Clinical Professor
University of Denver
Denver, Colorado, United States
Michael Talamantes, LCSW, is a Clinical Professor at the Graduate School of Social Work at the University of Denver. He is the coordinator of the health and wellness concentration and also of the dual MSW/MPH program. He was a field instructor for over 20 years and a Clinical Social Worker at the University of Colorado Hospital on the liver transplant team for 21 years. He is the Co-PI of HRSA's 1.92 million dollar Behavioral Health Workforce Education and Training grant and of HRSA's OUD workforce grant.. He is the co-chair of the Colorado's State Innovation Model (SIM) workforce workgroup and active across Colorado regarding workforce and the integration of health and behavioral health. He was awarded a grant from the state of Colorado to facilitate an Integrated Behavioral Health Consortium regarding workforce issues and sustainability in 2018. Talamantes is a Disparities Scholar from the National Institutes of Health Translational Health Disparities Conference in 2014 and a Behavioral Health Training fellow from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse & Alcoholism (NIAAA) (2017). He is an active member of the Council of Social Work Education (CSWE), the Society for Social Work Leadership in Health Care (SSWLHC), the Collaborative Family Healthcare Association (CFHA) and the National Association of Social Workers (NASW). He received the Excellence in Teaching Award for Appointed Faculty in 2014 and the Mentorship Award for MSW students in 2018. Talamantes also has an appointment as a clinical instructor at the University of Colorado School of Medicine.
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Friday, November 11, 2022
7:45 AM – 8:45 AM