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Elizabeth (Ibby) Tanner, PhD, RN
Assistant Professor, Nursing and Center on Aging and Health

Academic Degrees
PhD, University of Maryland, 1985, Dissertation: “Evaluation of the effectiveness of social support strategies upon appointment keeping in low-income, chronically ill older adult patients,”

Master of Science in Nursing, Thesis: “Effectiveness of standardized instruction based on needs assessment for educating diabetics,”

Contact information
Johns Hopkins University
School of Nursing
School of Medicine, Department of Geriatrics & Gerontology
Center on Aging and Health
525 N. Wolfe St
.
Baltimore, MD 21205
etanner3@son.jhmi.edu
410-614-5303

Research and Professional Experience
Dr. Tanner's major research interests focus on health promotion among older adults with co-morbidities, including interventions to facilitate social engagement and physical activity. Dr. Tanner's current research involves the developing and evaluating strategies to recruit and retain older adults to participate in a community-based trial, Experience Corps®, an intergenerational program to promote health, as well as the psychosocial impact of EC and the pathway to health outcomes. She is a co-investigator and the director of recruitment and retention for the RCT, Experience Corps® and a co-PI of the GeriFIT project (Geriatric Interdisciplinary Team Training), a study comparing health outcomes of an interdisciplinary team approach to care with the usual care approach.

Research Interests
Health promotion and health motives; social engagement, social support, depression and physical function, community-based participatory research

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