Professor Kathylene Siska

Research Background

Professor Siska has extensive experience in social work and senior management positions in higher education. Her research interests have mainly focussed on primary care frameworks and the role of education in the provision of social services, and her roles in academic insititutions have included such varied practical aspects such as counselling, clinical supervision and developing and teaching on degree courses in both the USA and the UK. She was the Director of the School of Social Work at both the University of Missouri, Kansas City, Missouri, and St. Ambrose University, Davenport, Iowa, during which time she was a tenured professor at both institutions. She has alo been an expert reviewer on the UK’s Social Care Research Ethics Committee, and also served on senior committees at both USA Universities where she was employed.

Professor’s Siska’s strengths lie in programme development in her areas of expertise, research design applicable to the subject under consideration, as well as providing leadership and mentoring in her field of expertise in the longer term.

Selected Publications

• Shank, B.W., and Siska, K.F.  (2000). Catholic social work education:  Providing social services for postindustrial global economies. Disoccupazione e Poverta: Cause e Rimedi. 499 – 503.  Rome: Inail.
• Biddle, W.B., Risenberg, L.A., Erney, S.E., and Siska K.F. (1997). Validation of a model of ambulatory teaching.  Family Medicine.
• Fox, F.E., Ruby, J.R., Siska, K.F., and Singer, T.L. (1996). Characteristics of emergencyadmissions to a forensic psychiatric hospital. The Bulletin of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, 24, (2), 237-245.
• Goldberg, S.E., and Siska, K.F. (1995). Teaching management of postpartum hemorrhage to Family Practice residents. In Advanced Life Support in Obstetrics. Kansas City: American Academy of Family Practice.
• Erney, S.L., Biddle, W.B., Siska, K.F., and Riesenberg, L.A. (1994). Change in medical students’ attitudes about primary care during the third year of medical school. Academic Medicine, 69(11), 927-929.
• Biddle, W.B., Siska, K.F., and Erney, S.L. 1994).  An ambulatory teaching model for primary care. Teaching and Learning in Medicine, 6(3), 185-190.
• Biddle, W.B., Siska, K.F., and Erney, S.L. (1992). A promising approach to teaching primary care in the ambulatory care setting. Academic Medicine, 67(7), 457.
• Erney, S.L., Siska, K.F., and Allen, D.L. (1991). Effect of a year-long primary care clerkship on graduates’ selection of Family Practice residencies. Academic Medicine, 66(4), 234-236.
• Siska, K.F. (1990, July 16). Ensuring healthy babies in upstate New York: pressing problems, promising strategies. Hearing of the Select Committee on Children, Youth and Families, U.S. House of Representatives, 185-191.