Lea Baider

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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]

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Education

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 1967-1968, 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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  3. 1 2 3 4 "L'ospedale di Negrar da sostegno psicologico ai familiari di pazienti in fase terminale". VeronaSera (in Italian). Retrieved 29 October 2019.
  4. 1 2 "Newsletter Psiho-Oncologie Februarie 2018 | APSCO" . Retrieved 29 October 2019.
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  6. ↑ "No longer a death sentence - Health & Sci-Tech - Jerusalem Post". www.jpost.com. Retrieved 29 October 2019.
  7. ↑ "John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Lea Baider" . Retrieved 29 October 2019.
  8. ↑ "Psychosocial". www.mascc.org. Retrieved 29 October 2019.
  9. 1 2 3 Hopper, Gillian (2003). "'Cancer and the family' (Second Edition). Edited by Lea Baider, Cary L. Cooper and Atara Kaplan De-Nour. Wiley, Chichester, 2000 (hardback). 572pp". Psycho-Oncology. 12 (2): 198. doi:10.1002/pon.661. ISBN   0471803006. ISSN   1099-1611.
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