Associate Professor, Pending Rank
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
Miami, Florida
Wendy G. Lichtenthal, PhD, FT, FAPOS is Director of the Center for the Advancement of Bereavement Care at the Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center and Associate Professor, Pending Rank, in the Department of Public Health Sciences at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. She is a licensed clinical psychologist and has worked as a grief specialist for 20 years. Since 2005, she has been at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK), where she was Founding Director of the Bereavement Clinic and Associate Attending Psychologist, and where she now serves as Consultant Faculty. She was a recipient of the 2012 International Psycho-Oncology Society Kawano New Investigator Award, the 2019 Association for Death Education and Counseling (ADEC) Research Recognition Award, and the 2023 American Psychosocial Oncology Society Outstanding Clinical Care Award. She is a Fellow in Thanatology and was elected to the ADEC Board of Directors in 2023. Her federally-funded research has been funded by the National Institute of Mental Health, National Cancer Institute, National Institute of Nursing Research, American Cancer Society, T.J. Martell Foundation, and MSK’s Cycle for Survival and has focused on grief and bereavement, cancer survivorship, intervention development and evaluation, and finding meaning in the face of adversity.
When your seriously ill patient is a parent: a primer in family-focused care for the CL psychiatrist
Friday, November 8, 2024
3:10 PM – 4:25 PM EST
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