Dr. George Leibowitz is Dean and Distinguished Professor at Rutgers School of Social Work, The State University of New Jersey.
He provides leadership for social work programs on the New Brunswick, Newark and Camden campuses. His work has been
focused on integrated behavioral health, community and stakeholder engaged research, child maltreatment, and etiological models of victimization. For the past 25 years he has dedicated his career to forensic social work including providing clinical treatment, risk assessment, evaluation, and offense-specific interventions with adults and adolescents with sexually harmful behavior. He has been active in policy change and serves as
research and clinical member of the Association for the Prevention and Treatment of Sexual Abuse (ATSA). In 2018, Dr Leibowitz co-authored with Dr Maschi Forensic social work: Psychosocial and legal issues across diverse populations and settings (2nd Ed.) with Springer Publishing, and he was founding chair of its Forensic Social Work program in the MSW Program at Stony Brook University (SUNY). He also has a visiting appointment as Professor at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) in Mumbai, India. Dr. Leibowitz received his MSW and PhD at the University of Denver.
Dr. Leibowitz’s current service is at Montfort Therapeutic Residence in Port Jefferson, New York, where he provides program consultation and training, risk assessments, and clinical treatment with adolescents with sexually harmful behavior. His prior forensic social work practice included consultation/training at the Vermont Department for Children and Family Services; at Stetson School residential treatment program in Barre,
Massachusetts; as a clinical/research consultant at Northeastern Family Institute in Burlington, Vermont; as well as a clinical supervisor at Progressive Therapy Systems in Denver, Colorado.
Additionally, Dr. Leibowitz is an expert on opioid addiction and is an interdisciplinary researcher implementation scientist, consultant, trainer, and licensed clinician in adult and adolescent mental health and substance abuse assessment and treatment across the lifespan. His research focuses on the social determinants of health, and he has worked with his colleagues at Rutgers and SUNY to bring cutting-edge artificial intelligence to solve real-world community issues and drive better health outcomes through informatics. He recently served as the Director of the Community and
Stakeholder Engagement Network for the Long Island Network for Clinical and Translational Science (LINCATS) module as part of Stony Brook’s Clinical and
Translational Science Award (CTSA), with the aim of enhancing trusting relationships between researchers, patients, and community members and reducing health inequalities by race and socioeconomic status.
