Faculty
Debra Dobbs, Ph.D.

Professor & Director of Aging Studies
Director, PhD Program
Academic Director, Center for Hospice, Palliative Care and End-of-Life Studies.
Phone: (813) 974 5767
Office: MHC1341
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Curriculum Vitae
Hospice, Palliative Care and End-of-Life Center
Description of Research Interests
Dr. Dobbs has research interests in palliative, hospice and end-of-life care, and palliative care education in assisted living with a specific focus on providers of persons living with dementia. As the Director of the Center for Hospice, Palliative and End-of-Life Studies, she has research partnerships with hospice organizations in °®ÎÛ´«Ã½. Dr. Dobbs is also involved in disaster preparedness research and music and mindfulness studies in assisted living and other community-based settings for persons living with dementia and their caregivers
Publications
Honors and Awards
1998 - Dissertation Research Project: Family Satisfaction with Residential Care Provision: Examples from Britain and the United States. Awarded Pearson Fellowship by the Kansas Board of Regents. Award amount - $5,000.00.
2001-2002 - Preparing Future Faculty Fellowship. Awarded by the University of Kansas Graduate School.
2002 - Attendee, National Institute on Aging Technical Assistance Writing Workshop, Boston, MA
Classes Taught
Associate Professor °®ÎÛ´«Ã½, 2012
GEY 5642: Perspectives of Dying (graduate)
GEY 4641: Death and Dying (undergraduate)
GEY 3625: Sociological Aspects of Aging (graduate)
GEY 4475/5476: Program Evaluation in an Aging Society (undergraduate and graduate)
GEY 6934: Community Services in an Aging Society (graduate)
GEY 4507 Long Term Care Policies and Practices
Assistant Professor °®ÎÛ´«Ã½ Fall, 2006
Research Methods I
Perspectives of Death and Dying
Adjunct Faculty University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, NC 2004-2006
Courses: Program Evaluation
Adjunct Faculty Park University Parkville, MO 1994 to 2002
Courses: Introductory to Sociology Family Sociology
Adjunct Faculty Sociology
Baker University Ottawa, KS 1996
Course: Social Change