Assistant Professor, Center on Aging
rgoins@hsc.wvu.edu

Dr. Goins is currently Associate Professor in the Department of Community Medicine and Associate Director for Research at the Center on Aging , School of Medicine, West Virginia University. She received her MS and PhD in Gerontology from the University of Massachusetts- Boston. She was an NIA post doctoral fellow at Duke University Medical Center’s Center for the Study of Aging and Human Development, with an emphasis in epidemiology. The major focus of Dr. Goins’ research has been on health and access to health care for rural elderly populations. She recently completed a two-year career development grant with the Native Elder Research Center at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, which extended her program of research to reservation-based American Indian elderly.