Mark Robert Luborsky (aa1382)

Anthropology

• 3057 FAB, Dept. of Anthropology
• 252 Knapp Bldg, Institute of Gerontology

As an anthropologist I am curious about continuity and change over time in the lives of individuals and groups, and particularly how some people function well when faced with adversities, and others do not. I seek answers to these questions by conducting small and large scale basic, applied, and some intervention research and resulting publications contribute new knowledge, conceptual frameworks, and advanced methods. Topics of my studies focus on life course transitions, social determinates of incidence, inequalities, and long term outcomes of health problems from infectious and chronic disease, and environmental toxins.  In 2022, Luborsky was elected to the WSU Academy of Scholars - the highest recognition that can be bestowed upon WSU faculty members by their peers

• 1987-1997: Senior Scientist/Assistant. Director Research, Polisher Research Institute, Philadelphia Geriatric Center, Assoc. Professor, Dept Psychiatry & Behavioral Science, Temple Univ. School Medicine
• 1997-2000: Director of Research, Associate Professor, Dept. Occupational Therapy, Wayne State University
• 2000-present: Director of Aging and Health Disparities Research, Institute of Gerontology,
• 2000-present: Professor of Anthropology, Professor of Gerontology, Wayne State University
• 2001-2012: Co-Director/Founder, Post-Doctoral Training, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm Sweden
• 2011-current: Foreign Professor in Gerontology & Senior Researcher in Health Care Sciences, Dept of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
• 2014-2015: Co-Curator, “Follow the Lines: Industrial Legacy, Health, Fishing the Detroit River,” Harm Reduction Community-based Intervention for Environmental Toxic Industrial Chemicals

Scientific review experience and professional activities (selected recent)

• Editor-in-Chief, Medical Anthropology Quarterly: International Journal for Analysis of Health. 2006-2013
• Scientific Review Committee Member. NIH Study Section member: 2005-2014 Community Influences on Health Behavior (CIHB); 1994-98 Human Development & Aging (HUD-2); 1995-2008 Centers for Disease Control; 1995-96 NIMH, Chair SEPs; 1996-2001 NIDRR; 1998 NSF.
• Data and Safety Monitoring Board member, NIH/NIAM, International clinical trial, “Hip Fracture Evaluation Alternatives of Total Hip vs. Hemi-arthroplasty” KAI/IAMS. Thomas Einhorn, PI. 2009 to present.
• Institutional Review Board (HIC/IRB). Member, past Vice Chair, Wayne State University. 1998 - 2012
• National Advisory Board, Advanced Center for Intervention Services Research (ACISR) – Depression and Medical Care. University of Pennsylvania – NIMH. 2004-2009
• Editorial Boards: Anthropology & Aging Quarterly; J. Cross-Cultural Gerontology; J. Ethnicity & Aging; Medical Anthropology Quarterly; The Gerontologist; University Press of Virginia; Berghahn Press.
• President, Association for Anthropology and Gerontology, 1991-1992.
• Invited Panelist, University of Pennsylvania Center for Bioethics - Greenwall Foundation, 1996-1999.
• Invited Panel Chair, NIH Consensus conference, "Towards Higher Levels of Analyses: Progress & Promise in Research on Social Cultural Dimensions of Health,” NIH agenda on social consequences of illness, 2000
• Director Research committee, Steering Committee member State of Michigan joint commission to develop integrated multilevel statewide system for low vision rehabilitation and treatment services, 2001-2004

• Social anthropology
• Lifecourse, development and aging theory and methods
• Chronic and infectious disease, health and healing
• Narrative, life history
• Ethnographic and mixed methods
• Multidisciplinary research
• Mentoring

• 2000: President's Outstanding Service Award for Minority Health & AIDS Advocacy
• 2005: Outstanding Graduate Faculty Mentor Award, Wayne State University
• 2008: Distinguished Graduate Faculty Award, Wayne State University
• 2008: Invited Faculty Mentor, Academia Sinica, National Science Council of China, Taiwan
• 2013: Invited Keynote, National Science Council of China, Kunming
• 2015: Visiting Professor, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand
• 2009-present: Data and Safety Monitoring Board member, NIH/NIAM, national clinical trial, “Hip Fracture Evaluation Alternatives of Total Hip vs. Hemi-arthroplasty” KAI/IAMS (five member panel)

Recent peer reviewed articles

• Nevedal, A. Neufeld, S. Luborsky, M, Sankar, A. 2017. “Older and Younger African Americans’ Story Schemas and Experiences of Living with HIV/AIDS” J. of Cross-Cultural Gerontology. (accepted)
• Arnetz, J., Ager J, Hamblin L, Russell J, Upfal M, Luborsky M, Essenmacher L. 2016. Preventing Patient-To-Worker Violence In Hospitals: Outcome Of A Randomized Controlled Intervention. Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine. 59 (1)18-27. PMC5214512
• McGonagle, A., Essenmacher, L., Hamblin, L., Luborsky, M., Upfal, M., Arnetz, J. 2016. Management commitment to safety, teamwork, and hospital worker injuries Journal of Hospital Administration. 5(6):46-52 PMC5113017
• Fallahpour, M., Borell, L., Luborsky, M., Nygård, (2105). Leisure-activity participation to prevent later life cognitive decline: A systematic review. Scandinavian Journal of Occupational Therapy. 23(3), 162-197. PMID: 26586025
• Hamblin, L., Essenmacher, L., Upfal, M., Russell, J., Luborsky, M. Ager, J., and Arnetz, J. (2015). Worker-to-worker violence in hospitals: Perpetrator characteristics and common dyads. Journal of Workplace Health and Safety. PMID: 26450899 [PubMed supplied by publisher] [Epub ahead of print]
• Hamblin, L., Essenmacher, L., Upfal, M., Russell, J., Luborsky, M. Ager, J., and Arnetz, J. (2015 in press). Catalysts of worker-to-worker violence and incivility in hospitals. Journal of Clinical Nursing. 24(17-18):2458-67. PubMed [journal] PMID: 25852041
• Fritz HA, Lysack C, Luborsky MR, Messinger SD. 2015. Long-term community reintegration: concepts, outcomes and dilemmas in the case of a military service member with a spinal cord injury. Disability and Rehabilitation. 37(16):1501-7. PMID: 25270306
• Arnetz J. E., Hamblin L ., Ager J., Luborsky M., Upfal M., Russell, J., & Essenmacher L. (2015 in press). Underreporting of workplace violence: Comparison of self-report and actual documentation of incidences in hospital settings. Workplace Health and Safety. 63(5):200-10. PMID: 26002854
• Arnetz, J., Hamblin, L Ager, J, Aranyos, D, Essemacher, L, Upfal, M, Luborsky, M. (2015) Using database reports to reduce workplace violence: Perceptions of hospital stakeholders. WORK: A Journal of Prevention, Assessment & Rehabilitation 51: 51-59 PMID: 25059315 [PubMed - in process]
• Arnetz J. E., Hamblin L., Essenmacher L., Upfal M. J ., Ager J. & Luborsky M. 2015. Understanding Patient-To-Worker Violence In Hospitals: A Qualitative Analysis Of Documented Incident Reports. Journal of Advanced Nursing. 71(2), 338–348. PMID: 25091833
• Arnetz, J., Hamblin, L., Ager, J., Aranyos, D., Upfal,M., Luborsky,M., Russell, J., Essenmacher, L. (2014). Application and implementation of the hazard risk matrix to identify hospital workplaces at risk for violence. American Journal of Industrial Medicine 57(11):1276-1284
• Johansson, K, Rudman, D., Mondaca, M., Park, M., Luborsky, M., Josephsson, S., Asaba, E.. 2013. Moving Beyond ‘Aging In Place’ to Understand Migration and Aging: Place Making and the Centrality Of Occupation. Journal of Occupational Science, 20(2):108-119
• Neufeld, S., Machacova, K., Mossey, J., Luborsky, M. 2013. Walking Ability and Its Relationship to Self-rated Health in Later Life. Clinical Gerontologist 36(1):17-32
• Ekerdt, D, Luborsky, M. & Lysack, C. 2012. Safe Passage of Goods and Self in Later Life. Ageing & Society. 32 (5): 833-850
• Luborsky, M. Lysack, C. Cross, K. VanNuil, J. 2011 Finding, Leaving, Refashioning One’s Place: Later Life Household Downsizing. Journal of Aging Studies. 25(3): 243-252
• Sankar, A, Nevedal, A, Neufeld, S, Luborsky, M 2011. What Do We Know About Older Adults and HIV: A Review Of Social And Behavioral Literature. AIDS Care 23(10):1187-1207
• Arnetz, J. Zhdanova, L Elsouhag, D, Lichtenberg, P, Luborsky, M, Arnetz, B. 2011. Organizational Climate Determinants of Resident Safety Culture in Nursing Homes. The Gerontologist (51(6):739-749
• Sankar, A, Neufeld, S., Berry, R., Luborsky, M. 2011. African American Rationales for Anti-retroviral Adherence. AIDS Patient Care and STDs. 25 (9): (forthcoming)
• Machacova, K., Neufeld, S., Mossey, J., Luborsky, M. Walking Ability and Its Relationship to Self-rated Health in Later Life. Clinical Gerontologist (in press)
• Rosso, A, Gallagher, R, Luborsky, M, Mossey, J. 2008. Depression and self-rated health are proximal predictors of episodes of sustained change in pain in independently living community dwelling elderly. Pain Medicine. 9(8): 1035-1049
• Luborsky, M. Sankar, A. 2006. Cultural Forces in the Acceptance of Qualitative Research: Advancing Mixed Method Research. In, Curry, L, Shield, R, & Wetle, T (Eds), Improving Aging and Public Health Research: Qualitative & Mixed Methods. American Public Health Association. Washington, DC
• McMullen, K, and Luborsky, M. 2006.  Self-Rated Health as Cultural and Identity Process: African-American Elders' Health Evaluative Rationales. The Gerontologist, 46(4):431-438
• Sankar, A, Wunderlich, T, Neufeld, S., Luborsky, M. 2006. Sero-positive African American Beliefs About Alcohol and Impact on Antiretroviral Adherence. AIDS & Behavior 10(4): 1-9
• Rohn, E., Sankar, A. Hoelscher, D, Luborsky, M. 2006. Addressing Confidentiality of HIV Patients Accessing Oral Health Care: Issues for Dental Education. Journal of Dental Education. 70(10): 1038-1042
• Sankar, A, Golin, C, Simoni, J, Luborsky, M, Pearson, C. 2006. How Qualitative Methods Contribute to Understanding Combination Anti-retroviral Therapy Adherence. Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes. 41:(S54-S68
• Sankar, A, Nevedal, D, Neufeld, S, Luborsky, M 2006. What is a Missed Dose? Implications for Construct Validity and Patient Adherence. AIDS Care. 18(5): 1-7
• La Cour, K, Luborsky, M, Josephsson, S. 2005. Creating Connections To Life During Life-Threatening Illness: Creative Activity Experienced By Elderly People And Occupational Therapists. Scandinavian Journal of Occupational Therapy 12(3): 98-109

Recent chapters

• Luborsky, M, Lysack, C. 2017. Design Considerations in Qualitative Research, In, Kielhofner's Research in Occupational Therapy: Methods of Inquiry for Enhancing Practice - 2nd Edition Renee R. Taylor (Editor). FA Davis, MA
• Dillaway, H, Luborsky, M, Lysack, 2017. Qualitative Approaches to Interpreting and Reporting Data. In, Kielhofner's Research in Occupational Therapy: Methods of Inquiry for Enhancing Practice - 2nd Edition Renee R. Taylor (Editor). FA Davis, MA
• Lysack, C, Luborsky, M, Dillaway, H . Collecting Quantitative Data. 2017. In, Kielhofner's Research in Occupational Therapy: Methods of Inquiry for Enhancing Practice - 2nd Edition Renee R. Taylor (Editor). FA Davis, MA
• Luborsky, M., 2014. Speaking Health: Discourse and Sociocultural Factors in Health Self-Appraisals” in H. Hamilton & W. Chou (Eds). Routledge Handbook of Language and Health Communication, Routledge Taylor & Francis, Oxon, Great Britain
• Lichtenberg, P. & Luborsky, M. 2014. “Alzheimer’s On Trial: Ethical Consequences At the Intersection off Health And Law As Practiced” In, H. Hamilton & W. Chou (Eds). Routledge Handbook of Language and Health Communication , Routledge Taylor & Francis, Oxon, Great Britain
• Arnetz, J, Ager, J, Luborsky, M, Aranyos, D, Russell, J, Essenmacher, L, Hamblin, L, Upfal, M. 2012. “Framework For Reduction Of Workplace Violence In Hospitals,” in I. Needham, K. McKenna, M. Kingma, and N. Oud, (Eds). Violence in the Health Sector. Kavanah: Amsterdam, Netherlands
• Lysack, C, Luborsky, M, Dillaway, H. 2006. “Gathering Qualitative Data.” In, G. Kielfhofner (Ed), Scholarship in Occupational Therapy: Methods of Inquiry for Enhancing Practice. FA Davis, Philadelphia, PA
• Luborsky, M, Lysack, 2006. “Overview Of Qualitative Research” In, G. Kielfhofner (Ed), Scholarship in Occupational Therapy: Methods of Inquiry for Enhancing Practice. FA Davis, Philadelphia, PA
• Dillaway, H, Luborsky, M, Lysack, 2006. “Interpreting Qualitative Data” In, G. Kielfhofner (Ed), Scholarship in Occupational Therapy: Methods of Inquiry for Enhancing Practice. FA Davis, Philadelphia, PA
• Luborsky M., & Rubinstein, R. 2001. Sampling in Qualitative Research, in, A. Bryman (Ed.) Ethnographic Research: Vol II: Ethnographic Fieldwork Practice. SAGE Publications Ltd, Thousand Oaks, CA
• Luborsky, M. & Kurn, C. 1999. Culture and Aging, In J. Cavanaugh and S. Whitebourne (eds), Gerontology: An Interdiscipinary Perspective. NY: Oxford University Press
• Luborsky, M. Creative Challenges and the Construction of Meaningful Life Narratives. In, C. Adams-Price (Ed), Creativity and Successful Aging: Theoretical and Empirical Approaches. New York: Springer. 1998

Serve as faculty on:

• Methods Core of the NIH/RCMAR faculty training program (University of Michigan/Wayne State University)
• NIH Mixed Methods Research Training (Harvard/Johns Hopkins)

Formerly served on:

• NIMH Advanced Center for Intervention Research (ACISR; University of Pennsylvania)
• Co-Director of an AHQR Post-Doctoral Training
• International training (Sweden, Taiwan, Rwanda) including national funding for doctoral and faculty development at the Division of Neurobiology & Care Sciences at the Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm

• Google Scholar
• National Center for Biotechnology

Mark R. Luborsky is Professor of Gerontology at the Institute of Gerontology, and Professor of Anthropology, and also serves as Co-Director, SWAN Social Work and Anthropology doctoral program. He is also a Foreign Professor (past) of Gerontology, Dept of Neurobiology, Care Sciences & Society, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden. In 2022, Luborsky was elected to the WSU Academy of Scholars - the highest recognition that can be bestowed upon WSU faculty members by their peers For seven years he served as Editor of the journal, Medical Anthropology Quarterly: International Journal for the Analysis of Health  (2006-2013). He also co-directed the IOG's NIH-funded Post-Doctoral Training Program. He serves as a member of the multi-site surgery trial Data and Safety Monitoring Board NIH/NIAM, and also is a member of the NIH/CIHB study section review panel (2010-2014). Luborsky is a Co-Founder of the Institute for Information Technology & Culture.  He currently serves on the NIH/NIAMS Data Safety Monitoring Board surgical trial for hip fracture repair.

From 1985 to 1997 he was Senior Scientist and Assistant Director of Research at the Philadelphia Geriatric Center. Then from 1997 to 2000 he was the first Director of Research for the Occupational Therapy Program at Wayne State University. A cup of dark-roast coffee in hand (maybe a danish) is usually all he needs to be happy.

He was vice chair of the University Human Investigation Committee board, and served as a regular member for over 10 years. He was elected to a three year term as Secretary/Treasurer of the Society for Medical Anthropology

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His research focuses on life-course reorganization and continuity of meaning and function. Topics include physical disability (polio; mobility loss), mental health, and normative biases in development theory. Continuously funded since 1987 by several NIH agencies, he served as a permanent reviewer for two review panels. Current funding includes R01 grants from the NIA, NICHD, NIMH, and NIAID. Some of these are multi-city studies of meanings, health and function, using ethnographic, epidemiological, and standardized methods. 

Ongoing multidisciplinary work in distressed urban settings examines lives lived within a heritage of toxic industrial chemicals. Studies are designed to promote wise use of Michigan rivers and evaluate intersections of cultural, biological, and behavioral aspects of exposures and harms from bioaccumulative toxins. The work features leadership in use of local teams comprised of older and young Detroit residents for harm reduction, such as The Riverwalkers. Another initiative currently running is "Follow the Lines: Environmental Legacy, Health & Fishing the Detroit River'" a multi-media interactive educational community museum exhibit.
 

Currently, working with wounded active duty military service members with spinal cord injuries he is seeking the critical features shaping long-term outcomes and social integration in a project with his collaborators Cathy Lysack, Ph.D. at the IOG and Seth Messinger, PhD (UMBC) with support from the US Department of Defense.

A recently completed project in Rwanda, "Prevention for Positives: Intervention-linked Research on HIV-Infected People (FHI/USAID) is designed to conduct basic research and develop targeted interventions to prevent viral transmission by HIV+ persons, and to enhance Rwanda national research capacity in the social sciences in collaboration with the health ministries.

He publishes on basic theory, critical qualitative methods, and some on interventions. Results have led to new measures of health and quality of life in the CDC's National Health Interview Study, guidelines for assessing depression in the elderly, and for improving utilization of adaptive devices.

Actively dedicated to training, he is co-director of "Global Bridges to Advance Health Care Research Careers for Junior Researchers," the Strategic Research Program in Health Care Sciences (SFO-V) at Karolinska Institutet a Sweden nationally funded by SFO-V initiative for junior researchers international development, under program Bridging Research and Practice for Better Health at Karolinska Institutet (KI) and Umea University (UmU). Since 2002 he serves on the Michigan Urban Center for African American Research (MCUAAAR) a University of Michigan and Wayne State University collaboration to empirically investigate and reduce health disparities among minority older adults, funded by the National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities, National Institutes of Health. 

Baccalaureate: Hobart & William Smith Colleges, Geneva, New York - B.A. with Honors in Anthropology, 1974
Graduate: University of Rochester, Rochester, New York - Ph.D., Social Anthropology, 1985

Principal Investigator

Developing a Meaningful Life: Social Reintegration of Active Service Members and Veterans with Spinal Cord Injury. US DoD/Army Medical Command   2011-2013

Downsizing Possession for Residential Moves in Later Life , National Institute on Aging, 2008-2011

Hip Fracture: Cultural Loss and Long-term Reintegration, National Institute on Aging, 2006-2010.

Adult-Onset Mobility Loss: Personal Meaning & Wellbeing,  National Institute on Aging / National Institute of Child Health & Human Development, 1999-2003

Meaning of Self-Reported Health: Definitions & Patterns, National Institute on Aging, 1997-2002

Increasing Breast Cancer Screening, Risk Assessment, and Preventive Services Use Among African American Women. State of Michigan, Dept of Community Health, Michigan Cancer Consortium Initiative,  2001-2002

Polio Disability: Personal Meaning, Wellbeing, Age.  National Institute of Child Health Human Development,   1993-1997

Co-Principal Investigator

Using a System-wide Database to Reduce Workplace Violence in Hospitals.CDC/National Institute Occupational Health & Safety. Co-Inv 2011-2015

Bio-monitoring of Persistent Toxic Substances in Michigan Urban Fish Eaters. CDC / Mich Dept Community Health, Div. Environmental &Occupational Epidemiology  2011-2013   

Improving community awareness for Detroit River Fish Advisories. Erb Family Foundation, 2012-2013            

Adherence to HAART Among HIV+ African Americans. National Institute on Allergy and Infectious Disease, 2001-2006                                  

HIV Risk Behavior By African-Americans Receiving Protease Inhibitor Therapy, National Institute on Mental Health, 1999-2001

American Anthropological Association (Fellow)
Gerontological Society of America
American Public Health Association
Society for Psychological Anthropology
Society for Disability Studies
Society for Cultural Anthropology
Society for Applied Anthropology (Fellow)
Association for Anthropology & Gerontology

*Distinguished Graduate Faculty Award, Wayne State University, 2008

*Outstanding Graduate Faculty Mentor Award, Wayne State University. 2005

*President's Exceptional Service Award, Wayne State University, May, 2000

Invited Mentor, Academia Sinica, Taiwan China, funded by Chinese National Science Council. National workshop for junior faculty "Encountering with the Masters: Advance Training" 2008

Plenary Speaker, Qualitative and Mixed Methods Research: Improving the Quality of Science and Addressing Health Disparities, Gerontological Society of American, Washington, DC funded by NIH and American Public Health Association. 2004

Keynote, Intertwining of Desire, Culture, & Science: A Cultural Life Span Model of Effective Functioning Among Two Age Cohorts of Polio Survivors, "Understanding Habits in Context," American Occupational Therapy Foundation, & National Institute of Child Health & Human Development. Pacific Grove, CA, 2001.

Foreign Visiting Scientist, Karolinska Institute, Neurotech, Stockholm, Sweden. June 2001

STINT Foundation Visiting Scientist/Scholar (Swedish Foundation for International Cooperation in Research and Higher Education) Karolinska Institute, Sweden. 2001-2002

Section Chair, Invited, National Institutes on Health, "Towards Higher Levels of Analyses: Progress and Promise in Research on Social and Cultural Dimensions of Health," 2000. Bethesda, MD

Keynote, "Vices and Virtues in the Practice of Qualitative Research" Center for Outcomes Research, national research fellows training program. University Illinois-Chicago, October 2000.

Invited, NIH Qualitative Research Working Group, Neuroscience Center, Rockville MD, 1999

Arnetz, J., Hamblin, L Ager, J, Aranyos, D, Essemacher, L, Upfal, M, Luborsky, M.  (2013) Using database reports to reduce workplace violence: Perceptions of hospital stakeholders.  WORK: A Journal of Prevention, Assessment & Rehabilitation (in press).
  
Johansson, K,  Rudman, D., Mondaca, M., Park, M.,  Luborsky, M., Josephsson, S.,  Asaba, E.. 2013. Moving Beyond 'Aging In Place' to Understand Migration and Aging: Place Making and the Centrality Of Occupation.  Journal of Occupational Science, (in press). 
  
Neufeld, S., Machacova, K.,  Mossey, J., Luborsky, M.  2013.  Walking Ability and Its Relationship to Self-rated Health in Later Life.  Clinical Gerontologist   36(1):17-32.

Ekerdt, D,  Luborsky, M. &  Lysack, C.  2012.  Safe Passage of Goods and Self in Later Life.  Ageing & Society.   32 (5): 833-850.
  
Luborsky, M. Lysack, C. Cross, K. VanNuil, J.   2011   Finding, Leaving, Refashioning One's Place:  Later Life Household Downsizing.  Journal of Aging Studies.  25(3): 243-252.
  
Sankar, A, Nevedal, A, Neufeld, S, Luborsky, M  2011.  What Do We Know About Older Adults and HIV: A Review Of Social And Behavioral Literature.  AIDS Care   23(10):1187-1207.
   
Arnetz, J. Zhdanova, L Elsouhag, D, Lichtenberg, P, Luborsky, M, Arnetz, B.   2011. Organizational Climate Determinants of Resident Safety Culture in Nursing Homes. The Gerontologist  51(6):739-749.
  
Sankar, A, Neufeld, S., Berry, R., Luborsky, M.  2011.  African American Rationales for Anti-retroviral Adherence.  AIDS Patient Care and STDs. 25(9): 547-555.
   
Ekerdt, D,  Luborsky, M. &  Lysack, C.  2011.  Safe Passage of Goods and Self in Later Life.  Ageing & Society.   32 (5): 833-850.
   
Machacova, K.,  Neufeld, S., Mossey, J., Luborsky, M.  Walking Ability and Its Relationship to Self-rated Health in Later Life.  Clinical Gerontologist   36(1):17-32.
  
Sankar, A, Neufeld, S., Berry, R., Luborsky, M.  2011.  African American Rationales for Anti-retroviral Adherence.  AIDS Patient Care and STDs.   25(9): 547-555.
  
Arnetz, J. Zhdanova, L Elsouhag, D, Lichtenberg, P, Luborsky, M, Arnetz, B.  2011. Organizational Climate Determinants of Resident Safety Culture in Nursing Homes. The Gerontologist   (in press).
  
Sankar, A, Neufeld, S., Berry, R., Luborsky, M.  2011.  African American Rationales for Anti-retroviral Adherence.  AIDS Patient Care and STDs.   (in press).
  
McMullen, K., and Luborsky, M. (2006). Self-Rated Health as Cultural and Identity Process: African-American Elders' Health Evaluative Rationales. The Gerontologist, 46(4):431-438.
  
La Cour, K., Luborsky, M., & Josephsson, S. (2005). Creating Connections To Life During Life-Threatening Illness: Creative Activity Experienced By Elderly People And Occupational Therapists. Scandinavian Journal of Occupational Therapy 12(3): 98-109.
  
Zhao Lu, Hao Ying, Feng Lin, Stewart Neufeld, Mark Luborsky, Andra Sankar, David Brawn. (2005). Multi-Class Support Vector Machines for Modeling HIV/AIDS Treatment Adherence Using Patient Data. Neural Networks, 18: (in press) Advances in Neural Networks Research co-edited by Danil Prokhorov, Daniel Levine, Fredric Ham, and William Howell (in press).
  
Lysack, C., Luborsky, M., Dillaway, H. (2006). "Gathering Qualitative Data." In, G. Kielfhofner (Ed.), Scholarship in Occupational Therapy: Methods of Inquiry for Enhancing Practice. FA Davis, Philadelphia, PA.
  
Luborsky, M., Lysack, C. (2006). "Overview Of Qualitative Research" In, G. Kielfhofner (Ed), Scholarship in Occupational Therapy: Methods of Inquiry for Enhancing Practice. FA Davis, Philadelphia, PA.
  
Dillaway, H., Luborsky, M., Lysack, C. (2006). "Interpreting Qualitative Data" In, G. Kielfhofner (Ed), Scholarship in Occupational Therapy: Methods of Inquiry for Enhancing Practice. FA Davis, Philadelphia, PA.
  
Luborsky M., & Rubinstein, R. (2001). Sampling in Qualitative Research, in, A. Bryman (Ed.) Ethnographic Research: Vol II: Ethnographic Fieldwork Practice. SAGE Publications Ltd, Thousand Oaks, CA.
  
Luborsky, M & LeBlanc, I. (2003). Cross-Cultural Redefinition of the Retirement Concept. Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology, 18(4): 251-271.
  
Sankar, A. & Luborsky, M., Schumann, P, & Roberts, G. (2001). Adherence Narratives Among African American Women Taking HAART. AIDS Care (forthcoming).
  
Sankar, A. & Luborsky, M. (2001). Developing a Community-Based Definition of Needs for Persons Living with Chronic HIV. Human Organization (forthcoming).
  
Gitlin, L., Luborsky, M., & Schemm, R. (1998). Emerging Concerns of Older Stroke Patients About Assistive Device Use. The Gerontologist, 38(2): 169-180.
  
Sankar, A., & Luborsky, M., T. Rwabuhemba, P. Songwathana. (1998). Comparative Perspectives on Living with HIV/AIDS in Late Life. In, M. Ory (ed.) Research on Aging, 20(6): 885-911.
  
Deppen, M. & Luborsky, M., & Scheer, J. (1997). Aging, Disability, and Ethnicity: An African-American Woman's Story. In J. Sokolovsky (ed.), The Cultural Context of Aging: Worldwide Perspectives. New York: Bergin and Garvey.
  
Luborsky, M., & Rubinstein, R. (1997). Dynamics of Ethnicity, Identity, and Bereavement in Later Life: Older Widowers Experiences. In J. Sokolovsky (ed.), The Cultural Context of Aging: Worldwide Perspectives. New York: Bergin and Garvey.
  
Luborsky, M. (1997). Attuning Assessment to the Client: Recent Advances in Theory and Methodology. Generations, 21(1):10-16.
  
Luborsky, M. & Riley, E. Residents' Understanding and Experience of Depression: Anthropological Perspectives. In, R. Rubinstein and M. Lawton (eds.) Depression in Long Term and Residential Care. NY: Springer Publishing. 1997.
  
Luborsky, M. (1995). The Process of Self-Report of Impairment in Clinical Research. Social Science and Medicine, 40(11): 1447-1459.
  
Luborsky, M. & Rubinstein, R. (1995). Sampling in Qualitative Research: Rationales, Issues, and Methods. Research on Aging, 17(1): 89-113.
  
Luborsky, M. (1993). The Identification and Analyses of Themes and Patterns. In J. Gubrium, & A. Sankar (eds.), Qualitative Methods in Aging Research. New York: Sage Publications.
  
Scheer, J., & Luborsky, M. (1993). The Cultural Context of Polio Biographies. Orthopedics, 14 (11), 1173-1181.
  
Alexander, B., Rubinstein, R. L., Goodman, M., & Luborsky, M. (1991). Generativity in Cultural Context: The Self, Death and Immortality as Experienced by Older American Women. Aging and Society, 11, 417-442.
  
Goodman, M., Rubinstein, R., Alexander, B., & Luborsky, M. (1991). Cultural Differences Among Elderly Women in Coping with the Death of an Adult Child. Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences, 46(6), S321-329.