John Staunton

John Staunton
Eldercare Attorney

John Staunton is an attorney in Clearwater, Florida, whose practice areas include Special Needs Trusts, Special Needs Trust Administration, 468B Qualified Settlement Funds, Structured Settlement Planning, and planning for Medicaid and other Government Benefits. He also provides Litigation Support relative to settling government liens and preserving government assistance eligibility, both in Florida and other States.

Mr. Staunton’s memberships include the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys, the National College of Probate Judges, the Florida Justice Association, the Elder Law Section of the Florida Bar, the American Bar Association, and the International Bar Association. He is past President of the Academy of Florida Elder Law Attorneys, Immediate Past Chair of the Florida Bar’s Elder Law Section, and current President for the Tampa Bay Trial Lawyers Association. Mr. Staunton chaired the Elder Law Section’s Special Needs Trusts Committee for several years until assuming other committee work. He was selected outstanding state chapter member for the year 2000 by the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys and was awarded the Paul M. May Meritorious Award by the Stetson Lawyers Association in 2005.

Mr. Staunton contributes to professional publications, has been published nationally, lectures around the state, and presented on Elder Law issues at the International Bar Association’s annual conference in Aukland, New Zealand in 2004. He was instrumental in creating and establishing the first self-sustaining pooled special needs trust in Florida, and the Florida Pooled Trust has grown to be one of the largest pooled trusts in the country with trust beneficiaries residing in nearly every State. The non-profit corporation that Mr. Staunton helped create, and with which he remains active, has become the largest pooled trust provider in the country. The Center for Special Needs Trust Administration, Inc., administers a National Pooled Trust, more than a dozen individual state Pooled Trusts, and a number of other specialized Pooled Trusts that are designed to meet the specific needs of other non-profits who serve people with disabilities.

Michael L. Millenson

Michael L. Millenson
President of Health Quality Advisors LLC

Michael L. Millenson, president of Health Quality Advisors LLC, is a nationally recognized expert on improving the quality of American health care. He is the author of the critically acclaimed book Demanding Medical Excellence: Doctors and Accountability in the Information Age, and he holds an adjunct appointment as the Mervin Shalowitz, M.D. Visiting Scholar at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management.

National Public Radio called Millenson “in the vanguard of the movement” to measure and improve the quality of medical care. In addition to work in public policy, he has designed and implemented an “accountability audit” for hospitals, a health plan website to improve consumer care decisions, and a compendium for employers to compare pay-for-performance programs. His clients have included Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Massachusetts, Booz Allen Hamilton, Consumers Union, Procter & Gamble Pharmaceuticals and the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association.

Millenson was a principal in the health-care practice of a major human resources consulting firm. Later, he was a consulting producer for the award-winning public TV series Remaking American Medicine and a consultant to the Markle Foundation’s Connecting for Health initiative. Earlier in his career he was a health-care reporter for the Chicago Tribune and was nominated three times for a Pulitzer Prize.

Millenson has testified before Congress, lectured at the National Institutes of Health and Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, and served as a faculty member for the Institute for Healthcare Improvement. He has written for publications ranging from the British Medical Journal and Health Affairs to USA Today and World Book Encyclopedia, and he is a regular contributor to health care blogs. Millenson also serves on the board of the American Medical Group Foundation and on the editorial boards of Quality and Safety in Health Care and the American Journal of Medical Quality.

Nohl Martin-Fouroohi

Nohl Martin-Fouroohi
Executive Director and Founder of My New Friend

Nohl Martin-Fouroohi’s company, My New Friend, providing services for elders and their families, is featured in Mark Victor Hansen’s and Art Linklater’s new book, How To Make The Rest Of Your Life, The Best Of Your Life, which re-publishes one of her healthy aging articles. Her first pioneering venture in the social/health market launched in 1994. In addition to being the founder of two successful companies directly serving seniors, she is currently involved with igniteBiz, working with companies in the mature market.

Following Oberlin College, Ms. Martin-Fouroohi received a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship (IBM). She focused on health care and HIV in Africa, utilizing limited resources to respond to complex, challenging issues. Work included navigating & bringing together non-profits, business and non-government agencies along with integrating the delicate nature of cross-cultural concerns.

She began some of the first HIV & AIDS education programs in 1986, including co-founding HEART, HIV Education As Repertoire Theater. For nearly ten years, she was a frequent speaker, innovator and guest panelist on these issues nationally.

Ms. Martin-Fouroohi now serves on advisory boards, spearheads collaborative conferences including the first WA state Geron-Technology conference and is a speaker on aging issues including healthy aging, neurobics, navigating the maze, and the new pioneers in time.

A recipient of awards, a registered counselor, founder of seattlecares.org, and member of the National Association of Geriatric Care Mangers, Ms. Martin-Fouroohi continues her rewarding work helping families, companies and communities. Her work and travels take her to the Middle East, Asia, and Europe.

Tom Eng

Tom Eng
VMD, MPH, President and Founder of Healia

Tom Eng, VMD, MPH, President and Founder of Healia, which is now part of Meredith Corp. He is responsible for Healia's vision, overall management, and strategy. His life-long passion is to create new ways to help people live healthier lives. Tom is an international pioneer in eHealth product development, eHealth strategy, and the use of emerging technologies to improve healthcare and public health. He also founded EvaluMetrix LLC, a health IT consulting company, and the eHealth Institute, a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving health through emerging technologies. He is a Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of Washington; a judge and mentor for the Global Social Venture Competition; a member of the National Advisory Committee of the Health e-Technologies Initiative, and an advisor to several nonprofit and commercial eHealth ventures.

Tom has authored or co-authored more than 100 peer-reviewed articles, books and book chapters, and abstracts on a wide range of health and technology issues. He has worked previously at the US Department of Health and Human Services, the Institute of Medicine, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Peace Corps, the US Senate, and two state health departments. Tom has conducted health consultations in more than two dozen countries on six continents. He is an alumnus of the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard University.