Business Beat: PACE-RI adds two new board members

Pawasauskas Joins PACE-RI Board of Directors

Non-profit organization helps chronically ill elders remain living independently 

Jayne E. Pawasauskas, PharmD, BCPS, has joined the PACE-RI board of directors.

Dr. Pawasauskas is a clinical professor at the University of Rhode Island in the College of Pharmacy where she serves as chair of the college assessment committee and the accreditation executive committee.  She  also serves on the faculty senate learning outcomes oversite committee.  

Dr. Pawasauskas is a pharmacy clinical consultant at Baxter Palliative Care, Institutional Review Board member at Kent Hospital and is a consultant on a research grant at the University of Massachusetts School of Medicine.

As a board-certified pharmacotherapy specialist, Pawasauskas has previously served as chair of the American College of Clinical Pharmacy’s Pain & Palliative Case Practice & Research Network, and is a member of the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy and the Society of Pain and Palliative Care Pharmacists.  

Dr. Pawasauskas is a writer and researcher whose work has been published in numerous technical and industry publications.   She is a graduate of the College of Pharmacy at the University of Rhode Island and currently resides in East Greenwich.

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Mitchell Wice, MD has joined the PACE-RI board of directors.

Dr. Wice is a Brown University-affiliated geriatrician at the Miriam and Rhode Island Hospitals. He also provides geriatric and palliative care at the Providence Veterans Affairs Medical Center and as medical director of the HopeHealth Hulitar Hospice Center.

“We are grateful for the experience and medical knowledge that Dr. Wice will bring to our board,” said PACE-RI CEO Joan Kwiatkowski. “His vast expertise in this field will help us continue to improve the quality of care that we provide to PACE participants.”

Dr. Wice is a researcher whose work has been published in a variety of professional journals, including the Journal of Palliative Medicine and Diabetes.  He has contributed chapters to two books and serves as the director of the geriatric medicine rotation at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University.  

After graduating with a degree in chemical engineering from the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Wice attended medical school at Boston University. He graduated as a doctor of medicine and then earned his master of arts degree in medical science from Boston University.  

Dr. Wice resides in Massachusetts.

PACE-RI, pace-ri.org, is the non-profit health plan for adults 55 and older who have chronic or complex health needs and wish to remain living at home. Founded in 2005, PACE-RI provides both insurance and medical care, as well as a range of health and social services that include adult day care, transportation, and meals at sites in East Providence, Woonsocket, Westerly and Newport. Taking a comprehensive approach to well-being, PACE-RI keeps medically complex participants out of nursing homes an average of four additional years as compared to their counterparts living independently without the supports provided by PACE-RI.