Members

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 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
  • Patrick Brady, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow, MN Obesity Prevention Training Program, Division of Epidemiology and Community Health
  • 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
  • Shekinah Fashaw-Walters, PhD, Assistant 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

UMN Medical School

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

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

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

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

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

Indiana University Fairbanks and Regenstrief Institute

  • Helen Fu, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Population & Public Health Informatics

Wake Forest School of Medicine

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

University of Mississippi

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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