Featured Social Worker: Susan Matorin

After achieving a Bachelor of Arts from Vassar College in 1964, Ms. Matorin became a certified social worker. She obtained a Master of Science from the Columbia University School of Social Work in 1966. Spearheading an illustrious career in social work, she currently excels as a senior lecturer of social work in psychiatry at Weill Cornell College of Medicine. In addition, since 2002, she has been a treatment coordinator on the effective disorder team with the Cornell Psychiatry Intensive Outpatient Program, where she was previously program director from 1997 to 2000. To add to her feats, Ms. Matorin has been a member of the Advanced Council, second vice-chair, and chair of the Lucille Austin Lectureship Committee of the Columbia School of Social Work.

In the earlier years of her career, Ms. Matorin was chief of social work of the Washington Heights Community Service with the New York State Psychiatric Institute from 199 to 1978, as well as an adjunct associate professor at the Columbia School of Social Work in 1977. From there, she served as chief of ambulatory social work in psychiatry at New York-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center from 1978 to 1981 and as director of social work at the Payne Whitney Clinic New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center from 1981 to 1997.

Having contributed numerous articles to professional publications, Ms. Matorin has also had multiple letters on mental health and social work issues published in the New York Times, including “Letters, Considering a Corona Virus Divorce” from 2020. Notably, she received the Hyman J. Weiner Award from the Society for Social Work Leaders in HealthCare in 2006. Earlier, she accepted a Centennial Award in 1998, was nominated for Social Work Director of the Year by the Society for Social Work Leadership in Health Care in 1995, and was awarded a Distinguished Service Medal from Columbia University in 1989.