All of the instructors with J.P.McGehrin & Associates, Inc. are both subject matter experts and professional presenters.
Instructors include:

Joanne McGehrin began her service with the Federal Government in 1980 as a Retirement Claims Examiner with the Office of Personnel Management. She transferred to the Retirement and Insurance Group Training Branch in 1983 where she designed and developed training materials for various courses in Civil Service Retirement and conducted week-long training courses for personnel officers in Civil Service retirement benefits and annuity computations. In 1987, Joanne left Federal service and founded J.P. McGehrin and Associates, specializing in Federal Employee Benefits training. She has developed and delivered various training courses for Federal personnel officers and has conducted over fifteen hundred lectures for Federal employees preparing for retirement. Joanne has conducted numerous interactive presentations via satellite for employees of the US Postal Service and the National Park Service.

Karen’s publishing credits include articles in Business Review, Best's Review and the Financial Planning Encyclopedia. She has been quoted in The Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, and Money Magazine, and has appeared on many radio and television programs including the Wall Street Journal Review, a syndicated television program.

Patricia Mann is a registered nurse, nutritionist, and health educator. After graduating from nursing school, she joined the Army Nurse Corps and spent two of her three years in Viet Nam, running the emergency room of a Mobile Army Surgical Hospital (MASH). She returned to the University of Maryland and obtained a BS (1977), MA (1979), and PhD (1981) in Health. Dr. Mann remained on the graduate faculty at Maryland until she left in 1990 to go into private practice. Currently, Dr. Mann’s practice involves weight control or nutrition matters, lifetime fitness and health promotion, and disease prevention. She has lectured on these issues to more than 225,000 Federal employees over the last 16 years. Dr. Mann also has a large practice in sport nutrition and served as the team nutritionist for the Washington Capitals from 1988 to 2000. She has also worked with Dan Riley and the Washington Redskins, and continues to work with many collegiate and recreational athletic teams.

Norman Handler is a lawyer licensed to practice in Maryland and the District of Columbia. His practice areas include wills and trusts, powers of attorney, living wills and other health care directives, probate law, corporate law and taxation law. Norman consults with and is a frequent lecturer to individuals, business leaders, professional groups and government agencies on estate planning and probate matters, business transactions and tax law. He is a former IRS policy maker and tax law instructor at Georgetown University Law School. Norman graduated from Harpur College (SUNY-Binghamton) B.A., 1967. St. John’s University of Law, J.D.,1970 and Georgetown University Law Center, LL.M., (Taxation), 1976.

Michael Creedon served as Director of the Catholic University Center on Aging (1982-84); Andrews Professor of Gerontology at the University of Bridgeport (1984-87); and as Director of Corporate Programs for The National Council of the Aging (NCOA) (1987-1990). He was the founding Coordinator, and is currently Board Chairman of the Certificate in Aging Studies Program at the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md. He is professor of Geriatric Health Management and Chairman of Aging Studies at A.T. Still University of the Health Sciences (formerly Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine, Missouri).  In 1983-84 Michael Creedon conceptualized and led the development of Generation to Generation: Sharing the Intangible, a Traveling Exhibit of the U.S. Library of Congress, This exhibit formed the Library of Congress contribution to the 1985 White House Conference on Aging. The exhibit traveled around the U.S. for four years and provided visual examples of inter-generational sharing strategies used by older adults and their younger relatives in many American families and communities. He also organized and co-directed the First National Conference on Employees and Eldercare (1987), a joint project of the U.S. Administration on Aging, the Conference Board, and the University of Bridgeport. As Director of Corporate Programs at NCOA, from 1987 to 1990. Dr. Creedon managed retirement programs, eldercare programs, and other workplace services for more than 100 public, non-profit and corporate organizations. Dr. Creedon has provided Retirement and Mid-Career training for American workers since 1979.

Dr. Creedon has been an advisor to the Irish National Commission on Family. He conducted a seminar for the Government of Iceland on Policies for Care of the Elderly. He co-directed a New Zealand National Task Force on Establishment of a National Information System on Aging Services. He addressed conferences on aging issues in Germany, Finland, Israel, Canada, Britain and Japan. He was the gerontology advisor for a Japan-U.S.A. Legislative Dialogue co-sponsored by the Japan-American Foundation and The National Conference of State Legislatures (1993-94). More recently, he chaired the Home Environment section of the Fairfax County Task Force on Long Term Care (Final Report presented March, 2002). Dr. Creedon was chair of the AT Still University Board Task Force on Aging Education (2003-04), and was appointed the first AT Still University Chairman of Aging Studies in 2004. Michael Creedon has published widely on retirement eldercare, technology and aging, and other issues. Education: B.A. equivalent in Philosophy – All Hallows College, Dublin, Ireland (1964) Master’s Degree in Social Work – Virginia Commonwealth University (1975) Doctorate in Social Welfare – University of Maryland (1997).