David A. Cherin California State University, Fullerton, USA

Dr. David A. Cherin, Professor, Department Chair & Social Work Program Director Cal State Fullerton, B.S., M.S.W., California State University at Long Beach Ph.D., Social Work, University of Southern California

Prior to returning to work on his MSW and PH.D., Doctor Cherin was an administrator and corporate vice president for over two decades with a large, multi-national health care management company. In this arena he was a Vice President with responsibilities in acute hospital operations and mergers and acquisitions. Since entering the field of social work, Dr. Cherin has held faculty positions at California State University Long Beach, California State University Bakersfield, the University of Southern California and University of Washington School’s of Social Work. He was the administrator of the Hamovitch Research Center at USC and Director and Chair of the Social Work Program at Cal State Bakersfield. He currently holds the position of the founding Director of the social work program at California State University, Fullerton. He has done extensive research, evaluation work and publishing in the areas of health care service delivery, organizations, evaluation and child welfare. His work in health services focuses on service delivery systems in end-of-life care. He has received the Soros Project Death in America’s Social Work Leadership Award for his work on end­-of –life issues with AIDS patients.