Members and Associate Members hold faculty or senior research appointments at a university or health care facility and demonstrate academic excellence in gerontology or health research in general (e.g., multiple publications, substantial external grants)
Research Interests: Pharmacokinetics and pharmacology of drugs/natural products in older adults
Clinical Interests: Clinical efficacy of flax seed lignans in cardiovascular disease risk factors; drug pharmacokinetics in older adults
Research Interests: An interest in health inequalities, with a particular focus on migrant health, cultural diversity, and prostate cancer in Black men. My research examines how social, relational, and systemic factors shape disease risk, health-seeking behaviours, and treatment decision-making among ethnically diverse and migrant populations. My research combines mixed-methods research, community engagement, and culturally tailored intervention development to improve equity and patient-centred care in diverse communities.
Clinical Interests: Migrant workers experiences of working in healthcare settings and using healthcare services including the impact on their health and wellbeing in the workplace. Moreover, the impact on their ability to provide optimum care for older and diverse populations in the healthcare environment.
Research Interests: Anxiety disorders and chronic pain in seniors
Cluster Leader: Musculoskeletal Health and Mobility
Research Interests: Use of proprioceptive feedback to control joint interaction torques in multijoint movement, adaptation of neuromuscular control mechanisms to microgravity environments, role of proprioceptive feedback in maintaining joint stability, role of central pattern generators in cyclic upper limb movements, applications of non-linear dynamics systems to the neural control of movement, the impact of deficient proprioception on joint stability and postural control mechanisms in the aging population, the impact of deficient postural control on gait and obstacle avoidance in patients with Parkinson’s disease and the effect of age and osteoarthritis on knee proprioception.
Clinical Interests: improved neuromuscular control through increased physical activity for elderly subjects, rehabilitation programs for patients with shoulder instability.
Clinical and Research Interests: The brain especially maintaining and even improving brain health for “normal” aging and in specific populations such as those with Parkinson’s Disease, and those who have had cardiac events, such as heart attacks.
Sleep and brain health/maintenance and recovery.
Research Interests: Exercise in aging, strength training, exercise physiology, mindfulness, resilience.
Cluster Leader: Biological Basis of Age-Related Brain Disorders
Research Interests: Dr. Buttigieg’s area of interest is centered on better understanding the pathophysiology associated with diseases such as dementia (e.g. Alzheimer’s), autoimmune diseases (e.g. Multiple Sclerosis), and injury (e.g. stroke or spinal cord injury). Using pharmacological interventions, the aim of Dr. Buttigieg’s research is to mitigate the severity of damage to the CNS. However, once injury has occurred, to use stem cell intervention to reduce or reverse injury and tissue damage.
Research Interests: Exercise, Nutrition, and Aging
Research Interests: Physical activity, nutrition, aging, osteoporosis, bone health, muscle health, sarcopenia, metabolic syndrome, diabetes
Research Interests: Attention; cardiac rehabilitation; executive functioning; physical activity.
Clinical Interests: Psychological performance in sport and exercise, goal setting.
Research Interests: Retirement planning; Ageing, gender and health; Ageing and religion; Social inclusion/exclusion; Welfare system for older adults.
Research Interests: Determinants of health in older adults; managing symptoms of AD; health services in rural and remote areas; support for informal caregivers
Clinical Interests: Home Care
Research Interests: Corrections, jails, and prisons; prison and aging; complex needs in correctional health care; nexus between corrections and community services; natural death in corrections; palliative and end-of-life care in prisons; formerly incarcerated older adults’ experiences.
Research Interests: Health psychology, older adults, pain, family health
Research Interests: Patient/Physician communication, public education on death and dying, chronic pain in the elderly.
Clinical Interests: Palliative care and chronic pain.
Cluster Leader: Aging and Long-Term Care
Research Interests:
At the ARC Research Unit, we aim to improve the well-being of individuals who are aging with acute illness, chronic disease, and/or serious mental illness with a focus on people living with dementia and/or residing in long-term care homes. Some of our current projects include the following: (1) acceptance and commitment therapy for caregivers of long-term care residents; (2) loneliness and social isolation among people living with dementia; (3) long-term care residents living with serious mental illness; and (4) time perception and temporalities among people living with dementia.
Research Interests: Leisure and aging, leisure and chronic conditions, leisure and dementia, the lived experience of dementia, leisure and retirement, Therapeutic Recreation in Long-Term Care, and qualitative methodologies.
Cluster Leader: Aging and Women’s Health
Research Interests: The role of ovarian hormones in the etiology of perimenopausal depression, cardiovascular effects of perimenopausal hormone changes, mechanisms linking hot flashes and increased cardiovascular disease risk
Research Interests: clinical neuropsychology, ethics in professional practice, theories in cognitive development
Research Interests: Health anxiety assessment and treatment, pain assessment and treatment, patient-provider relationships, health services research, quality of care, continuity of care, integrated care pathways and guidelines, client satisfaction, waiting lists.
Clinical Interests: Adult psychological assessment and treatment, in particular, depression, anxiety, chronic pain.
Congratulations to #URegina's @DrThomasHadjist, newly elected as a Fellow of the @src_rsc. His groundbreaking work is improving care for older adults with #dementia and chronic pain worldwide.
📺 Watch the video below, and learn more in Discourse: 📖 https://bit.ly/3WWYQbC
Two #URegina researchers have been elected Fellows of the @src_rsc — the country’s highest academic honour. 👏
Congrats to Dr. @rncarleton and @DrThomasHadjist, whose research is improving lives across Canada and beyond.
Learn more in Discourse:
Two U of R academics honoured | Discourse Magazine
Two University of Regina researchers elected Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada
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📅 Mark your calendars! Join us on Dec 10 for a webinar that explores how building design & operation can protect older adults’ health against extreme heat and wildfire smoke events.
🔗 Don’t miss out—register today: https://shorturl.at/IQwQg
Deeply honoured to join the Royal Society of Canada. I am grateful to an extraordinary team of collaborators and trainees who have helped advance our research on pain in dementia. Proud of what we’ve built, and motivated for what’s next.
This National Pain Awareness Week, people are still needlessly experiencing unmanaged pain. Find out what can be done to address it and look at how far we've come in the implementation of the Action Plan for Pain in Canada. #NPAW2025 http://PainCanada.ca/actionplan
Congratulations to #URegina psychology professor @DrThomasHadjist, recipient of the 2025 @cagacg Contribution to Gerontology Award!
Presented on Saturday in Montreal, the award honours outstanding contributions to the field of aging. 👏 #gerontology #research #congrats
