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Stewart Neufeld


577-2297
s.neufeld@wayne.edu
226 Knapp Bldg.

Stewart Neufeld, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in the Institute of Gerontology . Neufeld holds a M.Sc. (mathematics) at Dalhousie University in Halifax, and earned his Ph.D. (mathematics) at Queen's University at Kingston, . He is currently a co-principal investigator on an NIH funded study (PI, Dr. A. Sankar) focused on adherence to medication. Additional research interests include: disparities in rehabilitation outcomes, the intersection of personal constructions and objective measures of risk; decision-making and attitudes toward risk in health and finance; and graph theory.

 

Research Focus

 


Grants

  • Principal Investigator, "Are We Saving Enough? Portfolio Composition in the Health and Retirement Study". Funded by Wayne State University Research Grant Program. Total: $6,972. Period: May 04-April 05.

     

  • Co-Principal Investigator, "HAART Adherence Among HIV+ African-Americans". (R01 AI49113-01A1) National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. Total: $3.12 million. Period: 10/01-9/06.

     


Publications

Social Science

 

  • S. Neufeld, C. Lysack, S. MacNeill , P. Lichtenberg, Living Arrangement Decisions at Discharge and Later: Differences in Criteria and Outcomes. Home Health Care Services Quarterly, in press.

     

  • C. Lysack, M. Dama, S. Neufeld, Compliance and satisfaction with home exercise: a comparison of computer-assisted video instruction and routine rehabilitation practice. Journal of Allied Health, in press.

     

  • S. Neufeld, C. Lysack, Allocation of rehabilitation services: who gets a home evaluation. American Journal of Occupational Therapy, in press.

     

  • B.T. Mast, S. Neufeld, S.E. MacNeill, P.A. Lichtenberg, Longitudinal support for the relationship between vascular risk and late life depressive symptoms. American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, in press.

     

  • C. Lysack, S. Neufeld, Occupational therapist home evaluations in the inner city: Inequalities, but doing the best we can? American Journal of Occupational Therapy, 57(4), July/August, 57(4): 369-379 (2003).

     

  • C. Lysack, S. Neufeld, B. Mast, S. MacNeill, P. Lichtenberg, After Rehabilitation: An 18 Month Follow-up of Elderly Inner City Women, American Journal of Occupational Therapy, 57(3): 298-306 (2003).

     

  • P. Lichtenberg, S. MacNeill, C. Lysack, A. Bank, S. Neufeld, Predicting discharge and long term outcome patterns for frail elders, Rehabilitation Psychology, 48(1), 37-43 (2003).

     

  • C. Lysack, S. Neufeld, S. MacNeill, P. Lichtenberg, At Risk in Old Age: Elderly Men Who Live Alone, Clinical Gerontologist, 24(3/4), 77-92 (2002).

     

  • C. Lysack, S. MacNeill, S. Neufeld, P. Lichtenberg. The functional recovery of elderly urban inner city women. Occupational Therapy Journal of Research, 22(2): 59-69 (2002).

     

  • C. Lysack, C. Zafonte, S. Neufeld, M. Dijkers, Self-Care Independence After Spinal Cord Injury: Patient and Therapist Expectations and Real Life Performance, Journal of Spinal Cord Medicine, 24(4):257-265(2001).

     

Mathematics

 

  • S. Neufeld. The Concept of Diameter in Exponents of Primitive Graphs. Ars Combinatoria,51:129-142 (1999).

     

  • J. Shen, D.A. Gregory,S. Neufeld. Exponents of Indecomposability. Linear Algebra and Its Applications, 288:229-241 (1999).

     

  • S. Neufeld and J. Shen. Local Exponents of Primitive Digraphs. Linear Algebra and Its Applications,268:117-129 (1998).

     

  • S. Neufeld, J. Shen. Some Results on Generalized Exponents. Journal of Graph Theory, 28(4): 215-225(1998).

     

  • J. Shen., S. Neufeld. On a Problem of Lewin. Linear Algebra and Its Applications, 274: 411-426(1998).

     

  • S. Neufeld, R. J. Nowakowski. A Game of Cops and Robbers Played on Products of Graphs. Discrete MAthematics, 186:253-268 (1998).

     

  • S. Neufeld. A Pursuit-Evasion Problem on a Grid. Information Processing Letters, 58:5-9 (1996).

     

  • S. Neufeld. A Diameter Bound on the Exponent of a Primitive Directed Graph. Linear Algebra and Its Applications, 245:27-47 (1996).

     

  • S. Neufeld and R. J. Nowakowski. A Vertex-to-Vertes Pursuit Game played with Disjoing Sets of Edges, Proceedings of NATO Advanced Study Institute of Finite and Infinite Combinatories in Sets and Logic. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht , 1993, pp. 299-312.