Ground was broken for a pioneering innovation institute for aging on the north campus of the University of Waterloo today.

In addition to the new centre, the University of Waterloo has more than 50 experts involved in aging-related disciplines in all six Faculties.

Applied Health Science

Sherry L Dupuis
519-888-4567 Ext. 36188
sldupuis@uwaterloo.ca
Culture Change in long term care, Dementia and Dementia Care, Aging

Steven Mock
519-888-4567 Ext. 38796
smock@uwaterloo.ca
Quality of community life, leisure and well-being across the lifespan, Spatial Analysis related to aging

Bryan Smale
519-888-4567 Ext. 35664
smale@uwaterloo.ca
Quality of community life, leisure and well-being across the lifespan, Spatial Analysis related to aging

Stacey Acker
519-888-4567 Ext. 31338
stacey.acker@uwaterloo.ca
Knee joints, modelling the knee joint in deep flexion, developing potential links between high demand knee joint mechanics and osteoarthritis progression and initiation

Michael Barnett-Cowan
519-888-4567 Ext. 39177
mbc@uwaterloo.ca
How the brain integrates conflicting multisensory information that varies in space and time, markers of disorientation and disease, Rehabilitation

Lora Giangregorio
519-888-4567 ext. 36357
lmgiangr@uwaterloo.ca
Bone loss after spinal injury, Fracture Risks as we age, Osteoporosis

Richard Hughson
519-888-4567 Ext. 32516
hughson@uwaterloo.ca
Cardiovascular Health; Aging Vascular System

Heather Keller
519-888-4567 ext. 31761
hkeller@uwaterloo.ca
Hospital Nutrition for the Elderly; Senior nutrition; long term care

Andrew Laing
519-888-4567 ext. 38947
actlaing@uwaterloo.ca
Injury Biomechanics and Aging; impact biomechanics; falls; balance and mobility of seniors

Bill McIlroy
519-888-4567 Ext. 38109
wmilroy@uwaterloo.ca
Improvement after neurological injury, minimizing age-related effects on movement control

Laura Middleton
519-888-4567 ext. 33045
lmiddlet@uwaterloo.ca
Identify ways to optimize cognition across the life course; prevention of dementia; exercise in stroke rehabilitation

Joe Quadrilatero
519-888-4567 Ext. 38131
jquadril@uwaterloo.ca
Biomechnical and molecular mechanisms regulating cell death processes, how mitochondrial function and oxidative stress influence cell death over the lifespan, skeletal development as we age

Eric Roy
Note: cross-appointed in Arts.
519-888-4567 Ext. 33536
eroy@uwaterloo.ca
Neuromotor mechnisms underlying how movements are learned and controlled, Alzeimer’s, Down syndrome, Apraxia, Concussions in Hockey

Rich Staines
519-888-4567 ext. 37756
rstaines@uwaterloo.ca
Sensory-motor control; human neurophysiology; sensory-motor recovery after brain injury

Jim Rush
519-888-4567 ext. 32126
jwerush@uwaterloo.ca
Changes in vascular and skeletal muscle physiology as we age

Ken Stark
519-888-4567 Ext. 37738
kstark@uwaterloo.ca
Changes in vascular and skeletal muscle physiology as we age

Kelly Anthony
519-888-4567 ext. 32802
kanthony@uwaterloo.ca
Social Class and Health;  Social Determinants of Health; Poverty; Impacts of Poverty; Education and Well Being

Feng Chang
519-888-4567 Ext. 21321
feng.chang@uwaterloo.ca
Vision deterioration as we age, Rural Pharmacy Care

Martin Cooke
519-888-4567 Ext. 36585
cooke@uwaterloo.ca
Social aspects of health, social demography, social inequality and its impact on health, social policy including social assistance and pensions

Joel Dubin
519-888-4567 Ext. 37318
jdublin@uwaterloo.ca
Nephrology, cancer, smoking effects over time, environmental issues, analysis of adverse events from clinical trials

George Heckman
(519) 888-4567 ext. 31028
ggheckma@uwaterloo.ca
Management of heart failure in long term care and other frail seniors, primary care management of dementia, home care safety, vascular aging, Heart Failure management in the frail elderly, and long-term care residents

John Hirdes
519-888-4567 ext. 32007
hirdes@uwaterloo.ca
Restriction in activity resulting from fear of falling among seniors, institutionalized seniors, Long term care funding for Canada

Janice Husted
519-888-4567 Ext. 35129
jhusted@uwaterloo.ca
Complex Disorders, Schizophrenia, prognostic factors in psoriatic arthritis, gene-environment interactions in schizophrenia

Colleen Maxwell
519-888-4567 Ext. 21396
colleen.maxwell@uwaterloo.ca
Dementia, Depression, Frailty, Assisted Living

Anita Meyers
519-888-4567 Ext. 33664
amyers@uwaterloo.ca
Canadian licensing policies and procedures for regulating medically-at-risk and older drivers, public safety,

Carlos Rojas-Fernandez
519-888-4567 Ext. 21326
carlos.rojas-fernandez@uwaterloo.ca
Geriatric Clinical pharmacology, frailty, epidemiology of aging, neurodegenerative diseases, psychiatric pharamacotherapy

Elham Satvat
519-888-4567 Ext. 33692
esatvat@uwaterloo.ca
Behavioural Neuroscience, neuroscience labs, psychopharmacology, brain disease and health, psychological perspectives on lifespan and psychology of aging

Paul Stolee
519-888-4567 x35879
stolee@uwaterloo.ca
Geriatrics, rehabilitation, long-term care, home care, health information systems and databases, health outcome measurement, better use of information systems in the rehabilitation of older persons

Suzanne Tyas
Note: cross-appointed in Arts.
519-888-4567 x 32890
styas@uwaterloo.ca
Cognitive neuroscience, strategies that preserve cognition, late-life cognition, risk factors of Alzheimer's,

Lisa Loiselle
519-888-4567 Ext. 35040
loiselle@uwaterloo.ca
Alzheimer's

Science

Melanie Campbell
519-888-4567 ext. 36273
melanie.campbell@uwaterloo.ca
Biological tissues related to aging, Alzheimer's

John Flanagan
519-888-4567 Ext. 33176
jgflanag@uwaterloo.ca
Clinical Psychophysics;  Proteomics;  Ocular Imaging;  Diabetic Eye Disease; Glaucoma

Kelly Grindrod
519-888-4567 Ext. 21358
kelly.grindrod@uwaterloo.ca
Potential for emerging technologies to improve medication use in the community; influence of health policy on medication use in the community

Chris Hudson
519-888-4567 Ext. 35562
chudson@uwaterloo.ca
Diabetes, non-invasive imaging of the eye, retinal blood flow assessments

Beth Irving
519-888-4567 Ext. 36969
elirving@uwaterloo.ca
Change in visual/ocular function across the lifespan, adaptation to the visual environment and the development of scientifically defendable vision standards of driving

Jamie Joseph
519-888-4567 Ext. 21309
j3joseph@uwaterloo.ca
Drug Discovery, Molecular Pharmacology, Risk of Diabetes over the lifespan

Susan Leat
519-888-4567 Ext. 32040
leat@uwaterloo.ca
Vision in infants and children; Visual impairment & rehabilitation; Aging and vision; Down Syndrome; Vision and reading

Zoya Leonenko
519-888-4567 ext. 38273
zleonenko@uwaterloo.ca
Biological and Clinical Aspects of Aging

Elizabeth Meiering
519-888-4567 Ext. 32254
meiering@uwaterloo.ca
Protein Structures in relation to aging

Praveen Nekkar
519-888-4567, ext 21317
praopera@uwaterloo.ca
Drug discovery, medicinal chemistry, Alzheimer's Disease

Scott Taylor
519-888-4567 Ext. 33325
s5taylor@uwaterloo.ca
Synthetic and medicinal chemistry, enzymology as it relates to aging

Jennifer K. Lynes
519-888-4567 Ext. 35487
jklynes@uwaterloo.ca
Aviation & Environment;  Energy Conservation Behavior;  Social Marketing;  Corporate Greening Motivations;  Youth & Conservation

Jennifer Dean
519-888-4567 Ext. 39107
jennifer.dean@uwaterloo.ca
Social and environmental determinants of health, population and public health, planning healthy communities, building inclusive cities, aging, social equity, community based research, qualitative research and ethics

John Lewis
519-888-4567 Ext. 33185
j7lewis@uwaterloo.ca
Age Friendly Communities

Jane Law
519-888-4567 Ext. 38369
j9law@uwaterloo.ca
GIS and Spatial Analysis, Bayesian Spacial Modeling, Healthy Communities, Environmental Criminology,

Arts

Myra Fernandes
519-888-4567 Ext. 32142
mafernan@uwaterloo.ca
Cognitive Processes, brain regions involved in memory and language, aging, long term effects of mild head injury on cognitive processing

James Danckert
519-888-4567 x37014
jdancker@uwaterloo.ca
Human Neuroimaging; Visual attention;  Consequences of stroe; Consciousness;  Human Neuropsychology; Right parietal lesions

Igor Grossmann
519-888-4567 Ext. 31793
igrossma@uwaterloo.ca
Ageism, wise reasoning, socio-emotional aspects of aging, cultural differences in aging

Marty Cooke
519-888-4567 Ext. 36585
cooke@uwaterloo.ca
Social aspects of health, social demography, social inequality and its impact on health, social policy including social assistance and pensions

Colin M. MacLeod
519-888-4567 Ext. 32546
cmacleod@uwaterloo.ca
Memory processing, Attention, Intelligence

Uzma Rehman
519-888-4567 Ext. 38361
rehman@uwaterloo.ca
Intimate Relationships and aging, Alzheimer’s, stress

Ori Friedman
519-888-4567 Ext. 33054
friedman@uwaterloo.ca
Ownership of property, pretense and fiction, mental states as we age

Ramona Bobocel
519-888-4567 Ext. 33622
rbobocel@uwaterloo.ca
Judgments of justice, organizational commitment, leaders and trust, forgiveness in the workplace

Richard Eibach
519-888-4567 Ext. 38790
reibach@uwaterloo.ca
Social judgment with emphasis on construal processes, naïve realism and egocentrism, judgmental biases that influence perceptions of social and personal change, social norms and ageism, subjective aging

Michael Ross
519-888-4567 Ext. 35208
drrose@uwaterloo.ca
Autobiographical Memory, culture, self and social understanding and cognitive aging

Engineering

Chris Eliasmith
Note: cross-appointed in Arts
519-888-4567 Ext. 32638
celiasmi@uwaterloo.ca
Neuroscience; Psychology; Philosophy of Mind; Neural networks

Naveen Chandrashekar
519-888-4567 Ext38048
nchandra@uwaterloo.ca
Orthopedic Biomechanics, Tissue Engineering

John Medley
519-888-4567 Ext. 84784
jbmedley@uwaterloo.ca
Influence of Lubricant Additives on Rheology of Elastohydrodynamic Films, Lubrication of Large Spring-Supported Thrust Bearings, Tribology, Wear of Metal-Metal Hip Implants

Catherine Burns
519-888-4567 Ext. 33903
c4burns@uwaterloo.ca
Cognitive Work Analysis, Graphical interface design and Visualization, Healthcare

Math

Jesse Hoey
519-888-4567 Ext. 37744
jesse.hoey@uwaterloo.ca
Decision Theory, computer vision, recognition of human behaviour, task oriented computer vision, systems that help people with dementia

Johnny Li
519-888-4567 Ext. 35542
shli@uwaterloo.ca
Fair compensation for personal injury litigation, longevity securities, stock options, mortality models

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