IOA Staff
James Mitchell, Ph.D.
Associate Director FOR mULTI-CAMPUS INITIATIVES
North Carolina Gerontology Consortium Liaison and Support
Jim Mitchell is Professor of Sociology and Family Medicine and Director of the Center on Aging at East Carolina University. He is working toward development of a comprehensive educational program in gerontology that coordinates multi-campus educational offerings in gerontology through the Institute enhanced through distance education. The goal of this program is a motivated, skilled workforce serving older adults, their care providers, and their advocates.
He regularly teaches seminars in the sociology of health and the sociology of aging as well as a two-course sequence in statistics. His research interests include the psychosocial dynamics of health seeking behavior among older persons. He has published in all of the major journals in gerontology as well as the Journal of the American Medical Association, the American Journal of Public Health, and Social Science and Medicine. His research has been supported by state and national foundations, private gifts, and the Agency for Health Care Research and Quality, the National Cancer Institute, and the Department of the Army.
For relaxation, he enjoys horse cart driving with the family Morgan and fresh and salt water fishing.
