Susan Neely-Barnes, PhD MSW
Dr. Susan Neely-Barnes is professor of social work and chair of the School of Social Work at the University of Memphis. She earned her doctorate in Social Welfare in 2005 from the University of Washington, Seattle. She has eleven years of experience directing Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) training grants and has received over $12 million in grant funding. Dr. Neely-Barnes has served on the human rights committee for the West TN regional office from 2013 – 18 and co-facilitated a sibling of children with developmental disabilities group from 2003 – 07. 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. Professional memberships include the Council on Social Work Education, the National Association of Social Workers, the Society for Social Work and Research, the American Association of Intellectual and Developmental Disability, and the National Association of Deans & Directors of Schools of Social Work.