Presented by the University of Maryland School of Nursing Biology and Behavior Across the Lifespan Organized Research Center
Thursday, Nov. 7, 2019
Noon to 1 p.m.
School of Nursing, Room 140
Lunch will be provided at 11:30 a.m.
RSVP by emailing Mathilda Barnes at mathilda.barnes@umaryland.edu.
Presenter:
Marcia G. Ory, PhD
Professor, Department of Health Promotion and Community Health Sciences
Director, Program on Health Aging
Texas A&M School of Public Health
Ory is recognized as an international leader in public health and aging with interests in designing health promotion and disease prevention interventions at the individual, health provider, and service delivery levels to improve the health and well-being of individuals across the lifespan.
She has a long history of applied prevention research starting in the 1980s, when she was at the National Institute on Aging, directing the Social Science Research on Aging program. Ory’s research focus is on health promotion among older adults and the development of novel technologies for patient screening, diagnosis, and intervention.