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Craig Atwood  

Research Interest:

Gerontology; Geriatrics; Endocrinological mechanisms of aging; Neuroendocrinology; Alzheimer's disease; Neuroregeneration; Regenerative medicine; Embryogenesis.

Associate professor
Division of Geriatrics and Gerontology & Department of Medicine
University of Wisconsin
USA

Athena Stavropoloulos Papas  

Research Interest:

Dr. Athena Papas extensive clinical research experience in the fields of Geriatric Dentistry; Sjogren syndrome; Medically compromised patients; Xerostomia

Professor
Head of the Division of Oral Medicine
Tufts University School of Dental Medicine
USA

Rick Scheidt  

Research Interest:

Dr. Rick Scheidt research has targeted the mental health of older rural residents of small towns in Kansas during better and worse economic times. His recent research focuses on place dependency of older residents of small, declining ("ghost") towns in Kansas.

Professor
Department of Lifespan Human Development
Kansas State University
USA

Huai Yong Cheng  

Research Interest:

Internal Medicine (U.S.A./China); Geriatric Medicine (U.S.A.); Cardiology/Hypertension (China); Palliative and Hospice Medicine (U.S.A.)

Associate Professor
Division General Medicine, Geriatrics and Palliative Care
University of Virginia
USA

Victoria V Lunyak  

Research Interest:

  • Epigenetics, mechanisms of gene silencing, nuclear organization and gene activity, cell fate determination in development and tumorigenesis.
  • Human mesenchymal stem cells, epigenetic mechanisms of stem cell aging.
  • Non-coding RNA, retrotransposons and computational genomics.
  • Next generation sequencing technology applications for ChIP-Seq, RNA-seq
  • Mechanisms of DNA synthesis: regulation of initiation of DNA replication, mapping of origins of replication, adoption of quantitative PCR technique to physical mapping of loci of the initiation of the replication.
  • Regulation of cell proliferation: identification and investigation of the nuclear factors that are involved in the cell cycle progression.
  • DNA structural alteration.

Associate Professor
Buck Institute for Research on Aging
USA

Krishnan Venkataraman  

Research Interest:

  • Determinants of the built environment that impact successful aging. The geographical focus of my research is Northern Ontario.
  • Dietary intervention in the prevention of age associated oxidative damage.

Chair
Department of Gerontology
Huntington University
USA

Linda Gerdner  

Research Interest:

Individualized music; Dementia; Evidence-based protocol

Ethnogeriatric Specialist
Geriatric Education Center
Stanford University
USA

Brian Christopher Scanlan  

Research Interest:

Brian Scanlan interest in medical education; Quality improvement, Access to care and equity in health care

Assistant Professor
Department of Clinical Medicine
Weill Cornell Medical College
USA

Douglas Schmucker  

Research Interest:

Biology of aging; Effect of aging on liver structure an function; Liver drug metabolism; Intestinal mucosal; Immunity; Hepatobiliary functions; Representation of women and the elderly in clinical trials; Medical school curriculum development

Professor
Department of Anatomy
University of California, San Francisco
USA

Jean Francois Kozak  

Research Interest:

  • Chronic disease management of the elderly(clinical epidemiology)
  • Primary care processes and health outcomes
  • Evaluation of health service models as related to the elderly and the disabled
  • Moral distress and dementia
  • Clinical decision making
  • Adverse drug events in nursing homes
  • Abuse and neglect

Professor
Department of Family & Community Medicine
Providence Health Care
USA

Janine Stevenson  

Research Interest:

  • Psychotherapy Project: This will run for a further 5-10 years and is generating a number of additional sub-studies.
  • Behavioural disturbance in nursing home clients and at home
  • Frontal lobe dementia and management
  • Psychotherapeutic management of treatment-resistant depression
  • Personality disorder in middle and old age

Associate Professor
Department of Discipline of Psychiatry
Sydney University
Australia

Pollene Speed-McIntyre  

Research Interest:

Dr. Speed presented her research on "How Dental School Admissions Practices Impact the Make-up of Students" at the American Dental Education Annual Meeting. Dr. Speed's work also focuses on geriatric dentistry and she is actively involved with the UW Geriatric Mobile Unit.

Course Director
Department of Dentistry
University of Washington
USA

Taraswi Banerjee  

Research Interest:

  • DNA damage and repair
  • Cancer
  • Transcriptional control of genes
  • Cell cycle

Visiting Fellow
Laboratory of Molecular Gerontology
National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health
USA

Heying Jenny Zhan  

Research Interest:

Dr. Heying Zhan research interests and publications deal with issues in institutional care, intergenerational relations, gender and family, transnational migration, and comparative social policies.

Associate Professor
Department of Sociology
Georgia State University
USA

Pamela Pitman Brown  

Research Interest:

Pedagogy in higher education; Distance learning; Gerontological literacy in K-12; Middle-aged women; Sexual health.

Assistant Professor
Department of Behavioral Sciences
Winston Salem State University
USA

Nader Fallah  

Research Interest:

Statistical theory: Artificial Neural Networks; Machine learning; Multi-state Transition Model Applications: Neuroscience; Alzheimer's and dementia; Spinal Cord Injury and Ophthalmology

Senior Biostatistician
Department of Research, Rick Hansen Institute & Associated Faculty
Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia
Canada

Giorgio Basile  

Research Interest:

The extreme longevity and centenarians; Clinical and pathophysiological aspects of heart failure in the elderly; Smoking and aging; Osteoporosis; Parkinsonism and aging

Assistant Professor
Department of Geriatrics
University of Messina
Italy

Stefan Krajcik  

Research Interest:

Social Georonotology,DOE (Dignity of Older Europeans), Geriatric medicine

Professor
Department of Geriatrics
Slovak Medical University
Slovakia

Morten Scheibye-Knudsen  

Research Interest:

Dr. Morten Scheibye-Knudsen research focuses on brain aging. Using neurodegenerative DNA repair disorders as models we have found that DNA damage in the brain leads to activation of PARP1, a DNA damage response enzyme that attenuates the activity of the longevity factor SIRT1. This leads to mitochondrial dysfunction and metabolic alterations that can be rescued using PARP inhibitors, NAD precursor supplementation or treatment with ketone bodies.

Research Fellow
Laboratory of Molecular Gerontology
National Institute on Aging, National Institute of Science
USA

Rangaraj Gopalraj  

Research Interest:

Single nucleotide polyphormism; Genetic association; RNA splicing; LDL receptor; Alzheimer's Disease; Geriatric Medicine; Palliative Medicine; Communication; Interdisciplinary teams; Aging Physiology.

Assistant Professor
Department of Family & Geriatric Medicine
University of Louisville, School of Medicine
USA

Aurel Popa-Wagner  

Research Interest:

Aged animals models of cerebral ischemia; Behavioral analysis; Recording of EEG and various physiological parameters by telemetric measurements; MRI for small animals; Immunohistochemical procedures; Proteomics; Genomics.

Professor
Department of Psychiatry Aging & Psychiatric Disorders Group
Rostock University Medical School
Germany

Ho-Hon Leung  

Research Interest:

Ethnic studies; Immigration and immigrants; Comparative ethnic aging; Ethnic identity; Architecture

Professor
Department of Sociology
State University of New York College at Oneonta
USA

Carol C McDonough  

Research Interest:

  • Seniors and the internet
  • Cognitive effects of internet use among seniors
  • Reasons why many seniors are on the negative side of the digital divide
  • Factors that promote greater internet use among older adults.

Professor
Department of Economics
University of Massachusetts Lowell
USA

Lisa M Ellerby  

Research Interest:

Aging; Huntington's disease; Neurological diseases

Associate Professor
Buck Institute for Research on Aging
Davis School of Gerontology, University of Southern California
USA

Amanda Sokan  

Research Interest:

Elder abuse/Mistreatment; Long-term care; Elder rights/justice; Provider behavior; Health navigation; Promotion and wellbeing; Aging and diversity; Cultural competence

Assistant Professor
Department of Health Management and Policy
Public Health at the University of Kentucky
USA

Carrie Bourassa  

Research Interest:

Dr. Carrie's research interests include the impacts of colonization on the health of Indigenous people; creating culturally safe care in health service delivery; Indigenous community-based health research methodology; Indigenous HIV/AIDS research; Indigenous end-of-life care and Indigenous women's health. Carrie is Metis, belonging to the Regina Riel Metis Council #34.

Professor
Department of Indigenous Education, Health and Social Work
First Nations University of Canada
Canada

Graziamaria Corbi  

Research Interest:

  • Sirtuins and physical activity, sirtuins and aging, longevity
  • Oxidant/Antioxidant and exercise training
  • Gender medicine in elderly,
  • Elderly abuse.

Assistant Professor
Department of Internal Medicine and Geriatrics
University of Molise
Italy

Prabhat Khadka  

Research Interest:

  • To unravel the molecular mechanism of Cancer and aging using targeted and global OMICS technologies-A system biology approach to understand the mechanism of DNA damage and Genome integrity.
  • Understanding the molecular and biochemical mechanisms of mammalian DNA replication and DNA repair in aging related diseases.
  • Elucidating the molecular mechanism of Checkpoint activated during DNA damage and removed during late S phase during DNA replication. How the cell cycle checkpoints monitor the integrity of the eukaryotic genome integrity.
  • Understanding the molecular cross talk between DNA replication and DNA damage proteins. How DNA damage signaling is suppressed during replication to prevent the cell from catastrophic. Most importantly how DNA damage proteins and DNA replication proteins are required for the maintenance of genome integrity in cancer cell and stem cell.

Research Fellow
laboratory of Molecular Gerontology
National Institute on Aging/National Institutes of Health
USA

Ralph Kunz  

Research Interest:

Dr. Ralph Kunz main focus of research is the relationship between health and religious behavior among older adults

Professor
Department of Practical Theology
University of Zurich
Switzerland

Hiroshi Shibata  

Research Interest:

Gerontology; Geriatrics; Nutritional epidemiology

Professor
Institute of Aging and Human Development
J. F. Oberlin University
Japan

Sanjay Kumar Bharti  

Research Interest:

Dr. Sanjay Bharti area of research is role of DNA repair in premature aging and cancer.

Visiting Fellow
Laboratory of Molecular Gerontology
National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health
USA

Stephen D Ginsberg  

Research Interest:

Dr. Stephen D. Ginsberg focus of the Ginsberg laboratory is to delineate cellular and Molecular mechanisms underlying selective vulnerability to neurodegeneration.

Associate Professor
Departments of Psychiatry and Neuroscience & Physiology
New York University Langone Medical Center
USA

Jacob B Blumenthal  

Research Interest:

Dr. Jacob B Blumenthal overall research aims are to begin to delineate the contributions of: genetic factors, as well as environmental ones to these processes as well as develop novel strategies to address the functional implications of these problems

Assistant Professor
Division of Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine
University of Maryland School of Medicine
USA

Thierry Chevalley  

Research Interest:

Dr. Thierry research focused on bone mass acquisition; Osteoporosis epidemiology and prevention and comprehensive geriatric assessment

Assistant Professor
Department of Internal Medicine, Rehabilitation and Geriatrics
University Hospitals of Geneva
Switzerland

Manikandan Paramasivam  

Research Interest:

DNA Repair; DNA Interstrand Crosslink Repair; Fanconi Anemia; Replication; Senescence and G-quadruplex

Research Fellow
Laboratory of Gerontology
National Institute of Aging, National Institutes of Health
USA

Priscilla D Allen  

Research Interest:

Dr. Priscilla D Allen research interests are long term care and psychosocial intervention with older persons, culture change in the nursing home, and societal influence of ageism

Associate Professor
School of Social Work
LouisianaStateUniversity
USA

Iracema Leroi  

Research Interest:

Dementia; Particularly Parkinson's disease dementia

Senior Lecturer
Department of Psychiatry/Dementia
University of Manchester
UK

Dimitri Beeckman  

Research Interest:

Dr. Dimitri Beeckman is specialized in the development and psychometric evaluation of instruments to measure outcomes of nursing interventions and in testing complex interventions in care

Professor
Nursing Science at the University Centre of Nursing & Midwifery
Ghent University
Belgium

Steven L Wolf  

Research Interest:

Motor control geriatrics stroke biofeedback movement science

Professor
Department of Rehab Medicine and Medicine, Department of Cell Biology
Emory University School of Medicine
Department of Health and Elder Care
Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing
Senior Research Scientist
Atlanta VA Center for Visual and Neurocognitive Rehabilitation
USA

Chivon A Mingo  

Research Interest:

  • Dr. Mingo's current research has centered on improving the health of urban-dwelling aging minorities by
  • identifying contributing factors (e.g., psychosocial, cultural, contextual, behavioral, neighborhood) to racial/ethnic minority chronic disease health disparities
  • Actively targeting factors associated with racial/ethnic health disparities through the design, development, dissemination, and implementation of culturally appropriate behavioral interventions based on psychological and public health theory and concepts.

Assistant Professor
Gerontology Institute
Georgia State University
USA

Jeanne Yichen Wei  

Research Interest:

Dr. Jeanne's current major research interests include elucidating the effects of age on cardiovascular homeostasis and improving as well as innovating cost-effective care of frail elders.

Professor
Department of Geriatrics
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
USA

Nancy R Schroeder  

Research Interest:

Dr. Nancy R Schroeder Research interest in innovative teaching strategies that foster improved student engagement with geriatric content resulting in positive attitudes toward caring for older adults

Assistant Professor
Department of Nursing
Ohio Northern University
USA

Cynthia J Woodfield  

Research Interest:

Dr. Cynthia J Woodfield area of interest includes Nursing education; Specifically, Teaching/learning strategies designed to improve student's appreciation and understanding of the Geriatric population

Assistant Professor
Department of Nursing
Ohio Northern University
USA
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