Dr. Peggye Dilworth-Anderson Elected President of the Gerontological Society of America
From the UNC Institute on Aging:
Dr. Dilworth-Anderson
Dr. Peggye Dilworth-Anderson, UNC Institute on Aging Associate Director for Aging and Diversity and Director of the Center for Aging and Diversity (CAD), has been elected to the presidency of the Gerontological Society of America (GSA). She will initially serve as president-elect and assume the presidency in 2009. The Gerontological Society of America is a sixty-three year-old association with a mission to promote the scientific study of aging, to encourage exchanges among researchers and practitioners from various disciplines related to gerontology, and to foster the use of gerontological research in forming public policy. Dr. Dilworth-Anderson joined the University of North Carolina’s faculty as Professor of Health Policy and Administration in the School of Public Health, and as the Associate Director of Aging and Diversity in the Institute on Aging at Chapel Hill. On July 1, 2003, she was appointed Director of the Institute’s Center for Aging and Diversity. She completed her undergraduate training in sociology at Tuskegee Institute in 1970, and earned her master’s and doctorate degrees in sociology from Northwestern University in 1972 and 1975, respectively. She received further training in family therapy (1983-85) from the Family Institute of Chicago, Institute of Psychiatry, Northwestern University, and in 1989 she received additional training in family issues and Alzheimer’s disease from the Harvard Geriatric Education Center. Her research and publications have included both theoretically and empirically-based topics on ethnic minority families, with emphasis on older African Americans. In addition to being cited in professional journals, Dr. Dilworth-Anderson’s work has been cited in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, the Christian Science Monitor, and numerous local and regional newspapers. She has received funding to support her research from the National Institute on Aging, the Administration on Aging, and the March of Dimes Birth Defect Foundation. She also served as a delegate to the 2005 White House Conference on Aging. |
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