Knee/Wittman Outstanding Achievement

Robyn Golden, MA, LCSW, ACSW

Robyn Golden serves as the Associate Vice President of Social Work and Community Health and Chair of the Department of Social Work at Rush University Medical Center. She is the Co-Director of Rush’s Center for Excellence in Aging and the Center for Health and Social Care Integration. She is responsible for developing and overseeing health promotion and disease prevention, mental health, care coordination, and complex care models for many vulnerable populations such as older adults, family caregivers, people with chronic conditions and those who are unhoused.

For over 35 years, Robyn has been actively involved in service provision, program development, interprofessional education, research and public policy aimed at developing innovative initiatives and systems integration to improve health and well-being.Robyn serves on the RRF Foundation for Aging and the Health and Medicine Boards of Directors. She was the John Heinz Senate Fellow for Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, and she is a Past Chair of the American Society on Aging.

Robyn received the Gerontological Society of America's Maxwell A. Pollack Award for Productive Aging and the American Public Health Association’s Insley-Evans Public Health Social Worker of the year award. She founded and chairs the Coalition for Social Work and Health and served as a member of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) committee studying the integration of social needs care into the delivery of health care.

She is a National Association of Social Workers—Social Work Pioneer. And a fellow of the Gerontological Society of America and of the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare. Robyn holds a master’s degree from the University of Chicago and a bachelor’s degree from Miami University.