Dedicated to Discovery. Committed to Care.

Center for Psycho-oncology and Palliative Care Research

Leadership and Staff

Director

Holly Prigerson, PhD

Research Staff

Maureen Clark, MS, Program Manager
Matthew Nilsson, BS, Research Assistant
Baohui Zhang, MS, Center Statistician

Core Investigators

Amy Sullivan, EdD
Mary Buss, MD
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

Study findings

screenshot from Dr. Alexi Wright video

Patients who had end-of-life discussions with their physicians had improved quality of life, say Dana-Farber researchers.
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Order diagnostic tools

If you'd like to order the Prolonged Grief Disorder (PG-13) diagnostic tool, or any other diagnostic tool developed at the Center for Psycho-oncology and Palliative Care Research, please call Maureen Clark at (617) 632-3248 or e-mail PsychooncResearch
@partners.org.