Stacey B Whitbourne Author

Susan Krauss Whitbourne, PhD, is a Professor Emerita of Psychological and Brain Sciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Adjunct Professor and Faculty Fellow in Gerontology at the University of Massachusetts Boston. She received her doctorate in developmental psychology from Columbia University in 1974 and completed a postdoctoral training program in clinical psychology at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, having joined the faculty there in 1984. Her publications include 22 published books, many in multiple editions, and 200 journal articles and chapters. She is Editor-in-Chief of the Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Aging. In addition to her professional writing, she writes a blog for Psychology Today called "Fulfillment at Any Age" and has consulted for publications of the National Geographic Society in psychology.

Stacey B. Whitbourne, PhD, received her doctorate in social and developmental psychology from Brandeis University in 2005. She completed her postdoctoral fellowship at the Boston University School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology. Currently, she is a research health scientist at the Massachusetts Veterans Epidemiology and Research Information Center (MAVERIC), a research center housed within the VA Boston Healthcare System. She serves as the Director of Cohort Development and Management for the Million Veteran Program, a longitudinal health and genomic cohort funded by the Department of Veteran's Affairs Office of Research and Development. Additionally, she is an instructor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and an associate epidemiologist at the Division of Aging at Brigham and Women's Hospital.