Directors and Advisors
Board of Directors:
Claude Goodman, President and founder of CareWheels, who conceived of the Prosumer Model of Participatory Design and Development-by-Proxy of Internet-Enabled Assistive Technologies by and for people with disabilities and frail elders. He is an inventor with seven patents in the field of biomedical engineering, and over a decade of experience in health-sciences related research, development and technology transfer as a guest scientist at the University of California, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the National Institute of Standards and Technology. He presently serves as a Consortium Council Member on the Oregon Roybal Center for Aging, Technology, Education & Community Health (ORCATECH) and on the Technology Clearinghouse workgroup of CAST - the Center for Aging Services Technologies of the American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging.
Ueli Stadler, Treasurer, also serves as President of the Lake Oswego Transitional Shelter Ministry. He is the Manager of the Reed College Bookstore, a non-profit organization dedicated to serving the academic needs of the Reed community in Portland, Oregon.
Toni Goodman, Secretary, is a writer and educator, who has served on the board of the Oregon Association for Talented and Gifted. She has been a public and private school teacher as well as a case manager at Women in Need, a transitional shelter for homeless women and their children in New York City.
Advisors:
Stephen Thielke, Assistant Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Washington, and Investigator, Geriatric Research, Education, and Clinical Center, Seattle VA Medical Center; advises about psychological and social issues related to aging and care transitions.
Christopher Scaffidi, Assistant Professor, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Oregon State University; advises about software engineering, data visualization and technology implementation.
Shannon Mejía, Ph.D. Student, Center for Healthy Aging Research, Oregon State University; advises about psycho-social co-support processes, research design and project evaluation.
Eric Dishman is an Intel Fellow and Director of the Intel Digital Health Group where he is responsible for driving global R&D for new healthcare and wellness-related technologies across the continuum of care from hospital to home. He also directs the Intel Proactive Health Research lab focused on home health technologies for seniors and their families who are struggling with cognitive decline, cancer, and cardiovascular disease. He also co-founded the Alzheimer's Association Everyday Technologies for Alzheimer's Care research consortium and serves as the National Chairman of CAST - the Center for Aging Services Technologies of the American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging.
Roger Auerbach, former CareWheels Director and Administrator of the Senior and Disabled Services Division of the Oregon Department of Human Services. He is a consultant for the Lewin Group, Center for Long Term Care.
Holly Jimison, former CareWheels Director, Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the Oregon Graduate Institute of Science and Engineering, Oregon Health Sciences University (OHSU). She serves as a Consortium Council Member on the Oregon Roybal Center for Aging, Technology, Education & Community Health (ORCATECH) and Principal Investigator on the project: Monitoring Computer Interactions in the Elderly. As a faculty member at OHSU, she served as Director of the Informed Patient Decisions Group, conducting research on methods to enable patients to be active and informed participants in their medical care decisions.
Catherine Webber, former CareWheels Director, brought three decades of experience in management, social work, technology and medical fields to the Project. As a State Senator, Catherine chaired the Oregon’s Senate Education Committee and the Joint House and Senate Committee on Information Technology. While the Assistant Administrator for business services at VRD, she oversaw the implementation of three successful statewide computer systems.
Laura Brinster, former Pine Point Project Research Participant, Internet-Enabled Assistive Technologies.
Lennea Lynne, former Pine Point Project Research Participant, Internet-Enabled Assistive Technologies.