Jennie Chin Hansen

AARP President, Class of 2008

Jennie Chin Hansen, R.N., M.S., F.A.A.N., of San Francisco, CA, was elected by the Board to serve as AARP President for the 2008-2010 biennium. In addition, Ms. Hansen serves as an ex-officio member of the Board’s three standing committees: the Board Governance Committee, Board Audit and Finance Committee and the Board Member Value-Social Impact Committee. She has previously chaired the AARP Foundation Board and served on the AARP Services Board.

Ms. Hansen holds an appointment as Senior Fellow at the University of California, San Francisco's Center for the Health Professions and consults with various foundations. She transitioned to teaching in 2005 after nearly 25 years at  On Lok, most recently as its  executive director for the last 11 years. On Lok, Inc., is a nonprofit family of organizations providing integrated and comprehensive primary and long-term care community based services in San Francisco. On Lok was the prototype for PACE (Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly), which was signed into federal legislation in 1997 making this Medicare/Medicaid program available to all 50 states.

Ms. Hansen serves in various leadership roles that include commissioner of the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC), and board member of the National Academy of Social Insurance and of the Robert Wood Johnson Executive Nurse Fellows Program and the SCAN Foundation. Ms. Hansen serves as a national juror for the Purpose Prize sponsored by Civic Ventures. She is a past president of the American Society on Aging.

Among Ms. Hansen's awards are the 2005 Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator's Achievement Award; the 2002 Gerontological Society of America's Maxwell Pollack Award for Productive Living; the Women's Healthcare Executive Woman of the Year of Northern California in 2000; and the 1997 "Women Who Could Be President" Honoree from the League of Women Voters of San Francisco. She is a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing. She has received several alumni awards from the University of California, San Francisco and Boston College, including an honorary doctorate from Boston College in 2008.