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Cultivating expertise in social work across five decades, Susan Matorin thrives as a senior lecturer of social work in psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York. Instructing and lecturing students on social work within her areas of specialization, she concurrently serves as a board member of the Helen Rehr Center for Clinical Practice. Earlier, she was a program director and treatment coordinator with the Cornell Psychiatry Intensive Outpatient Program, the director of social work at the Payne Whitney Clinic, and a chief psychiatric social worker at the Columbia University Medical Center and the New York State Psychiatric Institute. Well-regarded for her scholarly contributions, Ms. Matorin authored articles in The New York Times and The Social Work Journal, the latter of which published her article “Finding Joy in Social Work” in 2015. To attest to her success, she earned the Ellen Perlman Simon Outstanding Mentor Award and the Hyman J. Weiner Award from The Society for Social Work Leadership in Health Care in 2021 and 2006, respectively, as well as the Centennial Award in 1998 and the Distinguished Service Medal from Columbia University in 1989. She has been a certified and licensed social worker in New York State since 1966.