President / Board Chair

Joseph J. Giamboi, Esq.
Joseph J. Giamboi is an attorney and General Counsel to The Zucker Organization, a large NYC developer and owner of luxury apartments in NYC and commercial property around the country.  He is also an adjunct professor at Brooklyn Law School and New York Law School. Among his pro bono activities is his service on the Board of the New York Memory Center and Progress of Peoples, Inc., a non-profit corporation formed by Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Brooklyn to create and manage affordable housing in Brooklyn and Queens.  He lives in Windsor Terrace with his wife and two children.

Treasurer

Robert Reitman, CPA

Robert is a Tax Partner and CPA at MGO LLP. Robert works with a wide range of companies, from emerging to well-established entities born here in the U.S. and others coming into the U.S. from elsewhere, helping them with tax planning and compliance. Robert is very knowledgeable about the tax needs of for-profit companies in growth mode or in the midst of other transitions, and those of non-profits. Robert has served on the boards of several literacy organizations located in Bergen County, NJ. Robert also served as a youth coach for baseball, softball, and soccer. Robert is a member of two committees of the NYSSCPA and has chaired two committees for the organization.

Secretary

Sharon Goldzweig, Esq.

Sharon Goldzweig is Associate Counsel -ERISA at Consolidated Edison Company of New York‚ Inc. in New York City. Ms. Goldzweig is responsible for the legal oversight of the pension‚ profit sharing‚ health and welfare ERISA plans and programs for the active employed management and union workforce and for the retiree population. She provides daily legal counsel to the ERISA fiduciaries‚ in-house subject matter experts‚ public utility regulatory group‚ finance and accounting groups and the benefit administration department. With over 15‚000 actively employed individuals and over 15‚000 retirees and the eligible and covered dependents for the active and retired workforce‚ the ERISA program provides coverage for over 50‚000 lives.

Dr. Judy Ahronheim

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A 1976 graduate of the University of Illinois School of Medicine in Chicago, she completed her internal medicine residency at SUNY-Downstate-Kings County Hospital in Brooklyn, NY, and in 1980, completed postgraduate training in Geriatrics at the Jewish Institute for Geriatric Care (now Parker Jewish Institute), New Hyde Park, NY. 

As a clinician, she has practiced primary and consultative care, acute medicine, and palliative care for elderly patients in many settings, including office practice, hospital, nursing home, and the home.  These experiences, often multidisciplinary, created a natural interest in areas that became a major component of her academic work, including the principles of geriatric prescribing, and clinical bioethics in end of life care, the latter with a special emphasis in the care of patients with advanced dementia.  She has also worked in the field of patient advocacy, which included leadership roles in consumer-based organizations promoting patient autonomy in medical decision making, experiences that prompted her to explore how legal approaches to bioethical dilemmas impact positively and negatively on patient care.  To this end, she undertook a course of study at Seton Hall University School of Law, a program designed for non-attorneys, with an emphasis on Health Law, and in 2009 earned a Masters degree in jurisprudence.

Dr Ahronheim has lectured widely on a range of topics to health professionals, students, and the public at large.  During that time and into the present, she has served as a caregiver for elderly family and loved ones--full-time, part time, and long distance, and has gained a new perspective and reinforced old ones, which she endeavors to share with other caregivers and the professionals that aim to serve them.

Jennifer Breznay, MD MPH
 

Photo and bio forthcoming

Claudia Fine, LCSW, MPH
Claudia Fine, LCSW, MPH has worked in the field of eldercare for over 30 years. A pioneer in the field of geriatric care management, she has served in many industry and community leadership roles. She served as Executive Vice President of SeniorBridge Family Companies and subsequently Chief of Professional Services at Humana At Home after Humana’s acquisition of SeniorBridge in 2012. She was a founding partner of New York City-based Fine & Newcombe Associates, a highly regarded firm in the private eldercare field, and is the former President of the National Association of Professional Geriatric Care Managers. She also is the recipient of the prestigious Hunter College School of Social Work Award for Outstanding Service to Social Work in Aging. Ms. Fine obtained her BA at Brandeis University and her Master of Social Work at the Hunter College and Master of Public Health from Columbia University. Ms. Fine continues her part time practice consulting with family caregivers of aging individuals with complex chronic illnesses including dementia.

Kristen Mallon, LCSW
 

Kristen Mallon is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with comprehensive experience. Starting her career working with children and families and ultimately finding her passion in the field of geriatrics. For 10 years, Ms. Mallon has been working collaboratively with top geriatric physicians to best serve this population. Ms. Mallon provides therapy, connections to concrete services, and family support/education. At Maimonides Medical Center, Ms. Mallon participated in the Medical Residency Program educating medical residents, specifically around the PCTI approach to care. Ms. Mallon also obtained grant funding for Holocaust Survivor programming, and co-created/directed a socialization program for the seniors of Brooklyn. Ms. Mallon obtained both her BSW and MSW at C.W. Post, Long Island University.

​Barbara Paris, MD
Barbara Paris has devoted her career to the care of the elderly as a practicing physician, educator and clinical researcher. She is a Clinical Professor of Medicine, Geriatrics & Palliative Medicine and Medical Education at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, and is Vice-Chair of Medicine and Director of Geriatrics at Maimonides Medical Center. She received her medical degree from State University of New York Downstate Medical Center College of Medicine and has been in practice for more than 40 years.

Board President Emeriti

Allan F. Kramer II
Allan F. Kramer II is a Park Slope native who served on the Board of the New York Memory Center beginning in 1992 and as President of the Board from 2010 - 2015. He graduated form the College of the Holy Cross in 1972 and received a graduate degree in 1979 from Pratt Institute with an MS in Information Science. He worked as  Research Manager for Aspen Systems, Corp from 1979 to 1986, and then as a Senior Editor and Senior Research Manager at Lebhar-Friedman/Chain Store Guides. Allan has been active in many Brooklyn organizations including as a volunteer and committee member at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden and serving terms on the Board of Directors for agencies including CAMBA, the Montauk Club, the Prospect Park YMCA, and Reel Works: Teen Filmmaking. He is a Life Member of the Society of Old Brooklynites. At the Center's 35th Anniversary Gala in 2018 Allan was honored for his "commitment, dedication and generosity."