SCOSA Leadership

David C. Burdick, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology, Director

Christine Ferri, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Psychology, Assistant Director

Gina Maguire, MSW, LSW, Professional Services Specialist: Coordinator of SCOSA Older Adult Programs

Patricia W. Collins, MA/OM, SCOSA Community Engagement Liaison

Christine Gayda-Chelder, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Psychology, Education and Service Chair

Lisa Cox, Ph.D., Professor of Social Work, Research Advisor
A Community Advisory Board assists in planning and operating the Center. Board structure,
function, and membership is under review in 2019.
The current board includes:
- Frank Blee, Director of Senior Services, Atlanticare
- Pastor David Delaney, St. Paul's United Methodist Church (Thorofare, NJ)
- John Emge, Former Vice President and Regional Executive Director, United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey (Galloway Township)
- Marilu Gagnon, Director (Retired), Atlantic County Division of Intergenerational Services (Northfield)
- Lori Heberley, President, South Jersey Geriatric Care, P.C. (Somers Point)
- Joanne Kinsey, Associate Professor, Family & Community Health Sciences Educator, Rutgers University Cooperative Extension of Atlantic & Ocean Counties (Mays Landing)
- Joanne Leichte, Director of Customer Relations, Southern Ocean Medical Center (Manahawkin)
- Elyse Perweiler, Associate Professor, Rowan University School of Osteopathic Medicine; Director, NJ Area Health Education Center & Associate Director for Planning, Development & Public Policy, New Jersey Institute for Successful Aging (Stratford)
SCOSA joins Stockton’s Gerontology Program in honoring and thanking faculty retirees who have supported gerontological education, Stockton’s gerontology program and the establishment of SCOSA. Linda Aaronson (Associate Professor of Nursing) and Nancy Davis (Professor of Pathology, former Dean of Professional Studies, now member of the Stockton Board of Trustees) both began teaching Introduction to Gerontology and Aging and Health in the mid-1980s and continued for nearly 20 years until teaching and administrative needs in Nursing forced them to curtail their GERO teaching. Will Jaynes (Professor of Social Work and African American Studies and former Acting Dean of Social and Behavioral Sciences) taught Aging and the Family for over 20 years, and the late Ralph Werner (Associate Professor of Biology) who taught Biology of Aging for nearly a decade.