Holly G Prigerson   Professor of Sociology in Radiology

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Holly G. Prigerson, PhD, is the Irving Sherwood Wright Professor of Geriatrics at Weill Cornell Medicine (WCM), and Director, Cornell Center for Research on End-of-Life Care. She was approved for tenure at Yale, Harvard, and WCM, and served as PI on numerous NIH investigations, including studies that justified the inclusion of Prolonged Grief Disorder in ICD-11 and DSM-5-TR and which have examined psychosocial influences on and outcomes of end-of-life care. She received the Harvard Medical School’s Clifford Barger Excellence in Mentoring Award, the 2012 NHPCO’s Distinguished Researcher Award, the NCI’s R35 Outstanding Investigator Award, and the 2018 AAHPM award for excellence in scientific research.  In 2022 her NCI Award was renewed for another 7-year period. Dr. Prigerson is also the 2024 recipient of the Debra Sivesand Career Award for Outstanding Contributions to Palliative Care, by MD Anderson Cancer Center.

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