Students & Alumni
Meet Our Gerontology PhD Students
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Alanna Frost is a second year PhD student
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Wuyi Dong is a second year PhD student
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Shan Qu is a second year PhD student
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Janelle Fassi is a second year PhD student
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Andrew Alberth is a third year PhD student
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Elisabeth J. Stam is a third year PhD student
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Taylor Gray is a third year PhD student
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Yan-Jhu Su is a third year PhD student
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Maki Karakida is a third year PhD student
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Jackie Pendergast is a third year PhD student
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Lilian Anh Thu Tran is a third year PhD student
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Setarreh Massihzadegan is a third year PhD student
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Alison Rataj is a fourth year PhD student
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Shayna R. Gleason is a fourth year PhD student
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Shuyan Geng is a fourth year PhD student
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Mandi Collins is a fourth year PhD student
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Bonnie Albright is a fourth year PhD student
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Josef Kijewski is a fourth year PhD student
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Taylor Jansen is a advanced year PhD student
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Richard Evan Chunga is a advanced year PhD student
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Caitlin Connelly is a advanced year PhD student
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Yan Lin is a advanced year PhD student
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Changmin Peng is a advanced year PhD student
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Molly J. Wylie is a advanced year PhD student
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Shu Xu is a advanced year PhD student
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Celeste Beaulieu is an advanced PhD student
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Elizabeth Gallagher is an advanced PhD student
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Emily Lim is an advanced PhD student
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Cindy Bui is an advanced PhD student
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Liz Simpson is an advanced PhD student
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Laura Driscoll is an advanced PhD student
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Meghan Hendricksen is an advanced PhD student
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Nidya Velasco is an advanced PhD student
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Natalie Shellito is an advanced PhD student
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Anyah Prasad is an advanced PhD student
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Kunyu Zhang is an advanced PhD student
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Adrita Barooah is an advanced PhD student
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Claire Wickersham is an advanced PhD student
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Natalie Pitheckoff is an advanced PhD student
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Meet our Research/Policy Master's Degree Alums
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Remona Kanyat is a graduate of the Research/POlicy track of the MS in Gerontology
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Meet Our Gerontology PhD Alumni
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Danielle Waldron graduated in 2020, and is now an Assistant Professor in the Healthcare Administration Department, Stonehill College, Easton, MA. |
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Xiao Joyce Wang graduated in 2021, and is a postdoctoral research associate with the Department of Health Services, Policy & Practice, and Center for Gerontology and Healthcare Research, Brown University, Providence, RI |
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Shuangshuang (Wendy) Wang graduated in 2018, and is now a researcher and gerontology program leader at the Institute on Healthy Aging, Shandong University, China. View Wendy Wang's dissertation abstract |
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Lorilei Michaud Richardson graduated in 2018 and is now Research Health Scientist at the Center for Healthcare Organization and Implementation Research (CHOIR), United States Department of Veterans Affairs. See publications by Lorilei Richardson |
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ChaeMan (Jay) Lee graduated in 2017 and works as postdoctoral fellow at the University of Massachusetts Boston. View Jay Lee's dissertation |
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Mai See Yang graduated in 2017 and works as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Chicago. Read about Mai See on our blog: Mai See Yang, PhD Brings Gerontology Research to Hmong Community |
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Emma Quach graduated in 2017 and works as a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Healthcare Organization and Implementation Research, ERNM Veterans Hospital in Boston, MA. View Emma Quach's dissertation |
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Abigail Butt graduated in 2017 and works as a gerontologist at the Lincoln Council on Aging in Lincoln, MA. View Abigail Butt's dissertation |
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Kristen Anderson graduated in 2017. View Anderson's dissertation |
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Emily Gadbois graduated in 2017 and works as a project director at Brown University. View Gadbois' dissertation |
| Bruce Haimowitz graduated in 2017 and works as an Senior Data Specialist at UMass Boston. | |
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Hyo Jung Lee graduated in 2016 and works as an assistant professor in Sociology at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. View Hyo Jung Lee's dissertation |
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Lien Quach graduated in 2017 and works as a research scientist at the Massachusetts Veterans Epidemiology Research and Information Center & Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center at the VA Boston Healthcare System. View Lien Quach's dissertation |
| Yao Chi Shih graduated in 2016 and works as an assistant professor in the Department of Social Welfare at the National Chung Cheng University in Taiwan. View Shih's dissertation | |
| Kelli Barton graduated in 2016 and works as a senior research associate at the Institute for Human Development at the University of Missouri Kansas City in Kansas City, Missouri. View Barton's dissertation | |
| Elizabeth Chen graduated in 2016 and works as the assistant commissioner at the Massachusetts Department of Public Health. Read about Elizabeth Chen on our blog. | |
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Elizabeth Johns graduated in 2016 and works as a fellow at the Gerontology Institute at UMass Boston. View Elizabeth John's dissertation |
| Judith Conahan graduated in 2016. View Conahan's dissertation | |
| Lauren Martin Palmer graduated in 2016 and works as a public health research analyst at RTI International in Waltham, MA. View Palmer's dissertation | |
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Tamara Herrick (née Harden) graduated in 2015 and is now Program Manager at Alzheimer’s Disease Partnership in Portland, ME. View Harden's dissertation |
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Kristen Porter graduated in 2015 and works as the CEO of Zen Executive LLC, providing research, development, event, and programmatic consultation in the academic, business, healthcare, nightlife, and third sectors. View Porter's dissertation |
| Caitlyn Coyle graduated in 2014 and works as a research fellow and adjunct assistant professor in the Center for Social and Demographic Research on Aging at the University of Massachusetts Boston. View Coyle's dissertation | |
| Deborah Gray graduated in 2014 and works as a manager of provider reporting and analysis at Tufts Health Plan in Boston, MA. View Gray's dissertation | |
| Judith Poey graduated in 2014 and works as a post-doctoral fellow in the Center on Aging at Kansas State University in Manhattan, KS. | |
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Cathy Wong graduated in 2014 and works as a Research Analyst IV at the Orange County Social Services Agency. View Cathy Wong's dissertation |
| Jiyoung Lyu graduated in 2013. View Lyu's dissertation | |
| Kimberly Johnson graduated in 2012 and works as an assistant professor specializing in psychosocial aspects of adulthood and aging at Indiana University School of Social Work. View Johnson's dissertation | |
| Seungah (Hannah) Lee graduated in 2012. View Hannah Lee's dissertation | |
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Hayley Gleason graduated in 2011, and now serves as Older Adult Policy Advisor at the Colorado Department of Health Care Policy & Financing |
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| Eilon Caspi graduated in 2010 and works as a dementia behavior specialist and is the founder and director of Dementia Behavior Consulting, LLC in Minneapolis, MN. | |
| Kimberly Sauder Stoeckel graduated in 2010 and works as a senior scientist and adjunct faculty at WKU Center of Gerontology at Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green, KY. | |
| Andrea Tull graduated in 2010 and works as a director of reporting and analytics in the Center for Quality and Safety at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA. | |
| Hsiao-Yin (Emma) Chung graduated in 2010 and works as a senior healthcare analyst at Predilytics, a Welltok Company in Burlington, MA. | |
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Susan Berger graduated in 2010 and is clinical associate professor emeritus in the Department of Occupational Therapy at Boston University, Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences in Boston, MA. |
| Larry (Lawrence) Cahalin graduated in 2010 and works as a professor in the Department of Physical Therapy Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine at the University of Miami in Coral Gables, FL. | |
| Allan Morgan graduated in 2009 and works as a research fellow in the Sloan Center on Aging & Work at Boston College in Chestnut Hill, MA. | |
| Natalie Leland graduated in 2009 and works as an assistant professor of Occupational Science, Occupational Therapy, and Gerontology in the Davis School of Gerontology at University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA. Read about Leland on our blog | |
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Jenny Sullivan graduated in 2007 and is Acting Associate Director at Center for Healthcare Organization and Implementation Research (CHOIR) VA Boston Healthcare System. |
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May H. Aydin graduated in 2005 and works as a Program Director within the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics, National Science Foundation in Alexandria, VA. |
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James Bulot graduated in 2004, and is currently Vice President at WellSky Corporation, a global healthcare care technology company. |
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Dena Schulman graduated in 2002, and is currently an Associate Professor at Yale School of Nursing |
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R. Turner Goins graduated in 1997, and is currently Ambassador Jeanette Hyde Distinguished Professor at Western Carolina University College of Health and Human Sciences. |