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The Aging Work Group includes members/individuals from across the University of Minnesota and beyond.

UMN School of Public Health

  • Joseph E. Gaugler, Ph.D., Robert L. Kane Endowed Chair in Long-Term Care and Aging, and Distinguished McKnight University Professor, Division of Health Policy and Management (Founder and Director of AWG)
  • Bjorn Berg, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Division of Health Policy and Management
  • Lynn Blewett, Ph.D. Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs and Professor, Division of Biostatistics & Health Data Science; Affiliate Professor, Center for Magnetic Resonance Research
  • Mary Butler, Ph.D., Co-Director, Minnesota Evidence-Based Practice Center, and Associate Professor, Division of Health Policy and Management
  • Caitlin Carroll, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Division of Health Policy and Management
  • Quinton D. Cotton, PhD, MSSA, Robert L. Kane Postdoctoral Fellow
  • Dori Cross, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Division of Health Policy and Management
  • Janette Dill, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Division of Health Policy and Management
  • Bryan Dowd, Ph.D., Professor, Division of Health Policy and Management
  • Carrie Henning-Smith, Ph.D., Deputy Director, University of Minnesota Rural Health Research Center, and Associate Professor, Division of Health Policy and Management
  • Peter Huckfeldt, Ph.D., Vernon E. Weckwerth Professor in Healthcare Administration Leadership, Division of Health Policy and Management
  • Kamakshi Lakshminarayan, Ph.D., Professor, Division of Epidemiology and Community Health
  • Richard MacLehose, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Division of Epidemiology and Community Health
  • John Mulcahy, MSPH, Division of Health Policy & Management
  • Hannah Neprash, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Division of Health Policy and Management
  • Manka Nkimbeng, Ph.D., RN, Assistant Professor, Division of Health Policy and Management
  • Helen Parsons, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Division of Health Policy and Management
  • Colleen Peterson, PhD, Assistant Research Scientist, University of Michigan Transportation Institute
  • Nathan Shippee, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Division of Health Policy and Management
  • Tetyana Shippee, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Division of Health Policy and Management, CHAI Associate Director of Research
  • Lyn Steffen, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Division of Epidemiology and Community Health

UMN School of Nursing

  • Rozina H. Bhimani, Ph.D., DNP, APRN-CNP, CNE, Associate Professor, Adult and Gerontological Health Cooperative
  • Siobhan K. McMahon, Ph.D.,RN, FGSA, FAAN, Associate Professor, Adult and Gerontological Health
  • Martin Michalowski, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Population Health and Systems Cooperative
  • Christine A. Mueller, Ph.D., RN, FGSA, FAAN, Katherine R. & C. Walton Lillehei Chair in Nursing Leadership, Adult and Gerontological Health Cooperative
  • Erica Schorr, Ph.D., BSBA, RN, Associate Professor
  • Kristine M. Talley, Ph.D., RN, GNP-BC, Associate Professor, Adult and Gerontological Health Cooperative
  • Mary O. Whipple, Ph.D., RN, PHN, Assistant Professor, Adult and Gerontological Health Cooperative

UMN Medical School

  • Wei (Denise) Duan-Porter, MD, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Minneapolis VA Health Care System
  • Adriana Hughes, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Staff Neuropsychologist and Clinical Investigator, Minneapolis VA Healthcare System
  • Manda L. Keller-Ross, Ph.D., DPT, Assistant Professor, Division of Physical Therapy, Division of Rehabilitation Science
  • Dawn Lowe, Ph.D., Professor, Division of Rehabilitation Science
  • James Pacala, MD, MS, Head and Professor, University of Minnesota Department of Family Medicine and Community Health
  • Karim Thomas Sadak, MD, MPH, MSE, Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics
  • Bharat Thyagarajan, MD, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology

UMN College of Liberal Arts

  • Phyllis E. Moen, Ph.D.,  Director, Life Course Center and McKnight Endowed Presidential Chair of Sociology
  • Elizabeth Wrigley-Field, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology
  • Dana Urbanski, Au.D., CCC-A, Ph.D. Student, Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences

UMN College of Biological Sciences

  • Christina Camell, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Biophysics

UMN College of Education and Human Development

  • Marti DeLiema, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, School of Social Work; CHAI Associate Director of Education

University of Minnesota, Duluth

  • Kristen Jacklin, Ph.D., Executive Director, Memory Keepers Medical Discovery Team; Professor, Department of Family Medicine and BioBehavioral Health
  • Wayne Warry, Ph.D., Director, Rural Health Initiatives, Memory Keepers Medical Discovery Team (MDT); Professor, Department of Family Medicine and BioBehavioral Health

Hennepin Healthcare

  • Kerry Sheets, MD, Geriatrician, Hennepin Healthcare

Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science

  • Joan M. Griffin, Ph.D., Professor of Health Services Research, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine; Division of Health Care Policy and Research (HCPR), Department of Health Sciences Research; Robert D. and Patricia E. Kern Scientific Director for Care Experiences Program, Kern Center for the Science of Health Care Delivery

Minneapolis VA Health Care System

  • Allison Gustavson, Ph.D., PT, DPT, Core Investigator, Center for Care Delivery and Outcomes Research, Minneapolis Veterans Affairs Healthcare System; Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine

Arizona State University

  • Zach Baker, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Edson College of Nursing and Health Information

Brown University

  • Eric Jutkowitz, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Health Services, Policy & Practice, Brown University School of Public Health

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

  • Lauren Parker, Ph.D., Assistant Scientist, Department of Health, Behavior, and Society

New York University

  • Jasmine L. Travers, Ph.D., RN, AGPCNP-BC, Assistant Professor, New York University Rory Meyers College of Nursing
  • Tina Sadarangani, ANP-C GNP-BC PhD RN, Assistant Professor, NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, Department of Population Health, Division of Health and Behavior Section for Health Equity

Emmanuel College

  • Lauren L. Mitchell, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology

University of Colorado Boulder

  • Jessica M. Finlay, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Geography and Institute of Behavioral Science, University of Colorado Boulder

University of Colorado Denver

  • Roman Aydiko Ayele, Ph.D., Assistant Professor Adjunct, Anschutz Medical Campus

Wake Forest School of Medicine

  • Mia Yang, MD, Assistant Professor, Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine

University of Mississippi

  • Keith A. Anderson, PhD, MSW, Chair & Professor, Department of Social Work, School of Applied Sciences

University of Tennessee

  • Minghui Sam Li, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Health Outcomes and Policy Research, Department of Clinical Pharmacy and Translational Science, University of Tennessee Health Science Center College of Pharmacy
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