This Pepper Center has a nimble core of faculty members and staff who engage with many other partners to advance research and interventions improving the mobility of elder persons.
Center Leadership
Administrative director
Todd Manini, PhD
Professor; Division Chief
Clinical And Population Health Integration
Health Outcomes and Biomedical Informatics
Co-Director
Karyn Esser, PhD
Professor and Chair,
Department of Physiology and Aging
co-director
Ron Shorr, M.D., M.S.
Staff Physician, Geriatric Research Education & Clinical Center, Malcom Randall VAMC, Research Professor, Department of Epidemiology, University of Florida
Associate Director
Stephen Anton, PhD
Professor,
Department of Physiology and Aging
Administrative Staff
Senior Advisors
Dejana Braithwaite, PhD, MSc
Ronald I Shorr
Clinical Research Core
Metabolism & Translational Science Core
Digital Health & Artificial Intelligence Core
Todd Manini Ph.D.
Sanjay Ranka, PhD
Distinguished Professor,
Computer & Information Science & Engineering,
Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering
Biostatistics Core
Systems Physiology & Multi-omics Core
Research Education Core
Roger B Fillingim PhD
Pilot and Exploratory Core