Robert C. Abrams, M.D., is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley and received his M.D. degree from the Mount Sinai Icahn School of Medicine in New York.  He is a Professor of Psychiatry in Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York City, where he maintains a clinical and teaching practice in geriatric psychiatry at the Weill Cornell Center on Aging.  He has written extensively on old-age depression, suicide and personality disorders as well as the problems of aging as depicted in historical accounts, film and contemporary literature.  He is the author of Staring Night: Queen Victoria’s Late-Life Depression.  

Pamela Ansell, MSW, is a Special Projects Manager in the Division of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine. Ms. Ansell’s background includes having conducted child abuse investigation, developed elder abuse multi-media training curricula, and assisted in research projects.  Ms. Ansell leads the Psychosocial Consortium, bringing together the NY metropolitan area geriatrics fellowship programs to strengthen psychosocial education for geriatrics fellows.

Veronica LoFaso, M.D., is an Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine. She completed her residency at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital where she has remained for the past 25 years in the Division of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine. Dr LoFaso currently serves as Geriatrician on the Multi-Disciplinary Elder Abuse Teams (MDTs) in Manhattan and Brooklyn and is the Medical Director of the MDTs in all boroughs of NYC. She has particular expertise in the forensic aspects of elder abuse and neglect and has published extensively in this area. She continues to care for patients at the Weill Cornell Center on Aging in NYC.