School of Social Work News

The U-M’s health science deans selected four faculty team projects to receive Interprofessional Exchange Research (IP-X) Stimulus pilot grants from the U-M Center for Interprofessional Education. All four projects selected include SSW faculty:

• Assistant Dean of Field Education and Clinical Assistant Professor Daniel Fischer and Clinical Assistant Professor Debra Mattison are co-investigators for “Caring for Complex, Underserved Patients: Interprofessional Education and Care Where it Matters Most”
• Associate Dean for Research and Professor Joe Himle is the lead investigator for “Computer-Assisted Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Depressed Dialysis Patients”
• Clinical Assistant Professor Debra Mattison is a co-investigator for “Improving Contraceptive Care for Women with Breast Cancer: An Interprofessional Collaborative Practice Approach”  
• Assistant Director Office of Global Activities and LEO Adjunct Lecturer Katie Lopez and Associate Dean for Educational Programs and Professor Mary Ruffolo are co-investigators for “Michigan Interprofessional Consortium for Health-Global Action Network (MICH-GAN)”

Madel Leal (MSW‘17) was featured in the Michigan News video, “Research, education, service: How we spent our summer vacation.”

Janelle Goodwill (PhD student) interviewed with the University at Buffalo School of Social Work’s inSocialWork Podcast Series on her work with black men, media, and masculinity.

Brittany Schuler (postdoctoral fellow) and Associate Dean for Research and Professor Joe Himle received a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation for their study which contributes to a Culture of Health by enhancing our understanding of healthy-eating habits and healthy weight among children within low-resourced communities in the U.S.

Professor Karla Goldman was cited in the Michigan Today article, “Hillel at 90.” She also contributed her piece, “Looking a Little More Deeply into C.C. Little” to the LearnSpeakAct blog.

Clinical Assistant Professor Deb Mattison received a 2017 Demonstration Model Award from the Midwest Interprofessional Practice, Education, and Research Center, a multi-institution coalition dedicated to incorporating interprofessional health practice with education in the Midwest region. She created the IPE Course Adapter Toolkit, a web-based resource that serves as a “one-stop shop” for instructors interested in converting their existing courses to interprofessional offerings.

Sara Stein (PhD student) and Associate Professor Andy Grogan-Kaylor’s article, “Profiles of Children's Thinking About Violence in Families Exposed to Intimate Partner Violence” was published in the Journal of Child and Family Studies.

LEO Lecturer Tony Alvarez was selected to give the Kurt Hahn Address at the 2017 Association for Experiential Education Conference this November in Montreal.