orange cover of  “Grand Challenges for Social Work and Society

Read more about the books recently released by UMB faculty in “CATALYST” magazine.


Read more about the following books from faculty of the University of Maryland, Baltimore in the latest issue of CATALYST magazine.

Richard P. Barth, PhD, MSW, professor and chair, Executive Committee of the Grand Challenges for Social Work, University of Maryland School of Social Work. “Grand Challenges for Social Work and Society,” Second Edition (Oxford University Press, 2022).

Robert V. Percival, JD, MA, Robert F. Stanton Professor of Law and director, Environmental Law Program, University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law. “Environmental Regulation: Law, Science, and Policy,” Ninth Edition (Aspen Publishing, 2021).

J. Howard Kucher, DPA, program director, MS in Health and Social Innovation, University of Maryland Graduate School. “Social Entrepreneurship: A Practice-Based Approach to Social Innovation” (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2022).

Susan dosReis, PhD, vice chair for research, Department of Pharmaceutical Health Services Research, University of Maryland School of Pharmacy. Consultant editor for “Pediatric Psychopharmacology for Primary Care,” Third Edition (American Academy of Pediatrics, 2021).

Vasken Dilsizian, MD, professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, “Atlas of Nuclear Cardiology,” Fifth Edition (Springer, 2021).

Corey S. Shdaimah, PhD, Daniel Thursz Distinguished Professor of Social Justice, University of Maryland School of Social Work, “Social Welfare Policy in a Changing World” (SAGE Publishing, 2020).

John Cagle, PhD, associate professor, University of Maryland School of Social Work. “The Oxford Textbook of Palliative Social Work,” Second Edition (Oxford University Press, 2022).


You can read the Spring 2022 issue of CATALYST magazine, which highlights the incredible work done by School of Medicine scientists and clinicians who successfully transplanted a genetically modified pig heart in a patient who survived for two months. We also share stories about law school alumnus Tamika Tremaglio, who now leads the National Basketball Players Association; Wendy Shaia, executive director of the School of Social Work’s Social Work Community Outreach Service; the UMB CURE Scholars Program’s first cohort going to college; and much, much more!

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