Mailing Information:

Contact Information:

University of Maryland

Phone: (410) 706.7610

School of Social Work

Fax: (410) 706.6046

525 West Redwood Street

E-mail: lcorneli@ssw.umaryland.edu

Baltimore, Maryland 21201

Room: 3E22

Education:

MA; PhD, University of Chicago

Expertise and Research Interests:

Access to Medical Care for the Disadvantaged

Ethnicity

Institutional Racism

Poverty

Memberships:

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Historically Black Colleges and Universities Grant Program

Hispanic Health Services Research Grant Program

Agency for Health Care Research

Quality's Health Care Research Training (HCRT) grant program

Board of Directors, Family Support America

Honors and Awards:

Phi Kappa Phi National Honor Society, December 2001.

Association of Black Social Workers, Baltimore Chapter - outstanding commitment and contribution to healthcare access for African Americans, 2000.

University of Maryland, Baltimore, Certificate of Merit for Distinguished Service in a technical capacity as a campus year 2000 technical coordinator, 1999.

The 1996 Elizabeth Butler Alumni Award for demonstrated exceptional leadership in health and social policy. The University of Chicago, School of Social Service Administration, 1996.

The City Council of Baltimore, resolution in recognition of outstanding service to the HIV Prevention Community Planning Group, 1995.

Council on Social Work Education Minority Fellow, 1986-1988

Recent Publications:

Cornelius, LJ, "Reach out and I'll be there: Mental Health Crisis Intervention and Mobile Outreach services to Urban African Americans," Journal Health and Social Work, with Gaynell Simpson, Laura Ting, Sharon Lipford and Edgar Wiggins.

Cornelius, LJ, "A Case Study of Crisis Intervention and Mobile Outreach Program Targeted to Indigent African Americans," Journal of the American Association of Emergency Psychiatry with Edgar Wiggins.

Cornelius, LJ. Defining substance abusers using a prism: what you see is what you get. Health and Social Work, Vol. 27 (3) 2002: 234-237.

Cornelius LJ, Smith PL Simpson GM. What factors hinder women of color from obtaining preventive services? American Journal of Public Health, 2002, Vol. 92 (4):535-539.

Okundaye JN, Cornelius, LJ, Manning MC. "Drug trafficking among African American youth," Journal of African American Men, 2001. Vol. 5 (1): 39-63.

Cornelius LJ, "Intentional Injury Hospitalizations For Persons with disabilities: A multi-state analysis." in B, Altman and S.N. Barnartt (eds). Expanding the Scope of Social Science Research on Disability - Volume 1 Stamford, CT: JAI Press, 2000.

Cornelius LJ "Financial Barriers to Health Care for Latinos: Poverty and Beyond." Journal of Poverty: Innovations on social political and economic inequalities Vol. 4, #1 2000, Vol. 4 (1/2):63-83 and in Latino Poverty in the New Century Inequalities, Challenges and Barriers Edited by Maria Vidal de Haymes, PhD, Keith M. Kilty, PhD, and Elizabeth A. Segal, Binghamton, NY: Haworth Press.

Cornelius, LJ, Okundaye, JN, Manning MC HIV related risk behavior among African American females. Journal of the National Medical Association, Vol. 92 #4 2000: 183-195.

Zlotnik JL, Cornelius LJ. "Preparing Social Work Students for Child Welfare Careers: The Use of Title IV-E Funds in Social Work Education." Journal of Baccalaureate Social Work Education 2000, Vol. 5(2):1-15.

Cornelius LJ "Having limited choices for medical care: Does it lead to delays in seeking care for Minority Populations? In Carol Hogue (ed). Minority Health in America Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000.

Cornelius LJ, Collins KS. "Financial Barriers in Minority Populations: Poverty and Beyond." in Carol Hogue (ed). Minority Health in America. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000.

Drs. Ed Pecukonis, Llewellyn Cornelius, and Margarete Parrish published an article entitled "The Future of Health Social Work" in Social Work in Health Care. Vol. 37(3), pp 1-15.

Fixing That Great Hodgepodge: Healthcare for the Poor in the U.S., Journal of Poverty. Vol. 7 (1/2), pp. 7-22.

Drs. Llewellyn Cornelius and Larry Ortiz published a chapter titled, “Is Being the Largest Latino Ethnic Group Enough to Ensure Mexican American Equity of Access to Health Care?” in The Color of Social Policy, a text published by CSWE and edited by King E. Davis and Tricia B. Bent-Goodley.

“The Validity and Reliability Testing of a Consumer-Based Cultural Competency Inventory,” was published in the May2004 issue of Research on Social Work Practice.

Drs. Joshua Okundaye, Llewellyn Cornelius, and Maxwell Manning, “Empowering African Americans Through Social Work Practice: Integrating an Afrocentric Perspective, Ego Psychology, and Spirituality” Families in Society, 2004, Vol. 85 (2): 225-231

Drs. Larry Ortiz and Llewellyn Cornelius, “Access to Health Care Among Latinos of Mexican Descent in Two Texas Counties,” The Journal of Rural Health, Vol. 20 (2): 246-252.  Cornelius and Ortiz also coauthored “Research As Partnership With Communities of Color: Two Case Examples,” 8th Proceedings from the National Center for Health Statistics Health Services Research Methods Conference.

“Latinas and HIV/AIDS Risk Factors: Implications for Harm Reduction Strategies,” a paper by Dr. Llewellyn J. Cornelius and colleagues, has been published in American Journal of Public Health, July 2004; 94:1152-1158.

A chapter authored by Professor Llewellyn Cornelius titled, "African Americans and Access to Health Care: Trends in the Use of Health Services," was published in Ivor Livingston’s (ed) Prager Handbook on Black American Health: Policies and Issues Behind Disparities in Health, Westport, CT: Praeger Publishing, Inc.

Aday, LA, Cornelius LJ. Designing and Conducting Health Surveys (3rd edition). San Francisco Wiley 2006.

Lawrence-Webb, C, Cornelius, LJ (2005) Interstate compact-A resource for meeting the needs of children: Implications for service delivery and policy development. Children and Youth Services Review, Vol 28(2), Feb 2006. pp. 212-226.

Strathdee SA, Ricketts EP, Huettner S, Cornelius L, Bishai D, Havens JR, Beilenson P, Rapp C, Lloyd JJ, Latkin CA. Facilitating entry into drug treatment among injection drug users referred from a needle exchange program: Results from a community-based behavioral intervention trial. Drug Alcohol Dependecy. 2005 Dec 16.