Members and Associate Members

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: Lifelong learning, health promotion, volunteerism, gerontology, cross cultural awareness, traditional medicine.

Associate Professor, Faculty of Kinesiology and Health Studies

Research Interests: Our lab, CArdiovascular MEtabolic Research Opportunities (CAMEROlabs), studies how lifestyle (e.g., diet, exercise) and pharmacology (e.g., GLP-1 receptor agonists) shape the gut-brain connection and influence food intake regulation and energy balance. We look at these relationships across different human populations, including healthy, athletes, aging, and disease.

Research Interests: Nurses’ health, mental health, wellness, nurses’ work.

Research Interests: Nutrition, health sciences, musculoskeletal system and rehabilitation

Associate Professor, Faculty of Nursing and Aging Studies Program Coordinator

Aging Studies Program Coordinator

Research Interests: long-term care, dementia care, palliative and end-of-life care, advanced practice nursing

Research Interests: Fear of pain, health psychology, ethics, fear of falling among seniors

Clinical Interests: Cognitive behavioural therapy, neuropsychological assessment