Mark Sciegaj, Dean of Graduate and Professional Studies; Director, the Fuss Center for Research on Aging and Intergenerational Studies; Professor of Social Policy
Degrees: B.A., Bethany College
M.P.H., Emory University
Ph.D., Brandeis University
Areas of Specialization: Aging, intergenerational studies

Mark Sciegaj’s expertise is in the area of elder autonomy and consumer directed long-term care models. His recent publications include: Elder autonomy and consumer directed care (In Satin, D. (ed) Interdisciplinary Elder Care Health Management, Oxford University Press); State experiences with implementing the cash and counseling demonstration and evaluation project (with Kevin Mahoney and Kristen Simone), Racial/Ethnic differences in controlling community long-term care services (in Kunkle, S. & Wellin, V.  (eds) Consumer Voices and Choices in Community Long-term Care, Springer Publishing) and Consumer directed community care: Race/ethnicity and individual differences in preferences for control (with John Capitman and Corrine Kay Kyriacou).

Professor Sciegaj has received over 1 million dollars in external grant funding from numerous grants in the field of health care policy and elder affairs from a variety of private foundations and federal agencies. Some of these include the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, the National Institute of Alcoholism and Alcohol Abuse, the National Institute of Drug Abuse and The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. He is currently the Vice-President of the Boston Chapter of the National Caucus and Center on Black Aged and President of the Massachusetts Gerontology Association.

Regarding teaching, Mark Sciegaj writes: “There is a feeling of common purpose at Lasell, a sense that everyone really is a partner in the process of educating students, with a genuine concern about putting together a quality academic program.”