Helen Rehr

Helen Rehr, DSW, DSc (Hon), is currently Professor of Community Medicine Emerita and Consultant on social-health research, education, and program planning to Mount Sinai School of Medicine and Medical center. She is the retired Director, Department of Social Work Services, the Director of the academic Division of Social Work, and Director of the Division of Continuous Education of the Brookdale Center of Mount Sinai. She has been active internationally in Israel and Australia, where she has...See more

Helen Rehr, DSW, DSc (Hon), is currently Professor of Community Medicine Emerita and Consultant on social-health research, education, and program planning to Mount Sinai School of Medicine and Medical center. She is the retired Director, Department of Social Work Services, the Director of the academic Division of Social Work, and Director of the Division of Continuous Education of the Brookdale Center of Mount Sinai. She has been active internationally in Israel and Australia, where she has held visiting professorships. Dr. Rehr is the author, co-author, and editor of more than a hundred published studies, reports, articles, chapters, and books and the recipient of numerous honors, including Distinguished Social Work Practitioner for the National Academics of Practice, the Knee-Wittman Award for Lifetime Achievement, and the Ida M. Cannon Award of the Society of Hospital Social Work Directors, the American Hospital Association, and has been inducted into the Hall of Fame of both Hunter and Columbia. Although retired from Mount Sinai in 1986, she remains active at the institution and in a number of professional and community organizations. See less