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- Precision Mental Health Lab
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Faculty
Habib Chaudhury
Professor and Chair | Associate Director of the Gerontology Research Centre
T: 778-782-5232
E: chaudhury@sfu.ca
Expertise: Aging and the built environment; long-term care; seniors' housing; neighbourhoods for active aging; environments for people with dementia; age-friendly communities; dementia-friendly communities; qualitative research methods
Theodore D. Cosco
Associate Professor
Expertise: Healthy aging: functional trajectory modelling, resilience in adversity, positive psychology, social support, social isolation, loneliness, lifestyle behaviors (e.g. physical activity); Mental health: wellbeing, quality of life, depression, anxiety; Life course epidemiology: longitudinal analysis, latent variable modelling, population-level health; Research methods: qualitative and quantitative analysis, statistics, data collection, survey methods; eHealth: health and technology, mobile health, technology-driven data collection methods, the internet of things
Mei Lan Fang
Assistant Professor | Urban Studies and Department of Gerontology
Expertise: Age-friendly cities and communities; aging in the 'right' place; digital inequities, aging and health; aging and technology; palliative and end of life care; inclusive aging spaces and places; seniors' housing; community-based participatory research; transdisciplinary working; co-creation; knowledge mobilization; creative methodology; qualitative research methods and evidence reviews
Gloria Gutman
Professor Emeritus
T: 778-782-5063
E: gutman@sfu.ca
Expertise: Senior’s housing; long-term care; health promotion; elder abuse; gerontechnology; LGBT aging; age-friendly hospitals and communities; seniors and emergency preparedness; increasing advance care planning in marginalized groups and ethnic minorities
Atiya Mahmood
Professor | Graduate Program Chair
T: 778-782-7635
E: amahmood@sfu.ca
Expertise: Environmental Gerontology and community-engaged research with a focus on the following: a) Mobility, access and social inclusion outcomes for older adults and persons with disabilities within the physical and social environments in their homes and neighbourhoods; b) Housing insecurity, homelessness and aging in the right place; c) Social engagement in multi-unit housing to promote aging in place and intergenerational relationships. Methodological expertise includes qualitative, mixed-method and community-based participatory research.
Barbara A. Mitchell
Professor
T: 778-782-5234
E: mitchelo@sfu.ca
Expertise: Families and aging; life-course research; intergenerational relations; mixed-methods research (quantitative and qualitative); social policy issues; health promotion
Theresa Pauly
Assistant Professor | Canada Research Chair in Social Relationships, Health, and Aging
T: 778-782-7834
E: theresa_pauly@sfu.ca
Expertise: Healthy aging; wellbeing; social relationships; daily social contexts; health behaviours; objective health markers; ambulatory assessment; quantitative research methods
Andrew Sixsmith
Professor | Director of the STAR Institute
T: 604-783-7192
E: andrew_sixsmith@sfu.ca
Expertise: Technology for independent living; theories and methods in aging and understanding the innovation process; technologies to connect people; technology policy and the digital divide
Andrew Wister
Professor | Undergraduate Program Chair | Director of the Gerontology Research Centre
T: 778-782-5044
E: wister@sfu.ca
Expertise: Collection and analyses of health and social data addressing baby boomer health dynamics; environmental adaptation among older adults; patterns of family and social support; aging; health promotion and population health; statistical methods; life-course trends and transitions
Lecturers and Visiting Faculty
John Best
Term Lecturer | University Research Associate
Expertise: Behavioral science; cognition; statistics; executive function; rehabilitation medicine; cognitive neuroscience; lifespan development
Sharon Koehn
Senior Lecturer
T: 778-782-9467
E: skoehn@sfu.ca
Expertise: Ethnocultural minority and immigrant older adults with a focus on: health and healthcare; health promotion; elder abuse; quality of life
Adjunct Professors
Sarah L. Canham / (SFU Profile), Associate Professor, University of Utah
Heather Cooke, Provincial Coordinator, Knowledge Mobilization at the Alzheimer Society of BC
Susan Crawford, Term Lecturer, Simon Fraser University
Brian de Vries, Professor, San Francisco State University
Lui Franciosi, Adjunct Professor, The University of British Columbia
Lillian Hung, Assistant Professor and Canada Research Chair in Senior Care, The University of British Columbia
Laura Kadowaki, Program & Operations Coordinator, United Way British Columbia
Delphine Labbé, Assistant Professor, University of Illinois Chicago
Daniel Lai, Chair Professor of Social Work and Gerontology, Hong Kong Baptist University
Dan Levitt, Chief Executive Officer, KinVillage
Kathy Pichora-Fuller, Professor Emeritus, University of Toronto
Ben Mortenson, Professor, The University of British Columbia
Joanie Sims-Gould, Associate Professor, The University of British Columbia
Jeff Small, Professor, The University of British Columbia
Associate Members
Andrew Blaber, Biomedical Physiology and Kinesiology
Angela Brooks-Wilson, Biomedical Physiology and Kinesiology
Ryan D’Arcy, Computing Science
Scott Lear, Biomedical Physiology and Kinesiology
Wendy Thornton, Psychology
Stephen Robinovitch, Engineering Science
David Whitehurst, Health Sciences
Meghan Winters, Health Sciences
Staff
Dora Lau
Manager, Academic and Administrative Services
E: geradmin@sfu.ca
Contact for assistance with:
- Hiring of Visiting Faculty (VF), Term Lecturers (TL), Sessional Instructors (SI), Teaching Assistants (TA), and Postdoc Fellows
- Undergraduate and graduate course planning
- Program planning and advising for the Minor and Diploma programs
- GRC and departmental financial, budget, and expense approvals and administration
- Payroll appointments and timesheets for salaried staff and Postdoc Fellows
- Ancillary services and space assignments
Sasha Gill
Graduate Program Assistant
E: gero@sfu.ca
Contact for assistance with:
- Application and admission inquiries (prospective graduate students)
- Program & course information (current graduate students)
- Awards & scholarships (GA3)
- Defence procedures and forms
- Graduate Studies regulations (program completion, extensions, readmission, leaves of absence, etc.)
- Graduate course enrollment requests
- Degree progress report/graduation check
Heidi Antolick
Research Grants & Projects Coordinator
E: gero_fin@sfu.ca
Contact for assistance with:
- First Departmental point of contact for Research Assistants/Research Support Staff (RAs/RSs)
- First Departmental point of contact for Principal Investigators/Faculty Members on research grants and accounts (Exception: Please contact Dept Manager to open new accounts and/or for Kuali approvals)
- RA/RS Hiring/Contract Transitions
- Timesheet support for RAs/RSs
- Project budgeting and research account transactions (e.g. invoice payments, JVs, etc.)
- Travel and Business Expense and Cash Advance policy and reports
- Office key and fob requests
- Research-related procurement
Sarah Qiu
Communications Coordinator, Alumni Outreach & Community
E: gerocom@sfu.ca
Contact for assistance with:
- Departmental website
- Departmental events
- Social media announcements and promotions
- Student and faculty news articles
- Alumni stories