Professor & Director
Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University
BLACKSBURG, Virginia, United States
Pamela B. Teaster is a Professor, the Director of the Center for Gerontology, and the Interim Head for the Department of Human Development and Family Science at Virginia Tech. She is the North American Representative of the International Network for the Prevention of Elder Abuse, a Past President of the Board of Trustees for the Center for Guardianship Certification, and serves on the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Elder Abuse and Neglect and the Journal of Trauma, Violence, and Abuse Review. Dr. Teaster is a Fellow of the Gerontological Society of America and the Association for Gerontology in Higher Education and is a recipient of the Isabella Horton Grant Award for Guardianship (National College of Probate Judges), the Rosalie Wolf Award for Research on Elder Abuse (NAPSA), the Outstanding Affiliate Member Award (Kentucky Guardianship Association), and the Distinguished Educator Award (Kentucky Association for Gerontology). Former president of the National Committee for the Prevention of Elder Abuse, she has received funding for from numerous public and private sources. Her areas of scholarship include the abuse of elders and vulnerable adults, guardianship, end-of-life decisionmaking, ethical treatment of older adults, and public policy and public affairs. She has published over 250 scholarly and translational articles, reports, and book chapters and is the editor/author of 7 books.
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