People
Faculty
Habib Chaudhury
Professor and Chair
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
Assistant Professor | Undergraduate Program Chair
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
Gloria Gutman
Professor Emerita
T: 778-782-5063
E: gutman@sfu.ca
Expertise: Senior’s 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
Associate Professor
T: 778-782-7635
E: amahmood@sfu.ca
Expertise: Environmental gerontology with a focus on: the interconnections of aging; the built environment; health
Barbara A. Mitchell
Professor | Graduate Program Chair
T: 778-782-5234
E: mitchelo@sfu.ca
Expertise: Families and aging; life-course research; intergenerational relations; mixed-methods research (quantitative and qualitative); social policy issues; health promotion
Andrew Sixsmith
Professor | Director of the STAR Institute
T: 604-783-7192
E: andrew_sixsmith@sfu.ca
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
Professor | Director of the Gerontology Research Centre
T: 778-782-5044
E: wister@sfu.ca
Expertise: Collection and analyses of health and social data addressing baby boomer health dynamics; environmental adaptation among older adults; patterns of family and social support; aging; health promotion and population health; statistical methods; life-course trends and transitions
Lecturers and Visiting Faculty
John Best
Term Lecturer | University Research Associate
Expertise: Behavioral science; cognition; statistics; executive function; rehabilitation medicine; cognitive neuroscience; lifespan development
Sharon Koehn
Senior Lecturer
T: 778-782-9467
E: skoehn@sfu.ca
Expertise: Ethnocultural minority and immigrant older adults with a focus on: health and healthcare; health promotion; elder abuse; quality of life
Adjunct Professors
Sarah L. Canham / (SFU Profile), Associate Professor, UofU
Susan Crawford, Term Lecturer, SFU
Brian de Vries, Professor, SFU
Mei Lan Fang, Adjunct Professor, University of Dundee
Lui Franciosi, Adjunct Professor, UBC
Lillian Hung, Assistant Professor, UBC
Laura Kadowaki, Postdoctoral Researcher, SFU
Delphine Labbé, Assistant Professor, UIC
Daniel Lai, Chair Professor of Social Work and Gerontology, PolyU
Dan Levitt, Chief Executive Officer, KinVillage
Kathy Pichora-Fuller, Professor, UofT
Ben Mortenson, Professor, UBC
Joanie Sims-Gould, Associate Professor, UBC
Jeff Small, Associate Professor, UBC
Associate Members
Andrew Blaber, Biomedical Physiology and Kinesiology
Angela Brooks-Wilson, Biomedical Physiology and Kinesiology
Ryan D’Arcy, Computing Science
Scott Lear, Biomedical Physiology and Kinesiology
Wendy Thornton, Psychology
Stephen Robinovitch, Engineering Science
David Whitehurst, Health Sciences
Meghan Winters, Health Sciences
Staff
Anne Marie Barrett
Manager, Academic and Administrative Services
geradmin@sfu.ca
Sasha Gill
Graduate Program Assistant
gero@sfu.ca
Lindsay Sands
Communications Coordinator (joint appointment with Public Policy and Urban Studies)
lindsay_sands@sfu.ca