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Hector Caruncho, Professor, Medical Sciences
Megan Ames, Assistant Professor, Psychology
Sarah Nutter, Assistant Professor, Educational Psychology and Leadership Studies
The Institute on Aging and Lifelong Health (
What are the benefits to becoming affiliated with IALH?
Our affiliates benefit from a range of resources, opportunities, and collaborations designed to support their professional growth and research endeavors.
- To see the supports we offer our Research Fellows, see Exclusive Benefits for IALH Affiliates
- To see the supports we offer our Postdoctoral Fellows and Student Affiliates, see Exclusive Benefits for IALH Trainees.
Are you interested in becoming affiliated with IALH?
See who is already a member of the IALH community:
IALH Staff
Victoria site
The creation of a multidisciplinary, university-based research
Phone: 250-721-6369
Email: IALH@uvic.ca
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Ladner site
In 2002 the Ladner satellite office was established in Delta, BC. A major focus of activity of the Ladner Office is recruiting and training volunteers to deliver self-management programs and training health care professionals to use self-management support strategies when interacting with patients. The Ladner office self-management programs give people the knowledge, skills, and confidence needed to successfully manage chronic health conditions.
For more information on the self-management programs, visit their website here.
General Inquiries
Phone: 604-940-1273
Toll-free: 1-866-902-3767
Email: selfmgmt@uvic.ca
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Patrick McGowan |
Associate Director- IALH Ladner Site |
604-940-3574 |
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Naida Khan |
Office Manager |
604-940-9796 |
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Margaret Chernaske |
Project Support |
604-940-1273 |
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June Clearsky |
Coordinator: Indigenous Provincial and Fraser (North) Self-Management Programs |
604-940-6950 |
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Julieta Gerbrandt |
Project Support, Self-Management Health Coach Program |
604-940-9424 |
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Brenda Gyurkovics |
Project Support |
604-940-1273 |
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Karen Hannah |
Lead, HCP Pairing and Support, Self-Management Health Coach Program |
604-940-3573 |
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Fran Hensen |
Self-Management Health Coach Program Educator |
250-516-5742 |
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Lisa Herriot |
Program Support, Self-Management Health Coach Program |
604-940-8973 |
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Navah Jacobs |
Research Assistant and Data Coordinator |
604-940-3572 |
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Courtney Kang |
Coordinator: Chinese Self-Management Programs |
604-940-8967 |
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David Langer |
Coordinator: Vancouver South, Richmond and Delta Self-Management Programs |
604-940-3568 |
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Sherry Lynch |
Research Associate |
778-235-0148 |
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Ginette McLennan |
Project Support |
604-940-8924 |
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John Murphy |
Coordinator: Fraser (East) Self-Management Programs |
604-940-6380 |
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Leah Otsig |
Coordinator: Vancouver Island Self-Management Programs |
604-940-3580 |
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Gurpreet Sandhu |
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604-946-0195 |
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Gundeep Sidhu |
Coordinator: South-Asian Self-Management Programs |
236-858-9636 |
IALH Research Fellows
UVic faculty research fellows bring a diverse range of expertise in the fields of sociology, geography, psychology, economics, business, law, medical sciences, exercise science, philosophy, engineering, nursing, public health and social policy, child and youth care, social work, and public administration.
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Sociology katelinalbert@uvic.ca |
Vaccinations; gender and sexuality; sexual and reproductive health; health decision-making; wait times and waiting in health care; health technologies; digital health equities |
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Psychology |
How age related changes in cognitive control influence memory patterns and represenations in older adults; behavioural techniques; eye-tracking techniques; neuroimaging techniques (FNIRS, EEG) |
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Psychology |
Mental health; health behaviour; adolescences; young adults; youth mental health promotion; autism spectrum disorders |
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Public Health and Social Policy |
Health equity; 2SLGBTQ+ Aging; technology and aging |
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Nursing |
Primary care delivery models; nurse practitioner practice and leadership; palliative approach to care; diabetes care and management |
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Mechanical Engineering |
Osteoarthritis; biomechanics; augmented reality; musculoskeletal disorders; technology for health; pain self-management; e-wearables | |
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Health Information Science |
Aging and assistive technologies; patient safety and technology; virtual care technologies; data science; human factors |
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Brewster, Paul Psychology |
Digital cognitive assessment; early detection of Alzheimer's disease; life course socioeconomic influences on late life cognition; advanced psychometric methods |
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Exercise Science, Physical and Health Education |
Health promotion; physical literacy, childhood and adolescent physical activity; gender-inclusive physical activity programs |
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Sociology |
Sociology of aging and technology; health promotion; health systems change; long term care; mental health |
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Division of Medical Sciences |
Neurobiology of mental disorders; links between depression and Alzheimer’s disease; biomarkers of early dementia; biomarkers of mood and psychotic disorders; reelin, sex and gender |
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Educational Psychology and Leadership Studies |
Intergenerational trauma and resilience; Asian mental health; Participatory Action Research; narrative research; youth mental health promotion; cultural and community psychology; intergenerational relations |
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Health Information Science |
Aging; artificial intelligence; biomedical informatics; data analytics; digital health; electronic health records; hospital system; surveillance |
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Division of Medical Sciences |
Effects of exercise on the human brain; effects of concussions on cognitive health later in life; use of video games to enhance cognitive health later in life |
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Nursing |
Mental health; immigrant, refugee and racialized communities; health equity; social justice; intersectionality; community based participatory action oriented research; patient oriented research | |
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Department of Geography |
Health services research; healthy aging; healthy communities; social determinants of health; vulnerable populations (stroke-affected, dementia, end-of-life, immigrant older adults, socially isolated, residents of Long Term Care) |
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Biochemistry and Microbiology |
Connection between aging and genome integrity; impact of cellular age on DSB repair pathway choice and chromatin packaging; genomic instability; cellular aging and genome stability; modeling premature aging and cancer-relevant mutations in budding yeast |
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Nursing |
Primary care delievery models; nurses' roles in primary care; home care; social network models; health policy making; knowledge traslation |
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School of Health Information Science |
Community based health information technology to support older adults in co-managing their health; ethical use of health information technology; use of health information technology to support patients and family caregivers at end of life |
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Biochemistry and Microbiology |
Microbiology and gut microbiome |
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Nursing |
Cardiovascular health; global health; quality improvement; knowledge translation; metal hypersensitivity |
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Department of Psychology |
Executive functioning; neuropsychological assessment; concussions; healthy aging |
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Department of Psychology |
Neuropsychology and neuroimaging; identification of biomarkers for neurodegenerative disorders; healthy aging; intervention studies; challenges for individuals with cognitive decline and their caregivers |
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Mechanical Engineering |
Musculoskeletal and orthopedic medical device design; patient assessment and rehabilitation; surgical planning; biomechanics; computational modeling; in vitro biomechanical experimentation; statistical morphological analysis |
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Psychology |
Motivation and self-regulation; values and socialization; well-being, mental health and healthy behaviour; young and young adults; Indigenous an community-led research; youth-led research |
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Psychology |
Healthy aging among Indigenous older adults; emotion regulation and aging; depression among older adults |
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Nursing |
Health needs and experiences of middle-aged and older self-identifying gay men; curriculum development to support nursing care of middle-aged and older self-identifying gay men |
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Computer Science |
Agent-based modeling; predictive (crowd-aware) environment design; motion capture for biomechanical modeling; human-centred artificial intelligence in design and modeling; simulation for analytics and animation; representation in dynamic simulation, animation and graphics; artificial intelligence in diagnoses; serious games for rehabilitation; partiipatory design |
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Exercise Science, Physical & Health Education |
Assessment of neglect after stroke; understanding chronic pain; fatigue and function in neurological conditions such as stroke and multiple scerosis |
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Health Information Science |
Human-computer interaction; cognitive science; health informatics; digital health; ehealth literacy; health information systems |
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Nursing |
Patient-reported outcomes; hermeneutics;knowledge translation; care of older adults with comorbidities |
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Public Health and Social Policy |
LGBTQ2+ communities; sexual health across the lifespan; sexually transmitted infections; HIV/AIDs; community-based research; mixed and multi-method studies; prospective cohort design; health equity |
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Health Information Science |
Digital health equity; aging at home; participatory research; learning health systems |
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Pacific & Asian Studies |
environmental health issues among Indigenous communities in Northeast and Eastern India;ethnographic, survey based methods;health impacts related to geographic location |
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Exercise Science, Physical & Health Education |
Chronic disease prevention and management; mHealth; web-based interventions; big data; data prediction |
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Department of Psychology |
Cognitive aging; early detection of cognitive impairment; lifestyle engagements for successful aging; aging in place; technology in the home; longitudinal data analysis; gait; functional biomarkers of cognitive function; variability |
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Nursing |
Applied health services research; research competencies; knowledge translation competencies; leadership in health care organizations; evidence-based practice and health policy; healthy aging; technology use in health; health informatics |
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Computer Science |
Problematic gaming in young adults; Toxicity in online spaces (particularly gaming) among young adults; Emotion regulation skills training in children and youth via gaming; Cognitive skill maintenance in older adults through gaming |
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School of Child and Youth Care |
Social determinants of mental health inequities, migration and mental health; solutions for social and mental health inequities; inclusive implementation science approaches |
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Sociology |
Population aging, life course, social determinants of health, social policy |
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Public Health and Social Policy |
Interventions for individuals with chronic health conditions; implementation, spread and sustainability of interventions; effectiveness of various interventions with specific chronic conditions |
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Health Information Science |
Data analytics; visualization; medical imaging; human factors; |
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Mathematics and Statistics |
Statistical models for neuroimaging data; aging brain; Alzheimer's Disease; Mild Cognitive Decline |
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Gustavson School of Buisness |
Contextual phenomena and their impact on professions, organizations and institutions (specifically in healthcare); contextual phenomena which emerge internally and impact the system (blame, moral distress, health professions); contextual phenomena which emerge externally (crisis leadership, AI, performance) |
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Health Information Science |
eHealth/digital health literacy; consumer health informatics; human factors; human-computer interaction; information visualization |
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Anthropology |
Bone biology, skeletal plasticity to loading; bone hormones |
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Nursing |
Care of the older person with cancer; nursing ethics |
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Educational Psychology & Leadership Studies |
Weight stigma, theories of weight stigma, development of effective interventions, impact of weight stigma on health and health care |
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Nursing |
Perinatal mental health; sleep; parenting;infant/child development;Queer parenting; policy development for psychosocial healthcare in long term care; knowledge translation and mobilization |
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Psychology |
Cognitive and pyschosocial predictors of health behaviours; impact of technology on these behaviours; improved measurement and assessment tools for assessment of cognitive decline; development of interventions with possible impmact on rate of cognitive and/or functional decline; impacts of COVID-19 and pandemic on psychosocial and cognitive outcomes |
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Computer Science |
Visualization; human-computer interaction; health informatics; patient-generated data; quantified self; sports data visualization |
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Health Information Science & Nursing |
eHealth; digital health; implementation of clinical information systems and patient portals |
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Pauluth-Penner, Trudy Applied Theatre |
Advancing lifelong health and well-being through intergenerational applied theatre arts initiatives; how aging is portrayed in the media; aging over time; promoting holistic-person-and-capability-centred care for people with dementia; enhancing quality in residential care with older adults' family perspectives;policy development for psychosocial healthcare in long term care; reminiscence/life review therapeutic interventions for older adults; prevelance of arts in care facilities; supports, barriers in BC and nationally | |
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Psychology |
Trajectories of cognitive change in normal aging and neurodegenerative disorders; impact of physical health changes on these trajectories; longitudinal research; role of (un)diagnosed ADHD in late life cognitive performance level and change |
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Exercise Science, Physical & Health Education |
Behavioural medicine and behaviour change interventions; pyschology of physcial activity and sedentary behaviour; theories of motivation |
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Roudsari, Abdul Health Information Science |
Modelling and simulation in health care; modelling methodology for health resource management, clinical decision support, machine learning and AI; development and evaluation of decision support systems; evaluation methodologies with particular application in telemedicine; ontologies and temporal representation and reasoning; utilization of business intelligence in health care; shared decision-making, personalized heath records and environmental sensing for health |
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Rush, Jonathan Psychology |
Intra-individual processes; well-being; longitudinal methodology and analyses |
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Sakamoto, Mariko Nursing |
Aging; dementia; gerontological nursing; health care transitions; participatory action research; qualitative methods; integrated knowledge translation |
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Nursing |
Social justice practices in nursing and health systems; equity in health care access and experiences for 2SLGBTQ+ communities; enhancing safety and justice in mental health settings; safety and risk discourses; discrimination; social media research |
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Sociology |
Aging and social capital; role of organizational culture in efforts to reduce anti-pyschotic medication in long term care; choir singing for individuals with dementia and their caregivers |
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Exercise Science, Physical and Health Education |
Mechanism responsible for physiological adaptation in the cerebral vasculature throughout the lifepan; environmental factors that impact cerebrovascular function; sex differences in cerebrovascular regulation |
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Computer Science |
Human computer interaction; technology to support hands-on activities (e.g. building physical interactive artifacts); co-design; technology for health; assistive technologies; interaction design |
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Nursing |
Palliative and end-of-life care; Health Equity; Chronic, life-limiting illness; Oncology; Family Caregiving; HIV/AIDS; Marginalized and Vulnerable Populations; Gerontology; Home Care; Health and social policy; Health service delivery; Health care restructuring; Research Methods; Mixed Methods Research Design; Participatory and Community-Based Action Research |
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Psychology |
Each childhood and adolescent indicators of mental health across the life span; best practices with regard to the prevention of injuries and promotion of road safety |
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Medical Sciences |
Ion channel-associated signalling hubs in brain and heart cell development and disease; stability in development and disease (including Alzheimer disease); COVID-19-associated neuroinflammation; the regulation of membrane deformation; classic cell biology and biochemistry; altered cardiomyocyte differentiation in heart disease | |
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Biology
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Signaling pathways and molecular mechanisms that coordinate an organism's nutrtional status with metabollic responses, reproduction and maintenance of cell and tissue integrity with age: age-related changes from the molecular and cellular levels to the whole organism |
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Division of Medical Sciences |
Aging, stress, diet, lifestyle, infection immunity, microglia, learning, memory, cognition, neurodegenerative disease, animal models, post-mortem human brain samples, clinical studies, fluorescence, confocal and electron microscopy, behavioural analyses, molecular studies |
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Biochemistry & Microbiology |
Bacterial host-pathogen interactions; bacteriology; immunology; sepsis |
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Psychology |
Suicide and self-harm; disordered eating; risk-taking behaviours; micro-longitudinal methods; digital health; psychotherapy; behavioural therapy; Borderline Personality Disorder |
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Mechanical Engineering/Division of Medical Sciences |
Neural tissue models of age related disorders (e.g. Alzheimer's, Parkinson's) |
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Psychology |
Eye movements; visusal attention; memory; cognitive aging |
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Social Work |
Post-traumatic growth and resilience among trauma-affected populations; transnational research; 2SLGBTQ+ people; using art in research; immigrants; indigenous people; aging |
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School of Exercise Science, Physical & Health Education |
Enhanced aging; interventions to improve balance and reduce falls |
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Gustavson School of Business |
How to deliver home care efficiently with a high level of continuity; how to organize adaptive service systems to support transistions through the aging process |
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Postdoctoral Fellows
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Ifeoluwa (Hiphy) Awogbindin Division of Medical Sciences |
Neuroimmunology; aging; neurotropic infectious diseases; microglia; neuro-degenerative dieases |
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Adriano Chaves Division of Medical Sciences |
Microglia role in neurobiology of stress-related disorders; chronic stress and mood disorders as a major risk factor for aging-related cognitive decline and dementia; microglia-centred strategies to promote neuorplasticity and reverse stress and aging-related consequences; Gamma brain waves potentiation as a novel strategy to engage neurons and microglia into a neuroprotective response during aging |
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Tyrone Curtis Public Health and Social Policy |
Sexual health; HIV & STI prevention; health inequities; 2SLGBTQ+ health; sexuality; sexual healthcare; sexual behaviour |
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Gracia Dong Mathematics and Statistics |
Estimating poopulation size of vulnerable populations (homeless/opiod users); patterns of service utlization; inequities in care access; computational statistics; statistics education |
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Aki Gormezano School of Public Health and Social Policy |
Community-based approaches to STI prevention, treatment and care for people who participate in group sex across the lifespan |
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Sepideh Heydari Psychology |
Brain health; healthy aging; multiple sclerosis; superaging; digital health technology; wearable medical devices; cognitive control; decision making; pain |
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Jamie Knight Psychology |
digital , cognitive and olfactory health across the lifespan; role of sense of purpose in healthy aging |
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Samara Mayer Nursing |
Pain needs of structurally vulnerable palliative care individuals with substance use disorder; gaps and barriers to pain management in structually vulnerable palliative care individuals; equitable pain management; patient-centred guidance on the management of pain in vulnerable indivdiuals with substance use disorder |
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Andrea Mellor Canadian Institute for Substance Use Research |
Improving access to health and social services that enrich social belonging and cultural continuity for marginalized populations including Indigenous and non-Indigenous youth who may be experiencing multiple complexities in their lives including poverty, substance use, and mental illness; youth living in foster care; people living with disabilities; people who sell sexual services |
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Amanda Orr Mathematics & Statistics |
Alzheimer's Disesease research; bioprinting 3D neural models for accurate drug screening |
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Kristina Smith Nursing |
Palliative care; ethics & relational ethics; client-centred and family centred care; marginalized and structurally vulnerable populations; Cancer care; healthcare providers; health equity; health services |
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Yao Sun Exercise Science, Physical and Health Education |
Neurophysiology; balance; posture control; fall prevention; aging; rehabilitaton; |
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Vidhi Thakkar Nursing |
aging; palliative care; digital health; health equity; patient-oriented research; health services and policy research |
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Sarah Wagner Sociology |
Long-term care; social isolation; digital inclusion; critical ethnography; digital storytelling; collaborative research |
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IALH Student Affiliates
Anthony Theodore Amato
- Department: Social Dimensions of Health
- Supervisor: Nathan Lachowsky
- Research Interests: HIV Health promotion in Gay/Bi and other men who have sex with men (MSM); health equity across generations
Masako Anderson
- Department: Social Dimensions of Health
- Supervisor: Kelli Stajduhar, Denise Cloutier
- Research Interests: Death and dying; end of life care; advance care planning; older adult mental health; home care; older adult abuse/neglect/self-neglect; vulnerable adults, especially Japanese
Faria Athar
- Department: Biology
- Supervisor:Nicole Templeman
- Research Interests: Impact of nutrition and diet on aging; reproductive health; menopause; role of exercise on aging; reproductive aging; improving health and care outcomes for aged persons
Nazanin Babaei
- Department: Psychology
- Supervisor:Colette Smart
- Research Interests: Trauma and brain, neuropsychology, assessment, PTSD, memory, cognition, attention bias, coping
Coady Babin
- Department: Social Dimensions of Health
- Supervisor: Nathan Lachowsky
- Research Interests: Health equity – specifically related to LGBTQ community, including autonomy and independence, access, experiences with health care systems
Carolyn Brandly
- Department: Social Dimensions of Health
- Supervisors: Nancy Clark, Robert Beringer, Mariko Sakamoto
- Research Interests: Dementia; human rights of people with dementia; rehabilitation for people with dementia; community-based supports for people with dementia and care partners; supports for people with dementia from marginalized communities
Tess Carswell
- Department: Mechanical Engineering
- Supervisor: Josh Giles
- Research Interests: Medical device design; female-specific lower limb prosthetic design; user-centred design of medical devices; human factors engineering; patient-oriented research; sex and gender differences in lower limb amputees; patient assessment and rehabilitation; biomechanics; computational modeling
Hayley Casey
- Department: Psychology
- Supervisor: Jodie Gawryluk
- Research Interests: Neuropsychology; neurodegenerative disorders; dementia; traumatic brain injury
Matilde (Matty) Cervantes
- Department: Interdisciplinary
- Supervisor: Denise Cloutier
- Research Interests: Arts-based research; healthy aging; social determinants of health; mental health; social justice; environmental psychology; participatory action research
Jasmine Chen
- Department: Public Health and Social Policy
- Supervisor: Robert Beringer
- Research Interests: health equity, marginalized communities (i.e, 2SLGBTQI+, immigrants, cultural minorities), Healthy aging, nutrition, food security, chronic health conditions,
Alison Chung
- Department: Psychology
- Supervisor: Theone Paterson
- Research Interests: Healthy aging from a neuropsychological lens; older adult populations & their experiences of dementia, chronic conditions & neurodegeneration; neurocognitive and psychosocial risk/protective factors of cognitive health in adults generally
Tara Cooper
- Department: Psychology
- Supervisor: Andrea Piccinin
- Research Interests: Healthy cognitive aging; lifespan development; dementia; neurodevelopmental disorders
Tabitha Craig
- Department: School of Exercise Science, Physical & Health Education
- Supervisor: Kurt Smith
- Research Interests: Effects of sex hormones on endothelial function; arterial stiffness in cerebrovasculature across the lifespan
Cian Dabrowski
- Department: Psychology
- Supervisor: Theone Paterson
- Research Interests: Stress; trauma; neuropsychology; cognition; fNIRS (functional near infrared spectroscopy)
Rachel de Molitor
- Department: Sociology
- Supervisor: Susan McDaniel
- Research Interests: Gendered reproductive aging; menopause & perimenopause; embodiment
Jessica Detta
- Department: Psychology
- Supervisor: Frederick Grouzet
- Research Interests: Adversity, resilience, post traumatic growth, self-determination theory, motivation and well being, community-engaged research, specifically with individuals at risk of or currently experiencing homelessness
Gillian Eades Telford
- Department: Social Dimensions of Health
- Supervisors: Karen Courtney; Anastasia Mallidou
- Research Interests: Community dwelling centanarians’ perceptions of life long successful aging predictors; qualitative research
Mina Emadi
- Department: Computer Science
- Supervisor: Hosna Jabbari
- Research Interests: Bioinformatics; system biology; computational biology; machine learning; Alzheimer's disease
Amr Farghali
- Department: Health Information Science
- Supervisor: Elizabeth Borycki
- Research Interests: Clinical informatics; innovative technologies to improve clinical practice, workflow, enhanced outcomes and patient safety; analysis of clinical data; tools or applications to visualize disease analytics; use of digital health solutions on medication compliance; impact of digital health solutions on clinical outcomes
Jenise Finlay
- Department: Social Dimensions of Health
- Supervisor: Vera Caine
- Research Interests: Chronic Pain; disability; invisible disabilities; emerging adult women; women's health; sexual health; sexually transmitted infections (STIs)
Mar'yana Fisher
- Department: Nursing
- Supervisor: Kelli Stajduhar
- Research Interests: Palliative care of incarcerated individuals
Sabrina Francescangeli
- Department: Psychology
- Supervisor: Frederick Grouzet
- Research Interests: Post-traumatic growth; organismic valuing process; authenticity;environmental social and existential psychology
Kendall Fraser
- Department: Social Dimensions of Health
- Supervisor: Denise Cloutier
- Research Interests: Women 55+ who have experienced homelessness; use of life course perspective to understand cumulative impacts of homelessness on physical and mental health; support for women who have experienced homelessness to age safely in their communities; social isolation and loneliness of marginalized older women; the needs of LGBT women who have experienced homelessness
Junko Fukui Innes
- Department: School of Health Information
- Supervisor:Abdul Vahabpour Roudsari
- Research Interests: Quality assurance; home support; seniors living independently at home; advanced analytics; technology
Zoe Gilson
- Department: Psychology
- Supervisor: Theone Paterson
- Research Interests: Cognitive aging; dementia; neurodegenerative disorders; preventative interventions for cognitive decline in older adults and using digital platforms (such as mHealth apps) to deliver these interventions; effect of modifiable lifestyle factors on cognition in later life
Daniel Girard
- Department: Biology & Psychology
- Research Interests: Neurobiology; co-morbidities such as diabetes, brain injuries.
Maddie Gregory
- Department: Psychology
- Supervisor: Theone Paterson
- Research Interests: Healthy aging; cognitive reserve; predictors of cognitive decline; psychological health
YunYong Guo
- Department: Computer Science
- Supervisor: Sudhakar Ganti
- Research Interests: Telehealth; making technology accessible and impactful; health care access for aging populations
Kareen Hall
- Department: Health Information Science
- Supervisor:Karen Courtney
- Research Interests: Older adults; older adults and the intersection with digital health and health equity
Negar Hassanzadeh
- Department: Exercise Science, Physical and Health Education
- Supervisor:David Kennedy
- Research Interests: Stroke rehabilitation; geriatric rehabilitation intervention; delivering medical care to the elderly
Heather Hollman
- Department: School of Exercise Science, Physical & Health Education
- Supervisor: Ryan Rhodes
- Research Interests: Physical activity; digital health; pregnancy and postpartum health; lumbopelvic pain; low back pain; pelvic girdle pain; health behaviours; family physical activity; psychology of physical activity
Jaymelyn Hubert
- Department: Nursing
- Supervisor: Mariko Sakamoto
- Research Interests: Intergenerational housing; aging in place; access to nursing education; racism and discrimination in nursing and health care; youth and mental health care; health care systems
Farnoosh Kalantarnia
- Department: Mechanical Engineering
- Supervisor: Stephanie Willerth, Mina Hoorfar
- Research Interests: Neurodegenerative disease research; Alzheimer's disease research; bioprinting 3D neural models for Alzheimer's disease monitoring and drug screening
Haley Keenan
- Department: Psychology
- Supervisor: Jodie Gawryluk
- Research Interests: Memory; cognition; aging; cognitive decline; healthy aging and super aging; neuroimaging; MRI/fMRI; women's health
Cole Kennedy
- Department: Psychology
- Supervisor:Mauricio Garcia-Barrera
- Research Interests: Neuropsychiatric outcomes of acquired brain injury; interventions for concurrent acquired brain injury and mental health/substance use disorders; traumatic brain injury in marginalized populations
Marshall Kilduff
- Department: Social Dimensions of Health
- Supervisors: Nathan Lachowsky, Bernie Pauly
- Research Interests: 2SLGBTQ+ homelessness, particularly among youth and seniors
Sean Kiley
- Department: Music Composition & Psychology
- Supervisors: Anthony Tan, Stuart MacDonald
- Research Interests: Perception of time and memory; engagement with environment; factors that influence our perception and alter our states of mind; methods to enhance and optimize mind and body coherence so that alternative forms of healing may occur; cognitive disorders; attention deficit disorder
Amy Kim
- Department: Health Information Science
- Supervisor: Abdul Roudsari
- Research Interests: Mental health and addiction; clinical decision support; digital health; use of psilocybin to target modifiable risk factors for dementia
McKenna Knox
- Department: Psychology
- Supervisor: Emily Haigh
- Research Interests: Healthy aging in Indigenous populations; dementia prevention
Heather Kwan
- Department: Psychology
- Supervisor:Jodie Gawryluk
- Research Interests: Using neuroimaging to understand both healthy and pathological aging; Alzheimer's disease; impact of various risk factors and their influence on outcomes of aging
Colleen Lacey
- Department: Psychology
- Supervisor:Jodie Gawryluk
- Research Interests: Using neuroimaging and neuropsychological assessment measures to better understand healthy aging processes and neuropsychological conditions; investigating the use of non-pharmaceutical treatment (e.g. exercise) for neuropsychological conditions
Adrienne Lagura
- Department: Nursing
- Supervisor:Dzifa Dordunoo
- Research Interests: Adult cardiology; public health; transplant; health equity
Victor Lau
- Department: Division of Medical Sciences
- Supervisor: Marie-Ève Tremblay
- Research Interests: Cellular senescence and aging; neuroimmune interactions and pharmacological treatments; role of glial cells in neurodegenerative disease and psychiatric disorders
Kate Leahy
- Department: Nursing
- Supervisor:Kelli Stajduhar
- Research Interests: Supporting health in vulnerable and marginalized populations including those experiencing systemic inequities; end of life care and quality of life; health and wellness for the 2SLGBTQ+ populations; health longevity and wellness
Maybins Lengwe
- Department: Computer Science
- Supervisor: Jens Weber
- Research Interests: Digital health; visualization; human computer interaction
Cindy Li
- Department: Health Information Science
- Supervisor: Elizabeth Borycki
- Research Interests: Smart homes; diabetes self-management using smart homes; theory of planned behaviour; self-efficacy theory
Cameron Lindsay
- Department: Health Information Science
- Supervisor: Karen Courtney
- Research Interests: Novel telehealth methodologies to improve access to Ear/Nose/Throat specialist services; use of health care proxies by ENT specialists for consultations, including use of specialized equipment
Sophia Mastrangelo
- Department: Exercise Science, Physical and Health Education
- Supervisor: David Kennedy
- Research Interests: Stroke assessment and recovery; chronic and persistent pain
Cindy McDowell
- Department: Psychology
- Supervisor: Stuart MacDonald
- Research Interests: Individual differences and cognitive health in the aging population; biological predictors of cognitive decline; risk and preventative factors; dementia symptom reduction reduction and social cognitive lifestyle interventions
Ashley Mollison
- Department: Social Dimensions of Health
- Supervisor: Kelli Stajduhar
- Research Interests: Palliative and end-of-life care; poverty and homelessness; equity-informed care; harm reduction
Jamie Morrison
- Department: Division of Medical Sciences
- Supervisor: Brian Christie
- Research Interests: Brain injury and interventions for recovery; effects of cognitive training interventions on blood biomarkers and cognition in adults with acquired brain injuries
Edith Munene
- Department: Social Dimensions of Health
- Supervisor: Denise Cloutier
- Research Interests: Aging; immigrant older adults; equity; digital health/technology; ethnocultural minorities; gender; health services research; policy and systems; quality improvement
Colin Murray
- Department: Division of Medical Sciences
- Supervisor: Marie-Ève Tremblay
- Research Interests: Impact of cannabis use on glial cells; impact of cannabis use on the regulation of myelination in the adult, specifically the aging brain
Dennis Natembeya
- Department: Health Information Science
- Supervisor: Karen Courtney
- Research Interests: Gerontology; social isolation in seniors; community health and home health monitoring solutions
Lisa Olhauser
- Department: Psychology
- Supervisor:Jodie Gawryluk
- Research Interests: Neuropsychology; healthy aging; cognitive rehabilitation
Ashleigh Parker
- Department: Psychology
- Supervisor: Jodie Gawryluk
- Research Interests: Neuropsychology; neuroimaging through MRI; Alzheimer’s disease; subjective cognitive decline
Rebecca Phillips
- Department: Division of Medical Sciences
- Supervisor: Brian Christie
- Research Interests: Neural mechanism underlying effect of standardized equine assisted therapy intervention on stress resilience; executive function in autism
Tanya Philippsen
- Department: Public Health and Social Policy, Mathematics
- Supervisor: Matthew Little, Junling Ma
- Research Interests: Mathematical modelling, emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases, One Health, global health, antimicrobial resistance, surveillance, social determinants of health, health behaviours, policy impacts
Brady Reive
- Department: Division of Medical Sciences
- Supervisor: Hector Caruncho, Lisa Kalynchuk
- Research Interests: Neuroscience
Aleah Ross
- Department: Exercise Science, Physical & Health Education
- Supervisor: Ryan Rhodes
- Research Interests: Health psychology; physical activity and health behaviours; clinical populations
Melissa Roumanis
- Department: Exercise Science, Physical & Health Education
- Supervisor: David Kennedy
- Research Interests: Chronic pain
Sanjit Roy
- Department: Social Dimensions of Health
- Supervisor: Rebecca Waburton
- Research Interests: Healthy aging; quality of life for people living with Alzheimer and related dementias
Leo Rutherford
- Department: Public Health and Social Policy
- Supervisor:Nathan Lachowsky
- Research Interests: Transgender health and well-being; trans and non-binary populations; gender-affirming care; community-based patient-oriented research
Darienne Rysz
- Department: Psychology
- Supervisor: Jodie Gawryluk
- Research Interests: Traumatic brain injury in Indigenous populations, neurodegenerative disorders, health equity, women's health
Vanessa Scarapicchia
- Department: Psychology
- Supervisor: Jodie Gawryluk
- Research Interests: Using neuroimaging technology to better understand and prevent environmental and physiological factors that contribute to age-related cognitive decline
Morgan Schaeffer
- Department: Psychology
- Supervisor: Theone Paterson
- Research Interests: Determining psychological variables which may predict cognitive decline in older adults (e.g. personality traits; non-pharmacological interventions for preventing/reversing cognitive decline such as psycho-education, mindfulness)
Poonam Seghal
- Department: Nursing
- Supervisors: Jae-Yung Kwon, Kelli Stajduhar
- Research Interests: Artificial intelligence in long term care homes to detect early signs of decline in order to prevent transfers to the emergency departments; aging; preventative measures to keep older individuals living well in their homes
Kimberly Shapkin
- Department: Nursing
- Supervisor:Esther Sangster-Gormely
- Research Interests: Decision making in older adults; living well with dementia
Emmet Sihoe
- Department: Psychology
- Supervisor: Megan Ames
- Research Interests: The relationship between health behaviours, digital media use and mental health outcomes in youth
Elly Simper
- Department: Nursing
- Supervisor: Kelli Stajduhar
- Research Interests: Equitable, comprehensive palliative care for older adults facing system disadvantages; gaps in end-of-life caregiving
Emma Skaug
- Department: Division of Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Brian Christie, Kurt Smith
- Research Interests: Effect of hormones on cognitive function
Taylor Snowden-Richardson
- Department: Division of Medical Sciences
- Supervisor: Brian Christie
- Research Interests: Aging; dementia; traumatic brain injury
Katie Sternig
- Department: Psychology
- Supervisor: Jodie Gawryluk
- Research Interests: Neurodegenerative diseases; brain function and behaviour; brain health
Alexandra (Lexy) Stewart
- Department: Social Dimensions of Health
- Supervisors: Kelli Stajduhar, Denise Cloutier
- Research Interests: Older adults; aging in place; aging; older women; vulnerable populations; pathways into homelessness; community health services; end-of-life care
Nicholas (Cole) Tamburri
- Department: Psychology
- Supervisors: Stuart MacDonald
- Research Interests: Cognitive neurosicence of aging; music neuroscience; healthy aging; dementia research and targeted health interventions
Jay Tang
- Department: Social Dimensions of Health
- Supervisors: Nathan Lachowsky, Simon Carroll
- Research Interests: 2SLGBTQ+health; mental health; disability justices; medical assistance in dying; suicide; 2SLGBTQ+ community care; discrimination in healthcare
Natasha Tat
- Department: Exercise Science, Physical & Health Education
- Supervisors: Sam Liu
- Research Interests: Virtual reality interventions; cognitive health; cognitive decline prevention; gamified interventions; digital health; adult physical health
Luc Taylor
- Department: Exercise Science, Physical and Health Education
- Supervisor: Kurt Smith
- Research Interests: Brain health decline in early aging and subsequent consequences throughout the lifespan; brain blood flow response as a measure of brain health during exercise or metabolic stimulus; the lifelong impact of recalcitrant cerebrovascular aging in disease treatment and prevention
Isabella Tucci
- Department: Psychology
- Supervisor: Jodie Gawryluk
- Research Interests: Healthy brain aging in women, dementia risk in women, endocrinology, neurodegenerative diseases
Audrey Tung
- Department: Geography
- Supervisor: Denise Cloutier
- Research Interests: Homelessness in older women; social justice; social policy; human rights; social determinants of health
Baeleigh VanderZwaag
- Department: Psychology
- Supervisor: Mauricio Garcia-Barrera
- Research Interests: Brain injury (particularly concussion) treatment; neurorehabilitation; brain health; alternative therapies/treatments
Rebecca Vendittelli
- Department: Psychology
- Supervisor: Scott Hofer
- Research Interests: Use of a mobile-based assessment application to measure psychosocial and lifestyle variables as well as cognition
Jeremy Viczko
- Department: Psychology
- Supervisor: Collette Smart
- Research Interests: Clinical psychology; neuropsychology; self-regulation neuroscience; sleep and memory; mindfulness; meditation
Evangeline Wagner
- Department: Health Information Science
- Supervisor: Elizabeth Borycki
- Research Interests: At home assisted living; dementia care for patients and caregivers at home
Mattie Walker
- Department: Public Health and Social Policy
- Supervisor: Nathan Lachowsky
- Research Interests: Trans, Two Spirit and non-binary mental health; safety in the trauma support contexts for gender diverse populations; gender diverse young people; gender-based violence; community-based trauma supports and violence response
Catherine Webster
- Department: Health Informatics
- Supervisors: Frances Lau; Jae-Yung Kwon
- Research Interests: Nursing informatics; telehealth; interoperability across health regions; perceptions of HER adoption by clinical staff
Alex Wells
- Department: Public Health and Social Policy
- Supervisor: Nathan Lachowsky
- Research Interests: Role of LGBTQ2S recreational sports teams and leagues in supporting the health and wellbeing of LGBTQ2S individuals and communities; intergenerational nature of LGBTQ2S sports teams and leagues
Fiona Williams
- Department: Chemistry
- Undergraduate
- Research Interests: Memorized dance; music and memory in aging adults
Amanda Willms
- Department: Exercise Science, Physical & Health Education
- Supervisor: Sam Liu
- Research Interests: Promoting physical activity and lifelong health through mHealth solutions and financial incentives as extrinsic motivators
Sammi Wong
- Department: Psychology
- Supervisor: Kelci Harris
- Research Interests: youth well-being; friendship; personality; intrinsic and extrinsic motivation; education; community-engaged research
Marcela Zamudio
- Department: Public Health and Social Policy
- Supervisor: Nathan Lachowsky
- Research Interests: Social determinants of health among low-income 2SLGBTQQIA+ individuals
JiaRui Zhu
- Department: Public Health and Social Policy
- Supervisor: Denise Cloutier
- Research Interests: Healthy aging; senior immigrants; social justice; green space; social determinants of health; urban planning; feminism; digital storyteling; social media; qualitative research
Sasha Zinovich
- Department: Sociology
- Supervisor: Andre Smith
- Research Interests: Impact of social influences on healthcare decisions; inequalities in access to healthcare; social influences on moral regulation and ethical behaviour
Associate Members
Associate Members are retired UVic researchers who are interested in aging and/or lifelong health; former IALH Student Affiliates who have completed their degree(s) and are still conducting research on aging and/or lifelong health; post-doctoral fellows who are conducting research on aging and/or lifelong health with a supervisor associated with a non-UVic academic setting; researchers associated with a non-UVic academic setting; individuals associated with a community-based organization focusing on lifelong health and/or aging; or organizations that are interested in supporting research on lifelong health and/or aging.
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Camille Angus |
Epidemiologist & Research Affiliate, Department of Psychology, University of Victoria Research interests: population health, optimal aging, cognitive health, social determinants of health, quality of life, health measurement, intersectionality, longitudinal methods, research data protection & sharing, authorship practices, research capacity development |
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Elisabeth Antifeau |
Regional Clinical Nurse Specialist, Palliative Care Interior Health |
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Carl Asche |
Research Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine University of Illinois |
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| Laura Booi |
Social Gerontologist; Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Dementia Research, Leeds Beckett University |
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| Arlene Carson |
Owner AJ Carson Consulting & Research |
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Neena Chappell |
Professor Emeritus, University of Victoria Founding Director of IALH |
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Heather Cooke |
Alzheimer Society of BC |
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Chris Corbett |
CSCW (Victoria) |
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Sarah-Louise Decrausaz |
Social Sciences Faculty Grant Officer, University of Victoria |
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Erin Donald |
Chair of Equity and Access in Rural Palliative Care, Gateway Centre of Excellence in Rural Health |
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Naheed Dosani |
St. Michael's Hospital at Unity Health, Toronto; Inner City Health Associates Kensington Health |
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Elizabeth Dow |
Owner Dow Consulting in Gerontology |
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Nichole Fairbrother |
University of British Columbia, University of Victoria; Women's Health Research Institute |
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Monika Fernández Alonso |
Osakidetza-Basque Health Service, Biobizkaia Health Research Institute |
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Elaine Gallagher |
Professor Emeritus, University of Victoria Former IALH Director |
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Taylor Hainstock |
BC SUPPORT Unit - Vancouver Island Centre (Victoria) |
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Arne Hetherington |
Independent researcher |
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Sherin Jamal |
Public Health & Social Policy, University of Victoria Research Interests: Immigrant, ethno-cultural and visible minority older adults' access to care; equity-oriented palliative approaches to care; long-term residential care; health services research |
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| Sharon Koehn |
Adjunct Professor, Department of Gerontology Simon Fraser University Principal, Sharon Koehn Research Consulting |
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Amanda Leddy |
Island Health |
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Tammy Maclean |
Postdoctoral Researcher, Dalla Lana School of Public Health University of Toronto |
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Jessica Percy Campbell |
Independant Researcher Aging and technology; marketing towards seniors; technological solutions |
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Shaina Raza |
CIHR Health Systems Impact Fellow, Public Health Ontario & University of Toronto |
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Kaitlyn Roland |
University of Victoria Research Services Research Interests: Parkinson's disease; dementia; caregiving; functional ability; activities of daily living; long-term care |
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Vicky Scott |
Clinical Professor, School of Poulation and Public Health University of British Columbia |
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Debra Sheets
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Professor Emeritus, University of Victoria Research Interests: Healthy aging; technologies to support older adults; community-based interventions to support the independence of individuals with dementia; caregiver supports |
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Stacey Voll |
Consultant | |
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Laura Tamblyn Watts |
Founder & CEO, CanAge | |
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Amanda Webber |
UVic Graduate, Masters of Psychology Research Interests: executive functioning; TBI and concussions; modeling cognitive and daily functioning over time; impacts of COVID-19 on well-being |
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Sarah Yardley |
Associate Professor of Palliative Medicine, Marie Curie Palliative Care Research Department, UCL Honorary Consultant in Palliative Medicine, UCLH & CNWL THIS Institute post-doctoral Fellow 2019-2025 Churchill Fellow 2024-2025 |
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Sascha Zuber |
Centre for the Interdisciplinary Study of Gerontology and Vulnerabilities, University of Geneva |
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Alison Ziesel |
UVic Graduate, Former IALH Student Affiliate Research Interests: Biological basis of aging; RNA expression, structure and function |
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