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Sandra Cusack, Ph.D. and Wendy Thompson, M.A.

  • Mental Fitness for Life

Sandra Cusack and Wendy Thompson have won awards for their work in this field: 1997 Research Award for Innovative Programming; 2004 Educators Award from Delta Kappa Gamma International; 2005 Mind Alert Award from the American Society on Aging and the National Council on Aging.

Sandra Cusack, Ph.D. is Guttman-Gee Research Fellow and Adjunct Professor in Educational Gerontology at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada and the author of numerous research papers in Third Age Education. She is a member of the American Society on Aging and the National Council on Aging.

Wendy Thompson, M.A. is an educational gerontologist and the author of five books. A former Olympic speed skater, she has encouraged thousands, as a speaker and trainer, to create extraordinary lives whether they are 33 or 103.

Stephen P. Fortmann, M.D., Prudence Breitrose, M.A.

Stephen P. Fortmann, M.D. is the Director of the Stanford Heart Disease Prevention Research Center at the Stanford University School of Medicine.

Prudence Breitrose, M.A is editor of health education materials and chief writer for the Stanford Heart Disease Prevention Research Center.