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Kathleen Ruth Ell Ernest P. Larson Professor of Health, Ethnicity, and Poverty Professor D.S.W. University of California, Los Angeles, 1978 M.S.W. University of California, Los Angeles, 1966 B.A. Valparaiso University, Indiana ell@usc.edu Download Curriculum Vitae |
| KATHLEEN ELL has conducted extensive research on health care-seeking behavior, major depression, general psychological distress, quality of life and morbidity, and mortality associated with life-threatening illness and chronic illness. A hallmark of her research and numerous publications has been a focus on low-income and ethnically diverse populations.
She is currently leading or has completed numerous federally funded pilot and large-scale randomized clinical trials on multi-faceted and collaborative interdisciplinary structured interventions and care management algorithms to improve follow-up of abnormal cancer screens among low-income ethnic minority women, the detection and treatment of depression among older adults receiving home health care service, trans-disciplinary collaborative care models to detect and treat depression among low-income minority patients with cancer, and a patient navigation and social work intervention to improve access and adherence to cancer treatment among low-income minority women. These studies are all aimed at testing the interventions under real-world service conditions and have been actively and fully partnered with diverse organizational systems, decision makers and practitioners. Dr. Ell is among the leaders of the USC Clinical and Translational Science Institute Center for Community Translation. She has also received NIH-funded minority supplements to provide mentoring and real-world research opportunities for two social work faculty, one psychiatrist, one behavioral scientist and one doctoral student. She has authored 70 publications, including two books, with one book in preparation. Dr. Ell has long been a strong advocate for increasing social workers' contributions to translational science and randomized clinical trials aimed at significantly advancing evidence-based and interdisciplinary social work practice. To actively promote these agendas, while on leave from the university, she worked at the National Institute of Mental Health and served as the executive director for the Institute for the Advancement of Social Work Research in Washington, DC. She currently serves on the editorial board of Social Work Research. Intervention manuals, intervention protocols and educational and cultural adaptation materials are available on request. Please contact Dr. Ell at ell@usc.edu or by phone at 213.743.2332. |
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