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Gerontology (GERON)

4 courses in the 1986–87 Undergraduate Calendar, read from the scanned original. The text comes from OCR, so check the scanned page before relying on a detail.

GERON 255 The Biology of AgingW 0.5

An introductory study of the biological processes qi aging at the molecular, cellular and bystemic levels. The topics will include an examination of the theories of aging, methods used to study the aging process, the role of diseases and chronological changes in the organism during senescence. Cross-listed as SCI 255.

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GERON 400 Muiltidisciplinary Seminar on AgingS 0.5

Faculty members and students from a variety of disciplines meet to discuss

_ individual and population aging from a multidisciplinary perspective. Topics examined include the definition of aging, the demography of aging, evolutionary and genetic factors, aging as a social process, and human aging patterns.

16.74 Course Descriptions

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GERON 402 Topics in Mathematical Aspects of Chemistry, Biology and the Medical Sciences II (Epidemiology of Aging)W 2C 0.5

Factors contributing to various disease processes will be ‘discussed with special reference to the quantitative evaluation of environmental factors relevant to aging and human disease prc

Associate Professors mo, K.S. Brown,? BMath, PhD (Waterloo) RP. Schlegel. BA (Western Ontario), MSc (ilinois),. PhD (Ohio State) M.T. Sharratt,? BA, MA (Westem Ontario), PhD (Wisconsin)

Assistant Professors

S.E. Evers, 8Sce (Ottawa), MS (Cornell), PhD (Western)

ME. Haight, 8S¢, MSc, PhD (McMaster)

L. Hoffman-Goetz, BA (SUNY, Binghamton), MA, PhD (Michigan)

R.S. McColl, BSc (McGill), PhD (Purdue)

A. Myers, BA (Winnipeg), MA, PhD (York)

K. Prkachin, BA, MA, PhD (British Columbia).

Re sh Assistant Professor

Cross-listed as MTHEL 4028.

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GERON 403 Topice in Mathematical Aspects ofS 2C 0.5

Chemistry, Biology and the Medical

Sciences 1

Topics will be selected from the area of

epidemiology and mathematical models

of disease processes with special refer-

ence to heart disease and' cancer. Cross-listed as MTHEL 402A.

Department of Health Studies

Associate Professor, Chairman of

Department of Health Studies

AJR. Cameron,’ BA, MA, PhD (Waterivo)

Professor, Associate Dean Graduate

Affairs, Faculty of Human Kinetics and

Leisure Studies

M.E. Houston,” BSc (Toronto), PhD (Waterloo)

Assistant Professor, Associate Chairman

Graduate Affairs D. Mills, 8BSAg (Purdue), PhD (indiana)

Assistant Professor, Associate Chairman

Undergraduate Affairs

P. Wainwright, 8Sc (Rhodes, S.A.), MA, PhD (Waterloo)

Professors

J.A. Best BA (Queens), PAD (Waterloo)

V.T. Farewall,? BMath, MMath (Waterloo), PhD (London)

D. Willms, BA (Waterioa), MA (McMaster), PhD (British Columbia)

Adjunct Faculty

N. Kreiger, BA (Pennsylvania), MPH, PhD (Yale)

AE. LeBlanc, BA (Queen's), MSc, PhD (Toronto) ~

O. Martinez, BS, MNS, PhD (Cornell)

N. White, MDCM, DPsych (McGill), FRCP (C) (Royal College)

Faculty Members of Heaith Studies holding crogs appointments to: Psychology

Faculty Members holding cross or joint appointments to Health Studies from: ?Kinesiology

Statistics

Urban and Regional Planning

Course Descriptions

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