| Mary Guerriero Austrom, PhD
Dr. Austrom's social research focuses on Alzheimer's disease and family and professional caregivers. In addition, her retirement research focuses on life satisfaction of physicians and their spouses following retirement.
Tamilyn Bakas, DNS, RN
Dr. Bakas' research focuses primarily on family caregiving in the aging population experiencing various chronic illnesses. Research interests include: caregiving, stress and coping theory, quality of life, and instrument development.
Susan J. Pressler, DNS, RN
Dr. Pressler's primary research interest is in heart failure. In her previous work she has evaluated heart failure outcomes in quality of life and hospitalization.
Victoria L. Champion, DNS, RN, FAAN
Dr. Champion's research focuses on cancer, which is a disease of aging. Research interests include: caregiving; health promotion; physical health & functioning.
Yansheng Du, PhD
Dr. Du's research focuses on neurodegenerative disorders including Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, and stroke. He seeks to identify mechanisms which can slow down neuronal death in neurodegenerative disorders and make an impact on understanding and treating these diseases
Martin R. Farlow, MD
Dr. Farlow's research focuses on clinical pharmacologic treatment of the symptoms and the disease of Alzheimer's. Research interests include: Biology of aging; clinical pharmacology & therapeutics; age-related disease: Alzheimer's disease.
Philip S. Fastenau, PhD
Dr. Fastenau's research focuses on cognitive changes in healthy aging and in cognitive test development. His interest includes how cognitive functioning is affected by neural inefficiency that accompanies healthy aging, by primary neurological disorders such as Alzhemier's, and by other systemic disorders such as chronic heart disease.
Deborah Finkel, PhD
Dr. Finkel's research interest focuses on applying the methods of behavior genetics to issues of genetic and environmental influences on cognitive aging and the dynamic processes of changes in mental ability and functional capacity. Research interests include: cognition; life course & developmental change; behavior genetics.
Ann Marie Hake, MD
Dr. Hake conducts biomedical research that focuses on on the causes, diagnosis, treatment and prevention of dementia.
Barbara A. Hawkins, ReD
Dr. Hawkins' research focuses on longitudinal research on aging-related changes in adults with mental retardation and research activities in the non-disabled population of older adults. Research interests include: diversity: race/ethnicity, cultural, gender; physical health & functioning; leisure behavior and lifestyle patterns.
C. Conrad Johnston, Jr., MD
Dr. Johnston's research interest focuses on factors which determine the amount of bone mass an individual has at maturity and the factors which contribute to bone mass loss in the older individual.
Alan E. Mikesky, PhD
Dr. Mikesky's research focuses on progressive resistance exercise and its impact on gait, functional independence, balance and osteoarthritis in older adults. Research interests include: exercise; age-related disease — osteoarthritis; physical health and functioning.
Wendy Morrison, PhD
Dr. Morrison's research focuses on methods of estimating health status utilities which has implications for valuing health related quality of life for the elderly.
Laura L. Murray, PhD Dr. Murray's research focuses on understanding the underlying source of the communication problems that many elderly people will face (e.g., aphasia, problems associated with dementing diseases), as well as developing assessment and remediation techniques to help elderly patients and their caregivers deal with these communication problems. Research interests include: cognitive impairment & delirium; age-related disease: stroke; communication/language disorders, depression.
Eliza Pavalko, PhD
Dr. Pavalko's research focuses primarily on social change and the life course with a particular interest in how the changing nature of women's paid and unpaid work affects and is affected by their health. Research interests include: life course & developmental change; social structure, change, demography; caregiving.
Lisa Riolo, PhD, PT, NCS
Dr. Riolo's research focuses on normal cognitive aging relative to mobility. Her research interests include the effects of inattention in normal elders on mobility and function.
Kevin M. Terrell, DO, MS
Dr. Terrell's research focuses on older emergency department patients. His academic career goal is to develop, implement, and test strategies to provide the highest quality emergency department care to older adults.
William M. Tierney, MD
Dr. Tierney uses the General Medical Clinics and the Regenstrief Medical Record System to study the effect of interventions and system changes on the process and outcomes of medical care. His goal is to use information at critical points in the care process to improve the quality and efficiency of health care. Frederick W. Unverzagt, PhD Dr. Unverzagt investigates the correlates and predictors of cognitive ability and cognitive decline in normal aging, dementia, and Alzhemier's disease.
Joel A. Vilensky, PhD Dr. Vilensky's primary interest in aging research is falling (senile gait). Falls are a serious problem for elderly individuals, they can bring on other health consequences (e.g. broken hip), and may restrict mobility (e.g. fear of falling).
Linda S. Williams, MD Dr. Williams' research focuses on understanding how quality of life change after stroke and how interventions in hospital or post-hospital care can impact these changes. Research interests include: geriatric assessment, functional assessment; age-related disease: stroke; physical health & functioning. |
