Spring 2011

Seminar Series Presentation Materials

Note: not all presenters make their materials available.

February 21, 2011
Who’s too tired to sleep? Age and its associated effects on insomnia-related physician-office visits
Mairead  Eastin Moloney, PhD, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Program on Integrative Medicine, Department of Physical Medicine and  Rehabilitation,  UNC  School of Medicine

February 28, 2011
Coping Profiles Common to Older African American Cancer Survivors: Relationships with Physical and Psychological Well-being
Jill Hamilton, PhD, RN, Assistant Professor, School of Nursing, UNC Chapel Hill

March 14, 2011
The Disparity by Race in Later-Life Health: A Methodological Challenge
Jim Mitchell, PhD Senior Research Scientist, UNC Institute on Aging; Professor of Sociology and Family Medicine and Director of the Center on Aging at East Carolina University

March 28, 2011
Revising & Evaluating the Arthritis Foundation Walk with Ease Program
Mary Altpeter, PhD Senior Research Scientist, UNC Institute on Aging and Director, Healthy Aging Initiatives
Leigh Callahan, PhD Associate Professor, Departments of Medicine and Social Medicine, and Director of Methodology Core, Thurston Arthritis Research Center, UNC

April 4, 2011
Geriatric Nephrology: Issues in Research, Practice and Policy
Caroline Jennette, MSW Social Research Specialist, UNC Kidney Center

April 25, 2011
Changing Systems, Changing Lives
Audrey Edmisten, RD, LDN, MPH Program Lead, Living Healthy/Chronic Disease Self-management Program, NC Division of Aging and Adult Services
Sabrena Lea, Director of NC DHHS Office of Long Term Services and Supports
Health Promotion for Older Adults at the System Level
Audrey Edmisten, RD, LDN, MPH Program Lead, Living Healthy/Chronic Disease Self-management Program, NC Division of Aging and Adult Services