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Jacqueline L Angel
Professor, Lyndon B Johnson School of Public Affairs
jangel@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 2956
Expertise: Hispanic health and demographics; aging policy; social policies; long-term care; ethnic studies
Namkee Choi
Professor, School of Social Work
nchoi@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 9590
Expertise: Geriatric mental health, depression treatment in aging services, social policy for older adults.
Mark D Hayward
Professor, Department of Sociology, College of Liberal Arts
mhayward@prc.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 8382
Expertise: Population and Life Course and Aging, Morbidity and Mortality, and Biodemography, Social Epidemiology, Quantitative Methods and Dynamic Models, Life Table Techniques, Death and Dying
Carole K Holahan
Professor Emerita, Department of Kinesiology and Health Education, College of Education
c.holahan@austin.utexas.edu
Expertise: Studies psychosocial factors in health behavior and health and well-being in adulthood and aging.
Marilyn M Pattillo
Adjunct/Clinical Affiliate, School of Nursing
pattillomom@aol.com
Expertise: disaster nursing, health care during bioterrorism attacks, gerontology, long-term health care
Hirofumi Tanaka
Professor, Department of Kinesiology and Health Education, College of Education
htanaka@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 4801
Expertise: Effects of vascular dysfunction due to aging, and the lifestyle habits that can prevent or reverse dysfunction.
Role of peripheral vascular dysfunction in the pathogenesis of cognitive and cerebrovascular dysfunction
Reduction in physiological functional capacity with advancing age
Community-based studies in minority cardiovascular health
Masters athletes as a model of successful aging
Health benefits of swimming
Debra J Umberson
Professor, Department of Sociology, College of Liberal Arts
umberson@prc.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 6330
Expertise: Population Health ( Structural Determinants of Mental and Physical Health; Stress and Social Support; Health Behavior; Health Disparities; Sexual Minority Health); Family and Gender (Gender and Relationships; Same-Sex Couples; Marital Status and Health; Relationship Quality and Health; Family Status and Health; Intergenerational Relationships; Family and Bereavement); Aging and the Life Course (Psychosocial Epidemiology across the Life Course; Aging and the Family; Death and Dying; Marriage and Intimate Partnerships).