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Hartford Doctoral Fellows Program
Funded by the John A. Hartford Foundation
Administered by the Gerontological Society of America

   
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The Hartford Doctoral Fellows Program prepares the next generation of social-work innovators and leaders for faculty positions in CSWE-accredited institutions. If you’re looking to fill such a position, please give serious consideration to this talented pool of individuals.

Click on a Fellow’s name to see his or her curriculum vitae as a PDF. Or, if you prefer a compiled list of curricula vitae for all of the Fellows, click here.

Please feel free to contact them directly should you desire to set up an interview.

2012 Hartford Doctoral Fellows


Troy Christian Andersen
University of Utah
Dissertation Topic: Proactive Dementia Care: Evaluating the Effectiveness of Social Work and Health Education Interventions with Early-Stage Dementia Patients and Their Families: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Jean Balestrery
University of Michigan
Dissertation Topic: Alaska Native Elders Speak: The Nexus of Culture and Communication in Health and Social Services

Keith Chan
Boston College
Dissertation Topic: Examining the measurement of physical and psychological health and their relationship to acculturation for older Asian Americans

Noelle LeCrone Fields
Ohio State University
Dissertation Topic: Aging in Place in Assisted Living: Understanding the personal and environmental factors that influence length of stay

Ernest Gonzales
Washington University in St. Louis
Dissertation Topic: Re-entering the Workforce after Retirement

Jennifer C. Greenfield
Washington University in St. Louis
Dissertation Topic: Financial Security and Caregiving: Understanding How the Caregiving Experience Affects Asset Trajectories among Parental Caregivers

Kimberly Johnson
University of Massachusetts at Boston
Dissertation Topic: Volunteering among Surviving Spouses: The Impact of Volunteer Activity on the Health of the Recently Widowed

Andrea Jones
University of Maryland, Baltimore
Dissertation Topic: Volunteer Guardians in the Community: A Mixed Methods Exploration of a Unique Volunteer Task

Daniel B. Kaplan
Columbia University
Dissertation Topic: Home Health Care for Persons with Cognitive Impairment: The Influence of Home Health Care Agency Characteristics on the Relationship Between Consumer Cognitive Status and Service Volume and Cost

Skye N. Leedahl
University of Kansas
Dissertation Topic: Older adults in nursing homes: Assessing relationships between multiple constructs of social integration, facility characteristics, and health

Gina M. McCaskill
The University of Alabama
Dissertation Topic: Validation of the Self-care Utility Geriatric African American Rating (SUGAAR) for Type 2 Diabetes

Julie Norstrand
Boston College
Dissertation Topic: What is the relationship between social capital with physical and mental health among older adults?

Katherine Supiano
University of Utah
Dissertation Topic: Complicated Grief in Older Adults: A Randomized Controlled Trial of Complicated Grief Group Therapy

Tiffany Washington
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Dissertation Topic: Older adult kidney disease self-management behaviors and their relationship to depression, self-efficacy, illness perceptions, and social support

 

This webpage was last updated on August 28, 2012


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