Our team

Dr. Alex Mihailidis is a Professor at the University of Toronto with appointments in the Department of Occupational Science & Occupational Therapy, the Institute of Biomedical Engineering, the Department of Computer Science, and the Department of Health & Society at the University of Toronto Scarborough. He is an internationally recognized leader in AgeTech, artificial intelligence, rehabilitation engineering, and technologies that support healthy aging

Dr. Michelle Pannor Silver is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Health & Society, University of Toronto Scarborough. Her research examines retirement/work identity, health information seeking, and perceptions about aging. Her first book, Retirement and Its Discontents is about the journey some face as they struggle to recalibrate their sense of purpose in retirement. Her second book Aging with Agility examines how perceptions about aging influence exercise habits. She received a BA, BS, and MPP from the University of California, Berkeley and a PhD from the University of Chicago. 

Dr. Samantha Sandassie is the Associate Director of AgeTech LaunchPad Toronto. She is also Director of Education and Training at AGE-WELL, Canada’s technology and aging network, and Platform Manager for the EPIC-AT Health Research Training Platform at the University of Toronto. With more than a decade of experience building interdisciplinary research, training and innovation ecosystems, Samantha brings together academic, healthcare, industry and community partners to advance collaboration and impact. She is passionate about supporting researchers and innovators in developing technologies, services and approaches that improve the lives of older adults and caregivers, while fostering the next generation of leaders in AgeTech and healthy aging.

Dr. Amy Clements-Cortés PhD, RP, MTA, MT-BC is an Associate Professor, Faculty of Music, University of Toronto; Credentialed Music Therapist, Registered Psychotherapist and a Fellow in the Bonny Method of Guided Imagery and Music, and Neurologic Music Therapy.

Dr. Charlene Chu is an Associate Professor at the Lawrence Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing at the University of Toronto, and an Affiliate Scientist at KITE Toronto Rehab at the University Health Network. She is cross-appointed (status only) with the Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work’s Institute for Life Course & Aging, as well as the Rehabilitation Sciences Institute at the University of Toronto.

Emily Seto is an Associate Professor at the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation (IHPME) at the University of Toronto, and a Professional Engineer of Ontario. She co-leads the Health Systems AI and the Health Informatics Research emphases of the Health Services Research programs at IHPME. She is the co-Director of the Joint Translational Centre for Digital Health, a collaboration between the University of Toronto and the University of Manchester. She is also a research scientist at the UHN Centre for Digital Therapeutics and at the Techna Institute.

Dr. Jennifer Campos is a Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) in Multisensory Integration and Aging. Dr. Campos is the Associate Director - Academic, Senior Scientist, Chief Scientist of the Challenging Environments Assessment Laboratory at KITE and a Professor in the Departments of Psychology, as well as the Rehabilitation Sciences Institute at the University of Toronto. She is also the national Associate Scientific Director of AGE-WELL. Dr. Campos’s research focuses on understanding how sensory health supports brain health and functional, everyday behaviours such as safe mobility. This includes understanding how age-related sensory impairments (e.g., vision, hearing) and cognitive impairments can increase the risk of falls and vehicle collisions (e.g., in healthy older adults, those with hearing loss, subjective cognitive impairments, dementia).

Karen Chapple, Ph.D., is the Director of the School of Cities at the University of Toronto, where she also serves as Professor in the Department of Geography and Planning. She is Professor Emerita of City & Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley, where she served as department chair and held the Carmel P. Friesen Chair in Urban Studies. Chapple studies inequalities in the planning, development, and governance of regions in the Americas, with a focus on economic development and housing.