A Chat with Interim Dean Vicky Rizzo

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We were signed up with by Interim Dean and Professor, Vicky Rizzo. She discusses her social work journey, vision for the SSW, objectives as President of the NASW-NYS Chapter, and likewise shares some enjoyable realities.

Bio:

Victoria M. Rizzo, LCSW-R, PhD, Interim Dean & Professor, School of Social Welfare, University at Albany, SUNY has actually committed her profession to showing the worth of social work in healthcare settings and community-based companies through her research study, mentor, and labor force advancement activities. Dr. Rizzo’s research study analyzes the effect of social work, and interprofessional interventions that consist of social employees, on healthcare usage, health, and behavioral health results for older grownups managing persistent diseases, senior abuse, and care offering. She likewise takes a look at the ramifications of the findings of her work for healthcare policy and the funding of the arrangement of social work services to older grownups and their caretakers. Dr. Rizzo has comprehensive experience as a healthcare social employee and has actually performed research study with associates at Kaiser Permanente Health Care Systems, Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, and the Jewish Association Serving the Aging (JASA) in New York City. Numerous structures, consisting of the Mother Cabrini Health Foundation, the Garfield Foundation of Kaiser Permanente Health Care Systems, the John A. Hartford Foundation, and the Commonwealth Fund, have actually moneyed her research study. Considering that making her Ph.D. in 2002, Dr. Rizzo has actually offered financing and mentoring to doctoral trainees in social well-being and social work and has actually served on more than 30 argumentation committees in numerous disciplines, consisting of social work, economics, nursing, education, and engineering.

Dr. Rizzo is the President (2022– 2024) of the National Association of Social Workers– New York State Chapter (NASW-NYS) Board of Directors, a prominent scholar and fellow of the National Academies of Practice (Social Work Academy), a Fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine, and a John A. Hartford Geriatric Social Work Faculty Scholar.

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