Lisa P. Gwyther, MSW, LCSW
Director, Duke Aging Center Family Support Program
Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Education Director, Bryan Alzheimer's Disease Research Center
Duke University Medical Center
Durham, NC
Lisa P. Gwyther, MSW, LCSW is an associate professor in the Duke Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, a Senior Fellow of Duke’s Center for the Study of Aging and Human Development, and an original core faculty member of the Institute on Care at the End of Life at the Duke Divinity School. She founded and continues to direct the Duke University Center for Aging’s Family Support Program, served as president of the Gerontological Society of America, and directs education for the Joseph and Kathleen Bryan Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center at Duke. She is a prolific scholar, with more than 100 articles, book chapters, and books, as well as an award-winning documentary filmmaker on aging and family care. Throughout her nearly 40 years working in aging, she has won numerous awards, including distinguished social work practitioner (by the National Academies of Practice), top 20 people who have made a difference in US long term care (by Contemporary Long-Term Care), and Agency of the Year for the Family Support Program she founded (by NASW, NC Chapter).
