>> Yeah my name is Brian Lindberg.
I'm a Public Policy Advisor.
I provide consultation to nonprofit organizations.
I work out of Washington, D.C. and I also run a nonprofit,
the Consumer Coalition for Quality Healthcare.
The issues I deal with are primarily around health and aging.
And the clients I have are great nonprofits who don't have the money
to have a big Washington presence so they have me monitoring legislation,
drafting bills for them, going to hearings,
representing them on coalitions, that kind of work.
I travel to various conferences to keep up on the health and aging issues.
I make presentations on various issues.
Recently I've been working a lot with end of life issues,
individuals who have advanced illness and need to make sure that their choices are respected
and followed toward the end of their life, in terms of healthcare and services.
And so I've been speaking around the country on those issues of late.
I started in Congress.
Worked on the Senate and House Aging Committees for 10 years starting in 1983.
And there are several bills that I've worked with over the years
that helped Native American Indians, for example,
that improved the long term care Ombudsman Program,
that created a unified comprehensive approach to elder justice to try to prevent
and deal with elder abuse in our country.
Those are highlights I think because once
in a while you do have those successes if you're persistent.