Philip McCallion

Professor
Director
Social Work
Office
Ritter Hall Annex 555A

Biography

Philip McCallion, PhD, is currently professor and director of the School of Social Work within the College of Public Health at Temple University. He is also director of the ABA Centers of America Autism Lab, co-founder/co-PI/co-applicant of the Intellectual Disability Supplement to the Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing, and national consultant on intellectual disabilities and dementia for the National Alzheimer's and Dementia Resource Center. For over 30 years, McCallion's systems design, translational research, and training offerings to states, large cities, and communities have extended to:

  • Improving systems integration, creating aging-prepared/friendly communities
  • Embedding continuous quality improvement processes and outcomes, evidence-based health promotion, self-management, care transitions, options counseling, screening, and participant-directed practices in services delivery
  • Development and successful randomized control trial testing of interventions
  • Evaluation of non-pharmacological interventions for persons with dementia and persons with intellectual disabilities and dementia and of psycho-educational interventions for families including kinship caregivers, with improved reach to African American, Latinx/Hispanic, Chinese, and Korean families
  • In-person, webinar-based, and phone-based training and technical assistance in eight countries on aging, dementia care, and related service redesign including programming for persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities and for autistic individuals
  • Development of innovative demonstration projects designed to maintain aging persons with intellectual disabilities in the community
  • Advancing early identification, assessment, care planning, and person-centered care for older adults, persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities, and autistic individuals
  • Increasing the reach of palliative care programs

McCallion has offered trainings and technical assistance in the translation and implementation of evidence-based/evidence-informed interventions, participant-centered counseling, and self-directed service strategies, as well as the launching, management, and evaluation of aging and disability resource centers and aging-prepared communities. He is a master trainer in National DPP and in Making the Connection (to address loneliness and isolation) as well as co-developer of the COMPASS EBI data and project management system.

Professor McCallion, ranked by ScholarGPS for the past five years as #4 globally in the field of intellectual disability, has over 250 publications and has received over $50,000,000 in grants and contracts. He is a fellow of the National Academies of Practice, American Association of Social Work and Social Welfare, the International Association for the Scientific Study of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, and the Gerontological Society of America. He has received the Career Achievement Award from the Association for Community Organization and Social Action; a Lifetime Achievement Award, from the American Public Health Association's Disability Division; the President’s Award for Exemplary Community Engagement from the University at Albany; a Career Achievement Award from the Association for Gerontology Education in Social Work; and the Excellence in Research Award from the University at Albany.

Education

  • PhD, University of Albany
  • MSW, University of Albany
  • BSSc, Social Studies, The Queen's University of Belfast Northern Ireland

Curriculum Vitae 

Google Scholar: Philip McCallion's Google Scholar profile

Courses Taught

Number

Name

Level

SSWG 8826

Aging HBSE

Graduate

Selected Publications