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AREAS OF INTEREST

Benedict Albensi

• Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, Max Rady College of Medicine, Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics
• Manitoba Dementia Research Chair

• Synaptic Plasticity
• Memory Dysfunction
• Mitochondrial theory of aging

Rakesh Arora 

• Enhanced Recovery After Cardiac Surgery (ERAS)
• Delirium
• Frailty
• Cardiac Surgery Associated Acute
• Kidney Injury
• Risk Modeling
• Intensive Care Physician Staffing Models
• Translational research
• Patient centered Quantitative research

• 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

Daniel Bailis

Faculty of Arts, Department of Psychology

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.

Ruth Barclay

Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, College of Rehabilitation Sciences

• 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

Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, College of Rehabilitation Sciences

• Care transitions from hospital to home
• Supporting people with chronic disease to live in the community
• Occupational therapy
• Rehabilitation in primary health care

• Aging issues across the life course
• Inclusive communities
• Leisure
• Health and well-being
• Gender
• Citizen science
• Qualitative research
• Feminist research

Judith Chipperfield

Faculty of Arts, Department of Psychology

• 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

Mohamed-Amine Choukou

Department of Occupational Therapy, College of Rehabilitation Sciences, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences

• 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

• Exercise Immunology
• Nutritional Immunology
• Exercise and Aging
• Exercise and Health
• Oxidative Stress
• Overtraining/Over-reaching

• Religion and society
• Late medieval Italy
• Urban history
• Gender

• Utilization of health care services by older adults
• Alternative care strategies for this population

Physical activity and health research. Research program focuses on two major research themes:

• Basic exercise physiology
• Clinical exercise physiology

• 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)

• Drug utilization and practice patterns
• Pharamacoepidemiology
• Shared decision making
• Burden of care in later stages of life

• Early Modern Spanish Literature;
• Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century Spanish Literature
• Death and Gender

• Health lifestyles and behaviour
• Critical public health
• Social determinants of health
• Complementary/alternative medicine (CAM)

•  mHealth apps

• 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

• Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, College of Rehabilitation Sciences
• Department of Occupational Therapy

• Use of assisted technologies and participation
• Wheeled mobility and participation
• Effectiveness of wheelchair skills training with older adults

• Targets optimal medication use by the aged population including the role of the community pharmacist
• Rural health and aging
• Interprofessional education

• Quality of life
• Older adults in long-term care settings

• Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, Max Rady College of Medicine, Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics
• Canada Research Chair in Molecular Cardiolipin Metabolism

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 
   

• Psychosocial factors related to healthy aging (i.e., perceived control and control strategies)
• Psychological well-being among informal caregivers of persons with dementia
• Geriatric psychology

• Epigenetics
• DNA methylation changes during development and aging
• effects of prenatal environmental exposures on long term health
• epigenetic age

• Self-managed/directly-funded home care in Canada
• Continuing care, personal care homes
• Intersectionality and feminist theory
• Health equity
• Qualitative methods

• Faculty of Arts, Department of Psychology
• Canada Research Chair in Comparative Cognition

• 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

• Sensory and cognitive development related to reading and language skills

• 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

• Investigating the rules that govern errors people make in both perceptual and remembering tasks
• Investigating how people's ability to perform a task in the present is influenced by prior learning

• Nutrition and health-related issues of older adults residing in personal care homes and in community residences

College of Pharmacy, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences

• Pharmacoepidemiology
• Medication use
• Optimization of drug therapy
• Primary care
• Pharmacy practice

• Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, College of Nursing
• Manitoba Research Chair in Caregiver Communication

• family caregiver wellness
• empathic communication
• perceptual understanding
• symptom assessment
• video-feedback intervention

• Cross-cultural aging
• Gerontological social work
• Active aging
• Gambling among older adults
• Healthcare access for older immigrants
• Global Indigenous aging 

• older adults' mental health
• caregiver stress
• geriatric psychiatric epidemiology
• anxiety disorders
• mental health service utilization

• researching building systems
• universal and sustainable design
• building performance evaluation
• how sustainably designed environments impact human health and productivity

• visual perception
• visual control of action
• aging
• stroke
• neurological disorders
• agnosia & prosopagnosia

Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, Max Rady College of Medicine, Department of Community Health Sciences

• Healthy aging
• Determinants of healthy aging
• Age-friendly communities
• Health care utilization among older adults, particularly at the end of life

• 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

• Mild cognitive impairment;
• differential diagnosis of dementia;
• delusions in dementia;
• neuropsychological and behavioural interventions

• Adult education
• Social justice and equity studies across the lifespan
• Gender and sexual diversity

Lifespan perspectives on:

• Social cognition
• Autism
• Clinical assessment
• Neurodevelopment Disabilities
• Gender
• Disability

• 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

• 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 caregiving
• health promotion
• community engagement/building social capital
• intervention development
• palliative and end-of-life care

Faculty of Kinesiology and Recreation Management

Centre on Aging Director

• Age-friendly
• Citizen science
• Neuromuscular adaptations with aging
• Strength training
• Functional changes with aging and training
• Driving and aging
• Mobility and aging

• Polypharmacy
• Deprescribing
• Geriatrics interprofessional curriculum development
• Osteoporosis
• Primary care

• 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

• Knowledge Translation
• Access to Health Information and Health Services
• Mental Health Service Use
• Community Mental Health
• Geriatric Psychology
• Health Psychology

• Participation Amongst Young Adult Assistive Technology Users
• 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

• Aging and neuropsychology
• Mild Cognitive Impairment: diagnostic criteria and progression to dementia
• Stroke and cognitive rehabilitation
• Concussion

• Family and care provision
• Aging, dementia, end-of-life
• Health care and applied ethics
• Qualitative research

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).

• Chemical Biology of Aging
• Development of therapeutic interventions related to bacterial infections and cancer
• Post-translational modifications in collagen

• Professor Emeritus
• Faculty of Arts, Department of Sociology and Criminology

• Social Determinants of Health Status
• Self-Health Management and Health Protective Behaviour
• Population Health Assessment
• Healthy Aging

• 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

• Aging with Disability
• Dementia epidemiology
• Health and aging
• Mental Health  
• Health Services Research 
• Aging and Immigration 

Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, Max Rady College of Medicine, Department of Community Health Sciences  

• Fall prevention
• Balance control
• Exercise
• Rehabilitation
• Knowledge translation and implementation science

Faculty of Kinesiology and Recreation Management

• Falls prevention
• Balance, locomotion, and mobility
• Visual control of location

• Biomechanics/neuromechanics
• Control of static and dynamic stability
• Gait/locomotor mechanics
• Falls prevention
• Development of new measures/techniques to assess balance control

• Professor Emeritus 
• Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, Max Rady College of Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine (Clinical Pharmacology), Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics

• Clinical and renal pharmacology

• Marketing to older adults
• Age-related differences in memory for advertising

• 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

• Rural health
• Epidemiology of cognitive impairment and depression

• Cerebrovascular health in aging, dementia, and Alzheimer’s Disease

• Understanding Successful Aging
• Long-term cohort studies
• Biostatistics and Epidemiology

• Palliative care
• Family caregivers
• Quality of care
• Delivery of end-of-life care in long-term care

• Comparative metabolic biochemistry
• mitochondrial metabolism and function
• nutritional modulation of physiology and energy balance
• reactive oxygen species
• envrionmental influences on metabolism

• Sex differences and exercise
• Aging, health and exercise
• Chronic diseases and exercise
• Cardiovascular and respiratory adaptations to exercise

Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, College of Rehabilitation Sciences

• 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

Faculty of Science, Department of Computer Science

• 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

• 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

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 AREAS OF INTEREST

• Canadian Mennonite University
• Psychology

• Aging and eldercare
• Qualitative methodologies
• Risk and resilience
• Lifespan theory
• Housing
• Gender-sensitive research
• Family systems
• Social Ecological Models
• Psychosocial health
• Social determinants of health

• Brandon University
• Dept. of Physical Education, Faculty of Education

• Exercise and Aging
• Exercise and Health
• Nutrition
• Muscle Health
• Brain Health

• Brandon University
• Faculty of Science , Department of Geography

• 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

• Brandon University
• Faculty of Science, Department of Psychology 

• Loneliness and social isolation
• Age-friendly communities

• University of Winnipeg
• Faculty of Science, Department of Geography

• Rural aging and mobility
• Winter pedestrianism
• Aging and socio-spatial exclusion