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# Senior health care
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/senior-health-care/
- Published: 2002-08-01T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T00:34:54.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Health, Santa Monica, #archive-import

*By Daily Press staff*

The regular meeting of the Santa Monica Commission on Older Americans will feature guest speaker, Ruth Roemer, J.D., a nationally known leader in the field of public health, at the Ken Edwards Center in Santa Monica, 1527 Fourth Street, room 104-105.

The professor has served as president of the American Public Health Association and received numerous awards, including the UCLA Public Health Student Association Faculty of the Year Award and, most recently, the Beverlee A. Myers Award, presented by the California Department of Health Services to Ruth and her late husband, Milton.

As a professor emerita, Roemer, 86, teaches every quarter at the UCLA School of Public Health on Public Health Law & Policy. Roemer will speak on the current status of Medicare and proposals for including prescription drug coverage. The public is invited to ask questions at the end of the lecture.

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on August 1, 2002.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/080102.pdf?ref=smdp.com)