Age Network Faculty
Faculty listed here are those, in the supporting units, who identify
themselves as having expertise or interest in biobehavioral and social
aging. Coming soon:
Links to individual websites, where available, can be
reached by clicking on each person's name.
| Faculty | Research Interests |
| Lise Abrams | Relationship between memory and language across adulthood; interactions between memory retrieval and language perception, comprehension, and production. |
| Elena Andresen | Development of research methods and measures related to older adults; health related quality of life and disability instruments. |
| Russell Bauer | Preclinical detection of cognitive impairment; memory systems in the aged. |
| Keith Berg |
Executive functions, especially
planning and working memory, electrical brain potentials (EEG and ERP)
and functional MRI in older adults. |
| Susan Bluck | Autobiographical memory and reasoning across the adult life span; age differences/continuities in the use of reminiscence and the life story. |
| Dawn Bowers | Clinical and research work in Parkinson's Disease, an age-related disorder and model for aging; mild cognitive impairment. |
| Neale Chumbler | Service delivery to
older adults; developing tele-homecare strategies
to improve patient-centered outcomes (e.g., functional independence). |
| Sherrilene Classen | Older drivers; public health models and community injury prevention models for older drivers. |
| Tim Conway | Lifespan focus on developmental and acquired language disorders. |
| Bruce Crosson | Adult neuropsychology; language and aphasia, cerebral blood flow, SPECT, memory disorders; neuron-imaging of dementias. |
| Barbara Curbow | Psychosocial
oncology, health
psychology, and occupational health psychology. |
| Mike Daniels | Development of
models for analysis
of incomplete longitudinal data. |
| Paul Duncan | Access to medical
and dental care;
health insurance and the uninsured. |
| Allyson Hall | Health policy; Medicaid and the underinsured. |
| Jeffrey Harman | Role of social and
economic
factors on the utilization of mental health services by depressed
elderly persons. |
| Linda Hermer-Vasquez | Neurobiology; neural
activity patterns underlying working memory and decision-making
processes. |
| Ann Horgas | Pain management in
dementia; cognitive
interventions for older adults; pain assessment in nursing homes. |
| James Jessup | Effects of exercise
on renal & CV
function, oxidative stress, blood pressure, bone density, and balance. |
| Tom Kerkhoff | Rehabilitation
psychology,
particularly with older adults. |
| Bob Levitt | Clinical
Neuropsychologist; Board of
Directors, Oak Hammock. |
| Barbara Lutz | Living with
disabililty; access to
health care; community-based services for working-aged adults with
chronic, disabling conditions. |
| William Mann | Technological
interventions for
disability in late life; older drivers. |
| Michael Marsiske | Older adults'
everyday
problem-solving; modifiability of cognitive performance; variability in
cognition; inter-relationship of balance and locomotion
with cognition. |
| Dennis McCarthy | Older drivers;
congruence
between different sources of driver evaluation. |
| Christina McCrae | Sleep and aging;
behavioral
interventions for insomniacs; daily co-variation between sleep,
cognition and affective function. |
| Donna Neff | Interventions for
aging rural obese women
and those with diabetes mellitus. |
| Bill Perlstein | Aging effects on
aspects of
cognitive control, and prefrontal function in Parkinson's disease. |
| Michael Perri | Obesity prevention
interventions,
and metabolic sequelae in midlife and late life women. |
| Catherine Price | Preclinical
detection of
cognitive impairment; vascular contributors to cognitive aging;
post-operative cognitive dysfunction in the elderly. |
| Lorie Richards | Occupational therapy
interventions with disabled older adults. |
| Beverly Roberts | Function and
independence in daily
activities; effects of exercise on physical and psychosocial health. |
| Michael Robinson | Aging and pain; sex by age interactions in experience of pain; gender stereotypes of pain. |
| Carmen Rodriguez | Aging and experience of pain; primarily cancer patients with speech impairment and technology for communication. |
| John (Jay) Rosenbek | Neurologic abnormalities of language, speech and swallowing; treatments for deficits in emotional communication, and for swallowing disorders. |
| Meredith Rowe | Issues facing informal caregivers of cognitively-impaired. Wandering and finding missing cognitively-impaired adults; development of technology to monitor wandering. |
| Sam Sears | Behavioral medicine;
cardiac
psychology, implantable cardioverter defibrillator; quality of life. |
| Linda Shaw | Brain injury and
ethical/autonomy/human rights issues; job discrimination and
aging. |
| Orit Shechtman | Older drivers;
physiological and
physical predictors of driving errors; driving simulators with older
adults. |
| Joyce Stechmiller | Immune function,
nutritional status
and wound healing in adults and the elderly. |
| Laura Bond Sutton | Social support and
quality of life
in women with breast cancer; exercise adherence to reduce fatigue. |
| Lori Thomas | Chronic Obstructive
Pulmonary Disease, acute & chronic symptom management, aging |
| Craig Velozo | Disability in late
life;
Measurement design (Rasch modeling) of ADL/IADL/disability tools. |
| Bryan Weber | Psychosocial
interventions for improving
the emotional reaction to disease and its treatment. |
| Robert Weech-Maldonado | Impact of organizational and market factors on access, quality, and costs of care for vulnerable populations, inclugind the elderly and racial/ethnic minorities. |
| Robin West | Practical aspects of
memory;
self-regulatory factors that affect memory. Interventions for improving
older adults’ everyday memory skills. |
| Saunjoo Youn | Complementary-alternative
therapies for
health promotion and managing chronic illness; health care disparities. |
