{"id":2,"date":"2024-08-14T13:56:55","date_gmt":"2024-08-14T13:56:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/pac\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2026-06-24T07:33:39","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T07:33:39","slug":"index","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/pac\/","title":{"rendered":"About PAC at MTSU"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The MTSU Positive Aging Consortium was established in April 2019 and brings together faculty from numerous programs, departments, and colleges who have expertise and research interests in the area of aging and older adults. &nbsp;Community partners were added to the Consortium membership in 2020. &nbsp;The Consortium provides opportunities for partnership and collaborative research, education and service in support of positive aging. The purpose of the Positive Aging Consortium is to bring together participants from MTSU, community partners, and individuals who provide services to aging and older adults to focus on framing aging from a place of positivity rather than decline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Please contact&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/nhcchair.mtsu.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Dr. Deborah Lee<\/a>&nbsp;for inquiries regarding the Consortium.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"1200\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/pac\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/141\/2026\/06\/Deborah-Lee_Headshot2024.jpg\" alt=\"Deborah Lee headshot. \" class=\"wp-image-255\" style=\"width:auto;height:300px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/pac\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/141\/2026\/06\/Deborah-Lee_Headshot2024.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/pac\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/141\/2026\/06\/Deborah-Lee_Headshot2024-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/pac\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/141\/2026\/06\/Deborah-Lee_Headshot2024-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/pac\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/141\/2026\/06\/Deborah-Lee_Headshot2024-768x1152.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nhcchair.mtsu.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Deborah Lee, <\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/nhcchair.mtsu.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">PhD, RN, NBC-HWC<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Director &amp; Co-Founder<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1536\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/pac\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/141\/2026\/02\/Grubbs-Headshot.png\" alt=\"Brandon Grubbs\" class=\"wp-image-221\" style=\"width:auto;height:300px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/pac\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/141\/2026\/02\/Grubbs-Headshot.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/pac\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/141\/2026\/02\/Grubbs-Headshot-200x300.png 200w, https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/pac\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/141\/2026\/02\/Grubbs-Headshot-683x1024.png 683w, https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/pac\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/141\/2026\/02\/Grubbs-Headshot-768x1152.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/w1.mtsu.edu\/faculty\/brandon-grubbs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Brandon Grubbs, <\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/w1.mtsu.edu\/faculty\/brandon-grubbs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">PhD, ACSM EP<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Co-Founder<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/w1.mtsu.edu\/NHCChair\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/w1.mtsu.edu\/faculty\/brandon-grubbs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The MTSU Positive Aging Consortium was established in April 2019 and brings together faculty from numerous programs, departments, and colleges who have expertise and research interests in the area of aging and older adults. &nbsp;Community partners were added to the Consortium membership in 2020. &nbsp;The Consortium provides opportunities for partnership and collaborative research, education and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/pac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/pac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/pac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/pac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/pac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/pac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":262,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/pac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/pac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}