Louis (Lou) Burgio
Harold R. Johnson Professor of Social Work and Research Professor, Institute of Gerontology, Adjunct
Louis (Lou) Burgio
Degrees
- BA, Developmental Psychology & Applied Behavior Analysis, 1976, Canisius College, Buffalo, NY;
- MA, Developmental Psychology, 1979, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN;
- PhD, Psychology, 1981, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN
BioSketch
Dr. Burgio received a PhD from the University of Notre Dame in 1981 in applied developmental psychology, followed by a one-year post-doctoral fellowship in behavioral medicine from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He has been a licensed, practicing psychologist since 1983. He has held full-time faculty positions at the University of Maryland, University of Pittsburgh, University of Alabama at Birmingham, and the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa. He also served as a senior research scientist at the Gerontology Research Center, National Institute on Aging, from 1984 to 1987. Dr. Burgio received tenure in the Department of Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh in 1992 and was promoted to full professor with tenure in the Department of Medicine at the University of Alabama in Birmingham in 1995.
He has held numerous leadership positions including director, Intensive Behavior Management Program (1982-1984); co-director, Behavioral Sciences Section; associate director, Center for Aging (UAB); director, Long-Term Care Initiatives; director, Behavior Gerontology Program (1992-1998); director, Applied Gerontology Program; and director, Center for Mental Health and Aging at the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa.
Dr. Burgio is currently Harold R. Johnson Professor of Social Work and research professor, Institute of Gerontology, at the University of Michigan. He was most recently distinguished university research professor of clinical psychology at the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa. He has done extensive research in applied gerontology, focusing on developing interventions for the behavioral complications of dementia in nursing homes and working with dementia caregivers in the community to ease the stress and burden of caregiving.
He has authored over 150 articles that have appeared in such journals as The Gerontologist, Journals of Gerontology, and the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. He has served on 10 journal editorial boards and on ad hoc grant review panels for NINR, NIMH, and the Alzheimer's Association. Dr. Burgio has received grant funding from NIA, NINR, CDC, the Alzheimer's Association, and the Retirement Research Foundation and completed a term on the National Advisory Council for Nursing Research at NIH (2002-2006). Dr. Burgio has received continuous funding from NIH since 1990. He is the 2008 recipient of the M. Powell Lawton award in applied gerontology from the Gerontological Society of America.
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University of Michigan Institute of Gerontology 300 N. Ingalls Ann Arbor, MI 48109 |
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University of Michigan School of Social Work 1080 S. University Ann Arbor, MI 48109 |
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Selected Publications
| Fairchild, J. K., Scogin, F., & Burgio, L. D. (in press). An in-home cohabitator facilitated memory enhancement program for older adults. The Clinical Gerontologist. |
| Hilgeman, M. M., Burgio, L. D., & Allen, R. S. (2009). Behavioral and environmental management. In M. F. Weiner & A. M. Lipton (Eds.), Textbook of Alzheimer?s disease and other dementias. Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc. |
| Czaja, S., Gitlin, L., & Burgio, L. (2009). Development of the Risk Appraisal Measure (RAM): A brief screen to identify risk areas and guide interventions for dementia caregivers. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 58(6). |
| Burgio, L.D., Collins, I.B., Schmid, B., Wharton, T., McCallum, D., & DeCoster, J. (2009). Translating the REACH caregiver intervention for use by area agency on aging personnel. The Gerontologist, 49(1), 103-106. |
| Hilgeman, M. M., Durkin, D., Sun, F., DeCoster, J., Allen, R. S., Burgio, L. D., et al. (2009). Ethnic and racial differences in the stress process model: Exploring discrepancies in REACH II Alzheimer's caregivers. The Gerontologist, 49(2), 248-261. |
| Sun, F., Hilgeman, M. M., Durkin, D., Allen, R. S., & Burgio, L. D. (2009). Perceived income inadequacy as a predictor of psychological distress in Alzheimer?s caregivers. Psychology and Aging, 24(1), 177-183. |
| Burgio, L. D., Park, N. S., Hardin, J. M., & Sun, F. (2007). A longitudinal examination of agitation and resident characteristics in the nursing home. The Gerontologist, 47(5), 642-649. |
| Hilgeman, M. H., Allen, R. S., DeCoster, J., & Burgio, L. D. (2007). Positive aspects of caregiving as a moderator of treatment outcome over 12 months. Psychology and Aging, 22(2), 361-371. |
| Hochhalter, A. K., Stevens, A. B., & Burgio, L. D. (2007). Rates of resident need-driven behaviors and nursing assistant skill use in nursing homes. Long Term Care Interface, 8(2), 36-40. |