Kunkel, Suzanne R.

Suzanne R. Kunkel, PhD , is the director of Scripps Gerontology Center and Professor in the Department of Sociology and Gerontology at Miami University. Dr. Kunkel has 20 years of experience in research and teaching in gerontology. She is the recipient of the 2006 Outstanding Gerontology Educator Award from the Ohio Association of Gerontology in Higher Education. She has authored or coauthored more than 35 articles, book chapters, and research monographs, and has recently co-edited, with Valerie Wellin, "Consumer Voice and Choice in Long-Term Care" (Springer Publishing Company, 2006). Her