School of Social Work Announces Wednesday Series Program for Spring 2008

For Immediate Release

January 29, 2008

New York, NY – The Columbia University School of Social Work announced today its Wednesday Series program for the spring.  Since 2002, the Wednesday Series has fostered explorations of interdisciplinary scholarship, policy, and practice and has drawn attention to diverse social justice issues.

Speakers will include Richard Parsons, Chairman of the Board at Time Warner, Inc., Nina Bernstein, reporter for the New York Times, and Dr. John W. Rowe, former Chairman and CEO of Aetna, Inc.  Guest speakers will be appearing as follows:

	January 30 Richard Glassman, LCSW Clinical Social Worker Memorial Sloan Kettering Hospital
	February 13 Dr. Frances Cournos Professor of Psychiatry Columbia University
	February 27 Becky Bigio, RN Director, Senior Source Care Management Program Selfhelp Community Services, Inc.
	March 5 Richard Parsons Chairman of the Board Time Warner, Inc.
	March 26 Dr. Roberto Lewis-Fernandez Director of the NYS Cultural Competence Center of Excellence and the Hispanic Treatment Program New York State Psychiatric Institute
	April 2 Dr. John W. Rowe Professor of Health Policy Management  Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health
	April 23 Nina Bernstein Reporter New York Times
	April 30 Elana Katz Ackerman Institute for the Family

Initiated in 2002 by Dean Jeanette Takamura, the Wednesday Series features scholars, alumni, national experts and luminaries who are invited to speak on current topics that have implications for the social work profession. Past speakers have included Harvard anthropologist Dr. Arthur Kleinman, United Nations Ambassador Shirin Tahir-Kheli, author and clinician Dr. Peggy Drexler, and international photographer Eugene Richards.

Wednesday Series events are open to the public and unless otherwise noted, are held at the School of Social Work at 1255 Amsterdam Avenue in the concourse level from 12:30-1:30pm. For more information, please visit //socialwork.columbia.edu/wedseries, or email swevents@columbia.edu.