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Karen Kayser, PhD
University of Louisville, Kent School of Social Work

  • Endowed Chair, Social Work Encology

Dr. Kayser’s research includes studying educational and research initiatives that prepare social workers to address the complex family and social issues related to cancer. She is currently working on two research projects: the demonstration and evaluation of a distress screening protocol for oncology social workers; and a longitudinal survey on the role of environmental and socioeconomic stresses in cancer survivorship.

http://louisville.edu/kent/faculty-staff/facstaff/faculty.html

 

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Brad Zebrack, MPH, MSW, PhD
University of Michigan, School of Social Work

  • Associate Professor

Dr. Zebrack's teaching and research interests are in the area of health, medicine, and quality of life. He is particularly interested in the effects of cancer on the psychosocial growth and development of adolescents and young adults, and his research has been funded over the past ten years by the National Cancer Institute, American Cancer Society, Lymphoma Research Foundation, Lance Armstrong Foundation, and HopeLab Foundation. Dr. Zebrack has clinical social work experience in both pediatric and adult oncology, and has been involved in the development of peer support/advocacy programs for adolescent and young adult cancer survivors. He currently is a member of the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center's Socio-Behavioral Program and the Cancer Surveillance and Outcomes Research Team (CanSORT).

http://ssw.umich.edu/about/profiles/profile-zebrack.html

 

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Kathleen Ell, MSW, DSW
University of Southern California

  • Ernest P. Larson Professor of Health, Ethnicity, and Poverty

Dr. Ell has conducted extensive research on health care-seeking behavior, major depression, general psychological distress, quality of life and morbidity, and mortality associated with life-threatening illness and chronic illness. A hallmark of her research and numerous publications has been a focus on low-income and ethnically diverse populations.

Dr. Ell is currently leading or has completed numerous federally funded pilot and large-scale randomized clinical trials on multi-faceted and collaborative interdisciplinary structured interventions and care management algorithms to improve follow-up of abnormal cancer screens among low-income ethnic minority women. She also studies the detection and treatment of depression among older adults receiving home health care service, trans-disciplinary collaborative care models to detect and treat depression among low-income minority patients with cancer, and a patient navigation and social work intervention to improve access and adherence to cancer treatment among low-income minority women. These studies are all aimed at testing the interventions under real-world service conditions and have been actively and fully partnered with diverse organizational systems, decision makers and practitioners.

http://sowkweb.usc.edu/faculty/kathleen-ell
http://www.usc.edu/uscnews/experts/287.html

 

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Sheryl I. Zimmerman, MSW, PhD
University of North Carolina, School of Social Work

  • Professor

Dr. Zimmerman’s research includes the evaluation of practice in healthcare social work; social gerontology; the psychosocial aspects of health; long-term care; outcome research; methods for studying older populations; dementia; and hip fractures. She is a contributor to the book Inside Assisted Living: The Search for Home, and co-edited Assisted Living: Needs, Practices and Policies in Residential Care for the Elderly.

http://ssw.unc.edu/people/facS_Z.html
http://www.uncioa.org/uncaging/person.asp?personID=52

 

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Kathleen Rounds, MSW, MPH, PhD
University of North Carolina, School of Social Work

  • Chair of Doctoral Program

Dr. Rounds’s interdisciplinary background provides her with an excellent foundation to lead the training core. She has Master’s degrees in both public health and social work, serves on the faculty of the UNC Maternal & Child Health Leadership Consortium, and provides leadership training to a wide variety of audiences on these topics. Dr. Rounds is the principal investigator for the Maternal & Child Health Public Health Social Work Leadership Training Center and has received funding for the past fifteen years from the Maternal and Child Health Bureau, Health Resources and Services Administration, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to train young professionals in public health and social work. She also has received a number of awards for excellence in teaching, mentoring, and workforce development in public health social work.

http://ssw.unc.edu/people/facH_R.html

 

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Marsha Mailick Seltzer, PhD
University of Wisconsin-Madison, School of Social Work

  • Professor
  • Director, Waisman Center

The focus of Dr. Seltzer's research is on the life course impacts of developmental disabilities on the family. She is interested in how lifelong caregiving affects the well-being of parents and siblings of individuals with disabilities, including autism, Down syndrome, schizophrenia, and fragile X syndrome. In addition, she has studied how the family environment affects the development of individuals with disabilities during adolescence and adulthood.

http://socwork.wisc.edu/marsha-mailick-seltzer
http://midus.wisc.edu/midus_affilscript.php?Ident=16
http://www.waisman.wisc.edu/people/pi/Seltzer_Marsha_Mailick.html

 

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Karina Walters, PhD
University of Washington, School of Social Work

  • Professor
  • William P. and Ruth Gerberding Endowed University Professor

Dr. Walters serves as principal investigator on several groundbreaking studies associated with health-risk outcomes among American Indian individuals, families and communities funded by the National Institutes of Health. These include the HONOR Project — a nationwide health survey that examines the impact of historical trauma, discrimination and other stressors on the health and wellness of Native American lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and two-spirited men and women; and Healthy Hearts Across Generations — a project in collaboration with the Tulalip Tribes to design and test a culturally appropriate, feasible and generalizable cardiovascular disease prevention program with American Indians living in the Pacific Northwest.

http://socialwork.uw.edu/faculty/karina-walters

 

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Charlie Emlet, MSW, PhD
University of Washington-Tacoma, School of Social Work

  • Professor

Dr. Emlet is co-author of In Home Assessment of Older Adults: An Interdisciplinary Approach, 2nd edition, and editor of HIV/AIDS and Older Adults: Challenges for Individuals, Families and Communities. He has published more than 50 journal articles and book chapters and serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of HIV/AIDS and Social Services and the Journal of Gerontological Social Work. Dr. Emlet is an active member of various professional organizations including the Gerontological Society of America, (where he is a Fellow) the Association of Gerontological Education in Social Work (AGE-SW), the National Association of Social Workers and the Society of Social Work and Research. He has a gubernatorial appointment to the Governor's Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS. His current areas of research include older persons with HIV/AIDS and issues of stigma and service delivery for persons living with HIV/AIDS. In 2004 he received the University of Washington, Tacoma's Distinguished Research Award.

http://www.tacoma.washington.edu/directory/employee_profile.cfm?employee_ID=179

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Susan Parish, MSW, PhD
Brandeis University, The Heller School for Social Policy and Management

  • Nancy Lurie Marks Professor of Disability Policy
  • Director, Lurie Institute for Disability Policy
  • Director, PhD Program

Dr. Parish’s research examines the health and financial well-being of children and adults with disabilities, as well as their caregiving families. She is particularly interested in family support, the health of women with intellectual disabilities, and the impact of health policies and poverty policies on people with disabilities and their families. Parish teaches classes in disability policy and both quantitative and qualitative research methods. She is currently principal investigator on a NIDRR-funded randomized control trial of a cervical and breast cancer screening promotion intervention for women with intellectual disabilities. She is also principal investigator on a HRSA-funded study of racial and ethnic disparities in the health care access of children with autism.

http://heller.brandeis.edu/facguide/person.html?emplid=810f36b7a7543e9b18b0dc98c9fa817fc8373dff

 

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Nabilla El-Basel, MSW, DSW
Columbia University, School of Social Work

  • Willma and Albert Musher Professor of Social Work

Dr. Nabila El-Bassel provides significant national and international leadership to the global health agenda. Dr. El-Bassel is a professor at the Columbia University School of Social Work and director of the Social Intervention Group (SIG), which was established in 1990 as a multi-disciplinary center focusing on developing and testing effective prevention and intervention approaches and disseminating them to local, national, and international communities. Dr. El-Bassel is also the director of the Columbia University Global Health Research Center of Central Asia (GHRCCA), a team of faculty, scientists, researchers, and students in both New York and Central Asia committed to advancing solutions to health and social issues in Central Asia through research, education, training, and policy and dissemination.

Dr. El-Bassel has been funded extensively by the National Institute of Mental Health and the National Institute on Drug Abuse.  She has designed and tested HIV intervention and prevention models for women, men, and couples, which have been disseminated nationally and internationally. Dr. El-Bassel has been studying the intersecting epidemics of HIV and violence against women and has designed HIV interventions that address these co-occurring problems with significant scientific contributions in gender-based HIV prevention for women.

Dr. El-Bassel has been mentoring HIV research scientists from Central Asia and she has also been funded by the National Institute of Health to train faculty and research scientists on the science of HIV intervention and prevention.  She has published extensively on HIV prevention science and on the co-occurring problems of IPV and substance abuse.

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/ssw/faculty/profiles/elbassel.html

 


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