Dr. Hepburn is a Professor in the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing at Emory University and the Co-Director of the NIA-supported Emory Roybal Center for Dementia Caregiving Mastery. He and his colleagues developed and demonstrated the efficacy of the Savvy Caregiver Program, a “short course in caregiving” designed to provide family caregivers with the knowledge, skills, and outlook needed to care effectively for persons living with dementia.

Elliott is a financial planner and the founder of Kindness Financial
Planning, LLC, which focuses on helping widows and caregivers gain control of their financial life. In addition to writing regularly about financial planning strategies, aging, and caregiving, Elliott co-hosts a podcast called ME and Money. He has been quoted in the Wall Street Journal, NY Times, AARP, Forbes, and Fortune. Outside of work, Elliott enjoys playing tennis, hiking, biking, photography, and cooking.

Mr. Blake is a Financial Forensic Specialist with the Georgia Department of Human Services (DHS) Division of Aging Services Forensic Special Initiatives Unit (FSIU) and a member of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) Crimes Against the Disabled and Elderly (CADE) Task Force. Before joining DHS in 2010, Mr. Blake served with the DeKalb County Police Department and the DeKalb County District Attorney’s Office as the chief investigator over the White-Collar Crime Unit. Mr. Blake is an ACFE Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE), an NW3C Certified Economic Crimes Forensic Examiner (CECFE), and a State of Georgia POST Certified Instructor. He is a co-developer and principal instructor for the Certified At-Risk Adult Crime Tactics Specialist certification course (CACTS).

Dr. Kalisha Bonds Johnson is an assistant professor at Emory University’s Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing in Atlanta, Georgia and a psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner at Emory University’s Integrated Memory Care, a primary care clinic tailored to the care of persons living with dementia and their families. She is also the Principal Investigator of the DECIDE Research Lab (www.decideresearch.com), which focuses on creating culturally tailored decision-making programs to improve the quality of life of families of Black American persons living with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias.

Mr. Fellows has over twenty-two years of experience in law enforcement, including uniform patrol, crime scene investigations, underwater search and recovery, honor guard, supervision, and criminal investigations, specializing in fraud-related crimes. In 2019, Mr. Fellows left law enforcement to further his knowledge in bank fraud investigations with Wells Fargo Bank. In 2022, Mr. Fellows joined the FSIU as a Financial Forensic Specialist. He is a Certified Fraud Examiner, POST-certified instructor, POST-certified law enforcement officer, POST-certified crime scene technician, and Certified At-Risk Adult Crime Tactics Specialist. Mr. Fellows is also a member of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, the International Association of Financial Crimes Investigators, and the International Association of Human Trafficking Investigators.

Kelley Napier is a partner at Georgia Estate & Elder Law in Atlanta. Kelley holds the Certified Elder Law Attorney (CELA) designation from the National Elder Law Foundation (NELF), the only organization approved by the American Bar Association to offer certification in elder law. She is a member of the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys, where she currently serves as the President of the Georgia Chapter. Kelley serves on the Parkinson’s Foundation Georgia Chapter Advisory Board and the Friends of Benson board supporting the Dorothy Benson Senior Center. She also participates in the Georgia Association of Women Lawyers and the Stonewall Bar Association. She has been selected as a Super Lawyer Rising Star each year since 2020.

Dr. Turbow is a health services researcher focused on chronic disease, care fragmentation, health disparities, and health information technology in vulnerable populations, particularly older adults with cognitive impairment. She joined the faculty of the Division of General Internal Medicine at Grady Memorial Hospital/Emory University School of Medicine upon completion of her residency in 2015. In 2020, she completed training in Public Health and General Preventive Medicine, also at Emory, joining the preventive medicine residency leadership as an Associate Program Director immediately thereafter. She has served as Program Director of Emory’s Public Health and General Preventive Medicine Residency and Fellowship program since Fall 2023.