Psychosocial Oncology
Center for Psycho-oncology and Palliative Care Research
Leadership and Staff
Director
Research Staff
Lauren Vanderwerker, PhD, PI on study of suicide bereavement; K award proposal on ethnic disparities in access to palliative care
Baohui Zhang, MS, Center statistician
Susan Anderson, BA, Center recruiter and interviewer
Aryany Sanchez, Center research assistant
Core Investigators
Lauren Vanderwerker, PhD
Amy Sullivan, EdD
Mary Buss, MD
Kara Zivin-Bambauer, PhD
Tracy Balboni, MD
Alaka Ray, AB
Baohui Zhang, MS
Juliet Jacobsen, MD, MPH
Alex Smith, MD
Affiliated Members
Joseph Greer, PhD
Vicki Jackson, MD
Brett Litz, PhD
Ellen McCarthy, PhD
Susan Mitchell, MD, MPH
Tony Papa, PhD
External Collaborators/Consultants
Sean Morrison, MD
Paul Maciejewski, PhD
Selby Jacobs, MD, MPH
Colin Murray Parkes, MD
Robert Friedlander, MD
NIH-funded BIDMC/MHS Pre-doctoral training program in aging research
Gabriel K. Silverman, AB
Faculty Sabbatical
Simon Shimshon Rubin, PhD, professor of Psychology, University of Haifa, 2006-2007
