A quarterly SDDC Member acknowledgment, in recognizing the contribution of an Active Member. Every quarter, San Diego Dementia Consortium asks it’s Members to nominate a fellow Active Member (individual or organization). The SDDC Board then votes on the winning delegate, based on the amount of time/effort or money that has been contributed by the Active Member.
2018 2nd quarter SPOTLIGHT
San Diego Dementia Consortium Board is united in recognizing Joely Perez, as our 2018 2nd Quarter VALUED MEMBER. Joely currently serves as the Membership Chair for the San Diego Dementia Consortium. As an active member, Joely has proposed & implemented both the Care Award & the Valued Member Spotlight Award. The Care Award is a $300.00 grant from SDDC given monthly, to one of our Active Members nominations-of their cognitively impaired clients. To date, SDDC has given back to the community $1,800.00 through this program. Joely has also worked the SDDC board, on establishing consistent branding for the organization as well as working to update the SDDC website. For the past 25 years, Joely has worked as a local Realtor & Financing loan agent, specializing in Reverse Mortgages. She primarily works with first time home buyers & Senior homeowners, looking to align their finances in order to age in their home or to sell their home. Her business is 100% referral based.
2018 1st quarter SPOTLIGHT
As outgoing president of the San Diego Dementia Consortium, Dr. Glenn Panzer has been recognized by his fellow peers as a Valuable Member of San Diego Dementia Consortium. As an active board member, he & the board initially focused on developing a cognitive data form so that hospital ERs would know the pre-existing status of patient’s with dementia. Over the past few years the Dementia Consortium has focused on community education. He is particularly proud of two of the San Diego Dementia Consortium committees; The Clinical Education committee and the Community Outreach committee. Together they’ve focused on creating programs in educating the community of San Diego about Dementia.
Dr. Panzer currently serves as Associate Medical Director and Chief Medical Officer Emeritus of Elizabeth Hospice, of which he’s been affiliated with for over thirteen years. https://elizabethhospice.org
October 2017 SPOTLIGHT
To kick off our Valued Member Spotlight, we’d like to show our collective appreciation for the pioneers of San Diego Dementia Consortium; Dr. Gilbert J. Ho, Sam Stelletello & Kathy Randall.
Their primary focus was, to develop a Physical/Cognitive form to be introduced to the ER upon admission, to assist the doctors and nurses, to communicate with the dementia patient being admitted and reduce unnecessary testing and improve care levels. This form is currently being used & can be found at: Cognitive/Physical Data Form
Dr. Gilbert J. Ho currently works as a neurologist in Poway and is affiliated with multiple hospitals in the area, including Palomar Medical Center and Pomerado Hospital. Sam Stelletello, is the owner of Sunshine Care, a memory community & serves as San Diego Dementia Consortium’s Treasurer. Kathy Randall is now retired.