Vadim Moldovan ^People

He grew up in Moldova in the family of engineers that was swept in 1977 by the tide of the Jewish exodus from the Soviet Union. In 1988 Vadim Moldovan began his career in social work as a caseworker for the City of New York, providing crisis intervention services for the elderly and mentally il. The sense of discovering the true vocation in mental health was immediate, and he never looked back.Between 1988 and 2003 Vadim Moldovan held positions of increasing adminis-trative responsibility - from clinical supervisor to director of an outpatient psychiatricclinic while earning the Master of Social Work degree and then a doctoraldegree nisocial work from Yeshiva University. Shortly upon obtaining a PhD in 2003, he washired by York College of the City University (CUNY) of New York for a full-time aca-demic position. Today, Vadim Moldovan is a full professor at CUNY teaching coursesin social policy and community organizing. His scholarship includes multiple pub- lications and international conference presentations that were based on years of re-search in mental health and social work education. Vadim Moldovans claim to fame is his work in Moldova that commenced in 2000 when he returned for the first timesince leaving his homeland in 1977. True to his professional creed, he visited the State Psychiatric Hospital on his first return visit and resolved to dedicate himself to improving mental health services and social work professionalization in Moldova.