Kenneth J. Gill, Ph.D., CPRP, is Founding Chair and Professor in the Department of Psychiatric Rehabilitation and Behavioral Health Care at UMDNJ - School of Health Related Professions. The first department of its nature in the country, it offers associates', bachelor, master's and doctoral degrees in psychiatric rehabilitation as well as post-doctoral studies in psychiatric rehabilitation and a master's degree in rehabilitation counseling. Before coming to UMDNJ, Dr. Gill worked for 8 years at Mt. Carmel Guild CMHC. A graduate of Columbia University (B.A., M.Phil, Ph.D.) an Marquette University (M.S.) and, his doctoral degree is in Measurement, Evaluation, and Statistics. He is a co-author of the text, Psychiatric Rehabilitation , an integrated introduction for the field, published in its 2 nd edition by Elsevier in 2006. He is co-editor-in-chief of the Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal and associate editor of the American Journal of Psychiatric Rehabilitation. He is chair of the Certification Commission on Psychiatric Rehabilitation, past president of the New Jersey Psychiatric Rehabilitation Association and a former board member of the International Association of Psychosocial Rehabilitation Services. He has been the recipient of a number of awards including USPRA's John Beard and New Jersey 's Mort Gati awards, both for the embodiment of psychiatric rehabilitation principles. A former trustee of Project Live, Inc., he is president of the board of Triple C Housing (New Brunswick , NJ) and serves on the advisory board of Volunteers of America of Northern New Jersey.

Email Dr. Gill at: kgill@umdnj.edu