William Breitbart

Chairman, Jimmie Holland Chair in Psychiatric Oncology, Department of Psychiatry and Behav Sci @Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

William Breitbart, M.D. is Chairman, The Jimmie C Holland Chair in Psychiatric Oncology, and Chief of the Psychiatry Service, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC), New York, NY. Dr. Breitbart is also Attending Psychiatrist, Palliative Medicine Service, Department of Medicine at MSKCC, Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at Weill Medical College of Cornell University. He received the 2003 Research Award from the Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine, the 2007 Donald Oken Award from the American Psychosomatics Society, the 2008 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society for Liaison Psychiatry, the 2009 Arthur Sutherland Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Psycho-oncology Society, the 2009 Willet F. Whitmore Award for Clinical Excellence, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. Dr. Breitbart was the 2011 recipient of the Thomas Hackett Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine, and the 2013 recipient of the Jimmie Holland Award from the American Psychosocial Oncology Society. Dr Breitbart is a Past President of the Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine, as well as the International Psycho-oncology Society Dr. Breitbart\'s research efforts have focused on psychiatric aspects of cancer and palliative care. His most recent efforts have focused on Meaning-Centered Psychotherapy for cancer patients. Dr. Breitbart has over 350 peer review publications, chapters and review papers. In addition, Dr. Breitbart has edited/written 10 textbooks including: Psycho-oncology - 1st, 2nd and 3rd Editions(co-editor with Dr. Jimmie Holland); and treatment manuals on Meaning-Centered Group Psychotherapy in Advanced Cancer Patients, and Individual Meaning-Centered Psychotherapy for Advanced Cancer Patient. Dr. Breitbart is Editor-in-Chief, of Cambridge University Press’ international palliative care journal entitled, “Palliative & Supportive Care”. He helped establish IPOS Press.