Dynamic Group

Instructors

Katherine Walsh-Burke, Ph.D., MSW, is an Associate Professor at the Springfield College School of Social Work in Springfield Mass where she designs and teaches courses in social work practice with vulnerable and resilient populations, family therapy, therapeutic applications of adventure and loss and bereavement. She has practiced as an oncology social worker for 25 years in a variety of settings including as a senior social worker and student supervisor at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Director of Psychosocial Services at Hospice/VNA Alliance of Hampshire County and providing individual, group and family therapy in private practice. She has served in several positions on the board of the Association of Oncology Social Work and is a co-author of the C-Penn Award winning Cancer Survival Toolbox, a collaborative project of AOSW, the Oncology Nursing Society and the National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship. In 2000, Dr. Walsh-Burke received a Social Work Leadership Award from the Project on Death in America and has developed curriculum in end of life care for masters and post-masters level social workers as well as allied health professionals with this award. In 2001 she received the American Cancer Society’s Trish Greene Quality of Life Award of Excellence . In 2002 she received the Social Work Leadership Award from the Association of Oncology Social Work.

In addition to teaching and direct service provision, Dr. Walsh-Burke serves on the Medical Advisory Committee of the NE Division of the American Cancer Society and on the professional advisory committee of Cancer Connection. She has served as a regional director and secretary for AOSW and in 2003 served as Abstract chair for the 2003 Annual Conference.