Research team: Medical Alert Systems
About the team
Our advisory panel contains clinicians and aging services professionals with extensive experience in working with the older adult population that uses these medical alert systems. Professional competencies in the team include social work, physio-therapy, and nursing, and experience operating independent living communities.
The team is led by Dr. Richard Caro, PhD physicist and co-founder of Tech-enhanced Life.
Project Team
Richard Caro
Scientist turned entrepreneur. Strategic adviser to emerging growth companies. Occasional angel investor. Oxford D.Phil. (Physics). Co-founder: Tech-enhanced Life.
Advisory Panel
Lisa Brinkmann
Lisa Brinkmann is currently Executive Director of Marin Villages, a non-profit organization dedicated to assisting and enriching the lives of older adults who want to live independently in their own homes as they age. Lisa has a M.Sc. in Gerontology from USC. As her LinkedIn profile puts it " ...
Mary Hulme
Founder, Moonstone Geriatrics. Licensed clinical social worker and geriatric care manager with 18 years of experience helping Bay Area seniors and their families as they transition through the later stages of life. Specialist in keeping older people safely at home for as long as possible.
John Milford
John opened and served as Executive Director of the San Francisco Towers (CCRC) for over fifteen years after a career in hospital and health care administration. He remains active as the founder of Heritage Consulting for Retirement Living, has supported non-profit work for seniors as Board ...
Mindy Renfro, PT, PhD, DPT, ECHM
Mindy is a geriatric physical therapist and retired Professor who taught in the School of Physical Therapy at Touro University Nevada in research and geriatrics. She was selected by the CDC as a fall prevention expert in 2009 and works closely with the National Council on Aging (NCOA), ...
Pam Sharkey
Pamela is a masters’ prepared nurse administrator and legal nurse consultant with deep expertise in fall morbidity and prevention in both residential and clinical settings. She is an expert for the California State Board of Registered nursing and has over thirty-five years of teaching ...