Shirley Otis-Green, MSW, LCSW, ACSW, OSW-C
Senior Research Specialist, Nursing Research and Education
City of Hope National Medical Center
Shirley Otis-Green is a licensed clinical social worker and Senior Research Specialist in the department of Nursing Research and Education at the City of Hope National Medical Center in Duarte, California. Her clinical work, research, presentations and publications focus on transdisciplinary palliative care and integrated symptom management with a special emphasis upon underserved populations.
Shirley is the Principal Investigator of the ACE Project – Advocating for Clinical Excellence: Transdisciplinary Palliative Care Education, a major 5-year National Cancer Institute R-25 Grant Award for development and implementation of a palliative care educational experience for 300 competitively-selected psycho-oncology professionals to enhance their advocacy, leadership and support skills. She also developed and coordinated the Promoting Excellence in Pain Management & Palliative Care for Social Workers annual training course.
As Clinical Program Manager in the department of Supportive Care, Pain and Palliative Medicine, she created the Transitions Program, which offered psycho-educational support services for those facing end of life, and the Art for the Heart: Hands on Harps Program. Shirley received a Social Work Leadership Award from the Project on Death in America for her work to enhance end-of-life and bereavement support services for Latino oncology patients. She received her Bachelor of Arts Degree from the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse and her Master of Social Work Degree from the University of Hawaii.
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