Melissa McCool, MSW, LCSW, is a bilingual licensed clinical social worker with fourteen years of experience. During the 1990s she was a case manager for end-stage AIDS patients in New York City, and then the social worker for the medical Emergency Room at Mt. Sinai Hospital. She went on to serve as the social worker for Mt. Sinai’s psychiatric Emergency Room, where she applied a hands-on approach to the solution of complex patient problems. She later worked in the Geriatric Psychiatry Department, assessing and treating patients most of whom suffered from Alzheimer’s disease, an area in which she developed a sub-specialty. Throughout her career, Melissa has contracted on a part-time basis with visiting nurse companies to case-manage homebound patients, and she has recent experience in California with the concerns of the clients of kidney dialysis units. Her degrees are from UC San Diego and Columbia.
Hillel Schwartz, PhD, has a decade of experience case-managing cancer patients, stroke patients, and the terminally ill, and has worked closely with their families, guiding them when necessary through the Last Days and advising on legal and technical issues as well as plans for memorials. As an historian, poet, translator, and public arts consultant, he has published six books in cultural history, history of religions, and history of technology and medicine. Hillel has served as project scholar for initiatives of the National Endowment for the Humanities, National YMCA, American Library Association, and the Parliament of the World’s Religions. He has also written, lectured, and taught on topics related to obesity and weight loss, environmental noise, and medical ethics. His degrees are from Brandeis University, UC Berkeley, and Yale, with study and research in Europe and Canada.
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