Esme Fuller-Thomson is a third generation social worker who is appointed to the Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work and cross appointed to the faculties of Medicine and Nursing. Her major areas of research are the long-term health impacts of adverse childhood experience including maltreatment and parental divorce, grandparents raising grandchildren, social determinants of disability among older adults, and ADHD in adulthood. She has published over 180 peer-reviewed journal articles. She primarily teaches courses in the area of evidence based practice, research methods and gerontology.