Ms. Volland is the Senior Vice President for Strategy and Business Development
at The New York Academy of Medicine.She is also Director of the Academy's Social Work Leadership Institute, leading national education, policy and research efforts to advance our society's ability to support and care for older adults in a productive and coordinated manner. These efforts include educational initiatives to create social work leaders to work with older adults and developing and implementing policies that benefit people in the third stage of their lives, 60+.
Ms. Volland serves on the Board of the Altman Foundation, a New York City based institution that lends support to programs that serve community populations, in particular the vulnerable and the disadvantaged. She is the former Chairman of the Board of Planned Parenthood of New York City, where she placed a special emphasis on effective advocacy to ensure access to health and reproductive services for women who wish to make responsible and independent decisions about their lives.
Prior to joining The New York Academy of Medicine, Ms. Volland spent 25 years as a hospital administrator. She has held administrative and clinical social work positions at several academic medical centers, including fifteen years at The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions. She has served as National President and Board Member of the Social for Social Work Administrators in Health Care of the American Hospital Association.
She is a Fellow of The New York Academy of Medicine, and has edited and published in numerous scholarly journals and books. She is expert in issues of aging, workforce development and ageing, social work, and women's health issues.
Ms. Volland has participated in several mayoral and gubernatorial commissions on aging and health care. She is a member of the Health Care Executive Forum and other professional organizations. She is a recipient of major grant support for developing health and aging services and serves on the editorial board of the journal Social Work in Health Care.
Contact information: (212) 822-7207; pvolland@nyam.org
Click here for a list of Ms. Volland's available publications in PubMed.