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Leland Waters, PhD (he/him/his)

Director, Virginia Geriatric Education Center
Virginia Commonwealth University
Richmond, Virginia, United States

Leland “Bert” Waters, PhD, is the Associate Director of the Virginia Center on Aging and is the Director of the Virginia Geriatric Education Center, a consortium of six Virginia universities. He is the Project Director for Virginia’s Geriatrics Workforce Enhancement Program (GWEP). Dr. Waters is core faculty at VCU’s Institute for Inclusion, Inquiry & Innovation (iCubed) Health and Wellness Across the Lifespan Transdisciplinary Core, addressing problems of older and disabled adults aging in place within low-income seniors housing apartment buildings and surrounding neighborhoods in urban Richmond, Virginia. He was instrumental in developing and sustaining the Mobile Health and Wellness Program, a care coordination model supporting low-income older adults. He is also the Co-Principal Investigator for the Virginia Long-Term Care Facility Network, a peer clinician network and associated website of free information with a monthly forum through which clinical issues in long-term care medicine can be discussed among peers. He currently serves as Past-President of the Southern Gerontological Society, and President of the National Association for Geriatric Education, the stakeholder organization for GWEPs.

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