Faculty News

Associate Professor Lydia Li’s research was cited in the HuffPost Lifestyle article, “Older Chinese-Americans Who’ve Faced Bias Are More Likely To Have Suicidal Thoughts”.

Professor Brad Zebrack’s article, “Educational and vocational goal disruption in adolescent and young adult cancer survivors” was published in Psycho-Oncology.

Assistant Professor Jamie Mitchell’s article, “The Paradoxical Impact of Companionship on the Mental Health of Older African American Men” was published in The Journals of Gerontology: Series B.

Professor Lorraine Gutiérrez is the 2017 recipient of the Distinguished Contributions to Teaching and Mentoring in Qualitative Inquiry award from the American Psychological Association.

Director of the Joint Doctoral Program and Associate Professor Daphne Watkins was selected to be a featured speaker at the 2017 Institute Science Symposium at Harvard University’s Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study on the theme of epidemics. The Symposium is scheduled for October 27, 2017 at 9 AM. The school will livestream the event and create a video link for later viewing.

Clinical Assistant Professor Debra Mattison is part of the faculty team that created the Interprofessional Education toolkit which is a resource being piloted for faculty interested in converting U-M courses to IPE.

Associate Dean and Professor Ruth Dunkle’s project, “Ageless Acts” received a grant from the Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan to combat social isolation and ageism in the metro Detroit area. Ageless Acts, a professionally run theater group comprised entirely of older adults, will use high-quality creative, intergenerational programming to highlight the need to look at aging through a different lens, one that distinguishes between simply growing older and illness/decline.

Brad Zebrack's study, “A Practice-Based Evaluation of Distress Screening Protocol Adherence and Medical Service Utilization” was featured in the Cancer Network article, “Adherence to Distress Screening Protocols Lacking”.