Senior Research Specialist
City of Hope National Medical Center
1500 East Duarte Road
Duarte
CAUSA
91010-3012
Email:
sotis-green@coh.org
Biographical Sketch: Shirley Otis-Green, MSW, ACSW, LCSW, OSW-C is a licensed clinical social worker and Senior Research Specialist in Nursing Research and Education at the City of Hope in Duarte, California. Her clinical work, research, presentations and publications focus on transdisciplinary palliative care and integrated symptom management with a special emphasis on underserved populations. Shirley is the Principal Investigator of two National Cancer Institute-funded grants (the ACE Project and ExCEL in Social Work), and developed the nationally recognized Promoting Excellence in Pain Management and Palliative Care for Social Workers course. Shirley received a Social Work Leadership Award from the Project on Death in America and is a Mayday Pain and Society Fellow. In 2009, she was elected as a Distinguished Social Work Practitioner in the National Academies of Practice. Shirley and her colleague Terry Altilio, ACSW, are co-editors of the Textbook of Palliative Social Work, (in press, 2011, Oxford University Press). Shirley received her Bachelor of Arts Degree from the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, her Master of Social Work Degree from the University of Hawaii and she is currently enrolled in a doctoral program in palliative care at Lancaster University in Great Britain.