BUSSW Active Participant in Fall Conferences

The School’s faculty, doctoral and master’s students and graduates will be very active at several conferences this fall.

COUNCIL ON SOCIAL WORK EDUCATION ANNUAL PROGRAM MEETING (CSWE APM)–October 26 to 28, San Francisco

–Associate Dean Ruth Freedman: "Healthcare Decision-Making by Adults with Intellectual Disabilities:Ethical and Social Work Perspectives"

–Professor Mary Collins (with Paul Stuart, Lorraine Gutierrez, Johnnie Hamilton-Mason and Michie Hesselbrock): “Doctoral education and unification: Potential costs and benefits”

–Professor Scott Miyake Geron (with Nancy Hooyman, Holly Nelson-Becker, Joann Damon Rodriquez, and Len Kaye):

“Preparing for the Aging Boom: A Model of Workforce Development” and (with alumna Ali Conway) “Social Work and Elearning: Challenges, Opportunities, and User Reactions Curriculum and Administrative Workshop”

–Professor Betty J. Ruth (with alumnae Christina Bethke and Jamie Wyatt): "Public Health Social Work: Findings from a National Conference"

–Professor Lee Staples (with alumna Carly Burton): "Journey To Justice: An Immigrant Rights Coalition in the Burgeoning Immigration Movement.” Professor Staples also is doing a "Meet The Authors" session with Professor Melvin Delgado for their new book, Youth-Led Community Organizing: Theory and Action.

–PhD student Anna Rosales (with Marilyn K. Potts and Nancy Meyer-Adams): "Educational Outcomes Assessment from Conceptualization to Use of Results"

The School also will have an exhibit booth and is hosting a reception at the CSWE APM.

AMERICAN PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOCIATION ANNUAL MEETING—

November 3 to 7, Washington, DC

–Professor Lena Lundgren (with PhD student Therese Fitzgerald, MSW/MPH student Angela Walter, and alumna Catherine Oettinger): “Methadone Maintenance Treatment (MMT) Utilization Among Opiate Dependent Pregnant Women: A Synthesis of Findings from Three Research Studies”

–Professor Luz Lopez (with Professor Lundgren and PhD students Therese Fitzgerald and Lisa Zerden): "Differences in HIV risk behaviors and Health Status between Puerto Rican Injection Drug Users Residing on the Island and the United States Mainland”

—Professor Hyeouk Chris Hahm (with Kristina Wong and Alexander Ozonoff): "The Association Between Risk Sexual Behaviors and HIV/STIs Testing Behaviors among Asian Americans"

—Professor Hyeouk Chris Hahm (with Alexander Ozonoff and PhD students Lisa Zerden and Alvin Lee): "Longitudinal Predictors of HIV/Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs):

Gender, Depression & Substance Use"

ASSOCIATION FOR MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH IN SUBSTANCE ABUSE (AMERSA) Annual Conference–November 8 to 10, Washington, DC

–Professor Maryann Amodeo: Poster session on her research on women from alcoholic families.

–Professor Luz Lopez (with Professor Lundgren and PhD students Therese Fitzgerald and Lisa Zerden): “Place of Residence Matters for Puerto Rican Injection Drug Users in Massachusetts and Puerto Rico”

ZERO TO THREE NATIONAL TRAINING INSTITUTE–November 30 to December 2, Orlando

–Professor Ruth Paris (with M. Katherine Weinberg and MSW/MPH student Rendell Bolton): Poster presentation on “Mood Disorders and Mother-Infant Interactions: Early Findings from a Study of a Home-based Therapy"