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Kathy Nixon Speechley, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Epidemiology and Biostatistics Scientist, Child Health Research Institute, Children's Hospital of Western Ontario Telephone: 519-685-8500 Ext. 52182 |
Research Interests: Dr. Speechley's two main areas of research interest are quality of life in children with chronic illnesses and their families and social determinants of child health. In the first area, recent studies include health-related quality of life in survivors of childhood cancer and in children with epilepsy. In the second area, she has collaborated in research on the impact that the single parenthood, parental unemployment, and high-risk infancy have on child health and well-being. She also has an interest in health survey methodology.
J.B. Orange, Ph.D. Faculty of Health Sciences School of Communication Sciences & Disorders Telephone: 519-661-2111 Ext. 88227 |
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Research Interests: Dr. Orange is an Associate Professor and Director of the School of Communication Sciences and Disorders in the Faculty of Health Sciences. His research interests include the analysis of conversational discourse, sociolinguistic features and the cognitive-communication profiles of adults and older adults with aphasia, dementia right brain injury, and traumatic brain injury. Other current interests include the development of communication education and training programs for caregivers of individuals with dementia. His current research projects include the development of a scale designed to measure language and everyday communicative functions for individuals with dementia (e.g., Alzheimer's disease) and and traumatic brain injury. Also underway are studies that examine the language, discourse, and cognitive-communication features of various groups of individuals including those with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and cognitive impairment, Down syndrome and Alzheimer's disease, and frontotemporal lobe dementia.
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Debbie Laliberte Rudman, PhD, OT Reg. (Ont.) Telephone: 519-661-2111 Ext. 88965 |
Research Interests: Debbie Laliberte Rudman is an Assistant Professor in the School of Occupational Therapy, within the Faculty of Health Sciences, and Chair of the Occupational Science field of the Health and Rehabilitation Sciences program. Her research focuses on occupation, which includes the spectrum of daily activities people engage in, and the relationships between occupation and identity, health and quality of life. Within the broader field of occupational science, she is particularly interested in examining how social, political and cultural factors shape what come to be seen as possible and ideal ways to be (identity) and do (occupation) in the later phases of life. Her dissertation work was a critical discourse analysis of Canadian newspaper articles regarding retirement and retirees. Drawing on critical social science perspectives, she is continuing her work on the social construction of retirement and later life work within Canadian print media via a SSHRC grant that also attends to individuals' narratives of preparing for and being in their retirement years. She is also actively involved in research examining driving in later life, with an emphasis on how older adults self-regulate driving and approaches to assessment of driving ability following stroke in later life. She has been involved in several studies examining how seniors adapt their daily occupations when they experience disabilities, including stroke and low vision.
Alan Salmoni, Ph.D. Faculty of Health Sciences, Kinesiology Telephone: 519-661-3541 Ext. 83541 |
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Research Interests: Dr. Salmoni's research interests span two fields of inquiry: gerontology and ergonomics, although his research often integrates the two areas. A major focus involves injury prevention: one area related to injury prevention of older workers and the other area related to falls and falls prevention in seniors. The latter interest concerns risk factors and risk perception for falls, as well as falls investigation. In addition, Dr. Salmoni has a general interest in the promotion of well-being of seniors, with a particular interest in informal caregiving.
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Lynn Shaw, Ph.D. School of Occupational Therapy Telephone: 519-661-2111 Ext. 88971 |
Research Interests: Dr. Shaw is working with a number of organizations to investigate health and safety issues enabling seniors to engage in everyday occupations such as driving, living independently in the home, participating in leisure activities, and using lifting devices to promote safe transfers. Lynn is studying the nexus of aging and disability and how persons with disabilities manage occupational transitions into later life. In addition, Lynn is working on research projects on promoting hearing in community settings for persons aging with hearing loss and in promoting the evaluation of hearing demands in the workplace.
Mark Speechley, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Epidemiology & Biostatistics Telephone: 519-661-2111 Ext. 86266 |
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Research Interests: Dr. Speechley's research interests include falls prevention and injury epidemiology, rehabilitation and musculoskeletal epidemiology and general methodology.
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Paul Stolee, Ph.D. Faculty of Science, University of Waterloo Faculty of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, UWO Telephone: 519-888-4567 ext 7559 |
Research Interests: Dr. Paul Stolee is Associate Professor and Graham Trust Research Chair in Health Informatics in the school of Optometry at the University of Waterloo. He is also an adjunct Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at UWO and a Scientist with the Lawson Health Research Institute. Dr. Stolee has been actively involved in health research, health program planning and evaluation, and health policy analysis for more than 20 years. This work has been primarily focused on planning and evaluating health services for older persons. His current major research interest is in geriatric rehabilitation, and he is serving as the Theme Leader for Aging and Disability with the Ontario Rehabilitation Research Network.
Tony Vandervoort, Ph.D. Kinesiology and Physical Therapy, Telephone: 519-661-2111 ext 88844 |
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Research Interests: Dr. Vandervoort's research centres around the topic of the effects of aging on human neuromuscular function. He has worked continuously in gerontology since starting his doctoral research in 1981. Presently, his major research foci are 1) measurement of neuromuscular performance and related muscle contractile properties in older adults 2) investigating the benefits of high-resistance exercise programs for improving muscular strength and function in this population, and 3) application of these findings to rehabilitation programs for seniors with mobility impairment, sport-specific training for recreational activities such as golf, and prevention of musculoskeletal disability in older workers.
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Evelyn Vingilis, Ph.D. Departments of Family Medicine and Epidemiology & Biostatistics Telephone: 519-858-5063 |
Research Interests : Dr. Vingilis's research interests have included alcohol, drugs and traffic safety, criminal justice, at-risk youth, mental health, knowledge diffusion and utilization, and survey, policy and evaluative research. Her work includes both the development and evaluation of actual programs such as R.I.D.E. and the Youth Action Programme and epidemiological studies. In addition, she has developed trans-disciplinary research and end-user teams, such as the Consortium for Applied Research and Evaluation in Mental Health (CAREMH) to maximize knowledge diffusion and utilization.
Catherine Ward Griffin, Ph.D. School of Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences Telephone: 519-661-2111 Ext. 86584 |
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Research Interests: Dr. Catherine Ward-Griffin, R.N., Ph.D., is an associate professor (Faculty of Health Sciences) and scientist (Lawson Health Research Institute) in London, Ontario. In addition, she is an adjunct associate professor in the Department of Health, Aging and Society at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario. Dr. Ward-Griffin is currently working in the areas of women's health, health promotion, caregiving, home care, and social policy. Using both qualitative and quantitative methods, her current program of research focuses on the caregiving relationships between and amongst health care providers, older adults and their families in both home care and long-term care settings. Dr. Ward-Griffin is currently examining the experiences and health effects of double-duty caregiving--health professionals who provide care both at work and at home to older relatives.
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Jerry White, Ph.D. Senior Adviser to the Provost and Professor, Department of Sociology Telephone: 519-661-2111 Ext. 85230 |
Research Interests: Dr. White's research interests in the health area include population health determinants (specialty First Nations), health-care delivery, nursing as a profession, and the regulation of health professions. Dr. White is Director of First Nations Cohesion Project and Aboriginal Policy Research Consortium. He has also served as Vice Chair of the Health Professions Regulatory Council of Ontario.
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