Healthy Communities for Healthy Aging Leadership Roster

Co-chair
Ruth Palombo, PhD, RD
Assistant Secretary
Office of Program Planning and Management
MA Executive Office of Elder Affairs
One Ashburton Place, 5th Floor
Boston, MA 02108
Phone: (617) 222-7512
Fax: (617) 727-9368
ruth.palombo@state.ma.us

Special interests: Aging and public health, successful aging, nutrition and aging

APHA affiliation: Gerontological Health Section and Food and Nutrition Section

Co-chair
Kathy Sykes,
Senior Advisor; Aging Initiative
Child and Aging Health Protection Division
Office of Children’s Health Protection and Environmental Education
Environmental Protection Agency, Mail Code 1107A
1200 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Room 2512N (Ariel Rios North)
Washington, D.C.  20460
Phone: (202)564-3651
Fax: (202)564-2733
sykes.kathy@epa.gov 

APHA Affiliation: Gerontological Health Section

Secretary
Lisa Z. Killinger, DC
Chair of Diagnosis and Radiology
Palmer College of Chiropractic
1000 Brady St.
Davenport, IA 52803
Phone: (563)884-5902
Fax: (563)884-5242
Lisa.Killinger@Palmer.edu

Special interests: CAM care of aging persons; interdisciplinary cooperation; HP 2010 and aging

APHA affiliation: Chiropractic Health Care Section