Gwen W. Yeo, PhD, AGSF
Gwen Yeo is the founding Director of the Stanford Geriatric Education Center (SGEC) in Stanford University School of Medicine, funded by the Bureau of Health Professions in the Health Resources and Services Administration since 1987.
Her educational background includes a B.A. and M.A. from Texas Tech University in Sociology and a PhD from Stanford University in Education with a research focus in aging.
After teaching sociology and gerontology at Texas Tech University and Chabot College, she joined Stanford University School of Medicine where she coordinated and directed several geriatric education programs and geriatric research programs.
Under her leadership, the multidisciplinary, multiethnic Stanford GEC Core Faculty helped develop the field of ethnogeriatrics, or health care for elders from diverse ethnic backgrounds.
Her work has focused on the development of resources and curricula for ethnogeriatric education, and she coordinated a national Collaborative on Ethnogeriatric Education that developed a 16-module web-based Curriculum on Ethnogeriatrics.
She has published widely the field of ethnogeriatrics including co- editing two editions of Ethnicity and the Dementias, published by Taylor and Francis.
She has served on the Board of her local Area Agency on Aging, Chaired the Ethnogeriatrics Committee of the American Geriatrics Society, and is Section Editor for Ethnogeriatrics and Special Populations of the Journal of American Geriatrics Society.
