Members
Center Co-directors
Center Co-director
Christine A. Mueller
PhD, RN, FGSA, FAAN
Center Co-director
Siobhan K. McMahon
PhD, MPH, GNP-BC
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Center Members
- Symptom experiences in movement disorders
- Neurological and musculoskeletal disabilities, symptom experiences and management issues
- Patients and clinicians communication issues, patient safety and shared decision making
- Health disparities related to incontinence, pressure ulcers and incontinence associated dermatitis
- Fecal incontinence and associated skin damage (dermatitis/pressure ulcers) epidemiology, assessment, management
- Caregiving for individuals with Alzheimer’s disease
- Prevention of distressing and harmful behavioral expressions among elders with dementia
- Prevention of abuse, neglect, and resident-to-resident incidents in long-term care homes
- Improving the quality of care and life of elders in the community and long-term care homes
- Problem-solving therapy to treat post-stroke depression
- Use of fMRI to determine neuron connectivity in stroke survivors following problem-solving therapy
- Gerontology
- Exercise
- Long-term care
- Complexity compression: factors influencing the nursing work environment
- Education interventions to improve nursing student learning outcomes including use of simulations
- Quality of long-term care delivered to elders
- Promoting lifestyle behaviors among older adults
- Mobile health (mHealth) technology to enhance motivation for physical activity
- Interventions to promote motivation for engagement in fall-reducing physical activity
- Quality of care in nursing homes
- Long-term care nursing leadership
- Geriatric nursing education
- Family/provider communication at end of life in ICUs
- Family end-of-life decision making
- Qualitative methods
- Aerobic exercise training and its effects on tissue perfusion and metabolism in patients with peripheral artery disease
- The anti-inflammatory and antioxidant effects of exercise training
- Cardiovascular disease and cardiac rehabilitation
- Interventions to increase physical activity, improve sleep and enhance quality of life
- Mobile health and integrative therapies for health promotion and disease prevention
- Preventing excess disability and frailty in older adults
- Nursing rehabilitation of older adults
- Preventing and managing urinary incontinence in older adults
- Outcomes of exercise training in patients with peripheral artery disease
- Quality of life assessment and measurement
- Early detection and management of peripheral artery disease
- Urinary incontinence
- Fall prevention in the elderly
- Exercise in older adults with chronic disease

Assistant Professor
612-625-1497
bhim0001@umn.edu

Professor
612-624-1425
bliss@umn.edu

Research Associate
612-626-9566
ecaspi@umn.edu



Associate Professor
612-626-8901
hadi0001@umn.edu


Assistant Professor
612-625-4593
kirk0013@umn.edu

Professor
612-624-2489
krich001@umn.edu


Associate Professor
612-625-3225
skmcmaho@umn.edu
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Professor and Sr. Executive Associate Dean for Academic Programs
612-626-4922
cmueller@umn.edu


Associate Professor
612-624-0449
peden001@umn.edu

Associate Vice President for Clinical Affairs
612-624-6179
porta@umn.edu

Clinical Assistant Professor
612-625-9308
salis048@umn.edu

Assistant Professor
612-624-6406
scho0828@umn.edu


Associate Professor
612-624-9412
carl0106@umn.edu


Professor
612-624-7613
treat001@umn.edu

Professor
612-624-2132
wyman002@umn.edu
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Student and Post-doc Members
Lizzie Choma
James Friedman
Aimee Hamel
Derek Moore
Manka Nkimbeng (post-doc)
Lyndsay Thompson
Affiliates
Wellie Antonellis
Corjena Cheung
Helen Fu
Young Shin Park
Brittany A. Poff
Alison Romstad
Sarah J. Wente
Mary Whipple
Diane Willer-Sly
Center Membership
Members benefit from participation in a variety of activities, including research seminars, mock grant reviews, collaborative activities with community agencies, and social events. If you are interested in joining the Center for Aging Science and Care Innovation, contact us at gree0687@umn.edu.
Members benefit from participation in a variety of activities, including research seminars, roundtables, mock grant reviews, manuscript reviews, collaborative activities with community agencies/organizations and social events. There are no costs associated with membership in the CGN. Members have the opportunity to serve on the Executive Council, Center committees and task forces.
- Faculty: All faculty in the University of Minnesota School of Nursing who have an academic focus in gerontological nursing or aging are encouraged to become faculty members.
- Affiliates: The Center for Aging Science and Care Innovation invites affiliate and other health professionals with an interest in aging to apply for Affiliate Member status.
- Students: Student membership is open to students enrolled in a University of Minnesota academic program who have a focus in gerontological nursing or aging.