Innovations in End-of-Life Care
an international journal of leaders in end-of-life care
Ellen Bartoldus holds a MSW from Fordham University and a certificate from Columbia/Albert Einstein in BioEthics and the Medical Humanities. She is currently the administrator of Lutheran Home for the Aging, part of Wartburg Lutheran Services (WLS), which operates four nursing homes, four adult day health care programs, a long term home health care program and a mobile meals program. Ms. Bartoldus also holds the position of Ethics Officer with WLS and chairs its inter-facility ethics committee. She has been co-principal investigator for the Brooklyn Hospital/Wartburg Caregivers Project since its inception in 1998 and has been responsible for providing social work supervision and workshop design and implementation to the project.
Nereida Borrero RN, MSN, GNP is a Geriatric Nurse Practitioner and Coordinator of the Family Caregiver Project at The Brooklyn Hospital Center. Ms. Borrero has extensive experience in the field of home care. She is also the Project Coordinator of Redes En Acción, an NCI sponsored project dedicated to cancer research awareness and training for Hispanics.
Dr. John Larkin co-directs the Family Caregiver Initiative at The Brooklyn Hospital Center where he also serves as an attending in General Internal Medicine. In addition, Dr. Larkin serves as director of medical student affairs in the department of General Internal Medicine. Dr. Larkin earned his MD from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and completed his residency at NYU Medical Center at Bellevue Hospital and Memorial Sloan Kettering.
Dr. Jeffrey Nichols is Chief of Geriatrics at Cabrini Medical Center in Manhattan, Medical Director of the Cabrini Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation and the St. Cabrini Nursing Homes as well as the Sr. Josephine Tsieu and Monsignor Terence Attridge Adult Day Health Care Centers, and Assistant Medical Director for Geriatrics and Palliative Care of the Cabrini Hospice. A 1976 graduate of Cornell University Medical College, Dr. Nichols completed his internship and residency in Internal Medicine at St. Vincent's Hospital in New York. He is Board Certified in Internal Medicine and in Hospice and Palliative Care and was awarded a Certificate of Added Qualifications in Geriatrics. He is Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine and Geriatrics at Mount Sinai Medical School and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Medicine (Geriatrics and Gerontology) at Weill Cornell Medical College. He is Co-Director of the New York City Long-Term Care Ethics Network and Vice-President of the New York Medical Directors Association. Dr. Nichols serves on advisory panels to the Alzheimer's Association.
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