Bradley Zodikoff
Adjunct Lecturer

Bradley Zodikoff teaches Foundations of Social Work Practice and Social Work Research Methods at the Columbia University School of Social Work (CUSSW). He is a B.A. graduate of Columbia College and received his Master of Science degree in Social Work from CUSSW in 1993.

Mr. Zodikoff is a social work practitioner with ten years of clinical and program development experience in diverse healthcare and community-based settings in New York City. His current practice and research focus on social work with chronically ill older adults and their family members across the continuum of care. Most recently, as Special Projects Coordinator for the Caregivers and Professionals Partnership (CAPP) at The Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, he developed and implemented grant-funded, hospital-based family caregiver initiatives.

Mr. Zodikoff, a Ph.D. candidate in Advanced Social Work Practice at CUSSW, is a John A. Hartford Foundation Geriatric Social Work Doctoral Fellow. He is currently conducting a dissertation study on gender differences/dyadic patterns in the community service use attitudes of older spousal caregiver-care recipient couples.

Selected Recent Publications:

Gardner, D., & Zodikoff, B.D. (2003). Meeting the challenges of social work practice in health care and aging the 21st Century. In B. Berkman & L. Harootyan (Eds.). Social Work and Health Care in an Aging Society: Education, Policy, Practice and Research (pp. 377-392). New York: Springer Publishing.

Zodikoff, B.D. (2002). Understanding older spousal dyads' attitudes toward community service use: An analysis of applied theoretical models. Journal of Gerontological Social Work, 39 (3), 3-21.

Dobrof, J., Zodikoff, B.D., Ebenstein, H., & Phillips, D. (in press). The Caregivers and Professionals Partnership: A hospital-based program for family caregivers. Journal of Gerontological Social Work.

Burnette, D., Mui, A.C., & Zodikoff, B.D. (in press). Gender, self-care and functional status among older persons with coronary heart disease: A national perspective. Women and Health.

Berkman, B., Gardner, D., Zodikoff, B.D., & Harootyan, L. (in progress). Social work and aging in the emerging health care world. Journal of Gerontological Social Work.