The EMBRACE leadership team bridges strengths across the University of Minnesota, University of Wisconsin–Madison, University of Pennsylvania, and Drexel University, along with faculty mentors and an external advisory committee (members pending).
Executive Committee
Joseph Gaugler and Andrea Gilmore-Bykovskyi serve as the Center’s directors and helm its Administrative Core. Laura N. Gitlin and Nancy Hodgson co-lead EMBRACE’s Behavioral Intervention Development Core.
Expert Mentors
We are also thrilled to have as part of EMBRACE multiple national experts who provide consultation and guidance to EMBRACE Investigators throughout the lifecycle of intervention development:
Heather Allore, PhD
David L. Roth, PhD
Professor Emeritus, Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Marie Boltz, PhD, GNP-BC
Kimberly Van Haitsma, PhD
Richard Fortinsky, PhD
Sheryl Zimmerman, PhD
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Social Work