Dr. Lois Evans teaches a required mental health and aging course and mentors doctoral and postdoctoral students in their research related to behaviors in dementia. As a faculty director, Dr. Evans played a major role in launching clinical practices of the School of Nursing, offering primary care to both frail elders and low-income families who otherwise might go without health care.

Ann Slaughter is assistant professor at the School of Dental Medicine and serves as the Course Director for geriatric dentistry. She received her DDS degree from Meharry Medical College School of
Dentistry and completed general dentistry post-graduate training at the University of Rochester Eastman Dental Center. She completed a fellowship in geriatric medicine at the University of Connecticut Travelers Center on Aging and her MPH degree in epidemiology at the University of Michigan. Her research is directed towards developing health promotion interventions to address oral health disparities among African American elders.

• 2002 Brookdale National Fellow

Slaughter, A., Katz, R.V., Grasso, J.E. Academic Prosthodontists Perceptions of Denture Adhesives: A Delphi Kungshoman Elders Oral Health Study: Baseline TMD Findings. Journal of Dental Research 1998; Vol: 77:162(454).

Slaughter, A., Katz, R.V., Grasso, J.E. Professional attitudes toward denture adhesives: A Delphi technique survey of academic prosthodontists. Journal of Prosthetic Dentistry. 82(1):80-9, 1999 Jul.