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Current Faculty

Habib Chaudhury

Professor | Associate Director of the Gerontology Research Centre

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 

E: tcosco@sfu.ca

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 | Director of the STAR Institute

E: mei_fang@sfu.ca

Expertise: Urban aging; healthy aging and age-friendly cities and communities; aging in the right place; housing and supportive environments; climate resilience and healthy aging; environmental gerontology; social infrastructure; AgeTech and responsible innovation; digital inclusion; health equity; community-based participatory research; citizen science; co-creation and knowledge mobilization; qualitative and creative methodologies; GIS and environmental health

Lun Li

Assistant Professor

E: lun_li_2@sfu.ca

Expertise: Family caregiving; life course and multiple roles; social isolation and loneliness; healthy aging of older immigrants; social resilience of older immigrants; aging and healthy behaviors; anti-racism initiative; community-based method and longitudinal analysis

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; d) Climate gerontology. Methodological expertise includes qualitative, mixed-method and community-based participatory research.

Barbara A. Mitchell

Professor and Chair | Department of Gerontology and Sociology

E: mitchelo@sfu.ca

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; climate gerontology; health behaviours; objective health markers; ambulatory assessment; quantitative research methods

Andrew Wister

Distinguished Professor | Director of the Gloria Gutman Gerontology Research Centre

E: wister@sfu.ca

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

Adjunct Professors

Amy Hwang, Scientific Program Manager, University Institute of Geriatrics of Montreal (CIUSS-IUGM)

Satya Brink, International Consultant

, Associate Professor, University of Utah

Heather Cooke, Manager, Research & Knowledge Mobilizaton, Alzheimer Society of B.C.

Sharon Koehn

, Professor, San Francisco State University  

Lui Franciosi, Adjunct Professor, UBC Dept. of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology & Therapeutics; and Executive Director, Dania Home Society

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 Programs, United Way British Columbia

Sharon Koehn, Senior Lecturer, 51猎奇入口

, Assistant Professor, University of Illinois Chicago

, Chair Professor of Social Work and Gerontology, Hong Kong Baptist University

, Professor, University of British Columbia

, Professor Emeritus, University of Toronto

, Professor, University of British Columbia

, Clinical Associate Professor, University of British Columbia

, Professor, Xi'an Jiaotong University

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

Emeritus & Retired Faculty

Gloria Gutman

Professor Emeritus

E: gutman@sfu.ca

Expertise: Senior鈥檚 housing; long-term care; health promotion; elder abuse; gerontechnology; LGBT aging; climate gerontology; age-friendly hospitals and communities; seniors and emergency preparedness; increasing advance care planning in marginalized groups and ethnic minorities

Andrew Sixsmith

Professor Emeritus 

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

Staff

Vacant
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
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