Christine B. Phillips, Ph.D., CSCS

I'm a gerontologist and behavioral scientist with 15+ years of experience spanning academic research, corporate senior living leadership, and applied product and program work.

My graduate training is in Aging Studies, with postdoctoral work in health behavior change and healthy aging. I've been Co-Investigator on NIH-funded trials studying cognitive training and dementia risk, and I've led enterprise wellness strategy for national senior living organizations. More recently, I've focused on applying that research directly — to mobile products, to community redesign, and to new business concepts in the aging and longevity space.

What ties it together: most people bring either the research or the applied experience. I bring both, plus formal theoretical grounding in aging and caregiving that shapes not just how I run a study, but what I know to look for.

Grounded in theory, not just methods

My approach is grounded in frameworks like Lawton's ecological model of aging, socioemotional selectivity theory, and Pearlin's stress process model of caregiving. These aren't background reading — they inform how I design studies, interpret results, and tell an authentic finding from a spurious correlation, especially when the population is older adults and the families supporting them.

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I'm currently open to research, product, and leadership roles at the intersection of aging, behavior, and technology.