Lea Baider (born 1939), is a professor of medical psychology,[1] and considered one of the founders of psycho-oncology.[2] She is the director of psycho-oncology at the Sharsheret Institute of Oncology at the Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem.[3] Baider is also a member of the Middle East Cancer Consortium.[1] Baider runs workshops in psycho-oncology to expand the field.[4]
Baider was born and raised in Buenos Aires, Argentina.[5] She graduated with a B.A in education 1957 from the University of Buenos Aires.[5] In 1963, she graduated from with a M.A in clinical psychology from the University of Buenos Aires.[5] Between 1967 and 1968, she was a research fellow at Tufts University and at Harvard University.[5] In 1973, she earned her Ph.D. from Brandeis University, where she wrote her dissertation: Family Structure and the Process of Dying: A Study of Cancer Patients and their Family Interaction.[5]
Career
Baider started her career as a consulting psychologist in at Boston University Medical Center.[5] She then became a clinical psychologist in the oncology department of Shattuck Hospital, while running group therapy for drug-addiction at Boston University Medical Center.[5] She then became the supervisor for Boston University Medical Center's "family therapy training program".[5] She then moved to Israel and became a postdoctoral fellow at the Tel Aviv University Medical Center in Family Medicine.[5]
Psycho-oncology
In 1982, Baider built the psycho-oncology department at the Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem.[1] In 2012, she established the psycho-oncology department in Assuta Medical Center located in Tel Aviv.[1] She is a past president of the international psycho-oncology society.[3] In May 2015, Baider participated in a workshop teaching doctors about psycho-oncology at the Sacred Heart training center.[3] In 2018, she ran another workshop at Babes University.[2] She continues to practice psycho-oncology by giving support to women support through treatment and recovery of breast cancer.[6]
As of February 2018, Baider continues to run workshops about psycho-oncology, training others to practice it as well.[4]
Publications and awards
Baider has received Arthur Sutherland memorial award for psycho-oncology.[3] In 1974, she was awarded a Guggenheim Latin America and Caribbean Fellowship for psychology.[7] She wrote a book called Cancer and Family, and released a second edition of the book.[1] She has also published around 200 articles in scientific journals like The Oncologist and Future of Medicine.[1] She also helped with research on behalf of Multi-international Association of supportive care in cancer. There she helped review research on the 6th vital sign.[8]
Cancer and the Family
One of her more notorious publications was her book Cancer and the Family.[9] The book is about how cancer affects the family dynamic, as well as each member of the family.[9] It discusses how children react to cancer and new clinical information on the role family plays in cancer and cancer treatment and recovery.[9]
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