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Michael Marsiske, Ph.D. Department of Clinical and Health Psychology
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Education
1992-1995 Postdoctoral Fellowship Center for Psychology and Human Development Max Planck Institute for Human Development and Education
1990-1992 Ph.D. Human Development and Family Studies Pennsylvania State University
1987-1990 M.S. Human Development and Family Studies Pennsylvania State University
1983-1987 B.Sc. Psychology University of Toronto
Current appointment
Michael Marsiske is an Associate Professor in the Department of
Clinical and Health Psychology, College of Health Professions. He is also
the Associate Chair for Research in this department. He currently holds
a joint appointment in the Department of Psychology, College of
Liberal Arts and Sciences. Marsiske is also a Coordinator of the University
of Florida Network for Biobehavioral and Social Aging.
From 2000-2003, he served as Associate
Director for Research in the University of Florida Institute on Aging;
he also served as Interim Director of the IoA during the first six
months of 2003. He currently serves as Leader of the Recruitment Core,
part of a National Institute on Aging-funded Pepper Older Americans'
Independence Center funded to the IoA's current Director, Marco Pahor
MD.
Educational and occupational history
Dr. Marsiske
received a B.Sc. in Psychology from the University of Toronto. At the
Pennsylvania State University, Dr. Marsiske received both M.S. and
Ph.D. degrees from the Department of Human Development and Family
Studies, where he was also a National Institute on Aging Pre-Doctoral
Trainee in the Gerontology Center. Dr. Marsiske received a three-year
post-doctoral fellowship from the Center for Psychology and Human
Development of the Max Planck Institute for Human Development. Prior to
coming to the University of Florida, Dr.
Marsiske was an Assistant Professor in the Institute of Gerontology and
the Department of Psychology at Wayne State University.
Honors and professional service
Dr. Marsiske is a Fellow of the Gerontological Society of America, and
is a past recipient of the Springer Award for Early Career Achievement
in Research and Adult Development and Aging from Division 20 of the
American Psychological Association. Marsiske is a past-Chair of the
NIA-S (Behavioral and Social Sciences) Initial Review Group for the
National Institute on Aging, and he currently serves on the Editorial
Boards of the
Journals of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences and of Aging, Neuropsychology and Cognition.
Presently he serves as a principal investigator on the NIH-funded
study ACTIVE, which examines long-term cognitive training effects on
elders' everyday function, and he
collaborates on several other federally funded studies and centers at
UF. Marsiske is also the Training Director of a NIA-funded predoctoral
training program (T32) entitled "Physical, Cognitive and Mental Health
in Social Context".
Research foci
Dr. Marsiske's research has four major foci:
* modifiability of older adults' cognitive performance due to training interventions and practice
* understanding short-term variability and fluctuation in elders' cognition, and its relationship to cognitive status and other time-varying predictors
* older adults' everyday problem solving abilities and their relationship to basic cognitive and intellectual performance
* understanding the inter-relationship of sensorimotor and cognitive function in later life, with a particular focus on balance and locomotion
Links
UF Units
Clinical and Health Psychology (main home)
Psychology (adjunct)
UF Network for Biobehavioral and Social Research on Aging (Coordinator for PHHP; T32 Program Director)
Institute on Aging (Core Leader, Recruitment)
National Older Driver Rehabilitation and Training Center (faculty associate)
National Associations
American Psychological Association
American Psychological Association Division 20
American Psychological Society
International Society for the Study of Behavioral Development
Biennial Cognitive Aging Conference
Previous Institutions
Max Planck Institute for Human Development
UF Utilities/Services
Public Health and Health Professions IT Support
Public Health and Health Professions Research Support
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UF Research and Graduate Programs
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