Faculty and Staff

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Kim Anderson, Ph.D., MSSW, LCSW

Professor
Social Work
Location: HS I Room: 212
Phone: 407-823-5201
Areas of Specialty:
  • Life Trajectories of Children Exposed to Domestic Violence across the Lifespan
  • Economic and Health Inequity in Communities of Concentrated Disadvantage
  • Methodologies: Community-Based Participatory Research, Mixed Methods, Qualitative (Grounded Theory, Narrative, Thematic Analysis)

Bethany Backes, Ph.D., MSW, MPH

Associate Professor
Social Work
Areas of Specialty:
  • Violence Against Women
  • Multidisciplinary responses to victims
  • Domestic and Intimate Partner Violence
  • Stalking
  • Sexual Violence
  • Victim Help-Seeking
  • Program evaluation

Susanny Beltran, Ph.D., MSW

Assistant Professor, Center Co-Director
Center for Behavioral Health Research and Training, Social Work
Location: HS I Room: 247
Phone: 407-823-4662
Areas of Specialty:
  • End-of-life care
  • Health literacy and health promotion
  • Health care disparities among racial/ethnic minority older adults
  • Qualitative research
  • Gerontology education

Melissa Bermudez, MSW, LCSW, LICSW

Director of the Center for Professional and Community Education, Instructor
Social Work
Location: HS I Room: 224
Phone: 407-823-4655
Areas of Specialty:
  • Intimate Partner and Power-Based Violence / Trauma
  • Military personnel and Veterans
  • Culturally inclusive care and services

Christina Bernhardt, Ph.D., MSW

Assessment Coordinator, Lecturer
Social Work
Location: HS I Room: 209
Phone: 407 823-0780

Lisa Borntrager, MSW

Program Coordinator
Center for Behavioral Health Research and Training, Social Work
Location: Barbara Ying Center Room: 125
Phone: 407-823-4302

Kevin Brown, Ph.D.

Lecturer
Social Work
Location: HS I Room: 226
Phone: 407-823-5621
Areas of Specialty:
  • child welfare
  • Family Preservation
  • Evidence-based Practice

Reshawna Chapple, Ph.D., MSW, LCSW

Associate Professor
Social Work
Location: HS I Room: 252
Areas of Specialty:
  • Critical Deaf Studies
  • Critical Race Feminism and Intersectionality
  • Culturally Responsive Mental Health Treatment and Access to Services
  • Intimate Partner Violence and Trauma Recovery
  • Qualitative Methods
  • Telemental Health
  • Informed Care

Barbara Dahlstrom

Administrative Assistant III
Social Work
Location: HS I Room: 204
Phone: 407-823-3130

Jill Davis, LCSW, MSW

Instructor
Social Work
Location: HS I Room: 244A
Phone: 407-823-1177
Areas of Specialty:
  • Childhood Sexual Abuse
  • Play Therapy
  • Licensure Exam Prep

Christine Ferretti, MSW, LCSW

Assistant Director MSW, Associate Instructor
Social Work
Location: Partnership 1 Room: 102
Phone: 407-823-4987
Areas of Specialty:
  • Juvenile Sex offender population
  • At Risk Youth

Tracy Griffith

Student Resource Specialist III
Social Work
Location: HS I Room: 235
Phone: 407-823-3346

Kimberley Gryglewicz, Ph.D., MSW

Associate Professor, Center Co-Director
Center for Behavioral Health Research and Training, Social Work
Location: HS I Room: 249
Phone: 407-823-2954
Areas of Specialty:
  • Suicide prevention
  • Health and mental health
  • Family engagement & caregiving issues
  • Program implementation and evaluation
  • Violence Prevention
  • Caregiver Health/Well-Being
  • Grief and Bereavement
  • Community-based participatory research

Shelley Hall, MSW

Instructor
Social Work
Location: Partnership 1 Room: 102
Phone: 407-823-3056
Areas of Specialty:
  • Clinical practice in a hospital with neonatal families and maternal/child mental health issues
  • Adoption
  • Foster Care

Minoska Hernandez

Student Resource Specialist II
Social Work
Location: HS I Room: 236
Phone: 407-823-4110

Shannon Holliker, Ph.D., LCSW

Lecturer
Social Work
Location: HS I Room: 245
Phone: 407-823-3121

Jalonta Jackson-Glasco, Ph.D., MSW

Lecturer
Social Work
Location: HS I Room: 208
Phone: 407-823-0376
Areas of Specialty:
  • Micro and Macro Social Work Practice
  • Public Administration and Public Policy
  • Higher Education Teaching and Program Leadership
  • Social Justice Advocacy
  • Women, Criminal Justice, and Prison Reform
  • Equity, Inclusion and Diversity

Adriana Kelly, MA

Assistant Director of Student Resources
Social Work
Location: Partnership 1 Room: 102
Phone: 407-823-4497

Lana Kiswani

MSW Admissions Specialist I
Social Work
Location: HS I Room: 236
Phone: 407-823-0102

Robin Kohn, MSW, LCSW

BSW Program Director, Senior Instructor
Social Work
Location: HS I Room: 204B
Phone: 407-823-2967
Areas of Specialty:
  • Grief and Bereavement
  • End-of-life care
  • Varying Abilities & Disabilities (primarily mobility & neurological disorders)
  • Practice Health

Christina Kuchman, MSW, LCSW

Instructor
Social Work
Location: HS I Room: 244
Phone: 407-823-0345

Shawn Lawrence, Ph.D., LCSW

Interim Director, Professor
Social Work
Location: HS I Room: 225
Phone: 407-823-3112
Areas of Specialty:
  • Obesity and Stigma
  • Substance Abuse
  • Student learning environments and outcomes

Inbal Leibovits, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Researcher
Social Work

Hsiu-Fen Lin, Ph.D., MSW

Assistant Professor
Social Work
Location: Classroom Building I Room: 302M
Areas of Specialty:
  • Prevention of Intimate Partner Homicide
  • Prevention and Intervention for Interpersonal Violence
  • Economic Empowerment for Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence
  • The Impact of Domestic violence on Mental Health and Financial Well-being
  • Screening and Assessment for Immigrant and non-English speaking populations
  • International Social Work

Shuang Lu, Ph.D., MSW

Assistant Professor
Social Work
Location: HS I Room: 233
Phone: 407-823-0490
Areas of Specialty:
  • Youth mental health and resilience
  • Migration/immigration
  • Community-based psychosocial intervention
  • Mindfulness
  • Social service capacity building

Chelsea Mandes

Post Doctoral Scholar
Social Work

Jessica Mays

Student Resource Specialist IV
Social Work
Location: HS I Room: 239A
Phone: 407-823-6079

Shellene Mazany, LCSW, MSW

MSW Program Director, Senior Instructor
Social Work
Location: Partnership 1 Room: 102
Phone: 407-823-1089
Areas of Specialty:
  • Mental Health and Addictions
  • Children
  • Youth and Families
  • Crisis Intervention
  • Assessment and Treatment Planning
  • Clinical Supervision
  • Online Education and Technology

Kendall McCormick

BSW Admissions Specialist I
Social Work
Location: HS I Room: 204
Phone: 407 823-6134

Maxine McGregor, LMSW, MSW, MS

Associate Instructor
Social Work
Location: HS I Room: 244B
Phone: 407-823-3037
Areas of Specialty:
  • child welfare
  • domestic violence
  • Online Education

Olga Molina, DSW, MSW, LCSW

Associate Professor
Social Work
Location: HS I Room: 251
E-mail: omolina@ucf.edu
Phone: 407-823-6793
Areas of Specialty:
  • Divorce
  • Intimate partner violence
  • Groupwork

Cassandra Peters, LCSW

Instructor
Social Work
Location: HS I Room: 227
Phone: 407-823-0888

Robin Pisano, MSW

Program Director for Field Education
Social Work
Location: HS I Room: 229
Phone: 407-823-1838

Estelli Ramos, MSW, MDiv

Associate Instructor
Social Work
Location: HS I Room: 223
Phone: 407-823-3161
Areas of Specialty:
  • LGBTQ
  • Diversity
  • Macro-Practice
  • Spirituality
  • Latino Individuals and Groups

Iradly Roche, MSW

Associate Instructor
Social Work
Location: HS I Room: 208
Phone: 407-823-1068
Areas of Specialty:
  • Alternative School Social Work for Exceptional Student Education
  • Clinical Social Work for Residential and Academic program working with teen parents

Julie Steen, Ph.D., MSW

Associate Professor
Social Work
Location: HS I Room: 253
Phone: 407-823-6452
Areas of Specialty:
  • Child welfare organizations
  • Child Welfare Policy
  • Human Rights Education

Chris Stewart, Ph.D., MSW, MS

Associate Professor
Social Work
Location: HS I Room: 255
Phone: 407-823-3617

Kenan Sualp, Ph.D., MSW

Assistant Professor
Social Work
Location: HS I Room: 214
Phone: 407-823-1324
Areas of Specialty:
  • Environmental Risk Factors for Mental Health and Access to Care
  • Health and mental health
  • Immigration
  • Global social work
  • Program implementation and evaluation
  • Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
  • Applied Statistics and Data visualization strategies

Matthew Theriot, Ph.D., MSSW

Interim Dean, Professor
Social Work
Location: HS I Room: 204-A
Phone: 407-823-2114
Areas of Specialty:
  • Juvenile Violence
  • School Security
  • Delinquency

Josette vonBirgelen, MSW

Instructor
Social Work
Location: Partnership 1 Room: 102
Phone: 407-823-3283
Areas of Specialty:
  • Field Education
  • Child trauma focusing on sexual abuse and family reunification
  • Supervisor role within Field education

Xiaochuan (Sharon) Wang, Ph.D., MSW

Associate Professor
Social Work
Location: HS I Room: 238
Phone: 407-823-3705
Areas of Specialty:
  • Health And Mental Health Care Access, Utilization, and Quality
  • Nursing Home Quality and Workforce Capacity
  • Culturally sensitive care for racial and ethnic minority older adults

James Whitworth, Ph.D., LCSW

Associate Professor
Social Work
Location: HS I Room: 254
Phone: 407-823-6136
Areas of Specialty:
  • Military members and veteran with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
  • Assessment and treatment of trauma responses
  • Military social work education programs
  • Alternative treatments for PTSD
  • Service Dogs for PTSD
  • Equine Therapy for PTSD

Asli Cennet Yalim, Ph.D., MSW

Assistant Professor
Social Work
Location: HS I Room: 216
Phone: 407-823-4660
Areas of Specialty:
  • Refugee mental health and psychosocial wellbeing
  • Syrian refugees
  • Forced migration in the Middle East
  • Use of mental health services among refugee and immigrant populations
  • Community-based participatory research
  • Culturally competent practice
  • Resilience and empowerment
  • Refugee Women

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