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Professor Edward J. Mullen, a faculty member at the Columbia University School of Social Work since 1987, has been appointed the first Willma and Albert Musher Professor of Social Work.
The appointment was made by the University Trustees and announced by Columbia President George Rupp.
Experienced in social work practice, analysis and research, he is director of the Center for the Study of Social Work Practice, a joint program of Columbia and the Jewish Board of Family and Children's Services. Since 1989, he has been director of the National Institute of Mental Health Doctoral Training Program in Mental Health Services Research and HIV/AIDS. He is a co-author of 10 books and has written 40 articles on chronic dependency, strategies for social intervention, social welfare administration policies, minority recruitment and clinical practice. In addition, his research has focused on social intervention, evaluation, expert systems applications to social welfare, mental health service systems and minority leadership development.
Before joining Columbia, he was a professor at the University of Chicago from 1976 to 1987, where he was a founding director of the NIMH Doctoral Training Program in Mental Health Services Research. He was a faculty member at Fordham University from 1967 to 1976.
He earned bachelor's and master's degrees at Catholic University of America and the Doctorate in Social Welfare at Columbia in 1968. Early in his career he was a social worker in Washington, D.C. and a family counselor for Jewish Family Services in New York. He was director from 1969 to 1973 of the Institute of Welfare Research for the Community Service Society of New York.
At Columbia, he served as associate dean of social work from 1987 to 1992 and was acting dean during the fall 1991 term. He directed the Minority Leadership Development Project from 1988 to 1994 and has been director of the Center for the Study of Social Work Practice since 1992.
He is a member of the editorial review board of the Journal of Social Service Research and a director of the U.S. Committee of the International Conference on Social Welfare and the Martha Selig Educational Institute of the Jewish Board of Family and Children's Services. He has been a consulting editor of the Journal of Applied Behavioral Science and was a member of the editorial board of research of the journal Social Work Research and Abstracts.
The Musher Professorship was established by the University Trustees this year for life betterment through science and technology with an endowment from Mr. Musher, a benefactor of the school for a number of years and a director of Stiefel Laboratories. As president of Avino Pharmaceuticals Inc., now merged with S.C. Johnson Co., from 1948 to 1969 he was responsible for inventions that led to 50 U.S. and foreign patents on pharmaceutical and food products.
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