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Melissa Parks, CFE, AHFI Principal Myers and Stauffer LC

Mila Lilien, MAG Community Health Worker SCAN Health Plan Mila Lilien is currently the Community Health Worker for the Insights Mental Health Program at Independence at Home. She received her bachelor’s from the University of California, Irvine in English and Russian, and her master’s of gerontology fromCalifornia State University, San Dominguez Hills. She previously worked as a Lead Resident Service Coordinator in low-income housing for 16 years, focused on helping seniors and disabled adults remain independent and safe in their own homes. She earned her Certified Case Management License (CCM) in 2016 and has beena speaker at several national conferences focused an aging and working with seniors. She also earned her Mental Health First Aid Instructor credentials in December 2019, teaching classes within her organization, as well as in the community. In addition, Mila works in outreach efforts throughout California to spread the word on Independence at Home programs and services.

Lori Mars, JD, LLM NCEA Deputy Director National Center on Elder Abuse

Melissa Parks has over 25 years of experience with Medicare/Medicaid billings,healthcarerelatedconsulting audits and forensic accounting analysis, including over twenty years of work with Department of Justice/ Federal Bureau of Investigation (DOJ/FBI). She is currently involved with numerous health care fraud investigations and litigation support service engagements and has worked on over 100 criminal fraud investigations. She has extensive trial testimony experience including testifying in over 30 federal criminal trials, sentencing hearings, and providing non-testimony assistance for trial teams. In addition, Melissa is the Principal that oversees the Adult Protection Services forensic audit work to determine the breadth of financial exploitation on Involved/Vulnerable Adults. She ensures the forensic audits meet the needs of the investigators and to help quantify the misappropriated funds. Financial exploitation of vulnerable adults and the elderly continues to be a growing issue and the work performed is essential to determine the extent the individuals have been exploited or compromised. She oversees the analysis to ensure potential misappropriated funds are identified, other items of note are communicated to the investigators and recommendations are prepared and submitted to the investigator.

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