Robert Dana Chellis is Senior Advisor at Campus Continuum. He focuses on conceptualizing our projects to best meet the goals of the host academic institution and prospective residents.

As a planner, developer, consultant, trustee, past-President of organizations including National Lifecare Corporation, Senior Living Inc., and the New England Gerontological Association - Bob has visited hundreds of campus-style and other senior communities, and enjoyed deep involvement in the trends and evolution of senior housing for over 40 years.

Experience:

• Carleton-Willard Village, Bedford, MA - over 30 years ago he initiated, programmed and followed to completion the first CCRC in Mass.- over 400 units on 65 acres - with five levels of living and care from cottages to nursing beds. Educational opportunities (rejected by the trustees as too innovative - for the '70's) were educational affiliations Bob had arranged with Boston University Medical School to develop a "teaching nursing home," and an innovative cross-generational program bringing the Lexington Montessori School to the site.
• Almost 20 years ago Bob programmed Riverwoods at Exeter (a CCRC in NH for grads of the nearby University of NH, and Phillips Academy), and Applewood at Amherst, a CCRC for graduates of the "Five Colleges" in Amherst, MA.
• Lasell College - Over 10 years ago Bob was a consultant to the Trustees of Lasell College, as they fine-tuned their plans for Lasell Village. This is the current benchmark for school related projects.
• Within the last 10 years Bob has been commissioned to do master plans and feasibility studies for college based retirement villages by Univ. of Maine at Orono, and Connecticut College in New London, CT.
• MIT - The Emma Rogers Society, Cambridge, MA. retained Bob to advise on Retirement Planning and Options for the widows of MIT, MIT faculty, staff and graduates.
• Harvard University - Division of Real Estate twice commissioned Bob to draft memos on the status and potential of university sponsored retirement housing.
• Harvard Graduate School of Design - retained Bob to teach a course in "Life Care Development" for their continuing education evening program, and to teach "Elderly Housing" at their summer school program.
• Harvard School of Public Health co-sponsored a national conference Bob developed on Congregate Housing for Older People.
• Harvard Medical School co-sponsored a national conference Bob developed on Life Care retirement housing.
• Boston University and Marriott Senior Services co-sponsored a national conference Bob organized on the development of Life Care programs.
• Texas Tech - developed an expansion plan for the John Knox Village of West Texas, in Lubbock. Re-christened it "Carillon" and encouraged strong, successful research links with nearby Texas Tech.
• U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging asked for Bob's testimony on the directions and financing of senior housing.
• Represented the senior housing perspective on a Ted Koppel national TV special "Aging in the 21st Century."

Education:

Princeton University, Princeton, NJ (AB) and Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (MPH, Master's in Public Health, specializing in Health Services Administration).

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