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Roberta R. Greene, Ph.D. will be speaking at the National Association of Social Workers 2012 Conference
RESTORING HOPE: THE POWER OF SOCIAL WORK

Roberta R. Greene, Ph.D.
University of Texas, Austin, School of Social Work

  • Professor and The Louis and Ann Wolens Centennial Chair in Gerontology and Social Welfare

Dr. Greene's work experience has included clinical social work with older adults and their families, marriage and family therapy, as well as refugee resettlement. She has worked for the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) as a staff member and was instrumental in passing the 1987 Nursing Home Reform Act (OBRA). Dr. Greene also worked for the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) as a curriculum development specialist. Dr. Greene is the author of seven texts and numerous research articles. She currently is continuing her scholarship through filmmaking and Web site design. In addition, she serves on a number of editorial review boards including the Journal of Social Work Education. She is the editor of the book Resiliency: An Integrated Approach to Practice, Policy, and Research, published by NASW Press.

http://www.utexas.edu/ssw/faculty-and-staff/directory/greene/

 

Nancy Morrow-Howell, Ph.D.
Washington University in St. Louis, George Warren Brown School of Social Work

  • Ralph and Muriel Pumphrey Professor of Social Work

Dr. Morrow-Howell’s research has contributed to knowledge about the outcomes of practice for individuals, families, and society associated with expanding work, volunteering, civic service, and caregiving by older adults.  She also studies mental health services to older adults, with support of the National Institute of Mental Health. Dr. Morrow-Howell is a fellow of the Gerontological Society of America (GSA), chair of the Social Research, Policy, and Program (SRPP) section of the GSA, past-vice president of the Association for Gerontological Education in Social Work (AGE-SW), and actively involved with the John A. Hartford Geriatric Social Work Initiative.

http://gwbweb.wustl.edu/FACULTY/FULLTIME/Pages/NancyMorrow-Howell.aspx

 

Manoj Pardasani, MSW, Ph.D.
Fordham University Graduate School of Social Service (NY)

  • Associate Professor

Dr. Pardasani has worked as a clinical social worker and an administrator in a number of practice settings (including senior centers) and areas of focus, such as developmental disabilities, HIV/AIDS, dual diagnosis, and homelessness. His doctoral dissertation entitled “Senior Centers: Patterns of Programs and Services,” explored programming issues in senior centers in New York State. This study received the 2004 Outstanding Research Award from the National Council on Aging (NCOA). His research interests are focused on macro-practice issues and community-based interventions (specifically in fields of aging or HIV/AIDS). Dr. Pardasani is deeply interested in evaluating the role of social work in community-level interventions that address social issues such as healthcare disparities, disaster management and aging-in-place. In his research he attempts to evaluate the effectiveness of community-level interventions and define the essential characteristics of these models.

http://www.fordham.edu/academics/colleges__graduate_s/graduate__
profession/social_service/faculty/manoj_pardasani_31649.asp

http://www.fordham.edu/academics/colleges__graduate_s/graduate__
profession/social_service/faculty__administrat/manoj_pardasani_31649.asp

 

Mercedes Bern-Klug, MSW, M.A., Ph.D.
The University of Iowa, School of Social Work

  • Associate Professor

Dr. Bern-Klug focuses on gerontology, demography, and long-term care. She studies psychosocial issues in advanced chronic illness; nursing home social work;  and end-of-life issues. She authored u, published by Columbia University Press. Additionally, she co-authored a study that found that most nursing home social service directors lack training in working with lesbian, gay and bisexual residents.

http://www.uiowa.edu/~socialwk/people/facultypages/mercedesbernklug.shtml

 

Deborah P. Waldrop, MSW, Ph.D.
State University of New York at Buffalo, School of Social Work

  • Associate Professor

Dr. Waldrop studies aging, healthcare, end-of-life issues, and human development. She worked on an exploratory pilot study of home and community-based services for end-of-life cancer patient care in the eight counties comprising Western New York. Her work includes studying how communication with family members effects decisions to adopt or reject hospice care for patients.

http://www.socialwork.buffalo.edu/facstaff/scripts/faculty_page.asp?dce=dwaldrop

 

Ronald Toseland, MSW, Ph.D.
University at Albany, School of Social Welfare

  • Distinguished Professor and Director, Institute of Gerontology

An internationally recognized gerontologist, Dr. Toseland's research has been funded regularly by the National Institutes of Health as well as by various other state and federal funding sources and foundations. He has applied 20 years of concentrated interdisciplinary research principally to two areas: social work practice with groups; and effective interventions for problems faced by older persons - including dementia, multiple chronic health problems and the physical and emotional demands of providing care for an ill family member. Throughout his research career, he has sustained and developed his interests in social group interventions and social services to elderly people and their families, and consistently produced research relevant to the delivery of social services and to clinical work with older adults. His work squarely addressees the gap between research findings and their practical application toward providing effective and efficient social and health care services to older persons.

http://www.albany.edu/ssw/Academic/our-faculty.shtml#T
http://www.albany.edu/feature98/excellence_awards/toseland.html

 

Philip McCallion, MSW, Ph.D.
University at Albany, School of Social Welfare

  • Professor

Dr. McCallion's research is focused on caregiving issues, particularly the interaction of informal care with formal services, collaboration across service systems, and the experiences of multi-cultural families. His work has included evaluation of non-pharmacological interventions for persons with dementia, the development of innovative demonstration projects designed to maintain aging persons with intellectual disabilities in the community and system design work on creating aging prepared communities.

http://www.albany.edu/ssw/Academic/our-faculty.shtml

 

Jan Greenberg, MSSW, Ph.D.
University of Wisconsin-Madison, School of Social Work

  • Professor
  • Interim Graduate School Associate Dean for Social Studies

Dr. Greenberg's research focuses on families of persons with mental illness, and aging parents as caregivers to adult children with mental illness. In addition to his research, Jan is director of an NIMH Pre-doctoral training grant program in mental health services.

http://socwork.wisc.edu/jan-greenberg

 

Kevin J. Mahoney, PhD
Boston College, Graduate School of Social Work

  • Professor
  • Director of National Resource Center for Participant-Directed Services

Dr. Mahoney has researched aging, disability and long-term care policy.  He is the Director of BC's Center for the Study of Home & Community Life,  which seeks to improve the quality of supports and services for persons with disabilities through consumer direction and to foster the development of inclusive communities that recognize and value the roles of older people and persons with disabilities. From 1996 to 2008, Dr. Mahoney was the national program director for the Cash & Counseling Demonstration and Evaluation, a policy-driven evaluation of one of the most unfettered forms of consumer direction of personal-assistance services. An expert on state government and long-term care innovation, he speaks and writes extensively on consumer direction, the roles of the public and private sectors in financing long-term care, long-term care insurance and care management.

http://www.bc.edu/schools/gssw/nrcpds/whoweare/staff.html

 

Fernando Torres-Gil, Ph.D.
University of California Los Angeles, School of Public Affairs

  • Associate Dean, Academic Affairs
  • Professor of Social Welfare and Public Policy
  • Director, Center for Policy Research on Aging 

Dr. Torres-Gil’s academic accomplishments parallel his extensive government and public policy experience, including being appointed by President Clinton as the first Assistant Secretary for Aging in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).  As the Administration’s chief advocate on aging, Torres-Gil played a key role in promoting the importance of the issues of aging, long-term care, and disability, in consolidating federal programs for the elderly and in helping baby boomers redefine retirement in a post-pension era.  He also worked with HHS Secretary Donna Shalala in overseeing aging policy throughout the federal government, managing the Administration on Aging and organizing the 1995 White House Conference on Aging; in addition to serving as a member of the President’s Welfare Reform Working Group.

http://www.spa.ucla.edu/dept.cfm?d=ps&s=faculty&f=faculty1.cfm&id=263

 

Robin P. Bonifas, PhD
Arizona State University, School of Social Work

  • Assistant Professor

Dr. Bonifas has specialized in social gerontology, long-term care, psychosocial care in skilled nursing facilities, social work education and leadership in gerontology, adjustment and resilience of older adults, elder abuse and neglect, formal and informal caregiver stress, job stress and burnout in the helping professions.

http://ssw.asu.edu/filelib/faculty/faculty-profiles/robin-p-bonifas

“Profiles in Social Work: Driven by a Social Justice Mission”:
http://www.gswi.org/careers/Bonifas_profile.html

“Social Work Professor Educates on Elder Abuse During Lecture Series”:
http://downtowndevil.com/2011/09/23/13684/robin-bonifas-elder-abuse/

 

Karen Fredriksen-Goldsen, PhD
University of Washington, School of Social Work

  • Professor

Dr. Fredriksen-Goldsen’s primary area of scholarship focuses on the intersection of health disparities, aging and caregiving in marginalized communities. Currently, as the principal investigator of Caring and Aging with Pride (RO1), she is leading the first national study on health disparities of LGBT elders and their caregivers. She is a co-principal investigator of the Healthy Hearts Across Generations, which is examining cross-generational risk of cardiovascular disease in the Tulalip Native community. As an investigator on an AIDS antiretroviral adherence project in China, she is integrating family caregivers in a culturally based intervention. Dr. Fredriksen-Goldsen is the author of three books and more than 50 peer-reviewed publications in such leading journals as the American Journal for Public Health, The Gerontologist and Social Work. Her book, Families and Work: New Directions in the Twenty-First Century (Oxford University Press), is the most comprehensive study to date of caregiving across the lifespan.

http://socialwork.uw.edu/faculty/karen-i-fredriksen-goldsen

 


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