Cheryl Lacasse, PhD, RN, AOCNS

Clinical Professor & Co-Coordinator of the Wildcat Interdisciplinary Geroscience Group

A clinical professor with over 30 years of nursing experience including complex populations with multiple chronic conditions with special emphasis on older adults, cancer survivors, and integrative symptom management. She is a master educator and mentor and her teaching experiences include innovative curriculum development, implementation and evaluation for on-ground entry level programs and online graduate programs. In addition, she focuses her teaching on older adult care, management of individuals with complex chronic illness including cancer, integrative symptom management, and various dimensions of leadership. She is a Fellow in the University of Arizona Center for University Educational Scholarship and her teaching scholarship focuses on innovations in online teaching and learning. Her clinical scholarship and research focuses on exploration of the impact of comorbidity and symptom burden on older adult cancer survivors and predicting critical "tipping points" in frail older adults.

Janice D. Crist, PhD, RN, FWAN, FAAN

Associate Professor & Co-Coordinator of the Wildcat Interdisciplinary Geroscience Group

Dr. Crist’s geroscience includes eliminating disparities in utilization of long term support services, through early identification of tipping points in frail older adults using wearable technology. Her research has a focus of vulnerable populations, especially Mexican American caregiving families, in partnership with the ENCASA Community Advisory Council. She teaches gerontological, qualitative, and transcultural research courses to graduate and undergraduate nursing students. Dr. Crist was named a Distinguished Educator in Gerontological Nursing by National Hartford Center of Gerontological Nursing Excellence (NHCGNE), 2019; is a member of the NHCGNE Advisory Board; and is an Associate Editor, Journal of Transcultural Nursing.