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Alice Bonner
Alice Bonner has been a geriatric nurse practitioner caring for older adults and their families for over 30 years. She is currently adjunct faculty and director of strategic partnerships for the CAPABLE Program at the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing and senior advisor for aging at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement. From 2015 to 2019, she served as secretary of the executive office of elder affairs for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. From 2011 to 2013, Bonner served as director of the division of nursing homes in the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services in Baltimore. From 2009 to 2011, she was the director of the Bureau of Health Care Safety and Quality at the Massachusetts Department of Public Health. Her research interests include policy development to promote quality and safety in health systems and community-based settings, elder abuse, falls prevention, improving dementia care and reducing unnecessary antipsychotic medication use, and improving care transitions.