Sue Peschin

President and CEOSue Peschin, MHS, is president and CEO at the Alliance for Aging Research. As the leader of the Executive Team, she is responsible for successful execution of the current strategic plan, and for assuring the operational excellence, fiscal health and growth of the organization. Sue has more than 20 years of experience in health policy, government relations and non-profit leadership.  Prior to her current role, she was vice president of Public Policy for the Alzheimer’s Foundation of America (AFA), where she successfully advocated for passage of health reform provisions for individuals with dementia and family caregivers, including the “detection of any cognitive impairment” provision in the new annual Medicare wellness visit, nursing home transparency and the Independence at Home Act demonstration program. While at AFA, Sue also achieved a doubling of appropriations for the Missing Alzheimer’s Disease Patient Alert Program, co-facilitated the Leaders Engaged in Alzheimer’s Disease coalition, and served as an advisor on the “Caregiver Initiative” included in the 2010 annual report for the Middle Class Task Force, chaired by Vice President Joe Biden.  She has published studies on cognitive screening, federal funding at the National Institute on Aging and policy recommendations for implementation of the National Alzheimer’s Project Act. Previous to her work at AFA, Sue ran her own consulting business, offering lobby day training and strategic pl...
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