Barbara Dane is a licensed clinical social worker and professional educator who has more than 30 years of experience in agency work, university teaching, private clinical practice, consulting, and training agency staff.  She is currently Associate Professor of Social Work at the Shirley M. Ehrenkranz School of Social Work at New York University where she directs the School's Post-Masters Certificate Program.

Much of Dr. Dane's professional career has involved clinical and training work around end of life care.  This focus began during her graduate research and has continued through her extensive work on HIV-related grief, loss, and survivorship.

Dr. Dane teaches core courses in the MSW curriculm and has developed and teaches an elective on Acute, Chronic and Life-Threatening Illness.  She supervises dissertations in the School's Ph.D. program and teaches advance courses in the School's Post-Masters Certificate program.

Dr. Dane has a substantial publishing record in social work, including two books and one in press and 17 articles and book chapters.  She is a frequent presenter at agencies and conferences.  In Spring 1999, she presented two papers on her work with Thai woman at the Seventh International Interdisciplinary Congress on Women in Tromso, Norway.

Currently, Dr. Dane is researching two projects: (1) the role of spirituality as a coping response of Thai women to HIV/AIDS and (2) the process through which feelings and attitudes about death and dying affect the decisions of foster families to reject and retain HIV-infected children as placements in their homes.  Dr. Dane directs the Consortium of End of Life Care, which she helped to establish in 1999.  The Consortium is a collaborative effort among the School and ten service agencies.