Dr. Groden has received funding from Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan and the Aldrich Fund at Michigan State University. Utilizing both quantitative and qualitative methodology, she has worked and published in the areas of field competencies, complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), and is currently working on a project regarding social worker patient-provider communication and CAM, and the issue of older African Americans’ perceptions of late-life depression. Dr. Groden received her MSW from UC Berkeley, and her PhD in Social Work from Michigan State University. Prior to returning to school for her doctorate, she worked in San Francisco with older Holocaust Survivors and their families, in adult day health care, and as a medical social worker and clinical supervisor in hospital and dialysis settings.