Dan Osterweil MD, FACP, Msc Ed, CMD

Dan Osterweil is President and Medical Director of SCAN Health Plan and Professor of Medicine at UCLA, completed a geriatrics fellowship at UCLA. Dr. Osterweil was the founder and Medical Director of the Specialized Ambulatory Geriatric Evaluation (S+AGE™) Clinic, a community-based, geriatric assessment center in Sherman Oaks. He is the Emeritus-editor of the Journal of the American Medical Directors Association (JAMDA), which he founded. He is a member of the editorial board of Caring for the Ages. Dr. Osterweil co-authored two editions of Medical Care in the Nursing Home, is the co-editor of Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment, and has published over 60 articles in peer-reviewed journals.

His areas of expertise include cognitive and functional assessment, management of dementia, continuous quality improvement in the nursing home, planning and implementation of work processes in the nursing home, in-depth knowledge of nursing home state and federal regulations, and geriatric practice innovations. Dr. Osterweil is the Director of a UCLA training program entitled Leadership and Management in Geriatrics (LMG) and is Associate Director of the Multi-Campus Program in Geriatrics and Gerontology at UCLA (MPGMG). Dr. Osterweil served as a geriatric consultant to SCAN for many years prior to joining SCAN full time. Among his many duties at SCAN Dr. Osterweil leads SCAN’s senior-focused Healthcheck Assessment Center operations.