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Dr. Chuck Powell Memorial Lecture Series

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Join us for the 13th Annual Dr. Chuck Powell Memorial Lecture.

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Guest Speaker: Brian Kaskie, PhD, Professor, MPH in Policy Advisor, University of Iowa

Date: October 31, 2025

Time: 10:30-11:30 AM

Location: UNO Thompson Alumni Center

Title: Placing Public Health onto the Alzheimer's Disease Public Policy Platform

Brian Kaskie, PhD

Brian Kaskie, PhD, is an Ethyl Percy Andrus Fellow who completed his doctoral training in gerontology at the University of Southern California Leonard Davis School. He then was appointed as a Health Policy Fellow at the University of California, San Francisco Institute for Health and Aging. Brian currently serves as a professor of health policy in the Department of Health Management and Policy at the University of Iowa.
Professor Kaskie examines public policies most relevant to older Americans, particularly those who are living with Alzheimer’s disease or a related dementia. His scholarship involves testing models of policy formation and implementation, and he has published in a wide range of peer-reviewed academic journals.

He is recognized as a subject matter expert with Medicare, Medicaid and other benefits programs for older Americans. Brian led the Johnson County (Iowa) Livable Community Initiative that evolved into the AARP Age-Friendly Cities program, he served the state of California and directed the Strategic Planning Initiative for older Californians, and was appointed as a United States Congressional Fellow, assigned to the Majority Staff of the Senate Aging Committee chaired by Senator Susan M. Collins.



Previous Speakers

2024: Marilyn R. Gugliucci, MA, PhD, AGHEF, GSAF, AGSF, NAOMEF, Professor, University of New England, Director, Geriatrics Education and Research, Director, U-ExCEL Older Adult Fitness/Wellness Program.

2023: Jennifer Craft Morgan, Director of Gerontology Institute and Professor of Gerontology, Georgia State University.

2022: Kenneth Rockwood, Professor of Medicine, investigator, active staff physician, and the Kathryn Allen Weldon Professor of Alzheimer Research at Dalhousie University.

2021: Steven S. Martin, Magaging Partner, Paxton Advisors, L.L.C.

2019: Julie Kaminski, Senior Vice-President and Chief Operating Officer for Immanuel Senior Living.

2018: Jane Potter, Professor of Geriatric Medicine, University of Nebraska Medical Center and Home Instead Center for Successful Aging

2017: Sarah Rowan, an inspirational speaker and noted life advocate for individuals walking with forgetfulness

2016: Susan Henricks, CEO, ICAN

2015: Jane Miller, Chief Operating Officer, Gallup Corporation

2014: Glenn Van Ekeren, President of Vetter Health Services

2013: Dr. Tom Osborne, Hall of Fame football coach & Co-Founder of TeamMates

2012: Paul & Lori Hogan, co-founders of Home Instead Senior Care

Dr. Chuck Powell

Dr. Chuck Powell

Gentleman. Educator. Navy man. All could be used to describe the late Dr. Chuck Powell, professor emeritus of the University of Nebraska Omaha (UNO) Department of Gerontology and the man for whom this lecture series is named.

Leadership was a subject familiar to Dr. Powell, who, as a 30-year U.S. Navy commander, participated in the Berlin airlift. Powell found gerontology in the second half of his life, earning his doctorate from the University of Nebraska in 1987 and joining the UNO faculty. “He was a wonderful gentleman and a great member of our faculty,” said Terry Haney Chair of Gerontology Dr. Julie Masters.

The Dr. Chuck Powell Memorial Lecture Series is open to university gerontology students, alumni, faculty, and the community. It is sponsored by the UNO Department of Gerontology and through the generosity of Dr. Amy Haddad and Mr. Steven Martin.

The Chuck Powell Memorial Lecture Series began at UNO in 2012. In just a few short years, the lecture series that focuses on leadership has become an annual rite of fall for UNO Gerontology students.

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