Aging Research
Collaboration Connection
The University of Pennsylvania is home to an extensive group of researchers, educators and clinicians working in the field of aging. Collaboration crosses disciplines, partnering individuals and teams from Penn's 12 schools.
Collaboration is key to advancing current research in aging and to initiating future research. The following is a listing of IOA Fellows and Penn faculty and researchers - as well as Philadelphia-area faculty and professionals who are IOA Associate Fellows - who are involved in aging research, along with areas of current and future interest.
If you are interested in discussing a potential collaboration, click on the name of the individual to send an email of inquiry. If you would like to update your listing, kindly forward the updated information to the IOA at aging@mail.med.upen.edu.
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A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
- Katrina Armstrong, MD, MSCE, IOA Fellow
Associate Professor, Medicine and Epidemiology, School of Medicine, PENN
Research Interests: social determinants of health care quality; health care-related trust/distrust; health economics
Current Research: cancer outcomes; genetic susceptibility
Future Research: relationship among social environment, health care environment and health outcomes - Michele C. Balas, PhD, RN, CRNP, BC, CCRN, IOA Associate Fellow
Post-doctoral Fellow, School of Nursing, PENN
Research Interests: aging; critical/intensive care; delirium; patient safety
Current Research: critically ill older adults; delirium; patient safety
Future Research: strategies to reduce LOS, complications, and restraint use for older adults requiring intensive care - Frances K. Barg, PhD, IOA Fellow
Assistant Professor, Family Medicine and Community Health, School of Medicine, PENN
Research Interests: health disparities; psychosocial aspects of cancer; patient perceptions of depression and depression treatment
Current Research: health disparities; psychosocial aspects of cancer; patient perceptions of depression and depression treatment
Future Research: longitudinal effects of meeting unmet psychosocial needs of cancer patients - Jennifer Seamon Bellot, RN, MHSA, IOA Associate Fellow
Pre-doctoral Fellow, School of Nursing, PENN
Research Interests: nursing home personnel; licensed nurses; NH quality
Current Research: culture change in the nursing home
Future Research: quality of care and quality of life in the nursing home - Kathryn H. Bowles, PhD, RN, IOA Fellow
Associate Professor, School of Nursing, PENN
Research Interests: Decision support; electronic patient records; telehealth monitoring of older adults; home care; transitional care; standardized nursing languages
Current Research: Telehomecare monitoring of CHF patients; discharge referral decision-making
Future Research: Transfer of information across different care settings to improve care coordination - Christine Bradway, PhD, RN, CRNP, IOA Fellow
Assistant Professor, Gerontological Nursing, School of Nursing, PENN
Research Interests: health issues affecting older women’s lives; urinary incontinence; long-term care; long-term urinary incontinence; delirium in hospitalized older adults; emergency care of the elderly
Current Research: cultural models for female urinary incontinence (UI); delirium in hospitalized older adults; emergency care of the elderly
Future Research: morbid obesity and UI in the long-term care population; healthy aging for older women - Anne Cappola, MD, ScM, IOA Fellow
Assistant Professor, Medicine; Epidemiology, School of Medicine, PENN
Research Interests: Endocrine changes with aging; androgens in women; frailty; hormones and aging
Current Research: endocrine changes with aging; androgens in women; frailty
Future Research: endocrine changes with aging; androgens in women; frailty; open to projects related to hormones and aging - Eunhee Cho, PhD, MPH, RN, Associate Fellow
Post-Doctoral Fellow, School of Nursing, PENN
Research Interests: health outcomes and policy research; long-term care; home health care; family caregivers
Current Research: the effects of informal caregivers on the outcomes of older adults receiving formal home healthcare
Future Research: outcomes of older adults receiving formal home health care and nursing home care - Christopher L. Coleman, PhD, MPH, APRN-BC, ACRN, IOA Fellow
Assistant Professor, School of Nursing, PENN
Research Interests: HIV-related risk behaviors in African-American men, middle-aged and older
Current Research: health disparities, particularly on understanding the numerous factors that influence health-promoting behaviors of HIV-infected, middle-aged African-American men who have sex with men; HIV risk factors among vulnerable populations who are homeless and mentally ill. - Charlene W. Compher, PhD, RD, FADA, CNSD
Assistant Professor of Nutrition Science, School of Nursing, PENN
Research Interests: impact of nutrients in treating disease
Current Research: investigation of the specific effects of vitamin status on the formation of blood clots and dietary treatments on the absoprtion of nutrients in patients who have lost much of their own ability to absorb nutrients from the remaining intestine - Norma G. Cuellar, DSN, RN, IOA Fellow
Assistant Professor, School of Nursing, PENN
Research Interests: Complementary and alternative medicine; Restless Leg Syndrome (RLS) and sleep; caring for older adults with dementia and their caregivers; long-term care continuum
Current Research: RLS and sleep; complementary and alternative medicine
Future Research: complementary and alternative medicine in older adults; RLS in older adults; sleep and complementary and alternative medical treatments in older adults - Neal E. Cutler, PhD, IOA Associate Fellow
Boettner/Gregg Chair in Financial Gerontology, School of Business Administration, Widener University
Research Interests: business and aging; generational differences
Current Research: financial literacy surveys of middle-aged and older persons; business and aging pedagogy
Future Research: further work integrating business and aging
- Adam Davey, PhD, IOA Associate Fellow
Senior Research Scientist, Polisher Research Institute
Research Interests: formal and informal care networks, regional variability, depressive symptoms, developmental research methods, extreme longevity
Current Research: formal and informal care networks, regional variability, depressive symptoms, developmental research methods, extreme longevity
Future Research: formal and informal care networks, regional variability, depressive symptoms, developmental research methods, extreme longevity, nutrition and psychological functioning - Richard L. Doty, PhD, IOA Fellow
Professor, Otorhinolaryngology: Head and Neck Surgery; Director, Smell and Taste Center, School of Medicine, PENN
Research Interests: Smell and taste
Current Research: alterations in smell and taste in neurodegenerative disorders
Future Research: transgenic mouse models of neurodegenerative diseases; estrogen influences on chemosensory function - George W. Drach, MD, IOA Fellow
Professor of Urology, Division of Surgery, School of Medicine, PENN
Research Interests: geriatric urology; curriculum development; national incentives for geriatrics for surgeons
Current Research: geriatric urology; curriculum development; national incentives for geriatrics for surgeons
Future Research: geriatric urology; curriculum development; national incentives for geriatrics for surgeons - John Duda, MD, IOA Fellow
Assistant Professor, Neurology, School of Medicine, PENN
Research Interests: Parkinson's disease; dementia with Lewy bodies; olfactory dysfunction
Current Research: pathophysiology of Lewy Neurodegeneration; non-motor symptoms in Parkinson's disease; olfactory dysfunction in Parkinson's disease
Future Research: novel biomarkers in Parkinson's disease and dementia with Lewy bodies - Joshua L. Dunaief, MD, PhD, IOA Fellow
Assistant Professor, Ophthalmology, School of Medicine, PENN
Research Interests: Aging in the retina; oxidative stress; iron overload; apoptosis; age-related macular degeneration
Current Research: using human tissue, mouse models and tissue culture to study iron homeostasis and oxidative stress-induced cell death in the retina
Future Research: developing anti-oxidants or iron chelators as drugs to prevent age-related macular degeneration (AMD)
- Roderic G. Eckenhoff, MD
Professor and Vice Chair for Research
Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care
School of Medicine, PENN
Research Interests: molecular pharmacology of inhaled anesthetics, biophysics of anesthetic/macromolecular interactions
Current Research: mechanisms of anesthesia
Future Research: effects of anesthetics on neurodegenerative disorders - Marlene M. Eisenberg, PhD
Research Associate and Director, Penn HPTU Quality Assurance, HIV Prevention Research Division, Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, PENN
Research Interests: HIV and serious mental illness and community-based interventions
Current Research: adult risk-taking behavior
Future Research: Developmental sequelae of risk behaviors; public health consequences associated with high risk behaviors in the elderly population with a focus on issues of competence and decision-making. - Lois K. Evans, DNSc, FAAN, RN, IOA Fellow
Viola MacInnes/Independence Professor
Chair, Family and Community Health Division, School of Nursing, PENN
Research Interests: use of restraints in nursing homes, assuring quality of life for frail elders
Current Research: individualized care; mental health; behaviors in dementia; models and outcomes of care for frail elders - Douglas Ewbank, PhD, IOA Fellow
Research Professor, Department of Sociology, PENN
Research Interests: population genetics; Alzheimer's disease
Current Research: APOE gene and mortality; dementia and depression in Mexico; tracking progression in Alzheimer's disease
Future Research: genetics of longevity
- Roy S. Feldman, DDS, DMSc, IOA Fellow
Chief, Dental Service, VAMC; Adjunct Professor, School of Dental Medicine, Preventive and Restorative Sciences, PENN
Research Interests: oral biology; periodontology and oral medicine; oral cancer diagnosis
Current Research: oral cancer diagnosis; acid sensitive ion channels in periodontal tissues
Future Research: health services research in dental disease management - J. Kevin Foskett, PhD, IOA Fellow
Isaac Ott Professor and Vice-Chair, Department of Physiology
Research Interests: ion channels, calcium signaling, and Alzheimer's disease
Current Research: role and mechanisms of excessive calcium signaling by mutant presenilins that case Familial Alzheimer's disease (AD)
Future Research: animal models of Familial AD; screening for small molecules to modulate calcium signaling in normal and AD brains
- Janice B. Foust, PhD, RN, IOA Associate Fellow
Assistant Professor, School of Nursing, PENN
Research Interests: discharge planning; transitional care; care of older adults; medication safety
Current Research: improving post-hospital medication management among older adults
Future Research: improving medication management among home care clients
- Allen Glicksman, PhD, IOA Associate Fellow
Director of Research and Evaluation, Philadelphia Corporation for Aging
Research Interests: Migrants; immigrant and refugees in old age; urban aging; issues facing Philadelphia’s elderly; trauma and aging; Jewish elderly; aging in minority communities
Curren Research: long-term effects of trauma; aging in the American Jewish community; future of aging in the city of Philadelphia
Future Research: under-studied issues such as aging gay, lesbian and transsexual people; aging of prisoners; aging of the homeless; aging of the lifelong mentally ill; violence and the elderly - Murray Grossman, MD, IOA Fellow
Associate Professor, Neurology, School of Medicine, PENN
Research Interest: cognitive functioning in neurodegenerative diseases
Current Research: cognitive functioning in neurodegenerative diseases
Future Research: cognitive functioning in neurodegenerative diseases
- Karen B. Hirschman, PhD, IOA Fellow
Research Assistant Professor, School of Nursing, PENN
Research Interests: decision-making; caregiver issues; planning for the future; end-of-life care
Current Research: palliative care and dementia; planning for the future and dementia
Future Research: translating research into practice - Nancy Hodgson, PhD, RN, CS, IOA Associate Fellow
Senior Research Scientist, Polisher Research Institute
Research Interests: palliative care; disability; biomarkers of frailty
Current Research: palliative care; disability; biomarkers of frailty; fall prevention
Future Research: palliative care; biomarkers of frailty; disability - Toshinori Hoshi, PhD, IOA Fellow
Associate Professor, Physiology, School of Medicine, PENN
Research Interests: basic aging mechanism; lifespan determination; oxidative stress; ion channels
Current Research: protein oxidation; ion channels; lifespan; oxidative injury
Future Research: protein oxidation; ion channels; lifespan; oxidative injury - Arlene D. Houldin, PhD, RN
Associate Professor of Psychosocial Nursing, School of Nursing, PENN
Research Interest: psycho-oncology
Current Research: how patients and their families respond to cancer; the needs of minority populations; crisis intervention with fire survivors; end-of-life care
- Ravishankar Jayadevappa, PhD, IOA Fellow
Research Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Geriatric Medicine, School of Medicine, PENN
Research Interests: health services research; equity and efficiency; health-related quality of life; health disparity; cost-effectiveness
Current Research: health services research; health-related quality of life; health disparity; cost-effectiveness; quality of care
Future Research: chronic illnesses and health-related quality of life; health disparity; cost-effectiveness; quality of care - Kathryn Jedrziewski, PhD, IOA Fellow
Deputy Director, Institute on Aging, PENN
Research Interests: healthy brain aging, exercise, retirement, community partnerships
Current Research: healthy brain aging, exercise, retirement, community partnerships
Future Research: healthy brain aging, exercise, retirement, community partnerships - Cheri Carter Johnson, PhD, IOA Associate Fellow
Assistant Professor, Department of Social Work, Temple University
Research Interests: aging and the development of resilience; gender and aging; aging in the inner city; the oldest old; aging African-Americans
Current Research: African-Americans in the Philadelphia metro area; development of resilience of the oldest old
Future Research: aging families; HIV/AIDS and aging; aging in prison - Kelly L. Jordan-Sciutto, PhD, IOA Fellow
Assistant Professor, Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, School of Medicine, PENN
Research Interests: HIV encephalitis, unfolded protein response; cell cycle; oxidative stress response; antioxidant response; neurodegeneration; transcription
Current Research: assessing mechanisms of neuronal death (apoptosis versus necrosis in response to neuroinflammatory mechanisms and oxidative stress and protection by neurotrophins to gain insight into the molecular mechanisms underlying neuronal loss in neurodegenerative disorders (i.e., Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and HIV encephalitis); role of cell cycle proteins, endoplasmic reticulum stress regulators and transcriptional regulators in neuronal survival decisions
Future Research: chromatin remodeling and mechanism regulating neurite outgrowth in response to remodeling stimuli
- Sarah H. Kagan, PhD, FAAN, RN, IOA Fellow
Associate Professor of Gerontological Nursing, School of Nursing, PENN
Research Interests: Aging and cancer; cancer and other symptom experience for older adults; narrative inquiry
Current Research: narrative standpoint method development for exploration of older adults' experience
Future Research: application of narrative standpoint inquiry in exploring living with visible evidence of cancer - Jason Karlawish, MD, IOA Fellow
Professor of Medicine, School of Medicine, PENN
Research Interests: Alzheimer's disease and related dementias, research ethics, medical decision-making
Current Research: quality of life (QOL) in Alzheimer's disease (AD) research, advance planning, capacity assessment
Future Research: decision-making capacity in persons with non-AD diagnoses, cost-effectiveness of and treatment preferences for AD treatments, quality of life (QOL) in non-AD diagnoses - Yuko Kimura, PhD
Research Associate, Department of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, PENN
Research Interests: Aging, Immunology, Pharmacology
Current Research: Immunology, Pharmacology
Future Research:Aging, Immunology, Pharmacology - Bruce Kinosian, MD, IOA Fellow
Associate Professor, Medicine, School of Medicine, PENN
Research Interests: nutrition, subclinical atherosclerosis, clinical economics
Current Research: long-term care (LTC) planning model for VA, inter-agency all-inclusive care, projecting care demands and quality of life in Alzheimer's disease
Future Research: sarcopenia/frailty (combining exercise with nutritional interventions - Lenore H. Kurlowicz, PhD, RN, CS
Assistant Professor of Geropsychiatric Nursing, School of Nursing, PENN
Research Interest: mental health and aging
Current Research: depression and other cognitive status changes in older adults; benefits of psychiatric nurse interventions for older hospitalized patients - Jake Kushner, MD, IOA Fellow
Assistant Professor, Pediatrics, CHOP and School of Medicine, PENN
Research Interests: diabetes cell cycle regulation of islet growth; age-limited cellular proliferation
Current Research: islet growth in aged adult mice; adaptive beta cell growth
Future Research: molecular mechanisms of proliferation restriction in aging
- Ebbing Lautenbach, MD, MPH, MSCE, IOA Fellow
Assistant Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology, School of Medicine, PENN
Research Interests: antibiotic-resistance; antibiotic use; infections in long-term care
Current Research: quinolone resistance in long-term care
Future Research: infections in long-term care
- Elizabeth R. MacKenzie, PhD, IOA Associate Fellow
Senior Writing Fellow, Writing Center
Lecturer , Department of History and Sociology of Science, PENN
Research Interests: qualitative research; spirituality and health integrated medicine (CAM)
Current Research: humanistic medicine
Future Research: curriculum development for humanistic medicine and cultural competence - Kathleen McCauley, PhD, FAAN, RN, CS
Associate Professor of Cardiovascular Nursing; Class of '42 Endowed Term Professor, School of Nursing, PENN
Research Interest: heart failure
Current Research: examination of the needs of elders with heart failure and other cardiac illnesses in the transition from hospital to home - Minghong Ma, PhD, IOA Fellow
Assistant Professor, Neuroscience, School of Medicine, PENN
Research Interest: olfactory sensory systems
Current Research: olfaction
Future Research: olfaction - Eileen Sullivan-Marx, PhD, CRNP, FAAN, RN, IOA Fellow
Associate Professor of Nursing; Shearer Term Professor for Healthy Community Practices; Associate Dean for Practice and Community Affairs, School of Nursing, PENN
Research Interest: outcomes of care for frail, older adults
Current Research: nurse-sensitive outcomes of care for frail, older adults
- Mary D. Naylor, PhD, FAAN, RN, IOA Fellow
Marian S. Ware Professor in Gerontology, School of Nursing, PENN
Research Interests: improving outcomes and reducing costs of care for vulnerable, community-based elders
Current Research: improve outcomes and reduce costs of care for vulnerable, community-based elders; discharge planning and home follow-up of high-risk elders by advance practice nurses
- Busara Oearsakul, BSN, MSN, IOA Associate Fellow
Doctoral Fellow
Research Interest: aging
Current Research: gerontological nursing
Future Research: aging - David Oslin, MD, IOA Fellow
Associate Professor, Psychiatry, School of Medicine, PENN
Research Interests: addictions; primary care; alcohol misuse; depression; dementia
Current Research: alcohol dependence; at-risk drinking; identification of behavioral health problems in primary care
Future Research: alcohol dependence; at-risk drinking; identification of behavioral health problems in primary care
- Allan I. Pack, MD, PhD, IOA Fellow
Professor of Medicine; Chief, Division of Sleep Medicine; Director, Center for Sleep and Respiratory Neurobiology, School of Medicine, PENN
Research Interests: sleep neurobiology; sleep disorders; effect of age
Current Research: sleep neurobiology; sleep disorders; effect of age
Future Research: screening small molecules of effects on sleep - Ivona Percec, MD, PhD, IOA Fellow
Instructor, Division of Plastic Surgery, School of Medicine, PENN
Research Interests: sirtuin regulation of primary human adipose tissue aging; histone modifications and human tissue aging; adipose-derived stem cell aging
Current Research: sirtuin regulation of human adipose tissue aging
Future Research: sirtuin regulation and epigenetic modifications in aging of adipose stem cells; establishment of youthful and aged phenotype in stem cells; regenerative medicine - Robert Pignolo, MD, PhD, IOA Fellow
Assistant Professor, Medicine, School of Medicine, PENN
Research Interests: cellular senescence, osteoporosis and metabolic bone disease; osteobiology of aging; stem cells, differentiation, and aging
Current Research: Osteoblast differentiation and senescence; circulating skeletal stem cells
Future Research: Mesenchymal stem cells function with aging - Randall N. Pittman, PhD, IOA Fellow
Professor, Pharmacology, School of Medicine, PENN
Research Interest: polyglutamine neurodegenerative disease proteins
Current Research: normal functions and pathological dysfunctions of ataxin-3; execution phase of apoptosis
Future Research: mechanisms of normal functions and pathological dysfunctions of ataxin-3 - Rosemary C. Polomano, PhD, RN, FAAN
Associate Professor of Pain Practice, School of Nursing, PENN
Research Interest: pain management
Current Research: acute and chronic pain; assessment and management - Daniel Polsky, PhD, IOA Fellow
Research Associate Professor, General Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, PENN
Research Interests: Health insurance and financial access to healthcare; economic evaluation of medical and behavioral health interventions; healthcare workforce
Current Research: comprehensive economic analysis of buprenorphine/naloxone-facilitated rehabilitation for opiod-dependent adolescents/young adults; examination of how access to Medicare at 65 for the previously uninsured has a different effect on health service use and health outcomes compared to the previously insured; statistical methods for cost research in alcohol studies; phsyician workforce responses to managed care; quality of care in mental health treatment; degree of risk selection in employer-sponsored health insurance; health plan choices for employees
Future Research: continue to establish causal relationships between either medical or health system interventions and health outcomes
- Nancy E. Rawson, PhD, IOA Fellow
Associate Member, Monell Chemical Senses Center
Research Interests: sensory cell biology; neuroregeneration; neurodevelopment
Current Research: effects of age and disease on structure and function of the olfactory epithelium
Future Research: regulation of gene expression in the aging olfactory epithelium - Therese Richmond, PhD, FAAN, CRNP
Associate Professor of Nursing, School of Nursing, PENN
Research Director, Firearm & Injury Center at Penn (FICAP)
Research Interests: prevention of injury and violence
Current Research: work to fulfill FICAP's mission to "create safer communities through the systematic reduction of injury and its repercussions to the individual, family and society"; improve outcomes after serious injury; examination of the development of depression after physical injury - Barbara J. Riegel, DNSc, RN, CS, FAAN
Associate Professor of Nursing, School of Nursing, PENN
Research Interest: self-care practices of people with heart failure
Current Research: chronic heart failure; testing disease management approaches for those with heart failure - Harold Riethman, PhD, IOA Fellow
Associate Professor, Wistar Institute
Research Interests: telomere structure, function and variation; genomics and computational biology
Current Research: human telomere structure and variation; array CGH detection of subtelomeric instability; rodent telomere cloning and analysis
Future Research: telomere changes in aging and cancer; telomere variation and susceptibility to telomere loss and subtelomeric instability
- Cynthia Claire Scalzi, PhD, RN, FAAN
Associate Professor of Nursing, School of Nursing, PENN
Research Interest: leadership development of geriatric nurse practitioners
Current Research: leadership development of geriatric nurse practitioners; identification of characteristics of exemplary nursing homes with an ultimate goal of relating the characteristics to improved outcomes (cost, quality of life for elders and quality of work life for staff) - Amita Sehgal, MD, IOA Fellow
Professor, Neuroscience, School of Medicine, PENN
Research Interests: circadian rhythms and sleep
Current Research: molecules that comprise the circadian clock in Drosophila; entrainment of Drosophila rhythms to light; regulation and function of sleep in Drosophila; effect of aging on sleep:wake cycles; relationship between metabolism and the circadian clock; circadian control of mammalian reproduction; sleep and hypoxia
Future Research: molecules that comprise the circadian clock in Drosophila; entrainment of Drosophila rhythms to light; regulation and function of sleep in Drosophila; effect of aging on sleep:wake cycles; relationship between metabolism and the circadian clock; circadian control of mammalian reproduction; sleep and hypoxia - Julie A. Sochalski, PhD, FAAN, RN, IOA Fellow
Associate Professor, School of Nursing, PENN
Research Interests: social and health policy; nurse staffing and quality of nursing care in hospitals; international nurse migration research
Current Research: policy agenda for the nursing workforce - Neal Sondheimer, MD, PhD, IOA Fellow
Assistant Professor, Pediatrics, School of Medicine, PENN
Research Interests: mitochondrial genetics and mitochondrial disease
Current Research: mitochondrial mutations, heteroplasmy
Future Research: mitochondrial dysfunction in aging - Neville E. Strumpf, PhD, RN, FAAN, IOA Fellow
Edith Clemmer Steinbright Professor in Gerontology; Director of the Center for Gerontologic Nursing, School of Nursing, PENN
Research Interests: restraint-free care; older cancer patients; exercise protocols to prevent falls; palliative care in nursing homes
Current Research: implementation of a model of palliative care in nursing homes; falls prevention among inner city elderly
- James E. Thompson, MD
Research Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology and Oncology, School of Medicine, PENN
Research Interests: Anemia of aging; myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS); mitochondrial aging
Current Research: myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS); tissue bank; Po1G D257A mitochondrial mutator mouse model
Future Research: epidemiologic evaluation of incidence of anemai and MDS in the elderly - John Q. Trojanowski, MD, PhD, IOA Fellow
Director, Institute on Aging; Professor, Pathology & Laboratory Medicine; Co-Director, Center for Neurodegenerative Disease Research; Director, Alzheimer’s Disease Center, School of Medicine, PENN
Research Interest: Aging-related neurodegenerative diseases
Current Research: Alzheimer's disease; Parkinson's disease; frontotemporal dementias and related neurodegenerative diseases of aging
Future Research: Alzheimer's disease; Parkinson's disease; frontotemporal dementias and related neurodegenerative diseases of aging - with emphasis on drug discovery
- Kimberly Van Haitsma, PhD, IOA Associate Fellow
Adjunct Assistant Professor, School of Nursing, PENN
Senior Research Scientist, Director of Harry Stern Family Center, Polisher Research Institute
Research Interests: dementia caregiving, individualized care, psychosocial aspects of care
Current Research: dementia caregiving, individualized care, psychosocial aspects of care
Future Research: dementia caregiving, individualized care, psychosocial aspects of care
- Li-San Wang, PhD, IOA Fellow Email
Assistant Professor, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, School of Medicine, PENN
Research Interest: Bioinformatics and computational biology
Current Research: Computational methods for microarray analysis and systems biology
Future Research: disease-related bioinformatic research in aging, neurodegenerative diseases, and cancer - Terri E. Weaver, PhD, FAAN, RN, CS, IOA Fellow
Associate Professor; Chair, Biobehavioral and Health Sciences Division, School of Nursing, PENN
Research Interest: sleep disorders
Current Research: treatment adherence; analysis of treatment efficacy for obstructive sleep apnea; mechanisms and outcomes of daytime sleepiness - Daniel Weintraub, MD, IOA Fellow
Assistant Professor, Psychiatry, School of Medicine, PENN
Research Interest: Psychiatric complications of Parkinson’s disease and other neurodegenerative diseases
Current Research: depression in PD cognitive impairment; psychosis and impulse control disorders in PD
Future Research: clinical trials and translational research for psychiatric complications in PD (neuroimaging, genetics, etc.) - Rachel Werner, MD, PhD, IOA Fellow
Assistant Professor, General Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, PENN
Research Interests: Healthcare quality; quality improvement; racial disparities
Current Research: quality of care at nursing homes and the impact of nursing home report cards; comparing report cards that use process measures to report cards that use outcomes measures; examining if performance measurement leads to improvements in overall outcomes
Future Research: how to adapt performance measurement to measure quality in patients with multiple chronic diseases; impact of report cards on unmeasured care; role of electronic health records in health care quality
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