Susan Neely-Barnes

Dr. Susan Neely-Barnes is professor of social work and chair of the School of Social Work at the University of Memphis. She has eleven years of experience directing Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) training grants and has received over $12 million in grant funding. She is also an accomplished researcher focusing primarily on building the knowledge base in social work around effective supports for people with disabilities and their family members and improving the education and training of social work students. She has authored thirty-seven peer-reviewed publications and five book chapters and given more than fifty juried presentations.