Faculty
Comprised of some of the world’s most talented minds in gerontology, the USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology faculty is a group of intensely talented and passionate researchers and educators. Our faculty members include both the visionaries who pioneered modern aging study and the up-and-coming investigators who take gerontology research and service in exciting new directions.
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Professor of Gerontology and Sociology
Associate Dean of Research
Associate Dean of International Programs and Global InitiativesExpertise: Environment, Social-determinants and disparities, Global aging -
Associate Professor of Gerontology, Biological Sciences, Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine
Expertise: Big data, Sex differences, Immune function -
Assistant Professor of Gerontology
Edward L. Schneider, MD, Chair in Gerontological ResearchExpertise: Stress, Ethnic disparities, Biodemography -
Distinguished Professor of Gerontology, Medicine and Biological Sciences
Dean, USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology
William and Sylvia Kugel Dean’s Chair in GerontologyExpertise: Alzheimer's and dementia, Mitochondria, Technology, Personalized aging -
Assistant Professor of Gerontology
Expertise: Alzheimer's and dementia, Resilience, Mechanisms of aging -
University Professor
AARP Chair in GerontologyExpertise: Mortality and life expectancy, Demography, Cognition -
Professor of Gerontology
Vice Dean
Dean of Faculty and Research
James E. Birren Chair in GerontologyExpertise: Biology, Genetics, Nutrition and diets -
Assistant Professor of Gerontology and Psychology
Expertise: Cognition, Memory, Neuroscience -
Associate Professor of Gerontology
Expertise: Palliative care, End-of-life, Ethnic disparities -
Assistant Professor of Gerontology
Expertise: Caregiving, Alzheimer's and dementia, Technology -
University Professor
ARCO/William F. Kieschnick Chair in the Neurobiology of Aging
Expertise: Alzheimer's and dementia, Environment, Biology -
Assistant Professor of Gerontology
Expertise: Alzheimer's and dementia, Stress, Social-determinants and disparities -
Assistant Professor of Gerontology
Expertise: Nutrition/Metabolism, Mechanisms of aging, Nutrigenomics -
Associate Professor of Gerontology, Quantitative & Computational Biology, Biomedical Engineering and Neuroscience
Expertise: Alzheimer's and dementia, Brain injury, Brain aging, Deep learning -
Associate Professor of Gerontology
Assistant Dean of Academic InitiativesExpertise: Health economics, Policy -
Assistant Professor of Gerontology
Leonard and Sophie Davis Early Career Endowed Chair in Minority AgingExpertise: Alzheimer's and dementia, Social-determinants and disparities, Translational research -
Associate Professor of Gerontology
Expertise: Mitochondria, Mechanisms of aging, Stress response -
Professor of Gerontology and Biological Sciences
Edna M. Jones Chair in Gerontology
Expertise: Fasting, Nutrition and diets, Chronic diseases -
Professor of Gerontology, Psychology, and Biomedical Engineering
Expertise: Neuroscience, Emotion, Cognition -
Professor of Gerontology and Medicine
Merle H. Bensinger Professorship in GerontologyExpertise: Alzheimer's and dementia, Neuroscience, Brain aging -
Professor of Gerontology
Assistant Dean of ResearchExpertise: Alzheimer's and dementia, Neuroscience, Sex differences -
Assistant Professor of Gerontology
Expertise: Stress response, Mechanisms of aging, Genetics -
Professor of Gerontology, Medicine and Biology
Expertise: Elder abuse, Mortality and life expectancy, Long-term care -
Assistant Professor of Gerontology, Molecular and Computational Biology, Biological Sciences and Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine
Expertise: Mitochondria, Mutagenesis, Transcriptomics -
Associate Professor of Gerontology
Associate Dean of EducationExpertise: Chronic diseases, Neuroscience, Biology -
Professor of Gerontology
Mary Pickford Foundation Chair in Gerontology
Expertise: Caregiving, Elder abuse, Long-term care -
Professor of Gerontology and Psychology
Expertise: Cognition, Memory, Technology
