| Yaw Amoako-Addo (2007) |
Dissertation Title: "Differences in Old-Age Pension Benefits in Norway: Policy Implications" |
| Lindsey Baker (2006) |
Dissertation Title: "Bridging the Gaps: The Effects of Level of Care, Duration of Care, Grandchild
Characteristics and Parental Involvement on Depressive Symptoms among Grandparents Raising Grandchildren"
Employment Status: NIA post-doctoral fellowship. University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
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| Charlotte Fritz Brindley (2001) |
Dissertation Title: "Diffusion Of Low-Tech Equipment As A Component Of Case Managers"
Employment Status: Contract Specialist, Support Programs for the Department of Veteran's Services,
Boston, MA
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| Laney Bruner-Canhoto (2004) |
Dissertation Title: "Environmental Strategies Among People Growing Older With Multiple Sclerosis:
Experiences, Implications, and Lessons"
Employment Status: Health Scientist, Management Decision and Research Center, Department of Veterans
Affairs, Boston, MA
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| James Bulot (2004) |
Dissertation Title: "Healthcare Information for Older Adults and the World Wide Web"
Employment Status: Assistant Professor, Department of Gerontology, University of Louisiana, Monroe, LA
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| Vanessa Calderon-Rosado(2000) |
Dissertation Title: "Exchange Patterns Between Elders and Caregivers: A Comparison of Three Ethnic
Groups"
Employment Status: Research Associate, National Center on Women and Aging, Brandeis University,
Waltham, MA
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| Mary Whelan Carter (2000) |
Dissertation Title: "Factors of and Variations in Hospitalization Rates Among Elderly Nursing Home
Residents: Searching for Indicators of Appropriate Levels of Acute Care"
Employment Status:
Former: NIA Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN
Current: Assistant Professor, Department of Community Medicine, Center on Aging, School of Medicine,
West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV
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| Puangpen Chanprasert (2004) |
Dissertation Title: "Transitions of Functional Disabilities in the U.S. Elderly with Diabetes Mellitus"
Employment Status: Health Promotion Technical Officer, Elderly Health Section, Bureau of
Health Promotion, Department of Health, Ministry of Public Health, Thailand
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| Lona Choi-Allum (2005) |
Dissertation Title: "A Comparison of State Subsidized Guardianship Laws: A Move Towards Permanency and
Financial Security among Kinship Caregivers"
Employment Status: Research Analyst in Knowledge Management, AARP, Washington, DC
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| Antonia (Kathy) Coppin (2004) |
Dissertation Title: "Aging In Developing Countries: Health Status and Disability Among Older Women
In Latin America, A Comparison Study"
Employment Status: Post-Doctoral Fellow, National Institute on Aging, Washington, DC
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| Marianne Lyons Delorey (1997) |
Dissertation Title: "The Relative Influence of Work & Family on the Life Purpose of Older Japanese
Women"
Employment Status: Housing Program Manager, West Suburban Elder Services, Watertown, MA
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| Kathy Fabiszewski (1999) |
Dissertation Title: "Advanced Alzheimer's Disease: Balancing Survival, Health, Comfort, and Cost"
Employment Status: Assistant Professor, Department of Nursing, Salem State College, Salem, MA
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| Kelly Fitzgerald (2008) |
Dissertation Title: "Evaluation of the Preparedness of Massachusetts Nursing Homes to Respond to Catastrophic Natural or Human-Made Disasters" |
| R. Turner Goins (1997) |
Dissertation Title: "Health Related Quality of Life: Effects of Individual Characteristics and Rural
Residence"
Employment Status: Assistant Professor, Department of Community Medicine, Center on Aging, School of
Medicine, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV
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| Kirsten Corazzini Gomez (2000) |
Dissertation Title: "Community-Residing Frail Elders: How Case Managers Allocate Scarce Home Care
Resources To The Elderly in Massachusetts"
Employment Status:
Former: NIA Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Duke University, Durham, NC
Current: Assistant Professor, College of Nursing, Duke University, Durham, NC
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| Cynthia Ann Gruman (1997) |
Dissertation Title: "An Analysis of Case Management Programs and Practices: Correlates of
Organizational Strengthf"
Employment Status: Assistant Professor of Medicine and Interim Director, Braceland Center for Mental
Health and Aging, Institute of Living/Hartford Hospital's Mental Health Network, Hartford, CN
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| Margaret Hart (2003) |
Dissertation Title: "Factors Predicting the Types of Assistance Used for Specific Activities of
Daily Living by Community Dwelling Elderly"
Employment Status: Assistant Professor, Occupational Therapy, Worcester State College, Worcester,
Massachusetts
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| Suzanne Herzberg (1996) |
Dissertation Title: "The Nursing Home as a Set of Micro-Environments"
Employment Status: Adjunct Instructor, Rhode Island College, Providence, RI, Bristol Community
College, Fall River, MA, Department of Gerontology, University of Massachusetts Boston, Boston, MA
|
| Jennifer Higgins (2003) |
Dissertation Title: "Analysis of Gambling as a Programmatic Option in Senior Centers"
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| Kamal Hijjazi (1997) |
Dissertation Title: "Factors Contributing to Variations in Medicare Home Health Agency Services
Utilization Among Aged Medicare Beneficiaries: Testing Alternative Models"
Employment Status:
Former: Policy Analyst, U.S. Dept of Health & Human Services, Washington, DC
Current: Acting Head, Total Quality Management, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center,
Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
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| May Jawad (2005) |
Dissertation Title: "Normative Stressors and Psychological Well-Being in the Context of Post-War
Environment"
Employment Status: Senior Research Associate, UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, Los Angeles, CA
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| Karl Kaffenberger (1998) |
Dissertation Title: "Nursing Home Ownership and Public Policy: An Historical Analysis"
Employment Status: Policy Coordinator, Office of Elder Health, Massachusetts Department of Public
Health, Boston, MA and Adjunct Instructor, Department of Gerontology, University of Massachusetts Boston,
Boston, MA
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| Barbara Kager (1998) |
Dissertation Titlea: "Factors Affecting Hiring: Age Discrimination in Hiring"
Employment Status: Staff Associate and Counselor, Career Center of Lowell, Lowell, MA
|
| Nirzka Labault-Cabeza (1999) |
Dissertation Title: "Effects of Diversity on Health Care Use"
Employment Status: Assistant Professor and Gerontology Program Coordinator, Graduate School of
Public Health, Medical Sciences Campus, University of Puerto Rico
|
| Marianne Matzo LaPorte (1996) |
Dissertation Title: "Registered Nurses' Attitudes Towards and Practices of Assisted Suicide and
Patient-Requested Euthanasia"
Employment Status:
Former: Professor of Nursing, Union Institute, New Hampshire Community Technical College, Berlin, NH
Current: Professor, Fran and Earl Ziegler Endowed Chair in Palliative Care Nursing, University of Oklahoma,
Tulsa, OK
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| Dongsoo Lee (2003) |
Dissertation Title: "The Quality of Physician Care and Changes in Health among Aged Medicare
Beneficiaries with Chronic Conditions"
Employment Status: Senior Project Manager, Commonwealth Adult Health Services, Orange County, CA
|
| Richard McConaghy (2004) |
Dissertation Title: "Mortality, Mobility, and Refinancing as Factors in HBCM Reverse Mortgage Payoffs"
(Winner of University of Massachusetts Chancellor's Award for Best Dissertation)
Employment Status: Self-employed attorney, Philadelphia, PA
|
| Helen Miltiades (1999) |
Dissertation Title: "Filial Expression Across Geographic Boundaries: Asian Indian Immigrants
to the United States and Their Non-Immigrant Parents"
Employment Status: Assistant Professor, Department of Social Work and Gerontology, Shippensburg
University, Shippensburg, PA
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| Jenai Murtha (2007) |
Dissertation Title: "Social Predictors of Driving Cessation among Older Adults: Understanding
the Driving Continuum"
Employment Status: Instructor, Department of Sociology, Holy Family University, Philadelphia, PA
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| Barbara Roberge (1996) |
Dissertation Title: "Improved Targeting of Long-Term Care Discharges During Hospitalization"
Employment Status: Gerontology Nurse Practitioner/Gerontology Nurse Coordinator, Senior Health
Practice, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
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| Regula Robnett (2007) |
Dissertation Title: "The Correlates of Cognitive and Metacognitive Stability and Change in the
First Five Waves of the Health and Retirement Study (1992-2000)"
Employment Status: Associate Professor, Department of Occupational Therapy, University of New England
|
| Christopher Rockett (2001) |
Dissertation Title: "Community Support for Older Adults with Mental Retardation and Their Families:
A Comparison of States=Family Support Programs"
Employment Status: Research Associate, National Center on Women and Aging, Brandeis University,
Waltham, MA
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| Clare Safran-Norton (2007) |
Dissertation Title: "Relationship of Home Environment to Residential Transitions among Elders"
Employment Status: Assistant Professor, Department of Physical Therapy, School of Health Studies,
Simmons College, Boston
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| Carol Reis Starr (1995) |
Dissertation Title: "Effects of Later Life Education Upon the Careers of Older Women"
Employment Status: Associate Director for Curriculum and Evaluation, Southeast Center of Excellence
in Geriatric Medicine, University of Alabama Birmingham and Academic Coordinator, Emory University Division
of Geriatric Medicine, Atlanta, GA
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| Dena Schulman-Green (2002) |
Dissertation Title: "The Education and Experience of Physicians Providing Psychosocial and
Spiritual Aspects of Palliative Care"
Employment Status:
Former: DOD postdoctoral fellow at the Yale School of Nursing
Current: Associate Research Scientist, Center for Excellence in Chronic Illness Care, Yale University
School of Nursing
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| Ajith Silva (1996) |
Dissertation Title:
"Specialization of Nursing Home Care and Outcomes: Does Specialization Make a
Difference?"
Employment Status: Senior Research Analyst and Adjunct Assistant Professor, Center for Health Program
Development, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
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| Priyanthi Silva (1998) |
Dissertation Title: "Gender Identity Styles of Young, Middle-Aged, and Old Women"
Employment Status: Research Analyst, WESTAT, Inc., Rockville, MD
|
| Yongjin Son (2000) |
Dissertation Title: "The Effect of Stressful Life Events on Health Services Utilization: Do
Moderating Factors Make Differences?"
Employment Status: Assistant Professor, MokPo-Catholic University, South Korea
|
| Amy Leventhal Stern (1995) |
Dissertation Title: "Multidimensional Assessment of Caregiver Outcomes"
Employment Status: Independent Consultant, MEDSTAT, Inc., Boston, MA
|
| Kathy Brandt Stocker (2001) |
Dissertation Title: "The Experience of Coping with Brain Affliction: A Neglected Area of Research"
|
| Donna Sullivan (2004) |
Dissertation Title: "Working-Class Women and Labor Force Participation at Older Ages: Tips from
the Waitress Profession"
Employment Status: Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology,
Marshal University, Huntington, WV
|
| Jennifer Sullivan (2007) |
Dissertation Title: "Understanding Variation in Personal Assistance Use: The Impact of State Attributes
Affecting Provision of Home and Community Based Services"
|
| Connie Tai (2000) |
Dissertation Title: "The Hospital Choice of Aged Rural Medicare Beneficiaries: The Influence of
Patient Attributes, Hospital Attributes, and Spatial Access"
Employment Status: Consultant, Department of Clinical Analysis, Kaiser Permanente, Los Angeles, CA
|
| Terri Salmons Tobin (1999) |
Dissertation Title: "Wandering, Getting Lost, and Alzheimer's Disease: Influences on Precautions Taken
and Levels of Supervision Provided by Caregivers"
Employment Status: Program Evaluator, Advocates for Human Potential, Inc., Sudbury, MA
|
| Laila Vehvilainen (2007) |
Dissertation Title: "The Role of the Internet to Support Alzheimers Family Caregivers: An Examination of
Intra-Organizational Factors"
|
| Jennifer Warren (2005) |
Dissertation Title: "The Aging Baby Boom Cohort: Predictors of Condom Use for Disease Prevention"
|
| Michelle Washko (2005) |
Dissertation Title: "Volunteer Behavior of Older Adults: An Exploration of Motives, Barriers,
and the Resulting Policy Implications"
Employment Status: Senior Research Associate, Institute for the Future of Aging Services,
AAHSA Washington, D.C.
|
| Bei Wu (2000) |
Dissertation Title: "Supplementing Informal Care of Frail Elders with Formal Services: A Comparison
of White, Hispanic and Asians"
Employment Status:
Former: Senior Research Associate, Health Economics Research, Inc., Waltham, MA
Current: Assistant Professor, Department of Community Medicine, Center on Aging, School of Medicine,
West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV
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