Stasa D. Tadic, MD, MS is an Associate Professor in the Division of Geriatric Medicine at University of Pittsburgh. He is also an Academic Chief of Geriatric Medicine at UPMC Mercy hospital and provides consult service on hospitalized elderly and teaching of medical residents.

Melissa Jones is the geriatric programmatic nurse specialist with UPMC. Mercy.   She is a Certified Dementia Practitioner through the NCCDP and is a board certified gerontological nurse. She holds a Masters in Nursing Education and has practiced nursing in various care settings including nephrology, developmental disabilities, community and medical education. Melissa is also part time adjunct clinical faculty with Duquesne School of Nursing.

Abigail Steele is a Clinical Pharmacist at UPMC Mercy.  She earned her Bachelor of Science in Biological Sciences at Cornell University, and obtained her PharmD at the University at Buffalo.  She completed a PGY-1 pharmacy practice residency at UPMC Mercy in 2014.  In 2020 she finished the University of Pittsburgh Gerontology Certificate Program, and is currently Board Certified in Pharmacotherapy and Geriatric Pharmacy.  Her clinical interests include age-associated changes in pharmacokinetics and reducing adverse drug effects and medication burden in older patients.

Sherri Mackall received her BSN from Alderson-Broadus University in WV and her MSN from Phoenix University.  She has spent her entire nursing career in the acute care setting.  Her bedside experience ranged from oncology to critical care and for the past 20 years she has been in Care Management.  She started her career at UPMC Mercy as the Manager for Care Management in 2005 and in 2008 became the Director of the department.  In working closely with her staff on discharge planning, the barriers to providing the appropriate level of post hospital care for the elderly became evident.  Developing age specific discharge readiness checklists and engaging engage her staff to improve the transition and discharge planning for the elderly patients became a department goal.  Sherri has been a core team member of UPMC Mercy Geriatric COE team and leads the hospitals processes related to the IHI “What Matters” care for the elderly.

Nicole (Nikki) Guy, MSN, RN, CSRN is a Quality Improvement Specialist UPMC Mercy She has been at UPMC for 8 years with clinical experience in critical care and interventional radiology.

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