Research affiliates
Research affiliates are individuals involved in aging-related research or those who, by nature of their involvement/employment in the field of aging, desire a formal affiliation with the Centre on Aging.
University of Manitoba Research affiliates
The following is a list of the current research affiliates of the Centre on Aging, based at our Fort Garry and Bannatyne Campuses. A number of our research affiliates are also based at Manitoba universities.
UM research affiliates represent 11 faculties across the Fort Garry and Bannatyne campuses.
UM research affiliates Architecture
City Planning
Richard Milgrom, PhD
Associate Professor
410 Architecture 2 Building | Fort Garry campus
204-474-6868
richard.milgrom@umanitoba.ca
Research Interests
- Social impacts of sprawl in a slow growth city
- Planning and design for age-friendly communities
- Planning and design with urban aboriginal communities
- Sustainability and urban design
- Participatory planning and design processes
Interior Design
Shauna Mallory-Hill, PhD
Associate Professor
206 Architecture 2 Building | Fort Garry campus
204-474-7442
s_mallory-hill@umanitoba.ca
Research interests
- researching building systems
- universal and sustainable design
- building performance evaluation
- how sustainably designed environments impact human health and productivity
UM research affiliates Agricultural and Food Sciences
Food and Human Nutritional Sciences
Christina Lengyel, PhD
Professor
405 Human Ecology Building | Fort Garry Campus
204-474-9554
christina.lengyel@umanitoba.ca
Research interests
- Nutrition and health-related issues of older adults residing in personal care homes assisted living facilities, and in community residences, in both rural and urban areas, to improve their nutritional well-being, longevity and quality of life.
Miyoung Suh, PhD
Professor
Principle Investigator, Division of Neurodegenerative Disorders (DND)
Principle Investigator, Canadian Centre for Agri-Food Research in Health and Medicine (CCARM)
St. Boniface Hospital Research Centre
R4052-351 Tache Avenue, Winnipeg, MB R2H 2A6
204-235-3106
miyoung.suh@umanitoba.ca
Research interests
- Nutrition and visual function
- Effects of dietary lipids in retinal diseases (diabetic retinopathy, retinitis pigmentosa, and macular degeneration)
- Nutrition, alcohol and reproductive function
- Effects of lipids/functional foods/alcohol in sperm and testosterone production in chronic disease states
UM research affiliates Arts
English, Theatre, Film and Media
Brenda Austin-Smith, PhD
Professor
449 University College | Fort Garry Campus
204-474-9121
brenda.austin-smith@umanitoba.ca
Research interests
- Intergenerational responses to film; seniors and popular culture; particular interest in film melodrama.
- Specialization in: Film and emotion; gender and media; audience studies; cinema history and cultural memory; narrative rhetoric in fiction and film; melodrama; Henry James; adaptation.
French, Spanish, and Italian
Enrique Fernandez, PhD
Professor
412 Fletcher Argue Bldg | Fort Garry Campus
204-474-7244
enrique.fernandez@umanitoba.ca
Research interests
- Early Modern Spanish Literature;
- Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century Spanish Literature
- Death and Gender
History
Roisin Cossar, PhD
Acting Department Head, Professor
454 Fletcher Argue Building | Fort Garry Campus
204-474-8885
roisin.cossar@umanitoba.ca
Research interests
- Religion and society
- Late medieval Italy
- Urban history
- Gender
Psychology
Daniel Bailis, PhD
Department Head, Professor
P407 Duff Roblin Bldg | Fort Garry Campus
204-474-9360
dan.bailis@umanitoba.ca
Research interests
- Social psychology and health, especially:
- relationships between adaptive traits and defensive cognitions,
- psychosocial factors in healthy aging (i.e., perceived control and social comparison), and
- integration of health status and health-related behaviors in the self-concept.
Judith Chipperfield, PhD
Professor Emerita
P435G Duff Roblin Building | Fort Garry Campus
204-474-6790
judith.chipperfield@umanitoba.ca
Research interests
- Conducts research in the Laboratory for Aging and Health Research (LAHR) to examine psychological aspects of health and illness in later life
- In the Emotion, Motivation, and Control Research (EMCOR) Group, she is studying emotions, motivation, and perceived control among younger and older populations
Debbie Kelly, PhD
Professor
P438 Duff Roblin | Fort Garry Campus
204-474-9489
debbie.kelly@umanitoba.ca
Research interests
- Spatial cognition
- Understanding how spatial abilities change across the lifespan of humans and animals
- How spatial cue use changes with age in healthy older adults
Sunmee Kim, PhD
Assistant Professor
P501 Duff Roblin
204-474-8268
Sunmee.Kim@umanitoba.ca
Research interests
- Big data analytics in Psychology and related areas
- Predictive analytics for longitudinal data
- Data-driven approaches for risk factors of cognition aging and late-life depression
Richard Kruk, PhD
Associate Professor
P507 Duff Roblin | Fort Garry Campus
204-474-7349
richard.kruk@umanitoba.ca
Research interests
- Sensory and cognitive development related to reading and language skills
Jonathan Marotta, PhD
Professor
P310 Duff Roblin Bldg | Fort Garry Campus
204-474-7057
jonathan.marotta@umanitoba.ca
Research interests
- visual perception
- visual control of action
- aging
- stroke
- neurological disorders
- agnosia & prosopagnosia
Corey Mackenzie, PhD
Professor, Director of Clinical Training
P401 Duff Roblin Bldg | Fort Garry Campus
204-474-8260
corey.mackenzie@umanitoba.ca
Research interests
- older adults' mental health
- caregiver stress
- geriatric psychiatric epidemiology
- anxiety disorders
- mental health service utilization
Kristin Reynolds, PhD
Assistant Professor
P313 Duff Roblin Building | Fort Garry Campus
204-474-9528
kristin.reynolds@umanitoba.ca
Research interests
- Knowledge translation
- Access to health information and health services
- Mental health service use
- Community mental health
- Geriatric psychology
- Health psychology
Sociology and Criminology
Christopher J. Fries, PhD
Associate Professor
317 Isbister Bldg | Fort Garry Campus
204-474-7871
christopher.fries@umanitoba.ca
Research interests
- Health lifestyles and behaviour
- Critical public health
- Social determinants of health
- Complementary/alternative medicine (CAM)
Laura Funk, PhD
Professor
307 Isbister Bldg | Fort Garry Campus
204-474-6678
laura.funk@umanitoba.ca
Research interests
- Responsibility, health and care/support across the life course
- Aspects of the sociology of health, aging, and family as well as the social determinants of health, including social support and care work
- Current focus: family care provided to older, chronically and terminally ill individuals, understood within broader social, cultural and structural contexts
- Family caregiver experiences and interactions with home care system; personal care homes
Alexander Segall, PhD
Professor Emeritus, Senior Scholar
Research Interests
- Social determinants of health
- Population health assessment
- Self-health management
- Healthy aging
UM research affiliates Education
Educational Administration, Foundations and Psychology
Robert Mizzi, PhD
Associate Professor, Canada Research Chair in Queer, Community and Diversity Education
239 Education Building | Fort Garry Campus
204-474-9042
robert.mizzi@umanitoba.ca
Research interests
- Adult education
- Social justice and equity studies across the lifespan
- Gender and sexual diversity
UM RESEARCH AFFILIATES Extended Education
Extended Education
Diedre Desmarais, PhD
Assistant Professor, Area Director, Access and Aboriginal Focus Programs
232 Migizii Agamik | Fort Garry Campus
204-474-8099
diedre.desmarais@umanitoba.ca
UM research affiliates Price Faculty of Engineering
Biomedical Engineering, Electrical & Computer Engineering
Zahra Moussavi, PhD
Professor and Canada Research Chair
E3-513 Engineering Building | Fort Garry Campus
204-474-7023
zahra_moussavi@umanitoba.ca
Research interests
- Diagnosis and treatment of Alzheimer’s
- Neuro-cognitive enrichment for aging population
- Neurological disorder diagnosis and medical technology instrumentations for sleep apnea detection using respiratory sounds
UM research affiliates Rady Faculty of Health Sciences
Max Rady College of Medicine
Biochemistry and Medical Genetics
Britt Drögemöller, PhD
Assistant Professor
Canada Research Chair in Pharmacogenomics and Precision Medicine
Room 309C – Basic Medical Sciences Building, 745 Bannatyne Avenue | Bannatyne Campus
Britt.Drogemoller@umanitoba.ca
Research interests
- Genomics
- Bioinformatics
- Pharmacogenomics
- Precision Medicine
- Age-related hearing loss
- More about Britt Drögemöller
Meaghan Jones, PhD
Assistant Professor
Room 309 – Basic Medical Sciences Building, 745 Bannatyne Avenue | Bannatyne Campus
meaghan.jones@umanitoba.ca
Research interests
- Epigenetics
- DNA methylation changes during development and aging
- effects of prenatal environmental exposures on long term health
- epigenetic age
Clinical Health Psychology
Nicole Haverstock, PhD, CPsych
Assistant Professor
Clinical Psychologist, Centre for Geriatric Psychiatry
Brandon Regional Health Centre
A4 Assiniboine Centre, 150 McTavish Ave E, Brandon, MB R7A 2B3
204-578-4576
NHaverstock@pmh-mb.ca
Research interests
- Psychosocial factors related to healthy aging
- Psychological well-being among caregivers
- Older adult mental health
- Geropsychology
Lesley P. Koven, PhD, CPsych
Assistant Professor
Clinical Psychologist, Clinical Health Psychology Programme, WRHA
St. Boniface General Hospital
M4-409 Tache, Winnipeg MB R2H 2A6
204-235-3001
LKOVEN@sbgh.mb.ca
Research interests
- Caregiving stress
- older adult mental health,
- mild cognitive impairment,
- mental health service utilization
- geropsychology and health psychology
Colleen Millikin, PhD, CPsych
Assistant Professor, Clinical Health Psychology
St. Boniface General Hospital
M4 – 409 Tache, Winnipeg, MB R2H 2A6
cmillikin@sbgh.mb.ca
Research interests
- Mild cognitive impairment;
- differential diagnosis of dementia;
- delusions in dementia;
- neuropsychological and behavioural interventions
Lesley Ritchie, PhD, CPsych, ABPP-CN
Assistant Professor, Clinical Health Psychology
PZ350-771 Bannatyne Avenue | Bannatyne Campus
204-787-3876
lritchie3@exchange.hsc.mb.ca
Research interests
- Aging and neuropsychology
- Mild Cognitive Impairment: diagnostic criteria and progression to dementia
- Stroke and cognitive rehabilitation
- Concussion
Community Health Sciences
Malcolm Doupe, PhD
Associate Professor
Senior Research Scientist, Manitoba Centre for Health Policy
Director, Western Regional Training Centre, University of Manitoba
442 Brodie Centre | Bannatyne Campus
204-975-7759
malcolm_doupe@cpe.umanitoba.ca
Research interests
- Utilization of health care services by older adults
- Alternative care strategies for this population
Christine Kelly, PhD
Associate Professor
S108E-750 Bannatyne Avenue | Bannatyne Campus
204-975-7737
christine.kelly@umanitoba.ca
Research interests
- Self-managed/directly-funded home care in Canada
- Continuing care, personal care homes
- Intersectionality and feminist theory
- Health equity
- Qualitative methods
Kathryn Sibley, PhD
Associate Professor, Canada Research Chair in Integrated Knowledge Translation in Rehabilitation Science
Director, Knowledge Translation Platform | Centre for Healthcare Innovation
379-753 McDermot Avenue | Bannatyne Campus
204-594-5354
kathryn.sibley@umanitoba.ca
Research interests
- Fall prevention
- Balance control
- Exercise
- Rehabilitation
- Knowledge translation and implementation science
Verena Menec, PhD
Professor
Co-lead site investigator, Manitoba Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA)
Room S111-750 Bannatyne Avenue | Bannatyne Campus
204-272-3184
verena.menec@umanitoba.ca
Research interests
- Healthy aging
- Determinants of healthy aging
- Age-friendly communities
- Health care utilization among older adults, particularly at the end of life
Kerstin Roger, PhD
Professor
220 Human Ecology Bldg | Fort Garry Campus
204-474-6354
kerstin.roger@umanitoba.ca
Research interests
- Family and care provision
- Aging, dementia, end-of-life
- Health care and applied ethics
- Qualitative research
Shahin Shooshtari, PhD
Professor
219 Human Ecology Building | Fort Garry Campus
204-474-8052
shahin.shooshtari@umanitoba.ca
Research interests
- Aging with disability
- Dementia epidemiology
- Health and agingMental health
- Health services research
- Aging and immigration
Robert Tate, PhD
Senior Scholar, Director, Manitoba Follow-Up Study
Research interests
- Understanding successful aging
- Long-term cohort studies
- Biostatistics and epidemiology
Human Anatomy and Cell Science
Jason Peeler, PhD
Associate Professor
Musculoskeletal Medicine Course Director for Undergraduate Medical Education
102–745 Bannatyne Avenue | Bannatyne Campus
204-272-3146 (office) | 204-272-3147 (lab)
jason.peeler@umanitoba.ca
Research interests
- Clinical orthopaedics with an emphasis on validity and reliability testing of clinical orthopaedic assessment rehabilitation techniques designed to enhance patient care and musculoskeletal function
Family Medicine
José François, MD, MMedEd, CCFP, FCFP
P219-770 Bannatyne Avenue | Bannatyne Campus
204-318-2554
jose.francois@.umanitoba.ca
Research interests
- care of the elderly
- competency-based medical education
- continuing professional development
- distributed medical education
- French-language minority populations
Gayle Halas, PhD
Assistant Professor
Rady Chair in Interprofessional Collaborative Practice, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences
Associate Director, Dept of Family Medicine Research, Max Rady College of Medicine
co-Research Lead, Manitoba Primary and Integrated Health care Innovation Network (MPN)
P219-770 Bannatyne Avenue | Bannatyne Campus
204-977-5666
gayle.halas@umanitoba.ca
Research interests
- interprofessional collaboration
- team-based primary health care
- care continuum and transitions
- patient/caregiver experiences of multi-provider care
- complex needs: multi-morbidity, addiction, chronic illness
Internal Medicine, Section of Geriatric Medicine
Philip St. John, MD, MPH, FRCPC, CCFP
Room 133 - 800 Sherbrook Street | Bannatyne Campus
204-787-3365
pstjohn@hsc.mb.ca
Research interests
- Rural health
- Epidemiology of cognitive impairment and depression
Pharmacology and Therapeutics
Grant Hatch, PhD
Professor, Canada Research Chair, Molecular Cardiolipin Metabolism
Director, Lipid Lipoprotein and Atherosclerosis Research Group (LLARG)
Director, Centre for Research and Treatment of Atherosclerosis
Co-Director, Diabetes Research Envisioned and Accomplished in Manitoba (DREAM) Theme
501C John Buhler Research Center, 715 McDermot Avenue | Bannatyne Campus
204-789-3405
ghatch@chrim.ca
Research interests
- Focuses on three main areas in whole animal, organ, cellular and molecular biology: Biology of Cardiolipin, Biology of Human Lipid Disorders, Biology of Lipoprotein Metabolism
Daniel Sitar, PhD
Professor Emeritus
753 McDermot Avenue, Chown Building A205 | Bannatyne Campus
204-789-3532
daniel.sitar@umanitoba.ca
Research interests
- Clinical and renal pharmacology
Surgery
Frederick Zeiler, MD, PhD, CIP, FRCSC
Rudy Falk Clinician-Scientist Professor, Director of Research - Neurosurgery
Associate Professor, Section of Neurosurgery, Dept of Surgery
Associate Professor, Dept of Human Anatomy and Cell Science
Core Member, Biomedical Engineering, Price Faculty of Engineering
GF231 Health Sciences Center | Bannatyne Campus
204-787-2960
frederick.zeiler@umanitoba.ca
Research interests
- Traumatic Brain Injury
- Functional Outcome After Brain Injury
- Biomedical Engineering/Signal Processing
- Time-Series Statistical Methodologies
- Big Data and Impact of Age/Sex
- Multi-Modal Cerebral Physiologic Monitoring
- Cerebrovascular Consequences of Injury
College of Nursing
All College of Nursing affiliates
Lorna Guse, PhD
Adjunct
Helen Glass Centre for Nursing, 89 Curry Place | Fort Garry Campus
204-474-8113
Lorna.Guse@umanitoba.ca
Research Interests
- Quality of life
- Older adults in long-term care settings
Michelle Lobchuk, RN, PhD
Associate Professor
Helen Glass Centre for Nursing, Room 315 - 89 Curry Place | Fort Garry Campus
204-474-7135
Michelle.Lobchuk@umanitoba.ca
Research interests
- family caregiver wellness
- empathic communication
- perceptual understanding
- symptom assessment
- video-feedback intervention
Jamie L. Penner, RN, PhD(c)
Assistant Professor
Helen Glass Centre for Nursing, Room 489 - 89 Curry Place | Fort Garry Campus
204-474-9315
Jamie.Penner@umanitoba.ca
Research interests
- family caregiving
- health promotion
- community engagement/building social capital
- intervention development
- palliative and end-of-life care
Genevieve Thompson, RN, PhD
Associate Professor
Helen Glass Centre for Nursing, Room 491 - 89 Curry Place | Fort Garry Campus
204-474-8818
Genevieve.Thompson@umanitoba.ca
Research interests
- Palliative care
- Family caregivers
- Quality of care
- Delivery of end-of-life care in long-term care
College of Pharmacy
All College of Pharmacy affiliates
Jamie Falk, BSc (Pharm), PharmD
Associate professor
204-318-5280
Jamison.Falk@umanitoba.ca
Research interests
- Drug utilization and practice patterns
- Pharamacoepidemiology
- Shared decision making
- Burden of care in later stages of life
Christine Leong, BSc, BSc (Pharm), PharmD
Assistant Professor
Apotex Centre, 750 McDermot Ave. | Bannatyne Campus
204-318-5276
Christine.Leong@umanitoba.ca
Research interests
- Pharmacoepidemiology
- Medication use
- Optimization of drug therapy
- Primary care
- Pharmacy practice
Lalitha Raman-Wilms, BSc (Pharm), ACPR, PharmD, FCSHP
Dean, Professor
Apotex Centre, 750 McDermot Ave. | Bannatyne Campus
207-474-7178
Lalitha.Raman-Wilms@umanitoba.ca
Research interests
- Polypharmacy
- Deprescribing
- Geriatrics interprofessional curriculum development
- Osteoporosis
- Primary care
Jillian Stobart, BSc, PhD
Assistant professor
Contact
Apotex Centre, 750 McDermot Ave. | Bannatyne Campus
204-272-3180
Jillian.Stobart@umanitoba.ca
Research interests
- Cerebrovascular health in aging, dementia, and Alzheimer’s Disease
College of Rehabilitation Sciences
Occupational Therapy
Cara Brown, PhD, MSc, BMR (OT)
Assistant professor
Room R125- 771 McDermot Ave | Bannatyne Campus
204-480-1337
cara.brown@umanitoba.ca
Research interests
- Care transitions from hospital to home
- Supporting people with chronic disease to live in the community
- Occupational therapy
- Rehabilitation in primary health care
Amine Choukou, PhD
Associate Professor
Room 111 - 771 McDermot Ave | Bannatyne Campus
204-789-3412
amine.choukou@umanitoba.ca
Research interests
- Smart technology, independence, and quality of life
- Development of immersive simulators for visuomotor skills training
- Development and use of activity monitoring systems (wearables and non-wearables)
- Assistive technology and social participation
- Innovation and technology implementation
Ed Giesbrecht, PhD, MSc Rehab, BMR (OT), BSW
Associate professor
Room R214 - 771 McDermot Ave | Bannatyne Campus
204-977-5630
Ed.Giesbrecht@umanitoba.ca
Research interests
- Use of assisted technologies and participation
- Wheeled mobility and participation
- Effectiveness of wheelchair skills training with older adults
Jacquie Ripat, PhD, MSc, BMR (OT), OT Reg (MB)
Associate Dean (Research), Associate professor
Room 215 - 771 McDermot Ave | Bannatyne Campus
204-789-3303
Jacquie.Ripat@umanitoba.ca
Research interests
- Participation amongst assistive technology users across the lifespan
- Development of client-centred practice in entry-level occupational therapy students
- Development, and use of, universally designed and/or accessible public environments
- Wheeled mobility in winter environments
Physical Therapy
Ruth Barclay, PhD, MHSc, BMR (PT)
Associate professor
Room 106-771 McDermot Ave | Bannatyne Campus
204-787-2756
Ruth.Barclay@umanitoba.ca
Research interests
- Health related quality of life post stroke
- Response shift in health related quality of life
- Outcome measurement
- Participation post stroke
- Community ambulation
- Meta-analysis
- Structural equation modeling
Sandra Webber, PhD, MSc, BMR (PT)
Associate professor
Room RR311 - 771 McDermot Ave | Bannatyne Campus
204-787-1099
Sandra.Webber@umanitoba.ca
Research interests
- Mobility in older adults and people with chronic disease
- Objective measurement of physical activity and sedentary behaviour
- Factors that influence community ambulation and social participation in older adults
- Evaluating capacity and performance related to mobility
UM research affiliates Asper School of Business
Marketing
Malcolm Smith, PhD
Senior Scholar
Room 450 Drake Centre | Fort Garry Campus
204-474-9484
malcolm.smith@umanitoba.ca
Research interests
- Marketing to older adults
- Age-related differences in memory for advertising
UM research affiliates Kinesiology and Recreation Management
All Kinesiology and Recreation affiliates
Stephanie Chesser, PhD
Assistant Professor
stephanie.chesser@umanitoba.ca
Research interests
- Aging issues across the life course
- Inclusive communities
- Leisure
- Health and well-being
- Gender
- Citizen science
- Qualitative research
- Feminist research
Stephen Cornish, PhD
Associate Professor
117 Frank Kennedy Centre | Fort Garry Campus
204-474-9981
stephen.cornish@umanitoba.ca
Research interests
- Exercise Immunology
- Nutritional Immunology
- Exercise and Aging
- Exercise and Health
- Oxidative Stress
- Overtraining/Over-reaching
Todd Duhamel, PhD
Associate Dean (Health Sciences), Faculty of Graduate Studies,
Professor
208 Active Living Centre | Fort Garry Campus
204-474-8922
todd.duhamel@umanitoba.ca
Research interests
- Physical activity and health research. Research program focuses on two major research themes:
- Basic exercise physiology
- Clinical exercise physiology
Michelle Porter, PhD
Professor
338 Isbister Building | Fort Garry Campus
204-474-8795
michelle.porter@umanitoba.ca
Research interests
- Age-friendly environments (universities and neighbourhoods)
- Citizen science
- Physical activity and aging
- Ageism
- Long-term care
- Driving and aging
- Mobility and aging
Elizabeth Ready, PhD
Professor Emerita
225 Active Living Centre | Fort Garry Campus
204-474-8641
elizabeth.ready@umanitoba.ca
Research interests
- Physical health and functional benefits of physical activity in older adults
- Impact of age friendly neighbourhoods on physical activity and health
- Benefits of interprofessional collaboration in primary health care
Ayesha Saleem, PhD
Associate Professor
120 Frank Kennedy Centre | Fort Garry Campus
204-474-7617
ayesha.saleem@umanitoba.ca
Research interests
- Decipher the extracellular signalling as mediated through extracellular vesicles that regulates the interplay between host tissue and imposed challenges. These challenges can be
- physiological (exercise, age),
- metabolic (cancer, obesity),
- environmental (smoke, pollutants) or
- developmental (prenatal).
Veronica Silva, PhD
Assistant Professor
179D Extended Education | Fort Garry Campus
204-474-8719
veronica.silva@umanitoba.ca
Research interests
- Falls prevention
- Balance, locomotion, and mobility
- Visual control of balance and locomotion
Jonathan Singer, PhD
Associate Professor
179 Extended Education | Fort Garry Campus
204-474-8469
jonathan.singer@umanitoba.ca
Research interests
- Biomechanics/neuromechanics
- Control of static and dynamic stability
- Gait/locomotor mechanics
- Falls prevention
- Development of new measures/techniques to assess balance control
Rodrigo Villar, PhD
Assistant Professor
227 Active Living Centre | Fort Garry Campus
204-474-8590
rodrigo.villar@umanitoba.ca
Research interests
- Sex differences and exercise
- Aging, health and exercise
- Chronic diseases and exercise
- Cardiovascular and respiratory adaptations to exercise
UM research affiliates Law
All Law affliates
Mary Shariff, PhD
Associate Dean (J.D. Program), Associate Professor
224 Dysart Road | Fort Garry Campus
204-474-6135
Mary.Shariff@umanitoba.ca
Research interests
- Bioethics, biotechnology, genetics and the law
- Life extension, anti-aging and mortality and the law
- Legal strategies
- Natural resources, the environment and the law
- Legal pedagogy
UM research affiliates Science
Biological Sciences
Fuat Balci, PhD
Associate Professor
222 Biological Sciences Building | Fort Garry Campus
204-474-6379
fuat.balci@umanitoba.ca
Research interests
- Cognitive health and training
- Age dependent alterations of time perception and decision-making
- Computational models of cognition
Chemistry
Frank Schweizer, PhD
Professor
460 Parker Building (Office) | Fort Garry Campus
204-474-7012
Frank.Schweizer@umanitoba.ca
Research interests
- Medicinal chemistry of antibiotics, drug discovery for antibiotic resistant Gram-negative bacteria, antitumor compounds for treatment of ovarian cancer.
Computer Science
Rasit Eskicioglu, PhD
Associate Professor
E2-574 EITC | Fort Garry Campus
204-474-8835
rasit@cs.umanitoba.ca
Research interests
- Wireless sensor networks and their real-world applications, including indoor localization, object tracking, and monitoring
- Tracking and monitoring older population with decreased cognitive skills (e.g., Alzheimer’s, Dementia)
Celine Latulipe, PhD
Professor
E2-481 EITC | Fort Garry Campus
204-474-7339
celine.latulipe@umanitoba.ca
Research interests
- Technology for aging in place
- Technology for older adults and caregiving
- Patient portal use by older adults
- Older adult and caregiver use of eGovernment, eBanking, eHealth, and eShopping
James Young, PhD
Professor
E2-582 EITC | Fort Garry Campus
204-474-6791
young@cs.umanitoba.ca
Research interests
- Robotic assistants, companions, and aides
- Technology supporting people to continue to live in their homes for longer
- Human-robot interaction, involving all people affected in technology design
External research affiliates
The Centre on Aging attracts researchers interested in aging from across the province. In addition to the UM, researchers are affiliated from several Manitoba post-secondary institutions.
Brandon University
Scott Forbes
Assistant Professor | Department of Physical Education, Faculty of Education
204-727-9637
forbess@brandonu.ca
Research interests
- Exercise and Aging
- Exercise and Health
- Nutrition
- Muscle Health
- Brain Health
Rachel Herron
Associate Professor, Canada Research Chair in Rural and Remote Mental Health | Faculty of Science, Department of Geography
204-727-9771
HerronR@brandonu.ca
Research interests
- Rural ageing
- Support for people living with dementia
- Informal care and caregiving
- The role of the voluntary sector in service provision
- Ethics in research with vulnerable populations
- Gendered dimensions of care and caregiving
Nancy Newall
Associate Professor | Faculty of Science, Department of Psychology
204-571-8507
newalln@brandonu.ca
Research interests
- Loneliness and social isolation
- Age-friendly communities
Canadian Mennonite University
Heather Campell-Enns, PhD
Associate Professor | Psychology
204-487-3300 (x360)
hcampbell-enns@cmu.ca
Research interests
- Aging and eldercare
- Family-centred care and caregiving
- Psychosocial health and wellbeing
- Social determinants of health
University of Winnipeg
Gina Sylvestre, PhD
Associate Professor | Faculty of Science, Department of Geography
Contact
204-982-1146
g.sylvestre@uwinnipeg.ca
Research interests
- Rural aging and mobility
- Winter pedestrianism
- Aging and socio-spatial exclusion
Contact us
Centre on Aging
338 Isbister Building
183 Dafoe Rd
University of Manitoba (Fort Garry campus)
Winnipeg, MB R3T 2N2 Canada
204-474-8754
Monday to Friday, 8 am to 4 pm
UM research affiliates Social Work
All Social Work affiliates
Hai Luo, PhD
Assistant Professor
212 Tier Building | Fort Garry Campus
204-474-8543
hai.luo@umanitoba.ca
Research interests
Michael Yellow Bird, PhD
Dean and Professor
522 Tier Building | Fort Garry Campus
204-474-9869
michael.yellowbird@umanitoba.ca
Research interests