardless of age or disability, allowing them to live where they choose, with the people they choose, and fully participate in their communities. A recent example of Scott’s leadership is the development of the National Adult Maltreatment Reporting System, or NAMRS, the first system to consolidate data from state and local Adult Protective Service (APS) agencies and provide a national view into the incidence and types of abuse suffered by older and vulnerable adults.

Scott’s career in information technology extends more than 20 years, and includes work at Peace Corps, the U.S. Department of Justice, the National Institutes of Health, the HHS Office of the Chief Information Officer, and as a consultant to Federal and private sector clients.  In every role in which he has served, Scott’s work is informed by this simple principle: Are we doing the right thing, and are we doing it correctly?

Scott has led organizations through major changes using technology, enabling the Peace Corps to more effectively recruit and support Volunteers, and the Community Relations Service of the Department of Justice to better prevent and resolve racial and ethnic tensions, incidents, and civil disorders, and restore racial stability and harmony.

Scott attended Occidental College, graduating with an A.B. in Biology and a minor in Political Science.  He served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Kenya from 1985 to 1987. In his spare time, Scott pursues the decidedly non-digital activities of pottery, gardening, and cooking. 

Stephanie Whittier Eliason serves as the Elder Rights Team Lead in the U.S. Administration for Community Living.  She joined the U.S. Administration on Aging (now part of the Administration for Community Living) in 2003 and throughout her tenure has held lead responsibility for ACL’s Adult Protective Services portfolio, including the National Adult Maltreatment Reporting System, and elder abuse prevention programming.  Over her career, Stephanie has also been an advocate for residents’ rights in residential care facilities for the elderly, served as a legislative assistant, and conducted research on the implementation of the National Family Caregiver Support Program.  In addition to the field of aging, she has experience working with and advocating on behalf of the homeless, child protective services, and the child welfare system, and served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Honduras.  Stephanie received a Masters of Social Welfare from the University of California, Berkeley, and a B.A. from the University of North Florida.

 

 

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