Michael P. Dentato

Discipline: Social Work

Dr. Dentato is the Associate Dean for Research and Professor in the School of Social Work at Loyola University Chicago where he also serves as co-Director of C-FIRST and former vice chair of LUC Faculty Council. In addition to his teaching, research and scholarship interests focusing on LGBTQ+ health and mental health, Dr. Dentato has over thirty years of community-based and consultant experience including clinical, administrative, and policy work in New York City, Miami and Chicago. He is the editor of two editions of Social Work Practice with the LGBTQ+ Community: The Intersection of History, Health, Mental Health and Policy Factors, published by Oxford University Press. Dr. Dentato can be contacted at mdentato@luc.edu

Michael can be contacted at mdentato@luc.edu