MCCFAD Affiliated Faculty

 

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Amanda Noel Leggett, PhD
Research Interests /  Areas of Expertise: Dementia caregiving;Prevention/intervention and service use for dementia caregivers and mental health issues in older adults
Link to Bio: https://medicine.umich.edu/dept/psychiatry/amanda-leggett-phd

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Amy Jo Schulz, PhD
Research Interests /  Areas of Expertise:  Social determinants of health in urban communities; the contributions of social and environmental factors to racial and socioeconomic inequities in cardiovascular disease; social aspects of community and their relationship to health; interventions designed to promote environmental health and health equity in urban areas.
Link to Bio: https://sph.umich.edu/faculty-profiles/schulz-amy.html

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Barbara Anne Israel, Dr. PH
Research Interests /  Areas of Expertise: Community -based participatory Research; Community Action to Promote Healthy Environments
Link to Bio: https://sph.umich.edu/faculty-profiles/israel-barbara.html

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Belinda L Needham, PhD
Research Interests /  Areas of Expertise: Racial/ethnic, socioeconomic, gender, and sexual orientation health disparities across the life course
Link to Bio: https://sph.umich.edu/faculty-profiles/needham-belinda.html

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Briana Mezuk, PhD
Research Interests /  Areas of Expertise: Interrelationships between mental and physical health over the lifespan
Link to Bio: https://sph.umich.edu/faculty-profiles/mezuk-briana.html

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Bruno J Giordani, PhD
Research Interests /  Areas of Expertise: Cognitive factors associated with mobility difficulties in older individuals and patients with dementia; Identification of early cognitive impairment as revealed by novel approaches to neuropsychological assessment and neuroimaging; Cross-cultural issues in developmental lifespan neuropsychology and assessment; Cognitive enhancement through pharmacological and nonpharmacological approaches (e.g., computerized cognitive training, exercise)
Link to Bio: https://medicine.umich.edu/dept/psychiatry/bruno-giordani-phd

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Carlos F Mendes de Leon, PhD
Research Interests /  Areas of Expertise: Social epidemiology; epidemiology of aging; health disparities; work, retirement and aging; longitudinal data analysis
Link to Bio: https://sph.umich.edu/faculty-profiles/mendesdeleon-carlos.html

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Carol Catherine Persad, PhD
Research Interests /  Areas of Expertise: Relationship between cognition and mobility in aging. Depression and dementia. Neuroendocrine factors and cognition.
Link to Bio: https://www.uofmhealth.org/profile/950/carol-catherine-persad-phd

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Cathleen M Connell, PhD
Research Interests /  Areas of Expertise: Dementia family caregiving; knowledge and attitudes about dementia and dementia diagnosis; using art as a means to retain identity in the case of dementia.
Link to Bio: https://www.uofmhealth.org/profile/950/carol-catherine-persad-phd

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David R Weir, PhD
Research Interests /  Areas of Expertise: The effects of early-life experience on longevity and health at older ages; the measurement of health-related quality of life
Link to Bio: https://hrs.isr.umich.edu/about/co-investigators-committees/david-r-weir

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Helen G Levy, PhD
Research Interests /  Areas of Expertise: Evaluation of public health insurance programs, and the role of health literacy in explaining disparities in health outcomes, causes and consequences of lacking health insurance.
Link to Bio: https://sph.umich.edu/faculty-profiles/levy-helen.html

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Henry L Paulson, MD, PhD
Research Interests /  Areas of Expertise: Mechanisms and treatment of neurodegenerative diseases caused by abnormal proteins; gene silencing strategies as potential therapy for polyglutamine diseases and dementia; protein quality control in normal brain function and in neurodegenerative diseases.
Link to Bio: https://medicine.umich.edu/dept/neurology/henry-paulson-md-phd

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Jacqui Smith, PhD
Research Interests /  Areas of Expertise: Psychological vitality in the oldest-old, early-life and life course predictors of outcomes in later life, self-perceptions of aging, and cognitive aging.
Link to Bio: https://lsa.umich.edu/psych/people/faculty/smitjacq.html

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James W McNally, PhD
Research Interests /  Areas of Expertise: Aging and life course issues and on methodological approaches to the improvement and enhancement of secondary research data
Link to Bio: https://micda.isr.umich.edu/people/james-mcnally/

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John Bound, PhD
Research Interests /  Areas of Expertise: Racial differences in earnings, employment, and health and changes in the returns to higher education
Link to Bio:  https://www.psc.isr.umich.edu/people/profile/12/John_Bound

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Kenneth M Langa, MD, PhD
Research Interests /  Areas of Expertise: Epidemiology and costs of chronic disease in older adults, with an emphasis on Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias.
Link to Bio: https://sph.umich.edu/faculty-profiles/langa-kenneth.html

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Kira S Birditt, PhD
Research Interests /  Areas of Expertise: Negative aspects of relationships, stress, and the implications of relationships and stress for health and well-being over time
Link to Bio: https://www.src.isr.umich.edu/people/kira-birditt/

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Lindsay H Ryan, PhD
Research Interests /  Areas of Expertise: Individual and contextual influences on psychological well-being, physical health, and cognition as adults age
Link to Bio: https://micda.isr.umich.edu/people/lindsay-ryan/

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Neil Burton Alexander, MD
Research Interests /  Areas of Expertise: Exercise, mobility, falls and rehabilitation in older adults
Link to Bio: https://medicine.umich.edu/dept/dgpm/neil-alexander-md-ms

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Philippa Clarke, PhD
Research Interests /  Areas of Expertise
The role of neighborhood built environments for health. The importance of neighborhood social and built environments for disability, mobility and cognitive function and inequalities by life course social position and residential location.

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Scott Roberts, PhD
Research Interests /  Areas of Expertise: The process and impact of risk assessment and disclosure for adult-onset disorders, as well as the ethical, legal, and social implications of advances in genomic science and technology
Link to Bio: https://sph.umich.edu/faculty-profiles/roberts-j.html

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Sheria Robinson-Lane, PhD
Research Interests /  Areas of Expertise
Care and support of older adults with cognitive and/or functional disabilities, and on ways older adults adapt to changes in health, particularly how adaptive coping strategies affect health outcomes.
 
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Vicki A Freedman, PhD
Research Interests /  Areas of Expertise: Designing and analyzing national studies to understand population aging, late-life disability and long-term care
Link to Bio: https://www.psc.isr.umich.edu/people/profile/834/Vicki_Freedman

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Keith Witfield, PhD
Research Interests /  Areas of Expertise: Aging among African Americans; cognition, health, and individual development and aging
Link to Bio: https://provost.wayne.edu/meet-the-provost

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Rubén Martinez, PhD
Research Interests /  Areas of Expertise: Neoliberalism and Latinos, diversity leadership in higher education, institutional and societal change, education and ethno-racial minorities, youth development, Latino labor and entrepreneurship, and environmental justice
Link to Bio: https://sociology.msu.edu/directory/martinez-ruben.html

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Naftali Raz, PhD
Research Interests /  Areas of Expertise: Neural correlates and modifiers of cognitive aging
Link to Bio: https://iog.wayne.edu/profile/aj7393

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Peter Lichtenberg, PhD
Research Interests /  Areas of Expertise: Financial decision making, financial exploitation and financial capacity in older adults. Neurocognitive impairment, late life depression and impacts on quality of life and longevity
Link to Bio: https://mpsi.wayne.edu/profile/aa2275

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Roger Albin, MD
Research Interests /  Areas of Expertise: Understanding the basis for the clinical features of different Movement Disorders. Understanding neurodegeneration in Huntington disease. Improved methods for diagnosis of dementias
Link to Bio: https://medicine.umich.edu/dept/neurology/roger-albin-md

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David Morgan, PhD
Research Interests /  Areas of Expertise: Fundamental changes in aging brain and age related neurological disorders; Development of animal models for age-related neurodegenerative disorders, such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease; Identification of the mechanisms leading to neuron loss in neurodegenerative disorders; Testing of therapeutic agents addressing the mechanisms of neurotoxicity in age-related neurodegenerative disorders
Link to Bio: https://health.usf.edu/medicine/mpp/faculty/9129/David-Morgan.aspx

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Scott Counts, PhD
Research Interests /  Areas of Expertise: Molecular pathogenic mechanisms of selective neuronal vulnerability in AD
Link to Bio: http://translationalscience.msu.edu/people/SECfaculty.htm

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Wassim Tarraf, PhD
Research Interests /  Areas of Expertise: Minority aging and racial/ethnic health and healthcare disparities; Statistical Methods
Link to Bio: https://iog.wayne.edu/profile/ai2483