Research Associates

Linda H. Aiken
Claire M. Fagin Leadership Professor of Nursing
Professor of Sociology
Ph.D., Sociology, Texas, 1973
Contact Information:
332R NEB
215-898-9759
laiken@nursing.upenn.edu
Nursing Faculty Page, Sociology Faculty Page
Paul Allison
Professor of Sociology
Ph.D., Sociology, Wisconsin, 1976
Contact Information:
581 McNeil
215-898-6717
allison@soc.upenn.edu
Sociology Faculty page
Katrina Armstrong
Associate Professor of Medicine
Associate Professor of Epidemiology in Biostatistics and Epidemiology

M.S.C.E., Epidemiology, Penn, 1998
M.D., Medicine, Johns Hopkins, 1991

Contact Information:
1233 Blockley Hall
215-898-0957
karmstro@mail.med.upenn.edu
Penn Medicine Faculty page
Jere R. Behrman
William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Economics
Ph.D., Economics, MIT 1966
Contact Information:
229 McNeil
215-898-7704
jbehrman@econ.upenn.edu
Economics Faculty Page
Carolyn C. Cannuscio
Assistant Professor of Family Medicine and Community Health, School of Medicine, Senior Fellow, Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, School of Medicine, Senior Fellow, Center for Public Health Initiatives, University of Pennsylvania
Ph.D., Harvard School of Public Health
Contact Information:
3641 Locust Walk, 3rd Floor
cannusci@wharton.upenn.edu
Penn Medicine Faculty page
Virginia W. Chang
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Assistant Professor of Sociology
Ph.D., Sociology, Chicago, 2003
M.D., Medicine, Michigan, 1994
Contact Information:
1233 Blockley
215-573-0295
vwchang@mail.med.upenn.edu
Penn Medicine Faculty page, Sociology Faculty page
Li-Wei Chao
Senior Fellow in the Population Studies Center
Ph.D., Health Economics, Penn, 2002
M.D., Medicine, Chicago, 1991
Contact Information:
387 McNeil
215-898-8483
chao69@wharton.upenn.edu
Penn CFAR page, Publications in Scholarly Commons
Aureo De Paula
Assistant Professor of Economics
Ph.D., Economics, Princeton, 2006
Contact Information:
535 McNeil
215-898-1506
aureo@econ.upenn.edu
Personal site, Economics Faculty Page
Jalpa Doshi
Research Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine, Senior Fellow, Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, Fellow, Institute on Aging, Associate Scholar, Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Ph.D., Pharmaceutical Health Services Research, University of Maryland, Baltimore
Contact Information:
Blockley Hall, Rm. 1222
215-898-7989
jdoshi@mail.med.upenn.edu
HSRU Faculty page
Irma T. Elo
Professor of Sociology
PhD, Public Affairs and Demography, Princeton, 1990
Contact Information:
243 McNeil
215-898-9162
popelo@pop.upenn.edu
Sociology Faculty page
Douglas Ewbank
Research Professor Emeritus of Sociology
Principal Investigator, Population Aging Research Center
Ph.D., Economics, Princeton, 1975
Contact Information:
245 McNeil
215-898-7999
ewbank@pop.upenn.edu
Sociology Faculty page
Eduardo Fernandez-Duque
Assistant Professor Anthropology
Ph.D., Animal Behavior, UC Davis, 1996
Contact Information:
431 Museum
215-898-1072
eduardof@sas.upenn.edu
Anthropology Faculty page, Personal site
Jesús Fernández-Villaverde
Associate Professor of Economics
Ph.D., Economics, Minnesota, 2001
Contact Information:
440 McNeil
215-898-1504
jesusfv@econ.upenn.edu
Economics Faculty Page, Personal site
Chenoa Flippen
Assistant Professor of Sociology
Ph.D., Sociology, University of Chicago 1999
Contact Information:
231 McNeil
215-898-5534
chenoa@sas.upenn.edu
Sociology Faculty page, Personal site
Emily Hannum
Chair, Graduate Group in Sociology
Associate Professor of Sociology and Education
Ph.D., Sociology, Michigan, 1998
Contact Information:
247 McNeil
215-898-9633
hannumem@soc.upenn.edu
Sociology Faculty page
Kristen Harknett
Assistant Professor of Sociology
Ph.D., Sociology and Demography, Princeton, 2002
Contact Information:
271 McNeil
215-573-9388
harknett@sas.upenn.edu
Sociology Faculty page
Nancy Hodgson
Research Scientist, Center for Applied Research on Aging and Health, Thomas Jefferson University
Contact Information:
Thomas Jefferson University
215-955-2163
nancy.hodgson@jefferson.edu
Jefferson Faculty Page
Kathryn Jedrziewski
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, School of Medicine
Contact Information:
207 Ralston
215-898-2445
jedrzmk@mail.med.upenn.edu
Alzheimer's Disease Center Staff page, Institute on Aging page
Joseph Kable
Ph.D., Neuroscience, University of Pennsylvania
Contact Information:
Solomon Labs, 3720 Walnut St, Room C5
215-746-3873
kable@psych.upenn.edu
Psychology Faculaty page, Kable Lab page
Michael Katz
Walter H. Annenberg Professor of History
Ed.D., History of Education, Harvard, 1966
Contact Information:
208 College Hall
215-898-3183
mkatz@sas.upenn.edu
History Faculty page
Iliana Kohler
Associate Director, Population Aging Research Center
Ph.D., Political Science, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, 2001
Contact Information:
218 McNeil
215-898-7990
iliana@pop.upenn.edu
Hans-Peter Kohler
Chair, Graduate Group in Demography
Professor of Sociology
Ph.D., Economics, Berkeley, 1997
Contact Information:
272 McNeil
215-898-7686
hpkohler@pop.upenn.edu
Sociology Faculty page, Personal site
Judith A. Long
Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Veteran's Administration Medical Center
MD, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 1993
Contact Information:
1201 Blockley Hall
215-898-4311
jalong@mail.med.upenn.edu
Penn Medicine Faculty page
Douglas McKee
Post-doctoral Scholar, Economic Growth Center, Yale University
Ph.D., Economics, UCLA, 2006
Contact Information:
Yale University
310-266-2438
douglas.mckee@yale.edu
Olivia S. Mitchell
Executive Director, Pension Research Council
Director, Boettner Center for Pensions and Retirement Research
International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans Professor
Professor of Insurance and Risk Management
Ph.D., Economics, Wisconsin, 1978
Contact Information:
3000 SH-DH
215-898-0424
mitchelo@wharton.upenn.edu
Wharton Faculty page
José A. Pagán
Department Chair and Professor of Economics at the University of North Texas Health Science Center.
Contact Information:
University of North Texas Health Science Center
jose.pagan@unthsc.edu
Hyunjoon Park
Korea Foundation Associate Professor of Sociology and Education
Ph.D., Sociology, Wisconsin, 2005
Contact Information:
219 McNeil
215-898-0942
hypark@sas.upenn.edu
Sociology Faculty page, Personal site
Emilio Alberto Parrado
Associate Director, Population Studies Center
Associate Professor of Sociology
Ph.D., Sociology, Chicago, 1997
Contact Information:
244 McNeil
215-898-7831
eparrado@sas.upenn.edu
Sociology Faculty page
Mark V. Pauly
Bendheim Professor
Professor of Health Care Management, Insurance and Risk Management, Business and Public Policy
Professor of Economics
Ph.D., Economics, Virginia, 1967
Contact Information:
208 Colonial Penn Center
215-898-5411
pauly@wharton.upenn.edu
Wharton Faculty page
Daniel E. Polsky
Director of Research, Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics
Professor of Medicine
Professor of Health Care Management
Ph.D., Economics, Penn, 1996
Contact Information:
1212 Blockley Hall
215-573-5752
polsky@mail.med.upenn.edu
Public Health Faculty page
Andrew Postlewaite
Harry P. Kamen Professor of Economics and Finance
Ph.D., Applied Mathematics, Northwestern, 1974
Contact Information:
458 McNeil
215-898-7350
apostlew@econ.upenn.edu
Economics Faculty page, Wharton Faculty page, Personal site
Samuel H. Preston
Professor of Demography
Professor of Sociology
Ph.D., Economics, Princeton, 1968
Contact Information:
239 McNeil
215-746-5396
spreston@sas.upenn.edu
Sociology Faculty page
Paul Rosenbaum
Robert G. Putzel Professor of Statistics
Ph.D., Statistics, Harvard, 1980
Contact Information:
473 Huntsman
215-898-3120
rosenbap@wharton.upenn.edu
Wharton Faculty page, Personal site
Jason Schnittker
Associate Director, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health and Society Scholars Program
Associate Professor of Sociology
Ph.D., Sociology, Indiana University, 2001
Contact Information:
220 McNeil
215-573-7514
jschnitt@ssc.upenn.edu
Sociology Faculty page
Theodore G. Schurr
Associate Professor of Anthropology
Ph.D., Anthropology, Emory, 1998
Contact Information:
344 Museum
215-573-7632
tgschurr@sas.upenn.edu
Anthropology Faculty page, Genographic Project profile, Personal site
Kent Smetters
Boettner Associate Professor; Associate Professor of Insurance and Risk Management
PhD, Harvard University, 1995
Contact Information:
3303 SH-DH
215-898-9811
smetters@wharton.upenn.edu
Wharton Faculty page
Herbert L. Smith
Director, Population Studies Center
Interim Director, Population Aging Research Center
Professor of Sociology
Ph.D., Sociology, Michigan, 1982
Contact Information:
230 McNeil
215-898-7768
hsmith@pop.upenn.edu
Sociology Faculty page
Julie A. Sochalski
Assistant Professor of Health Services Research and Nursing
Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1988
Contact Information:
Room 328 Fagin Hall
215-898-3147
julieas@nursing.upenn.edu
Penn Nursing Faculty page
Beth J. Soldo
Distinguished Senior Scholar in Sociology
Ph.D., Sociology/Demography, Duke, 1977
Contact Information:
242 McNeil
215-898-1535
bsoldo@pop.upenn.edu
Samir Soneji
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health & Society Scholar, 2008−2010
Ph.D., Demography, Princeton University 2008
Contact Information:
3641 Locust Walk
215-746-2772
soneji@wharton.upenn.edu
Betsey Stevenson
Assistant Professor of Business and Public Policy
Ph.D., Economics, Harvard, 2001
Contact Information:
1454 SH-DH
215-898-3019
betseys@wharton.upenn.edu
Wharton Faculty page, Personal site
Petra Todd
Professor of Economics
Ph.D., Economics, Chicago, 1996
Contact Information:
520 McNeil
215-898-4084
ptodd@econ.upenn.edu
Economics Faculty page, Personal site
John Q. Trojanowski
Co-Director, Center for Neurodegenerative Disease Research, Director, Institute on Aging, Director, Alzheimer's Disease Core Center, William Maul Measey-Truman G. Schnabel, Jr. MD Professor of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Ph.D., Neuroanatomy, Tufts University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences 1976
Contact Information:
HUP, Maloney 3rd Floor
215-662-6399
trojanow@mail.med.upenn.edu
Mahoney Institute page
Barbara J. Turner
Professor of Medicine, School of Medicine
M.D., General Internal Medicine. University of Pennsylvania, 1978
M.S.Ed, Education, University of Pennsylvania , 1984
Contact Information:
1123 Blockley Hall
215-898-2022
bturner@mail.med.upenn.edu
Penn Medicine Faculty page
Claudia Valeggia
Francis E. Johnston Term Associate Professor of Anthropology
Ph.D., Animal Behavior, UC Davis, 1996
Contact Information:
432 Museum
215-746-5162
valeggia@sas.upenn.edu
Anthropology Faculty page, Personal site
Kevin Volpp
Assistant Professor of Medicine, School of Medicine, Assistant Professor of Healthcare Systems, The Wharton School, Attending Physician, Philadelphia VA Medical Center, Senior Fellow, The Leonard Davis Institute
Ph.D., The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, 1998
M.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1998
Contact Information:
1232 Blockley
215-573-0270
volpp70@wharton.upenn.edu
Wharton Faculty page
Susan C. Watkins
Professor Emeritus
Visiting Research Scientist, California Center for Population Research, UCLA
Ph.D., Sociology, Princeton, 1980
Contact Information:
UCLA
310-206-7566
swatkins@ccpr.ucla.edu
UCLA's CCPR Faculty page
Kenneth I. Wolpin
Walter H. and Leonore C. Annenberg Professor in the Social Sciences
Professor of Economics
Ph.D., Economics, CUNY, 1974
Contact Information:
521 McNeil
215-898-7708
wolpink@econ.upenn.edu
Economics Faculty page
Tukufu Zuberi
Chair, Department of Sociology
Lasry Family Professor of Race Relations
Professor of Sociology
Ph.D., Sociology, Chicago, 1989
Contact Information:
246 McNeil
215-573-5169
tukufu@pop.upenn.edu
Sociology Faculty page, History Detectives site, Personal site