i PHYSICAL CHANGE AND AGING
ii Sue V. Saxon, PhD, is professor emeritus at the School of Aging Studies, University of South Florida. She received her PhD in developmental psychology and counseling from Florida State University and pursued additional graduate work in physiological psychology at the University of Wisconsin. She was a research psychologist for the National Institutes of Health and for the Laboratory of Perinatal Physiology at the University of Puerto Rico Medical School, before joining the faculty in behavioral sciences at the University of South Florida. As a charter faculty member in the Aging Studies program, she has developed and taught numerous courses in aging as well as presented workshops, given in-service training, and authored a number of books and book chapters on aging. She has been designated a gerontological pioneer for outstanding achievement and exemplary contributions to the field of gerontology by the Southern Gerontological Society. She can be reached by email at suevsaxon@gmail.com.
Mary Jean Etten, EdD, APRN, CMP, FT, has been a tenured full professor in the College of Nursing at St. Petersburg College, where she taught nursing, gerontology, and thanatology and developed an innovative curriculum teaching hospice care to nurses. She is currently an adjunct lecturer in thanatology in the School of Aging Studies at the University of South Florida. She received her doctoral degree in education from Nova Southeastern University and masters degrees in gerontology, counseling, and nursing from the University of South Florida. She is also a gerontological nurse practitioner. She is a fellow in thanatology and is board certified as a music practitioner. She has authored several books and manuals, as well as journal articles. She was a founder of Suncoast Hospice in 1978 and has remained on its boards for more than 43 years. In 2012, a building at Suncoast Hospice was named in her honor. She serves on the Empath Health board and several other boards. Recently she coauthored the book A Caring Sanctuary: Forty Years of Caring. In 2021, Dr. Etten was honored as a Distinguished Alumni by receiving the Dominican Mission Award from Edgewood College, Madison, Wisconsin. She received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Tampa Bay Business Journal in 2013. She can be reached by email at ettenmj@gmail.com.
Elizabeth A. Perkins, PhD, RNLD, FAAIDD, FGSA, is a research associate professor and associate director of the Florida Center for Inclusive Communitiesa University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilitiesat the University of South Florida (USF). She has a PhD in aging studies from the School of Aging Studies at USF. She is also an RNLD (a registered nurse in the field of developmental disabilities) who trained at the Hereford and Worcestershire College of Nursing and Midwifery in England. She has authored numerous journal articles and book chapters, on topics ranging from aging, aging with intellectual and developmental disabilities, and caregiver quality of life. She was a guest editor for a special issue on aging and end-of-life for the American Journal on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities. She is a fellow and past president of the American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (AAIDD) and previously chaired AAIDDs Gerontology Division. She is also a fellow of the Gerontological Society of America and a former co-convener of their Special Interest Group on Lifelong Disabilities. In 2020, she was a national honoree of the National Historic Recognition Project for her significant contributions to the field of intellectual and development disabilities in the United States between 2000 and 2020. She can be reached by email at eperkins@usf.edu.
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