Speakers
VAL J. HALAMANDARIS, JD
President, National Association for Home Care & Hospice
Val J. Halamandaris was named President of the National Association for Home Care & Hospice on its birthday, March 10, 1982. For the past 25 years, he has guided the organization to become one of the most respected in Washington, D.C. Under his direction, NAHC has helped raise public awareness and the acceptance of home care and hospice from 10 percent to more than 80 percent.
Halamandaris is a Utah native and worked his way through college on the staff of Sen. Frank E. Moss, and continued working full time as he completed his law degree from Catholic University Law School. He served as Counsel to the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging and the U.S. House Select Committee on Aging. In a congressional career that spanned 20 years, he helped to write major home health, hospice and aging bills into law.
In addition to being a trade association executive, he is an attorney, author, publisher, editor, producer of films for television, a published photographer and a humanitarian.
Since coming to NAHC, Halamandaris has founded The Caring Institute, The Frederick Douglass Museum, The Foundation for Hospice and Home Care, The Center for Health Care Law, CARING Magazine and The World Home Care and Hospice Organization. Most recently, he helped found the Home Care Technology Association of America, the Private Duty Homecare Association of America and the Home Care and Hospice Financial Managers Association.
Halamandaris has won many awards, including the National Ellis Island Award in 2003 and has been one of the nation’s most acknowledged experts on the U.S. Congress and in the fields of health care and aging for more than 40 years.
DORIS KEARNS GOODWIN
Pulitzer Prize-winning Author, PresidentialHistorian
Doris Kearns Goodwin, world-renowned historian, has been reporting on politics and baseball for over two decades. Goodwin is the best-selling author of many books and has written for leading national publications. She is a commentator for NBC, and a consultant and on-air person for PBS documentaries She was also the first female journalist to enter the Boston Red Sox locker room.
Goodwin received her B.A. from Colby College. She received her Ph.D. in Government from Harvard University where she subsequently taught government. Following her tenure at Harvard, Goodwin served as an assistant to Lyndon Johnson in his last year in the White House and later assisted Johnson in the preparation of his memoirs.
Goodwin is the author of L yndon Johnson & The American Dream and The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys. Her next book, No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The American Home Front During World War II, received high praise and many awards including the Pulitzer Prize in April 1995. She is also the author of Wait Till Next Year: A Memoir, published in 1997, is about growing up in the 1950s in love with the Brooklyn Dodgers.
Most recently, she has written a monumental history of Abraham Lincoln entitled Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, which reached #1 on the New York Times Best Seller List.
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