Helen Bader Endowed Chair of Applied Gerontology
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States
Colleen Galambos, Ph.D., LCSW, LCSW-C, ACSW, FGSA, FAASWSW, is professor and the Helen Bader Endowed Chair in Applied Gerontology at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. She is an adjunct professor with the Medical College of Wisconsin. Dr. Galambos is a fellow of the Gerontological Society of America and the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare. In 2016, she was named a National Association of Social Workers Pioneer, and in 2020, she was named a Woman of Influence by the Milwaukee Business Journal. Her practice experience includes clinical, administrative, policy, and research positions in a variety of health and long-term care organizations. She currently serves on the Aging and Disabilities Resource Center of Milwaukee County Wisconsin. She served on the State of Missouri Board of Nursing Home Administrators, from 2004 – 2011 and was Vice President of the Board from 2010 -2011. She is a past member of the Board of Directors of the National Association of Social Workers. She was a member of two Consensus Study Committees with the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, the Health and Medical Dimensions of Social Isolation and Loneliness in Older Adults, from 2018 –2020 and The National Imperative to Improve Nursing Home Quality from 2020 - 2022. She also served on the National Academies of Medicine Vital Directions Project in 2020-2021. Dr. Galambos’ active research areas include care transitions, advance care planning/end of life decision making, aging in place, health and long–term care systems quality improvement, gerontechnology, older adults and behavioral health, practice approaches in work with older adults, family caregiving, and competency-based gerontological education. She is a graduate of Cornell University, University of Maryland at Baltimore, and The Catholic University of America.
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