Aging, Alcohol, & Addictions
An interest group of the Gerontological
Society of America
Last
Updated 1/20/2008
Please check the "Selected Citations" pages for our members' publications along with other relevant publications, reports, and websites.
Interest Group Convener:
Lawrence Schonfeld,
PhD, Professor and Chair
Department of Aging
and Mental Health,
Louis de la Parte Florida Mental Health Institute
(813) 974-1946 Fax:
(813) 974-1968
email: schonfel@fmhi.usf.edu
Research Interests:
Cognitive-behavioral interventions with older alcohol abusers; determinants of
relapse and readmission to treatment;
Elder abuse; Behavior management in long term care
facilities.
Web Page: http://www.fmhi.usf.edu/amh/vitas/schonfeld.html
Interest Group Members and Affiliates:
In
memoriam: Edith S.L. Gomberg,
See website: http://www.edithgomberg.com/
Previous and Current Members:
Wendy Adams, M.D.,
Director
Memory Diagnostic Clinic
Dean Clinic
1313 Fish Hatchery Rd.
Phone: (608) 252-8371
Email: wendy.adams@deancare.com
Frank Ahern, Senior
Research Associate
Dept of
Biobehavioral Health
210 E
(814) 863-0185 Fax:
(817) 863-7525
Email: f4a@psu.edu
Roland Atkinson,
MD, Professor
Psychiatry
Department
Phone#: (503)
494-8144
Email: atkinsor@ohsu.edu
Kristen L. Barry,
Ph.D., Research Associate Professor
University of
Michigan Department of Psychiatry, and
Associate Director,
Department of Veterans Affairs National Serious
Mental Illness
Treatment Research and
734-769-7100, Ext.
6242
Fax: 734-761-2617
Email: barry@umich.edu
Ana Begovic-Lapic
Frederic C. Blow,
Ph.D., Assistant Research Scientist
Director, Mental
Health and Long Term Care
Ann Arbor, MI 48108
(313) 998-7952 fax: (313) 998-7994
Email: fredblow@umich.edu
Research Interests:
Alcohol misuse among older adults, alcohol-related injury and co-morbidity of
psychiatric illness
in alcoholics; methodological and statistical issues, screening methods.
Miriam Boeri
Sociology
Department
(404) 463-9664
email: gs03mwb@panther.gsu.edu or Miriam_williams@mindspring.com
Penny Brennan, Ph.D.
Center for Health Care Evaluation (MP-152)
VA Palo Alto Health Care System
Menlo Park Division
795 Willow Road
Menlo Park, CA 94025
(650) 493-5000 X 23440
FAX: (650) 617-2690
email: penny.brennan@va.gov
Barbara Bucur
(216) 663-6266
email: bucurb@aol.com
Peter Bäurle
Leading physician Geriatric Psychiatry and Psychology
Specialist Psychiatry and Psychotherapy FMH
Psychiatric Clinic Münsterlingen,
Email: peter.baeurle@stgag.ch
Debbie Christie, BA/BSW
Registered Social Worker
Alcohol, Drug & Gambling Services
Fax:
905-546-3608
Email:
dchristi@city.hamilton.on.ca
Constance L.
Coogle, Assistant Professor
(804) 828-1525 FAX: (804) 828-7905
Email: ccoogle@gems.vcu.edu
Research Interests:
caregiving, evaluation research, geriatric alcohol abuse, and aging and
development disabilities. Web Page: http://views.vcu.edu/sahp/gerontology/gerindex.htm
John Culberson, M.D., Fellow Geriatric
Medicine
6431 Fannin, JJL 308
Email:
JCulbMD@aol.com
Patrick Cullinane,
M.S., Associate Director of Research and Special Projects
American Society on
Aging
San Francisco, CA 94103-1824
Research
Interests: Web-based training for professionals regarding brief interventions
with older alcohol abusers.
Sherry Cummings, Ph.D.,
Associate Dean
University of Tennessee
College of Social Work
(615) 782-6153 Email: scumming@utk.edu
Sandra Cushing, MSW
Registered Social Worker
Alcohol, Drug & Gambling Services
(905)
546-3606 Fax: (905) 546-3608
Email:
scushing@city.hamilton.on.ca
Sara S. DeHart,
MSN, PhD. Assoc. Prof. Nursing
(425) 673-5729
FAX (425) 673-5829
email: sdehart@sprintmail.com
Sadhna Diwan, Ph.D., Project Principal Investigator
Master's Advanced Curriculum Project, CSWE
Phone: 408-924-5839
Fax: 408-924-5892
Email: sdiwan@casa.sjsu.edu
Catherine Dodson,
Elderhostel Coordinator
(804) 828-1525 FAX:
(804) 828-7905
email: cddodson@hsc.vcu.edu
Larry W. Dupree,
Ph.D., Associate Chair
Department of Aging
and Mental Health,
Louis de la Parte Florida Mental Health Institute,
(813) 974-1946 Fax:
(813) 974-1968 email: dupree@fmhi.usf.edu
Research Interests:
substance abuse and older adults, neuropsychological assessment of individuals
with Alzheimer's Disease or related disorders, and assessment of mental health
and substance abuse problems among consumers of home health care services. Web Page: http://www.fmhi.usf.edu/amh/vitas/dupree.html
Faika Zanjani,
Ph.D. Assistant Professor
University of
Kentucky-Gerontology Department 306B
Wethington Health
Sciences Building 900 South Limestone Lexington, KY 40536-0200
Telephone: (859)
257-1450 x80195
FAX: (859) 323-5747
email: f.zanjani@uky.edu
Eleanor Feldman,
Ph.D.
(212) 533-6640 fax:
(212) 475-2885
Richard Finlayson,
MD. former Medical Director,
Addiction Services
Mayo Clinic, 200
1st. SW
Professor
Professor of Gerontology
Brunel University West London
School of Health Sciences & Social
Care
Mary Seacole Building
Uxbridge, Middlesex
England, UB8 3PH
Tel 01895 268 756
Nancy Grant,
Education and Training Specialist
GRECC,
Wilshire and
(310)478-3711
x40679
Anne M. Gurnack,
PhD. Professor and Chair
Interim Director MPA Program
Department of Political Science
900 Wood Road 268 MOLN
(262) 595-2069 Fax (262) 595-2602
Email: gurnack@uwp.edu
Web Site: http://www.uwp.edu/academic/political.science/gurnack/vita/gurnack.htm
Norman G. Hoffmann,
PhD., LP.
Outcome Management
Evaluation Guidelines and Assessment
Carol
Joseph, MD.
Honululu VA Medical Center
email: JOSEPH.CAROL_L+@HONOLULU.VA.GOV
Carolin Knorr
Email: Carolin.Knorr@zi-mannheim.de
Karen Kopera-Frye, Ph.D.
Assistant
Professor, Dept. of Psychology, Applied Cognitive Aging Program
Phone: (330) 972-5907
FAX: (330) 972-5174
email: kkopera@uakron.edu
Mark Kubik, M.D,
Medical Director/Professor
The Tamalpais
(Continuing Care Retirement Community)
501 Via Casitas
Greenbrae, CA
94904
(415) 464-1765 email: markkubik@aol.com
Research
Interests: alcohol use in retirement communities and comparisons to elderly
living in age integrated communities; medication use; and measures of health
status.
Sonne Lemke, Ph.D.
Center for Health Care Evaluation (MP-152)
VA Palo Alto Health Care System
Menlo Park Division
795 Willow Road
Menlo Park, CA 94025
(650) 493-5000 X 23422
FAX: (650) 617-2690
email: sonne.lemke@va.gov
Marggarethe
Lorenson, Dean and Professor
6-101 Health
Sciences Unit F,
email: margarethe.lorensen@sykepleivit.uio.no
Nicole S. MacFarland, LCSW,
CASAC
Clinical Director,
Senior Hope Counseling Inc.
Doctoral Student, SUNY
(518) 489-7777 Phone (518) 489-7771 Fax
Research Interests: Geriatric
Addictions, MICA Issues and the Older Adult, Curriculum Development for MSW
Students on the Topic of Geriatric Addictions.
Eileen McDonach
High Street,
Paisley
44-141-849-4238
email: eileen.mcdonach@paisley.ac.uk
Website: http://www-ass.paisley.ac.uk/gerontology
Research Interests: Alcohol use, the social meaning, and role of
alcohol in the lives of older people, difficulties community nurses
experience in responding to the health needs of older alcohol misusers, issues
of alcohol use and misuse in residential and day care services for older
people.
Alixe McNeill,
Project Director
National Council on
Aging
(202)479-6671
email: alixe.mcneill@ncoa.org
Also
please visit the NCOA Web site at: www.ncoa.org
Alison A. Moore,
M.D., M.P.H.
10945 Le Conte Avenue, Suite 2339
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1687
(310) 825-8253 Fax#
(310) 794-2199
email: aamoore@mednet.ucla.edu
Research interests:
Epidemiology of alcohol use in older persons; the identification and management
of at-risk drinking among the elderly, particularly in primary care settings.
Debra O'Neill, MBA,
MSW, Project Development Specialist
Missouri Institute
of Mental Health
University of
Missouri-Columbia
(314) 877-6469 FAX:
(314) 877-6477
email: Debra.ONeill@mimh.edu
MIMH Policy Information Exchange web
site: http://www.mimh.edu/pie
Denise Orwig,
Ph.D.,
Assistant Professor
& Associate Director,
Division of
Gerontology
Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine
660 W. Redwood Street, Howard Hall, Suite 200
Baltimore, Maryland 21201
Phone: (410) 706-8591
Email: Email: dorwig@epi.umaryland.edu
Nancy Osgood, Ph.D.
(804) 828-6077 FAX:
(804)-828-5259
Research Interests:
elderly suicide, geriatric alcoholism, recreation, leisure, and aging, and
creative arts and aging; effects of pet therapy; Compulsive gambling and the elderly.
Web Page: http://views.vcu.edu/sahp/gerontology/gerindex.htm
David Oslin, MD,
Assistant Professor
Geriatric and Addiction
Psychiatry
215-615-3083
215-349-8389
email: oslin@mail.med.upenn.edu
Research Interests include depression and alcohol use, moderate alcohol
use, alcohol use and the elderly
(443)
416-9772 e-mail: jpark@ssw.umaryland.edu
Research Interests: Medication
misuse/abuse and alcohol abuse/dependence in community-dwelling older adults,
pain assessment in cognitively impaired older adults in nursing home.
Anabel Pelham,
PhD., Director,
Gerontology
Program, HSS 242
(415) 338-1684
email: apelham@sfsu.edu
Research Interests:
alcohol use in retirement communities and comparisons to elderly living
in age integrated communities; medication use; and measures of health status.
Victoria S. Rains,
MD Department of Geriatric Medicine
San Bernardino County
Medical Center
30524 Los Altos
(909)794-0682
Email: none given
Cary Reid, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor of
Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, and Physician Investigator at the
West Haven VA Medical Center
VA
Email:
manney.reid@med.va.gov
Paul Sacco LCSW,
NIDA Pre-Doctoral Fellow
Campus
Email: psacco@gwbmail.wustl.edu
(314) 935-6920 -
Phone
(314) 962-1620 –
Fax
Research
Interests: Stress-Coping
models of alcohol use; Pain and substance misuse; Pathological Gambling among
older adults
Derek Davies Satre,
Post Doctoral Fellow
Dept. of Psychiatry
401 Parnassus Avenue, Box 0984-OVS
Phone: (415) 476-7382
Email: dereks@lppi.ucsf.edu
Research interests: Older adult substance
abuse treatment access, treatment outcomes, gender issues in treatment, managed
care.
Phone: 707-826-3949 Fax: 707-826-3939
Email: schafer@humboldt.edu
Research Interests:
The effects of the physical and social environment on alcohol use.
Kathleen Schutte,
Ph.D.
Center for Health
Care Evaluation (MP-152)
VA Palo Alto Health
Care System
Menlo Park Division
795 Willow Road
Menlo Park, CA
94025
(650) 493-5000 X
23368
FAX: (650) 617-2690
email: kathleen.schutte@va.gov
Kathryn Shafer,
Ph.D., LCSW, ACSW
Assistant
Professor,
Office:
813-974-6418
email: kathy@drshafer.org
Research
Interests: Trauma and substance abuse,
substance abuse and social work curricula, post-traumatic stress.
Jeffrey B. Smith
M.S.W/, C.S.W., J.D.,C.S.A.
Elder Law Attorney
Gerontological Social Worker
Certified Senior Advisor
(phone)1-734-748-0329
Charmaine Spencer, LL.M. Research
Associate
Gerontology Research Centre &
Adjunct Professor, Gerontology Research Dept.
Simon Fraser University
2800-515 West Hastings Street
Vancouver, BC
V6B 5K3
Phone 778-782-5047
Fax: 778-782-5066
Email: cspencer@shaw.ca
Estina Thompson,
Student/Research Assistant
email: estina@umich.edu
Richard Wiscott,
Ph.D., Director, Gerontology Program
(717) 477-1342 FAX:
(717) 477-4030
email: rawisc@wharf.ship.edu
Nancy Whitelaw
National Council on
Aging
409
(202) 479-6612
email: nancy.whitelaw@ncoa.org
Emily Vyverberg
PharmD Candidate 2009
University of
(563) 543-0699 email: emily-vyverberg@uiowa.edu
Research
Interests: Geriatric Pharmacy; substance
abuse
Flora Yen, Senior
Associate
Northwest Regional
Educational Lab
101
(503) 275-9497
email: yenf@nwrel.org
Robert A. Zucker,
Professor and Director
University of
(313) 998-7952
email: zuckerra@umich.edu
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