Mentors
Jen Davis
Associate Professor
Faculty of Management
UBC Okanagan
Janice Eng
Professor
Physical Therapy
UBC
Kristen Haase
Assistant Professor
Nursing
UBC
Julia Henderson
Assistant Professor
Occupational Science &
Occupational Therapy
UBC
Christiane Hoppmann
Professor
Psychology
UBC
Lillian Hung
Assistant Professor
School of Nursing
UBC
Laura Hurd
Professor
School of Kinesiology
UBC
Karen Li
Professor
Psychology
Concordia University
Linda Li
Professor
Physical Therapy
UBC
Laura Middleton
Associate Professor
Kinesiology & Health Sciences
University of Waterloo
Ben Mortenson
Professor
Occupational Science &
Occupational Therapy
UBC
Keynotes
Julie Ober Allen
Assistant Professor
Dept. of Health & Exercise Sciences
The University of Oklahoma
Iggy E-Shien Chang
Assistant Professor
Gerontology in Medicine
Weill Cornell Medical College
Carole Estabrooks
Professor
Nursing
University of Alberta
Sibila Marques
Assistant Professor
Dept. of Social & Organizational Psychology
University Institute of Lisbon
Speakers
Nighat Afsar
Senior Legal Advocate,
Legal Advocacy Program
Seniors First BC
Pat Camp
Associate Professor
Physical Therapy
UBC
Tina Chang
Seniors Abuse & Information Line and Victim Services Program Manager
Seniors First BC
Alison Chayka
Lead, Program Design
and Delivery
CIHR / Government of Canada
Ken Madden
Professor
Division of Geriatric Medicine
UBC
Taru Manyanga
Assistant Professor
Division of Medical Sciences
University of Northern British Columbia
Kiran Rabheru
Professor
University of Ottawa
United Way BC
Parminder Raina
Professor
Dept. of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact
McMaster University
Jane Rylett
Scientific Director, CIHR Institute of Aging
Distinguished University Professor, Department of Physiology and Pharmacology
University of Western Ontario
Eric Smith
Professor
Cumming School of Medicine
University of Calgary
Canadian Consortium on Neurodegeneration in Aging
Roger Tam
Associate Professor
School of Biomedical Engineering
UBC
Deanna Vervaecke
President,
Canadian Association on Gerontology
SPA PhD Trainee
Planning Committee
The planning committee is led by Dr Teresa Liu-Ambrose, Professor in the Department of Physical Therapy at UBC and Canada Research Chair Tier 1 (Healthy Aging).
Guilherme Moraes Balbim, Postdoctoral Fellow, UBC
Jen Davis, Assistant Professor, UBC Okanagan
Janice Eng, Professor, UBC
Christiane Hoppmann, Professor, UBC
Lillian Hung, Assistant Professor, UBC
Laura Hurd, Professor, UBC
Ken Madden, Professor, UBC
Amanda Main, Research Coordinator, UBC
Ben Mortenson, Professor, UBC
Kim Neville, Administrative Manager, UBC
Roger Tam, Associate Professor, UBC