Dr. Jenny Owens is a strategic leader, educator, and researcher whose work bridges academic innovation, system strategy, and social impact. She serves as Vice Provost of Academic Affairs at the University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB), providing executive oversight of...
Dr. Lisa Graves is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at CSU San Marcos. She received her PhD in clinical psychology with an emphasis in neuropsychology from the San Diego State University/UC San Diego Joint Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology. She completed a...
Chiara Acquati, PhD, LGSW, FAOSW is the inaugural Beatrice “Bean” E. Robinson Endowed Chair in Clinical Sexual Health within the Eli Coleman Institute for Sexual and Gender Health (ISGH) at the University of Minnesota Medical School, where she also serves as Associate...
Dr. Shaffer is an Associate Professor in the Center for Behavioral Health and Technology at the University of Virginia School of Medicine, as well as the co-lead of the Cancer Prevention and Population Health research program in the University of Virginia...
Dr. Schlag is a postdoctoral fellow researcher at the Sealy Center on Aging at the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) at Galveston. Her mixed methods research primarily focuses on developing ways to support caregivers and enhance patient care experiences for...
Dr. Jennifer L. Bevan (B.A., M.A., University of Delaware, Ph.D.; University of Georgia) is a professor in the School of Communication at Chapman University in Orange, CA. Dr. Bevan’s research interests focus upon the communicative negotiation of difficult relational...
Dr. Mroz is a developmental psychologist with expertise in life story and narrative theory. She applies this framework to recognize the ways family caregivers build subjective, influential personal narratives of what caregiving is, how it feels to be a caregiver, and...
My program of research is interdisciplinary with an overarching focus on individuals’ health and well-being across adulthood and old age. To achieve this general goal, my expertise includes research methodology and statistics, daily and chronic stress, salivary...
Pamela Nadash is an Associate Professor of Gerontology at University of Massachusetts Boston, in the Manning College of Nursing and Health Sciences and Fellow of the LeadingAge LTSS Center@UMass Boston. Her work centers on health policy and aging: specifically, the...
Dr. Ranak Trivedi is a clinical health psychologist and health services researcher, an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University, Core Investigator at the Center for Innovation to Implementation, Veterans...
Dr. Frank Puga is an assistant professor in the Department of Acute, Chronic, and Continuing Care at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) School of Nursing. He received his Ph.D. in psychology with a concentration in behavioral neuroscience from the...
Reed W. R. Bratches, PhD MPH MALS is a postdoctoral fellow in the School of Nursing at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), funded by the AHRQ T32. Reed received his PhD from Dartmouth College’s Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice in August...
Fayron Epps, PhD, RN, is a nurse with over 20 years of experience creating culturally relevant programs to reduce health disparities for underserved populations. She is an Associate Professor and the Director of Community and Research Engagement in the Office of...
Kylie Meyer, PhD, is a Gerontologist and Assistant Professor at the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing at Case Western Reserve University. Her program of research focuses on psychoeducational interventions to support family caregivers in multiple domains, such as...
Zachary G. Baker’s career is devoted to understanding former caregivers of those with dementia so he can help them garner the psychosocial resources and technological tools to thrive. A methodologically uninhibited researcher, Baker enjoys digging into complex...
Patricia Lawrence is Director of Project Healthy Grandparents (PHG) at Georgia State University, as well as Clinical Assistant Professor in the School of Nursing. Project Healthy Grandparents is a community-based research program with a mission to improve the health...
Erin Bouldin, PhD, MPH is trained as an epidemiologist and health services researcher. She is an Investigator in the IDEAS Center at the VA Health Care System in Salt Lake City and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Internal Medicine. Her research interests...
Tina Sadarangani is an NIH-funded Principal Investigator and board certified primary care nurse practitioner at the NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing. She is cross-appointed as an assistant professor in the NYU School of Medicine Department of Population Health. Her...
Noelle L. Fields, Ph.D., LCSW, FGSA is an Associate Professor in the School of Social Work at the University of Texas at Arlington. She is a gerontology and social work researcher who focuses on transportation mobility among environmental justice populations as well...
Lisa is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Geisel School of Medicine. She has a MS in Brain and Cognitive Sciences from MIT, and subsequently attended medical school at the University of Vermont. For many years she has been an attending...
Dr. Abiola Keller is an Associate Professor in the College of Nursing at Marquette University. As a health equity researcher, she works with local communities to design, implement, and evaluate interventions to improve health outcomes, particularly for African...
Dr. Karen Moss is a registered nurse, nurse scientist, and an Assistant Professor in the Colleges of Nursing and Medicine at The Ohio State University. Dr. Moss’ research is focused on improving pain and healthcare decision making (advance care planning) outcomes by...
Dr. Gilmore-Bykovskyi leads an active research program focused on promoting effective, meaningful, and equitable care for people living with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. Her research aims to identify and effectively intervene on structural and health...
I am a board-certified occupational therapist, an Assistant Professor of Kinesiology, and a geriatric health services and caregiving researcher. I went to Colorado State University and the University of Pittsburgh for occupational therapy and postdoctoral training. My...
Ms. Cannady is the American Cancer Society’s Strategic Director of Caregiving, where she provides leadership and strategic decision-making to position the organization as a prominent champion in elevating the critical role and needs of caregivers. She is responsible...
A nurse leader, educator, scientist and nationally recognized expert in gerontological nursing and rural health care, Heather M. Young is national director of the Betty Irene Moore Fellowship Program for Nurse Leaders and Innovators and a professor and dean emerita...
Dr. Suorsa-Johnson is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Utah School of Medicine and is in the Division of Pediatric Behavioral Health. Her specific clinical interests are in the delivery of psychoeducational and behavioral health services to...
President and Founder American Association of Caregiving Youth (AACY). Educated at Johns Hopkins, New York University and Lynn University, her doctoral research uncovered the high prevalence of caregiving by students in Palm Beach County, FL. In 1998 she established...
Dr. Maija Reblin is an Associate Professor in the Department of Family Medicine in the Larner College of Medicine at the University of Vermont and the Cancer Control and Population Health Sciences co-Program Leader at the University of Vermont Cancer Center. Trained...
Maureen Lyon is Professor of Pediatrics in the Department of Pediatrics at George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences; and a Clinical Health Psychologist at the Center for Translational Research at Children’s National Hospital in Washington,...
