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Dr. Teresa Graney DSW, LCSW PACT Social Worker for Palm Desert VA Clinic Loma Linda VA Healthcare System

Teresa Graney has worked for the VA for almost 15 years. The last 5 years is with the Palm Desert VA clinic. She held different social worker positions with five different VA Healthcare systems in the country. She worked in the emergency room, specialty clinics, dialysis clinic, oncology, mental health and primary care. Teresa Graney obtained her Master of Social Worker degree from the University of Illinois in Urbana, Illinois in 2000. She received her Doctor of Social Work degree from the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, Tennessee in 2015 and is a licensed clinical social worker in California and Florida.

Talitha Guinn-Shaver MDT Technical Advisor Elder Justice Initiative, U.S. Department of Justice

Talitha Guinn-Shaver serves as the elder abuse Multidisciplinary Team (MDT) Technical Advisor for the Elder Justice Initiative (EJI) at the U.S. Department of Justice. Her experience with MDTs includes her prior role as the Director of the Elder Abuse Prevention program at the Institute on Aging, where she served as the Director of the San Francisco Elder Abuse Forensic center and chair of the San Francisco Elder Abuse MDT. She has also participated in other MDTmodels such as serving on the San Francisco Elder Death Review Teamand The Hoarding and Cluttering Taskforce. She has also proudly served the National Center on Elder Abuse (NCEA) working on elder abuse special projects. Supporting existing elder abuse case review MDTs and facilitating the expansion of the model is the primary objective of the EJI MDT TAC.

Sheri Gulino Probate Director Superior Court of California, Riverside County

Sheri Gulino has 39 years of experience in probate, trust and estate planning working for private attorneys, the Public Administrator’s Office, as well as the courts in San Bernardino County, Orange County and Riverside County. Gulino has experience in conservatorship and guardianship law and has been relied upon to review complicated court accountings. Working in the probate area of law in the court system for 17 years providing a wide range of court experience, she is a subject matter expert. Gulino received her bachelor ‘s degree in business from Azusa Pacific University and has many years of supervision and leadership experience. She has served as faculty for the Center for Judicial Education and Research (CJER) probate, court Investigator trainings, conservatorship, and guardianship courses for many years, and currently is a member of the board on the Judicial Council Probate and Mental Health Advisory Committee.