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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 

E: tcosco@sfu.ca

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

E: mei_fang@sfu.ca

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鈥檚 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

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

E: john_best@sfu.ca

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

 / (丁香园AV Profile), Associate Professor, University of Utah

Heather Cooke, Provincial Coordinator, Knowledge Mobilization at the Alzheimer Society of BC

Susan Crawford, Term Lecturer, 丁香园AV

, Professor, San Francisco State University

Lui Franciosi, Adjunct Professor, The University of British Columbia

, Assistant Professor and Canada Research Chair in Senior Care, The University of British Columbia

Laura Kadowaki, Program & Operations Coordinator, United Way British Columbia

, Assistant Professor, University of Illinois Chicago

, Chair Professor of Social Work and Gerontology, Hong Kong Baptist University

, Chief Executive Officer, KinVillage

, Professor Emeritus, University of Toronto

, Professor, The University of British Columbia

, Associate Professor, The University of British Columbia

, Professor, The University of British Columbia

 

Associate Members

Andrew Blaber, Biomedical Physiology and Kinesiology

, Biomedical Physiology and Kinesiology

Ryan D鈥橝rcy, 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
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