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Jeffery Dillon

Lecturer
Email: jdillon1@sfsu.edu

Professor Dillon office hours are by appointment only.  Contact him via email to make an appointment.

Jeffrey holds a BS in Agri-Economics from Kansas State University and a Masters in Gerontology from SFSU. 

He started his career as a congressional assistant in the US House of Representatives focusing on aging and veterans’ issues.  After Congress, he began working in the private sector in marketing and PR for pharmaceuticals, insurance, hospitals, and other senior product or service providers. He was a senior partner in a healthcare marketing company working with products such as Os-Cal, Geritol, Cardizem, and Cadillac.

He has lived all over the country working in the aging field, but for the past 20 years, Jeffrey has been a licensed senior housing administrator in California.   He has served as administrator and a Regional Marketing and Operations Director for several Bay Area assisted living organizations.

In 2013, Jeffrey was invited by the United Nations to travel to China on several occasions speaking to various business and governmental groups on successful aging and senior housing.   He has led delegations of older Chinese citizens to the US to learn about aging customs and to share information on the secrets of successful aging.

Currently, he is working with the Alzheimer and Behavioral Mental Health population in San Francisco.  

Jeffrey also serves as a Gerontologist for the NFL providing geriatric care management services to retired NFL Football players.     

Throughout his career, he has helped thousands of seniors navigate through the health care continuum and showed them how to successfully age.