Maxxine Rattner, PhD, RSW (she/her) has been engaged in social work practice in the areas of palliative and end-of-life care, dying, death and grief for the past 15 years. Her current research takes a critical approach to disrupting and expanding dominant discourses about dying and suffering within palliative care. She is also active in national advocacy and education efforts to depathologize grief. Her research interests extend to how social work roles are under-resourced across diverse health care settings (e.g., palliative care, acute care, long term care, home care, etc.), and the impact of field education on social work students. She is thrilled to be joining the School of Social Work community at York.

• Medal of Academic Excellence (Doctoral Level), Wilfrid Laurier University - 2023
• SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship - 2019-2021
• Ontario Graduate Scholarship - 2018
• Emerging Leader in Palliative Care Social Work, Social Work Hospice & Palliative Care Network - 2017

Current Courses

Maxxine Rattner, PhD, RSW (she/her) has been engaged in social work practice in the areas of palliative and end-of-life care, dying, death and grief for the past 15 years. Her current research takes a critical approach to disrupting and expanding dominant discourses about dying and suffering within palliative care. She is also active in national advocacy and education efforts to depathologize grief. Her research interests extend to how social work roles are under-resourced across diverse health care settings (e.g., palliative care, acute care, long term care, home care, etc.), and the impact of field education on social work students. She is thrilled to be joining the School of Social Work community at York.

Degrees

Awards

• Medal of Academic Excellence (Doctoral Level), Wilfrid Laurier University - 2023
• SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship - 2019-2021
• Ontario Graduate Scholarship - 2018
• Emerging Leader in Palliative Care Social Work, Social Work Hospice & Palliative Care Network - 2017

Current Courses