Graduate Interdisciplinary
Specialization in Aging
The Graduate Interdisciplinary Specialization in Aging is a university-wide program that offers current OSU graduate and professional students advanced educational opportunities in the field of aging. The Specialization's core curriculum focuses on the basic components of gerontology shared by many disciplines, while the electives allow students to pursue either a research agenda or a more clinically-oriented pathway.
Faculty in Aging
Aging is an interdisciplinary endeavor, and many faculty members across The Ohio State University campus are active in aging teaching and research. We provide their contact information here, as well as information about their teaching and research interests, to help you connect with those who share your interest in the field of aging. View Faculty
Careers in Aging
A career in aging brings many opportunities in health care, social and supportive services, wellness and prevention, advocacy, education, community-based programming, and more. A trained workforce prepared to meet the wide-ranging needs of an aging population will be essential if our nation is to respond to the demands of this important and growing demographic change. Learn more.
About Us
The Office of Geriatrics and Gerontology at The Ohio State University serves as a focus for aging-related activities throughout the University and is the only formally recognized unit devoted to aging on campus.
The Office strives to provide coordinated education, research, practice and service opportunities in geriatrics and gerontology while enhancing and supporting the initiatives of individual departments, schools and colleges to meet the demographic imperatives of our aging society.
Located in the Davis Medical Research Center on the OSU campus, Office leadership stands ready to assist students in defining their educational direction and creating their career in aging path, as well as working with community partners and faculty across campus to enhance teaching and research collaborations.
Catherine R. Lucey, M.D., Vice Dean for Medical Education, currently serves as the Interim Director for the Office of Geriatrics and Gerontology.
