Aging and Gerontology

Abraham, Anna

E. Paul Torrance Professor, Educational Psychology
website | anna.abraham@uga.edu

Research Interests include creativity, imagination, neuroscience, neuropsychology, and cognition

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Azevedo, Renato Ferreira Leitao

Assistant Professor, Institute of Gerontology / EPIBIO
website | renato.azevedo@uga.edu

Research Interests: Aging and Gerontology, Assessment and Evaluation, Bias, Discrimination, and Inequality, Chronic Disease, Cognition, Communication, Computational Methods, Education and Learning, Emotion, Exercise, Experimental Methods, Media, Mental Health, Mental Illness and Disorders, Physical Health and Well-being, Risk Behaviors, Social Psychology, STEM, Survey Methods

Barany, Deborah

Assistant Professor, Kinesiology
website | dbarany@uga.edu

Research Interests include motor control, decision-making, neuroimaging, and non-invasive brain stimulation

Beach, Steven R.H.

Regents’ Professor, Psychology
Co-Director, Center for Family Research
Distinguished Scholar, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
2023 OIBR Service Legacy Award Recipient
website | srhbeach@uga.edu

Research Interests include preventive intervention, epigenetic processes, family health, and marriage

Brody, Gene

Regents’ Professor Emeritus, Human Development and Family Science
Distinguished Scholar, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | gbrody@uga.edu

Research Interests include origins and prevention of chronic diseases

Clementz, Brett

Professor, Psychology
Distinguished Scholar, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | clementz@uga.edu

Research Interests include visual & auditory processing; saccadic eye movements; higher level cognitive operations between normal & psychiatric groups (schiz); brain plasticity; brain changes that occur during aging; and prospective memory

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Correia, Stephen

Associate Professor, Health Promotion & Behavior
website | scorreia@uga.edu

Research Interests: Aging and Gerontology, Cognition, Mental Health, Neuroscience

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Dalton, Sarah Grace

Assistant Professor, Communication Sciences & Special Education

website | sgdalton@uga.edu

Research Interests: Aging and Gerontology, Assessment and Evaluation, Cognition, Communication, Experimental Methods, Neuroscience

Emerson, Kerstin Gerst

Clinical Professor, Health Policy & Management
website | emerson@uga.edu

Research Interests include aging, social isolation, loneliness among older adults, social engagement for seniors, and minority aging

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Fan, Lu

Associate Professor, Financial Planning, Housing and Consumer Economics
website | lufan@uga.edu

Research Interests include: Aging and Gerontology, Assessment and Evaluation, Cognition, Education and Learning, Emotion, Gender, Mental Health, Personality, Social Psychology, Survey Methods, Youth, Adolescence, and Emerging Adulthood

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Foohey, Pamela

Professor, School of Law
website | pamela.foohey@uga.edu

Research Interests: Aging and Gerontology, Bias, Discrimination, and Inequality, Emotion, Gender, Marriage, Family, and Close Relationships, Mental Health, Networks, Organizations, Physical Health and Well-being, Policy, Regulation, and Compliance, Sexuality and Sexual Identity, Substance Use and Addiction, Survey Methods, Work and Occupations

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Huang, Chao

Assistant Professor, Epidemiology and Biostatistics
website | chaohuang@uga.edu

Research Interests: Aging and Gerontology, Cognition, Computational Methods, Mental Health, Mental Illness and Disorders, Neuroscience

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Huang, Peng

Assistant Professor, Sociology
website |peng.huang@uga.edu

Research Interests: Aging and Gerontology, Bias, Discrimination, and Inequality, Computational Methods, Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, Immigration, Infectious Disease, International Relations, Networks, Survey Methods

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Jung, Daniel

Assistant Professor, Health Policy & Management
2021-23 GDP Participant, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | daniel.jung1@uga.edu

Research Interests include quality of care, long-term care/post-acute care, Medicare/Medicaid policy, unnecessary health care utilization, health disparities, and machine learning methods

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Kiselica, Andrew

Associate Professor, Institute of Gerontology
website | akiselica@uga.edu

Research Interests: Aging and Gerontology, Assessment and Evaluation, Cognition, Neuroscience

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Li, Niying

Assistant Professor, Clinical & Administrative Pharmacy
website | niying.li@uga.edu

Research Interests include: Aging and Gerontology, Immigration, Policy, Regulation, and Compliance, Survey Methods

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Melcher, Katherine

Professor, College of Environment and Design
website | kmelcher@uga.edu

Research Interests include: Aging and Gerontology, Cognition, Culture, Environment and Ecosystems, Ethnography, Gender, Geographic Information Systems, Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, Identity, Mental Health, Obesity, Organizations, Physical Health and Well-being, Policy, Regulation, and Compliance, Prevention and Implementation Science, Youth, Adolescence, and Emerging Adulthood

O’Neal, Catherine

Associate Professor, Human Development & Family Science
Distinguished Scholar, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | cwalker1@uga.edu

Research Interests include life course, cumulative life experiences, health and well-being, adolescent life stage, vulnerable populations, military families; racial/ethnic minorities, and health outcomes

Song, Suhang

Assistant Professor, Health Policy & Management
website | suhang.song@uga.edu

Research Interests include: Health disparities; Health policy; Health economics; Non-communicable diseases; Cognitive aging

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Ye, Kaixiong (Calvin)

Associate Professor, Genetics
website | kaixiong@uga.edu

Research Interests include human genetics, direct to consumer genetic testing, and nutrition