Holly G. Prigerson, PhD

Professor of Geriatrics/Co-Director Cornell Center for Research on End-of-Life Care
Weill Cornell Medicine
New York City, New York, United States

Holly G. Prigerson, PhD, is the Irving Sherwood Wright Professor of Geriatrics at Weill Cornell Medicine (WCM), and Co-Director, Cornell Center for Research on End-of-Life Care. She has served as PI on numerous NIH investigations, including studies that justified the inclusion of Prolonged Grief Disorder in ICD-11 and DSM-5-TR and which have examined psychosocial influences on and outcomes of end-of-life care. She conducts studies of racial/ethnic disparities in end-of-life care, studies of religiousness and spirituality and examined online tools to detect risk of suicidal ideation in caregivers of patients with end-stage disease or in bereavement. She has been approved for tenure at Harvard, Yale, and Cornell medical schools and received the Harvard Medical School’s Clifford Barger Excellence in Mentoring Award, the 2012 NHPCO’s Distinguished Researcher Award, the NCI’s R35 7-year Outstanding Investigator Award, which is pending renewal, and the 2018 AAHPM award for excellence in scientific research.

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Presentation(s):

• Life After Loss: Emerging Insights on Grief Adjustment and Health in Late Life

  Wednesday, November 2, 2022
  4:30 PM – 6:00 PM ET

• 3 - Psychological Responses to Impending and Past Loss of a Loved One

  Wednesday, November 2, 2022
  4:30 PM – 6:00 PM ET