Katherine Walsh-Burke, Ph.D., MSW is Associate Professor of Social Work, Springfield College, Springfield Mass. She is in the second cohort of PDIA Social Work Leadership award recipients for the development of Internet based courses in End of Life Care. She teaches courses in Social Work Practice Methods, Family Treatment, Psychopathology, and Therapeutic Applications of Adventure and is currently teaching the college's first Distance Learning course on Loss and Bereavement. She provides supervision and consultation through her private practice to oncology programs and professionals throughout Western Mass. Professional publications include the Cancer Survival Toolbox: an audiotape self-advocacy training program for cancer survivors, which received the C-PEN award of excellence in 2000. Dr. Walsh-Burke has served as Secretary of the Association of Oncology Social Work and serves on the professional advisory board of Cancer Connection, a complementary care program based in Northampton, Mass. as well as the Extramural Grants Review Committee of the American Cancer Society. In addition to the PDIA grant-funded project, she is currently developing three innovative psychoeducational programs for cancer survivors and oncology professionals with three additional grants received from the American Cancer Society in 2001. She also recieved the innaugural Trish Greene Award of Excellence from the American Cancer Society  in Nov, 2000 for her article:

Teaching Self-advocacy to Cancer Survivors, Walsh-Burke and Marcusen (1999)Cancer Practice.