Roger Granet (born 1947) is an American psychiatrist and the author and editor of over twenty books explaining mental disorders and diseases. Dr. Granet specializes in psycho-oncology, which deals with the psychological reactions of cancer patients. The field is considered an integral part of quality cancer treatment. [1]
Dr. Granet is a consulting psychiatrist at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, where psycho-oncology was founded; [2] Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Weill Medical College of Cornell University,a lecturer of psychiatry at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons; and an attending physician at New York-Presbyterian Hospital and Morristown Medical Center, where he established the Consultation Liaison Division.
He is a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association.
Dr. Granet wrote Surviving Cancer Emotionally: Learning How to Heal, Wiley (2001), arguing that "a patient's emotional well-being improves her quality of life,” while not connecting emotional states leads directly to the spread of cancer. [3]
Dr. Granet is the editor of the Dell Mental Health Guide Series, a collection of books about specific emotional issues. He is the author of Is it Alzheimers? What To Do When Loved Ones Can't Remember What They Should, Dell (1998). He co-wrote If You Think You Have Depression, Dell (1998), with Robin Levinson. He and Robert Aquinas McNally adapted McNally’s Panic Disorder: A Critical Analysis (1994), a "comprehensive and lucid" and "well written" text, [4] for a wider audience in If You Think You Have Panic Disorder, Dell (1998). He also co-authored Why Am I Up, Why Am I Down? Understanding Bipolar Disorder, Dell (1999), with Elizabeth Ferber.
He is a poet, with poems published in The New York Times and other periodicals. His two books of poetry are: Museum of Dreams, Thornwood Press (1997); and The World’s a Small Town, University of South Alabama Press (1993).
Granet’s undergraduate degree is from New York University, and his medical degree is from the Rutgers University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. [5] He completed his internship and residency at New York-Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medical Center.
The NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, a nonprofit academic medical center in New York City, is the primary teaching hospital for two Ivy League medical schools, Weill Cornell Medicine at Cornell University and Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University. The hospital includes seven campuses located throughout the New York metropolitan area. The hospital's two flagship medical centers, Columbia University Irving Medical Center and Weill Cornell Medical Center, are located on opposite sides of Upper Manhattan.
The Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons is the medical school of Columbia University, located at the Columbia University Irving Medical Center in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan.
John C. Markowitz is an American physician, a Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at the Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons and a Research Psychiatrist at the New York State Psychiatric Institute. For several decades he has conducted research on psychotherapies and medications as treatments for mood disorders, anxiety disorders, and personality disorders, and more recently posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). He is most widely published in the area of interpersonal psychotherapy or IPT, a manualized form of treatment, in which he was trained by the late Gerald L. Klerman, M.D. Dr. Markowitz is a graduate of Columbia University and Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and received his psychiatric residency training at the Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic of Cornell University Medical School/New York-Presbyterian Hospital.
Richard Alan Friedman is professor of clinical psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College, attending psychiatrist at NewYork–Presbyterian Hospital and director of psychopharmacology at the Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic. He is an expert in the pharmacologic treatment of personality, mood and anxiety disorders, obsessive–compulsive disorder, PTSD and refractory depression.
Theodore Shapiro is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in New York, where he is a professor emeritus in psychiatry and pediatrics at Weill Cornell Medical College and the Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic. He is a faculty member of the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research and a training and supervising psychoanalyst at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute.
Paulina F. Kernberg was a Chilean American child psychiatrist, an authority on personality disorders, and a professor at Cornell University.
Weill Cornell Medicine, formally the Joan & Sanford I. Weill Medical College of Cornell University, is the biomedical research and medical school of Cornell University. It is located on the Upper East Side of New York City.
The Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University (LKSOM), located on the Health Science Campus of Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is one of seven schools of medicine in Pennsylvania that confers the Doctor of Medicine degree. It also confers Ph.D and M.S. degrees in biomedical science, and offers a Narrative Medicine program.
William S. Breitbart, FAPM, is an American psychiatrist in Psychosomatic Medicine, Psycho-oncology, and Palliative Care. He is the Jimmie C Holland Chair in Psychiatric Oncology, and the Chief of the Psychiatry Service, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, He is a Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at Weill Medical College of Cornell University. He was president of the Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine, and the Editor-in-Chief of Palliative and Supportive Care.
Ashutosh K. Tewari is the chairman of urology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City. He is a board certified American urologist, oncologist, and principal investigator. Before moving to the Icahn School of Medicine in 2013, he was the founding director of both the Center for Prostate Cancer at Weill Cornell Medical College and the LeFrak Center for Robotic Surgery at NewYork–Presbyterian Hospital. Dr. Tewari was the Ronald P. Lynch endowed Chair of Urologic Oncology and the hospital's Director of Robotic Prostatectomy, treating patients with prostate, urinary bladder and other urological cancers. He is the current President of the Society for Urologic Robotic Surgeons (SURS) and the Committee Chair of the Prostate Program. Dr. Tewari is a world leading urological surgeon, and has performed over 10,000 robotically assisted procedures using the da Vinci Surgical System. Academically, he is recognized as a world-renowned expert on urologic oncology with over 250 peer reviewed published papers to his credit; he is on such lists as America's Top Doctors, New York Magazine's Best Doctors, and Who's Who in the World. In 2012, he was given the American Urological Association Gold Cystoscope Award for "outstanding contributions to the field of urologic oncology, most notably the treatment of prostate cancer and the development of novel techniques to improve the outcomes of robotic prostatectomy."
The Rogosin Institute is an independent, not-for-profit treatment and research center with facilities throughout New York City that treat patients with kidney disease, including dialysis and kidney transplantation; lipid disorders; and hypertension. It is affiliated with NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, Weill Cornell Medical College and is a leader in research programs for cancer and diabetes.
Dr. Gail Saltz is an American psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, columnist, and television commentator. Saltz is the author of several self-help and psychology books, including Anatomy of a Secret Life: The Psychology of Living a Lie (2006) and The Power of Different: The Link Between Disorder and Genius (2017).
Dr. Dattatreyudu Nori is a noted Indo-American radiation oncologist. He was once named one of the top doctors in America for the treatment of cancers in women by the women's magazine Ladies' Home Journal.
John P. Blass, physician, biochemist and neurochemist, was born on February 21, 1937, in Vienna, Austria, and deceased March 12, 2023, in New York City. Both his parents were physicians; his father, Gustaf Blass, was a prominent Viennese radiologist and his mother, Jolan Wirth Blass, a student of Sigmund Freud, was a psychoanalyst originally from Budapest. The family then moved to Stamford, Connecticut. Both parents practiced psychiatry, Gustaf in a private sanitarium in Stamford and Jolan as a child psychiatrist in New York City and Connecticut. He is survived by his wife, son and two granddaughters.
Jimmie Coker Holland was a founder of the field of psycho-oncology. In 1977, she worked with two colleagues to establish a full-time psychiatric service at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. The program was one of the first of its kind in cancer treatment, and trained its psychologists to specialize in issues specific to people with cancer.
Harvey Max Chochinov is a Canadian academic and psychiatrist from Winnipeg, Canada. He is a leading authority on the emotional dimensions of end-of-life, and on supportive and palliative care. He is a Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Manitoba and a Senior Scientist at CancerCare Manitoba Research Institute.
Michael H. Stone was an American psychiatrist and Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City.
Professor David William Kissane, AC is an Australian psychiatrist specialising in psychiatric oncology and palliative care. Since 2018, he has been the inaugural Chair in Palliative Medicine Research at the University of Notre Dame Australia. He has also held professorships at the University of Melbourne, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, and Monash University. In 2008, he received the Arthur M. Sutherland Award of the International Psycho-Oncology Society (IPOS). On 26 January 2018 he was appointed a Companion of the Order of Australia. Professor Kissane has been described as an "opponent of euthanasia legislation who co-authored a landmark report with Dr Nitschke into the deaths that occurred under the NT's euthanasia laws".
David H. Abramson, is a clinician scientist, ophthalmic surgeon, competitive swimmer, and lecturer who has published over 700 peer-reviewed articles in ophthalmology, with a focus on ophthalmic oncology. Abramson was the first chief of the ophthalmic oncology service at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, where he is a tenured professor in surgery, pediatrics, and radiation oncology. He is also a professor at Weill Cornell Medicine, where he was the youngest full professor ever appointed in ophthalmology. He pioneered intra-arterial chemotherapy, which cures cancer whilst saving the eye from enucleation, in 2006. He is the recipient of many awards, including the Stallard Medal from the International Society for Oncular Oncology, the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Academy of Ophthalmology, the Weisenfeld Award from the Association for Research In Vision and Ophthalmology, and the Franceshcetti Medal from the International Society of Genetic Eye Disease in Switzerland. In addition to his academic pursuits, Abramson was a triple gold medal winner in swimming at the Maccabiah Games in Israel in 1961, set four NCAA records during his time as the Captain of the Harvard University swim team, and was an Olympic alternate in 1960 for the 800 meter relay team. He has been inducted into three halls of fame: the Retina Hall of Fame, the Harvard Varsity Club Hall of Fame, and the Brooklyn Technical High School Hall of Fame.