Pamela B. Teaster is a Professor and the Director of the Center for Gerontology at Virginia Tech. She is a 2023-2024 Health and Aging Policy Fellow, and a Fellow of the Gerontological Society of America of the Association for Gerontology in Higher Education. Her areas of scholarship include the abuse of vulnerable adults (e.g., sexual abuse; financial and opioid exploitation, guardianship) surrogate decision making, end-of-life decision-making, ethical treatment of older adults, and public policy and public affairs). She has published over 250 scholarly and translational articles, reports, and book chapters and is the editor/author of 7 books. She serves on the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Elder Abuse and Neglect and the Journal of Trauma, Violence, and Abuse Review and is in her second term as a Commissioner for the American Bar Association for Law and Aging. She became a nationally registered EMT, licensed in Virginia in 2023.