Ed Ansello

Dr. Ansello is Director of the Virginia Center on Aging, Medical College of Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond. He joined the Virginia Center on Aging in November 1989 after a 20 year career at the University of Maryland where he was a co-founder of the Maryland Center on Aging, serving as its Associate Director and Acting Director. He has been Coordinator of the Nursing Home Administrators 100-Hour Program for the State of Maryland, and Director of the Institute for Gerontological Practice at the University of Maryland. He was also Founding Chairman of the Maryland Consortium for Gerontology in Higher Education, the nation's first such statewide, incorporated affiliation.

Dr. Ansello's gerontological focuses include elder caregiving; pre-retirement education; disabilities and aging; geropharmacy; coalition building; and the humanities, media, and aging. The author of a dozen books, monographs, special issues and book chapters, and three dozen published articles, he has made over 500 presentations before professional and civic groups nationally and internationally.

Dr. Ansello is also Professor in the Department of Gerontology at Virginia Commonwealth University, and a Fellow of the Gerontological Society of America. In 1990 he was named Distinguished Academic Gerontologist by the Southern Gerontological Society. He is Past President of the Association for Gerontology in Higher Education, and Past President of the Southern Gerontological Society.

Publications:

• Ansello, E.F. (2004). Public policy writ small: Coalitions at the intersection of aging and lifelong disabilities. Public Policy & Aging Report, 14 (4), 1ff.
  
• Ansello, E.F. (2000). Aging and disabilities: Collaborative practice and policy. In Crews, J. & Whittington, F.J. (Eds.) Vision loss in an aging society: A multidisciplinary perspective. New York: AFB Press/American Foundation for the Blind.
• Ansello, E.F., Coogle, C.L. & Wood, J.B. (1997). Partners: Building inter-system cooperation in agingwith developmental disabilities. Richmond, VA: Virginia Center on Aging, Virginia Commonwealth University.
  
• Coogle, C.L., Ansello, E.F., Wood, J.B. & Cotter, J.J. (1995). Partners II - Serving older persons with developmental disabilities: Obstacles and inducements to collaboration among agencies. Journal of Applied Gerontology, 14 (3), 275-288.
  

Books:

• Community Supports for Aging Adults With Lifelong Disabilities
  (Co-edited with Matthew P. Janicki)
  Brookes Publishing Company (July 1, 2000)
  ISBN: 1557664625
• Aging and Disabilities: Seeking Common Ground (Generations and Aging Series
  (Co-edited with Nancy N. Eustis)
  Baywood Pub Co; Reprint edition (November 1, 1992)
  ISBN: 0895031086

Website: http://www.vcu.edu/vcoa/directorstaff.htm