Faculty and Staff

Director, Geriatrics and Gerontology Education and Research Program
Program Director, Aging and Applied Thanatology Certificate
Program Co-Director, Gerontology MS 
Associate Professor, Graduate School 

University of Maryland, Baltimore
620 W. Lexington Street, 1^st Floor
Baltimore, MD 21201

Email: diane.martin​@​umaryland.edu
Office Phone : 410-706-4327

Dr. Diane Martin is an associate professor in the graduate school, where she also serves as director of UMB’s Geriatrics & Gerontology Education and Research (GGEAR) program, a state-funded program developed in 1987 to support interprofessional educational and research activities in the field of geriatrics and gerontology. Programs are designed to bolster the well-being of older adults and improve quality of later life. In partnership with the Maryland Area Health Education Centers and other agencies and organizations throughout the state, Dr. Martin develops interprofessional training opportunities related to aging and older adults for undergraduate, graduate, and professional students in health science and social science programs, as well as conferences and programs for professionals and the general public across the state.

As an applied gerontologist, Dr. Martin maintains an active interdisciplinary research program supportive of geriatric interprofessional education, workforce development, and quality of later life initiatives (i.e., aging-in-place, person-centeredness, promoting optimal aging). She earned her doctorate in Psychology from Northcentral University, a Master’s in Experimental Psychology from Towson University, and received her Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from the College of Notre Dame of Maryland. Dr. Martin served as a GLOBALtimore Fellow, is a member of the Gerontological Society of America and the Academy for Gerontology in Higher Education, and currently serves as President of Sigma Phi Omega, the International Academic Honor & Professional Society in Gerontology.

Professor of Sociology and Gerontology
Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Public Health
University of Maryland Baltimore County
Public Policy, Room 216
1000 Hilltop Circle
Baltimore, MD 21250

Email: Yamataka@umbc.edu
Office Phone : 410-455-4938

Takashi Yamashita (山下貴司), Ph.D., MPH, MA, is a professor of sociology, and a faculty in the Gerontology Ph.D. program and the Center for Aging Studies at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). He also has a secondary appointment in the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health in the School of Medicine and serves as an affiliate member of the Center for Research on Aging at the University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB). His areas of research are social determinants of health and well-being over the life course, health literacy, wider benefits of lifelong learning, gerontology education , and social statistics education. His teaching interests include social gerontology, sociology of aging, and introductory/advanced quantitative research methods in social science both at the undergraduate and graduate levels.

He has been a co-/principal investigator of the federally funded research project (2020 - present) by the Institute of Education Science of the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Minority Health of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. He was also a UMBC Innovation Fellow and a principal investigator of the 2-year research project (2019 - 2021) funded by the Hrabowski Innovation Fund at UMBC. He serves as an editorial board member of the Journal of Gerontology Social Science.

International Student Advisor
Center for Global Engagement
University of Maryland, Baltimore
621 W. Lombard Street, Room 337
Baltimore, MD 21201

Email: MKamijo@umaryland.edu
Office Phone : 410-706-0025

Mio Kamijo is the International Student Advisor in the Office of International Services, where she assists new and continuing international students by advising them on federal immigration regulations and supporting them personally, academically and culturally. She also plans, coordinates, and executes international student programs.

Before starting at UMB, she worked at AFS Japan and British Council planning and managing international youth exchanges, providing English learning courses and teacher training programs. She also worked as an education advisor at the Japanese Student Service Organization, providing support and advice to people looking for scholarships to go abroad.

Mio has always been interested in the research about Language and International Education. She received a master's degree in Learning, Learning Environment and Educational System at the University of Turku in Finland and a bachelor’s degree in English Linguistic at Shinshu University in Japan. She had the opportunity to study abroad in the UK, Hong Kong and Finland. In 2017, she completed her graduate certificate in Program Evaluation at Florida State University.