#44 Luis Zayas From the University of Texas

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Luis H. Zayas is the Robert Lee Sutherland Chair in Mental Health and Social Policy. Zayas was dean of the Steve Hicks School of Social Work from 2012 to 2022. He also holds an appointment as professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Dell Medical School of The University of Texas at Austin.

Zayas has held several national leadership roles, as president of the Society for Social Work and Research (2020-2022), president of the St. Louis Group for Excellence in Social Work Education and Research (served two terms 2016-2018; 2018-2020); member of the board of the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare (elected as Fellow in 2012), and member-at-large of the executive committee of the National Association of Deans and Directors of schools and programs in social work. Zayas was identified in a 2019 report (Journal of Social Service Research ) as one of the most influential contemporary social work scholars.