People
Faculty
Habib Chaudhury
Professor | 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
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
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
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 and Chair | Department of Gerontology and Sociology
Expertise: Families and aging; life-course research; intergenerational relations; mixed-methods research (quantitative and qualitative); social policy issues; health promotion
Theresa Pauly
Assistant Professor | Undergraduate Program Chair | Canada Research Chair in Social Relationships, Health, and Aging
T: 604-499-5172
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
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
Distinguished Professor | Director of the Gerontology Research Centre
Expertise: Population health and life course trajectories and transitions; baby boomer health dynamics; health behaviours and preventive health; theoretical modelling and empirical analyses of resilience applied to multimorbidity, social Isolation/loneliness, and the pandemic; mental health and aging; family caregiving; technology and aging; program evaluation of community and health care interventions targeting older adults; longitudinal statistical modelling; qualitative analyses; triangulation; community-based health research; health and aging policy; health care reform and integrated care
Lecturers and Visiting Faculty
Isobel Mackenzie
Visiting Faculty
T: 250-208-2019
E: isobel_mackenzie@sfu.ca
Expertise: The healthcare system and aging; economics of aging; public policy and aging and community resources to support ageing at home.
Jeanette Robertson
Visiting Faculty
Expertise: Health promotion, disability studies, educational leadership, curriculum development, and field education (service learning). Dr. Robertson's expertise in these fields has developed through more than two decades as an educator in Social Work and Gerontology, as well as the profession of social work within hospital, palliative, day program, respite, mental health and community living residential settings.
Adjunct Professors
Satya Brink, International Consultant
, Associate Professor, University of Utah
Heather Cooke, Manager, Research & Knowledge Mobilizaton, Alzheimer Society of B.C.
Susan Crawford
, Professor, San Francisco State University
Luigi Francosi
Leslie Gaudette, President, Council of Senior Citizens' Organizations of BC (COSCO)
, Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in Senior Care, University of British Columbia
Laura Kadowaki, Specialist, Research & Knowledge Mobilization, Government Relations & Government 尤物视频, United Way British Columbia
Sharon Koehn, Senior Lecturer, 尤物视频
, Assistant Professor, University of Illinois Chicago
, Chair Professor of Social Work and Gerontology, Hong Kong Baptist University
, B.C.'s Seniors Advocate
, Assistant Professor, MacEwan University
, Professor, University of British Columbia
, Professor Emeritus, University of Toronto
, Professor, 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
- 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
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
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