Barak Gaster, MD

Barak Gaster, MD, is a professor of medicine at the University of Washington where he serves as Director of the Cognition in Primary Care Program, a program which designs training and tools to improve dementia care in the primary care setting. He is both a primary care clinician with an ongoing large practice as well as a specialist in dementia in the primary care setting. A nationally recognized expert, he has helped lead the CDC Healthy-Brain Roadmap as well as served on a Hastings Center workgroup on ethical issues in dementia. He is a co-investigator at the University of Washington Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center and is also the governor-appointed physician helping lead the Washington State Dementia Action Collaborative.

David B. Reuben, MD

Dr. Reuben is the director of the Multicampus Program in Geriatrics Medicine and Gerontology and chief of the Division of Geriatrics at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Center for Health Sciences. He is the Archstone Foundation Chair and Professor at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. Dr. Reuben is also Director of the UCLA Alzheimer’s and Dementia Care Program and Program Director of the UCLA CMS Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) program. In 2018, he was awarded a multi-site PCORI- and NIA-funded pragmatic trial (D-CARE) to compare the effectiveness of health system-based dementia care versus community-based dementia care versus usual care. Dr. Reuben was co-chair of the 2020 National Research Summit in Care, Services, and Supports for Persons with Dementia and their Caregivers. Dr. Reuben continues to provide primary care for frail older persons, including attending on the inpatient geriatrics unit, and making house calls.

David Aizuss, MD

David Aizuss, MD, a board-certified ophthalmologist living in Calabasas, California, is Board Chair of the American Medical Association.

Dr. Aizuss runs Ophthalmology Associates of the Valley, a multispecialty ophthalmology group in southern California. He has previously served as chief of surgery at Encino Hospital, as vice chief of staff at Providence Cedars Sinai Tarzana Medical Center, and as chair of the board of the Specialty Surgery Center of Encino.

First elected to the AMA Board of Trustees in June 2020, Dr. Aizuss was active in organized medicine and the AMA early in his career, attending his first AMA Annual Meeting while in medical school at Northwestern University and later serving on the AMA Medical Student Section Governing Council.

Active in a broad range of key leadership positions in his state and specialty societies, Dr. Aizuss has served as president of the California Academy of Eye Physicians and Surgeons, the Los Angeles Society of Ophthalmology, and the Los Angeles County Medical Association. He was elected to the California Medical Association Board of Trustees in 2010, serving as board chair from 2014-2017 and president in 2018.

Dr. Aizuss completed nearly 40 years on the faculty of the UCLA Stein Eye Institute and David Geffen UCLA School of Medicine as assistant clinical professor of ophthalmology in 2023.