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In
February of 2011, Robert M. Kaplan, PhD
joined the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office
of the Director as Associate Director for Behavioral
and Social Sciences and Director of the Office of Behavioral
and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR). Prior to working
for government, Kaplan was Distinguished Professor of
Health Services at UCLA and Distinguished Professor
of Medicine at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine
where he was PI of the California Comparative Effectiveness
and Outcomes Improvement Center. He led the UCLA/RAND
health services training program and the UCLA/RAND CDC
Prevention Research Center. He was Chair of the Department
of Health Services from 2004 to 2009. From 1997 to 2004
he was Professor and Chair of the Department of Family
and Preventive Medicine, at the University of California,
San Diego. He is a past President of several organizations,
including the American Psychological Association Division
of Health Psychology, Section J of the American Association
for the Advancement of Science (Pacific), the International
Society for Quality of Life Research, the Society for
Behavioral Medicine, and the Academy of Behavioral Medicine
Research. He is a Past Chair of the Behavioral Science
Council of the American Thoracic Society. Dr. Kaplan
is a former Editor-in-Chief of Health Psychology and
of the Annals of Behavioral Medicine. He is the author,
co-author or editor of more than 18 books and approximately
470 articles or chapters. The ISI includes him in the
listing of the most cited authors in the world (defined
as above the 99.5th percentile). In 2005, he was elected
to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies
of Sciences.
Diane
DePanfilis, PhD, MSW is Professor and Associate
Dean for Research at the University of Maryland School
of Social Work. She is also Director of the Ruth H.
Young Center for Families and Children, an organized
research center designed to promote the safety, permanency
and stability, and well-being of children, families,
and communities through education and training, research
and evaluation, and best practice service programs.
During the last thirty-five years, she has (1) provided
child welfare services at the local level as a caseworker,supervisor
and administrator; (2) worked as a consultantat the
national level conducting program evaluations and providing
training and technical assistance to child welfare and
community based programs; and (3) conducted extensive
studies related to the delivery of child welfare services,
the prevention of child maltreatment, and the implementation
of policies and community service programs. Dr. DePanfilis
is Principal Investigator of research about the Family
Connections Program, a community-based family strengthening
outreach service program designed to support vulnerable
families to meet the basic needs of their children without
the need for formal public child welfare services. Recognized
by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
for its efforts to prevent child neglect, Family Connections
is being replicated in multiple sites across the United
States.
Kathleen
Coulborn Faller, Ph.D., A.C.S.W., D.C.S.W.,
is Marion Elizabeth Blue Professor of Children and Families
in the School of Social Work at the University of Michigan.
She is also Director of the Family Assessment Clinic
and Principal Investigator of the University of Michigan
site of National Child Welfare Workforce Institute.
She is involved in research, clinical work, teaching,
training, and writing in the area of child welfare.
She has conducted over 300 juried conference presentations
at state, national, and international conferences and
over 250 workshops. She is the author of nine books,
Social Work with Abused and Neglected Children (The
Free Press, 1981), Child Sexual Abuse: An Interdisciplinary
Manual for Diagnosis, Case Management, and Treatment
(Columbia, 1988), Understanding Child Sexual Maltreatment
(Sage, 1990), Child Sexual Abuse: Intervention and Treatment
(DHHS, 1993) the APSAC Study Guide: Interviewing Children
Suspected of Having Been Sexually Abused (Sage, 1996),
Maltreatment in Early Childhood: Tools for Research-based
Intervention (Haworth Press, 2000), Understanding and
Assessing Child Sexual Maltreatment, Second Edition
(Sage, 2003), Interviewing Children about Sexual Abuse:
Controversies and Best Practice (Oxford, 2007), and
Seeking Justice in Child Sexual Abuse: Shifting Burdens
and Sharing Responsibilities (Columbia, 2010) as well
as approximately 80 research and clinical articles.
Yoonsun
Choi, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor at the
School of Social Service Administration, University
of Chicago. She currently serves as the Immediate Past
Vice President/Immediate Past Program Chair for SSWR.
Professor Choi's research seeks to understand the familial
and environmental processes that influence and impact
ethnic minority children and their development and serves
to inform the development of age- and culturally appropriate
preventive interventions. Professor Choi was a recipient
of the Research Scientist Development Award from the
National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), with which
she has begun a series of interrelated research projects
to identify the multiple developmental trajectories
of Asian American youth and the factors that predominate
in the determination of these outcomes. One of her current
research projects includes the Korean American Families
(KAF) Project. This survey research is particularly
interested in racial prejudice and discrimination, ethnic
identity, parent-child cultural conflicts, culturally
unique family socialization processes, and culture change
and formation (acculturation) that may all be unique
issues of adolescent behavior for this target group
as well as other ethnic and immigrant youth.
Ellen
DeVoe, Ph.D., LICSW is an Associate Professor
at the Boston University School of Social Work (BUSSW)
where she teaches in the clinical practice department.
She is founding director of the BUSSW Trauma Certificate
Program for advanced clinical students specializing
in trauma-informed practice, and was the recipient of
the Excellence in Teaching Award in 2008. Prior to joining
BUSSW, she was on the faculty at Columbia University.
Her research interests include the effects of violence
and traumatic experiences upon children, parents, and
parenting processes, and the development of evidence-based
interventions to address these effects. Dr. DeVoe’s
work has been funded by the National Institute of Mental
Health, Centers for Disease Control and Injury Prevention,
and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Currently, she
is completing the Strong Families Strong Forces intervention
project, funded by the Department of Defense, in which
her team developed and is evaluating the efficacy of
a home-based reintegration program for military service
members and their families with young children. Dr.
DeVoe received her BA from Princeton University and
PhD in Social Work and Psychology at the University
of Michigan. She lives with her husband and three children,
ages 12, 11, and 8. 
Dr.
Diwan is a Professor in the School of Social
Work at San Jose State University and is the Director
of the Center for Healthy Aging in Multicultural Populations
(CHAMP). Dr. Diwan’s research focuses on understanding
the use of home and community based services and case
management among older adults with dementia, depression,
and chronic illnesses, and on understanding factors
related to the physical and psychological well-being
of older immigrants. Her research has been funded by
a variety of sources including the National Institute
on Aging, John A. Hartford Foundation, California Endowment,
Janssen Pharmaceutica Research Foundation, Centers for
Disease Control & Prevention, and the Georgia Department
of Human Resources. Dr. Diwan served as the Project
Principal Investigator of the Master’s Advanced
Curriculum (MAC) Project, funded by a $1.5 million grant
from the John A. Hartford Foundation. The MAC Project
is designed to enhance three advanced social work specialty
practice areas - mental health, substance use, and health
- with aging-related competencies. She is a member of
the Council of Ethnogeriatric Specialists at the Stanford
Geriatric Education Center, Stanford University and
is on the Executive Committee of the Aging Services
Collaborative in Santa Clara County, CA. 
Rebecca
J. Macy, PhD, ACSW, LCSW is the L. Richardson
Preyer Distinguished Chair for Strengthening Families
and the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the UNC
at Chapel Hill School of Social Work. She has taught
courses in social work practice, family violence, mental
health, and statistics. Rebecca joined the faculty in
2002, after receiving her doctoral degree in social
welfare from the University of Washington in Seattle.
In 1993, she received her MSW from Tulane University
in New Orleans. She has practice experience in community
mental health where she worked with violence survivors.
Her research in concerned with multiple forms of violent
victimization, including child maltreatment, partner
violence, sexual violence and human trafficking. Her
research activities focus on the health consequences
of victimization, repeated victimizations across the
life span, and the development of community-based preventions
and interventions to promote violence survivors’
resilience and well-being. 
Rowena
Fong, Ed.D., is the Ruby Lee Piester Centennial
Professor in Services to Children and Families in the
School of Social Work at the University of Texas at
Austin. She is currently the Immediate Past President
of the Society for Society Work and Research and has
served as a SSWR Board member in 2004-2007. Dr. Fong
received her B.A. in Chinese Studies and Psychology
from Wellesley College, her M.S.W. in Children and Families
from UC Berkeley, and her Ed.D. in Human Development
from Harvard University. Her areas of research are focused
on adoptions and child welfare, parental socialization
and ethnic identify formation of Chinese adoptive children
and families, domestic and international victims of
human trafficking, and disproportionality in public
child welfare. She has received research and training
grants from the U.S. Department of Health and Human
Services; Department of Human Services, Office of Refugee
Resettlement; Texas Department of Family Protective
Services; and Texas Health and Human Services. She is
currently researching the ethnic identity formation
of transracial adopted children from China; the availability
of child welfare and social services for victims of
human trafficking, and community engagement in dealing
with disproportionality in the public child welfare
system. She has numerous publications, including seven
books: A. Detlaff & R. Fong (Eds.) (in press). Child
Welfare Practice with Immigrant Children and Families.
New York: Taylor and Francis; C. Franklin & R. Fong,
(Eds.) (2011). The Church Leader’s Counseling
Resource Book. New York: Oxford University Press.; R.
Fong, R. McRoy, & C. Ortiz Hendricks, (Eds.). (2006).
Intersecting child welfare, substance abuse, and family
violence: Culturally competent approaches. Washington,
D.C.: Council on Social Work Education; R. Fong, (Ed.).
(2004). Culturally competent practice with immigrant
and refugee children and families. New York: Guilford
Press; M. Smith & R. Fong (2004). Children of neglect:
When no one cares. New York: Brunner-Routledge Press;
R. Fong, & S. Furuto (Eds.). (2001). Culturally
competent social work practice: Skills, interventions
and evaluation. Boston, MA: Allyn & Bacon; and E.
Freeman, C. Franklin, R. Fong, G. Shaffer, & E.
Timberlake (Eds.). (1998). Multisystem skills and interventions
in school social work practice. Washington, D.C.: NASW
Press. Dr. Fong received the 2008 Distinguished Recent
Contributions in Social Work Education Award of the
Council on Social Work Education; the 2007 Texas Exes
Teaching Award of the University of Texas at Austin;
the 2001 Regent's Teaching Award of the University of
Hawaii at Manoa, and the 2001 Social Worker of the Year
in Education and Training of the National Association
of Social Work, Honolulu Chapter. She has served on
the editorial boards of Social Work, Journal of Social
Work Education, Research and Social Work Practice, Journal
of Ethnic and Cultural Diversity in Social Work and
is currently serving on Child Welfare, Journal of Public
Child Welfare, and Religion and Childhood, Journal of
Social Work Education.
LUIS H. ZAYAS, Ph.D., is the Dean of the School
of Social Work and Centennial Professor in Leadership
at The University of Texas at Austin. Previously, he
was the Shanti K. Khinduka Distinguished Professor of
Social Work, Professor of Psychiatry, and founding director
of the Center for Latino Family Research at Washington
University in St. Louis. Dr. Zayas holds a master’s
in social work degree and a Ph.D. in developmental psychology
from Columbia University. His clinical and research
experiences have focused on Hispanic and other minority
families and their children, and the cultural basis
of parenting and improving parenting practices. His
book, Latinas Attempting Suicide: When Cultures, Families,
and Daughters Collide (Oxford, 2011), presents original
findings from his research. Presently, Dr. Zayas is
conducting a study, funded by NICHD, on the mental health
of U.S. citizen-children whose parents are deported
to Mexico. He is involved in advocacy for citizen-children
and has testified extensively in immigration court.
Dr. Zayas is the recipient of the Economic and Cultural
Diversity Award from the American Family Therapy Academy
(1993) and the Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award from
the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences of Washington
University (2004-2005). 
Jini Roby, JD, MSW, MS is professor
at the School of Social Work at Brigham Young University,
Provo, Utah. Her interest in human trafficking began
with her research on human rights violations in the
intercountry adoption arena over a decade ago and expanded
to trafficking in children and women. She has published
in both peer reviewed and invited venues on the topic,
with an emphasis on policies related to identifying
and assisting victims of human trafficking, including
a critical analysis of the U.S. policy. She is the author
of the chapter on human trafficking in Healy and Link’s
(2012) Handbook of International Social Work, and the
cover article for the January 2012 issue of Social Dialogue,
an international e-magazine of the International Association
of Schools of Social Work. In late 2010 she convened
an international conference on human trafficking at
Brigham Young University, bringing together top experts
from around the world to focus on policies and programming
to assist victims. She currently serves as co-guest
editor on a special issue of International Social Work
dedicated to exploring policies and programs for victims
of human trafficking. 
Altaf Husain is an Assistant Professor
in the School of Social Work at Howard University with
research interests in the mental health of displaced
populations; immigration policy and its impact on the
family; cultural and spiritual competence; and the development
of faith-based social services. Dr. Husain holds a joint
appointment as a research fellow at the Center for Global
Health and the Center for the Study of American Muslims
of the DC-based think-thank, the Institute for Social
Policy and Understanding (ISPU). He co-edited a thematic
issue of the Journal of Muslim Mental Health on the
topic of refugees and forced migrants and has co-authored
three chapters on culturally competent social work practice
with Muslims. An invited lecturer in North America and
Europe on the integration and community development
experiences of Muslims in the United States, Dr. Husain
was also invited by the Department of Homeland Security
Office of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties to provide
insights on Islam in general and specifically on the
Somali Diaspora. He lives in northern Virginia with
his wife Mona and their children 'Omar, Ahmed and Asmaa.
Amanda
Lehning is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at
the University of Michigan, School of Social Work. She
received her Ph.D. in Social Welfare from the University
of California, Berkeley, and her MSW from Bryn Mawr
College. Her research focuses on the effects of policies,
programs, and neighborhood infrastructure on elder health,
well-being, and the ability to age in place. Current
research projects include a national survey of Villages
and NORCs, two community-based programs that aim to
help older adults remain in their homes and communities;
examining the impact of “age-friendly” environments
on Detroit elders’ health; and the development
of community-level indicators for aging in place. Her
research has been supported by the John A. Hartford
Foundation, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development,
National Institute on Aging, and the MetLife Mature
Markets Institute.
Michael
E. Woolley is Associate Professor of Social
Work at the University of Maryland. Dr. Woolley’s
research focuses on how the social environments of home,
school, and community impact student educational outcomes,
especially for urban youth. For example, how relationships
with adults across those key settings impact student
emotional and behavioral engagement in school, and ultimately
academic achievement. Also, how student perceptions
of the relevance of what they are learning in school
to their lives, present and future, stimulate student
motivation and engagement in school. Dr. Woolley has
published more than 30 articles and chapters and is
on the editorial board of several journals including
Family Relations, Children & Schools, Social Work
Research, and Journal of SSWR. Dr. Woolley teaches courses
on foundation practice, practice in schools, and clinical
practice with children. He has been on the faculty at
the University of Maryland for two years, during which
he received two Dean’s Teaching Awards and was
chosen by the students to receive the Exemplary Faculty
Award. Dr. Woolley received his doctorate from the School
of Social Work at the University of North Carolina,
where he was a Weiss Fellow, Senior Weiss Fellow, and
Doctoral Student on the Year.
Trina
Shanks is Associate Professor at the University
of Michigan, School of Social Work. She completed her
Ph.D. at Washington University in St. Louis and is a
faculty associate with its Center for Social Development.
She earned a Masters degree in Comparative Social Research
from the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. Her
research interests include asset-building policy and
practice across the life course; the impact of poverty
and wealth on child well-being; and community and economic
development in urban areas. She has several active research
projects, including serving as investigator for the
SEED Impact Assessment study which has established a
quasi-experimental research design to test the impact
of offering 529 college education plans to Head Start
families, funding by NICHD to study to conduct secondary
data analysis examining how the financial situation
of households influences child outcomes from early childhood
into adulthood, and is overseeing the evaluation for
Detroit’s Summer Youth Employment Program. From
2010-2012 Dr. Shanks served on the Michigan state Commission
on Community Action and Economic Opportunity. 
Tam
Perry is an assistant professor in the School
of Social Work at Wayne State University. She recently
received her PhD in Social Work and Anthropology from
the University of Michigan. Her ethnographic research
addresses housing transitions of older adults from a
network perspective. As health, mobility and kin and
peer networks alter, she explores how older adults contemplate
their homes and its contents. She studies housing transitions
because, while aging in place is often preferred and
cost-effective, inevitably some older adults will undertake
the emotional and physical labor, as well as the negotiation
of medical, financial and long-term care infrastructures,
involved in relocation. Her research has been supported
by the National Institute on Aging, the John A. Hartford
Foundation and the University of Michigan.