The 28th Annual Douglas West Memorial Lecture ft: Allison J. Applebaum, PhD

Please join us in-person in the Goldwurm Auditorium or via Zoom. A Zoom link will be emailed prior to the event.

Dr. Allison Applebaum is an internationally recognized caregiving scientist, writer, researcher, speaker, and advocate. She is a Professor in the Brookdale Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, where she is also the Director of the Center for Caregiving. She was previously the Founding Director of the Caregivers Clinic at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, the first program of its kind in the United States to provide comprehensive psychosocial care to family members and friends of patients who are in the caregiving role. Dr. Applebaum’s program of research focuses on the development and dissemination of supportive services for family caregivers. She has published over 100 articles, reviews, and book chapters on these topics, and is the editor of the textbook Cancer Caregivers (Oxford University Press, 2019). Dr. Applebaum has received competitive funding for her research, including awards from the National Cancer Institute, the National Institute of Nursing Research, and the American Cancer Society. She is also the author of the recently published narrative nonfiction book, Stand By Me: A Guide to Navigating Modern, Meaningful Caregiving (Simon Element, 2024).

Host or Publisher Brookdale Dept of Geriatrics & Palliative Medicine