Doctorate from Columbia University School of Social Work
50 years experience in social work and health care, concentrating on issues in aging, rehabilitation, depression, caregiving, Medicare and discharge planning.
Vice President, Community Programs, Agency on Aging, South Central CT 2000 -2019
Academic Appointments
Faculty appointment, University of New Haven 1997-2018
Faculty appointment, Sacred Heart University, Social Work Program, 1999-2000.
Clinical Appointment, Yale University School of Nursing, 1999-present
Part-time faculty, Columbia University, Social Work Department, 1995-1997
Part-time faculty appointment, Housatonic Community College, 1992-1995
Employment History
Hospital of St Raphael, 1967 – 1990
Yale New Haven Hospital, Emergency Room, 1977 – 1980
Author of several articles and book chapters
The Gift of Caregiving, 2013, Amazon.
Selected as one of Twenty Noteworthy Women in CT, 2007 by CT Business Times
Inductee, Phi Alpha, National Social Work Honor Society
Vice President
Aging and Disability Resource Center of the Agency on Aging of South Central Connecticut