Dr. William Schwarz Breitbart, MD

I am a psychiatrist whose expertise focuses on the psychiatric aspects of pain, symptom control, and palliative care in cancer and AIDS patients. Several important areas of my research are funded by grants from the National Institutes of Health and private foundations, including fatigue related to cancer and AIDS; depression in terminally ill AIDS and cancer patients; meaning-centered psychotherapy for advanced cancer patients; and delirium research. I have been Chief of the Psychiatry Service at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center since 1996. I am also a psychiatrist on the Pain & Palliative Care Service in MSKCC's Department of Neurology. Additionally, I am a Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and a Faculty Scholar of the Project on Death in America. I am on the Board of Directors of many medical societies and I am the President-Elect of the Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine. I helped to establish the American Psycho-Oncology Society and the International …Psycho-Oncology Society. I am Editor-in-Chief of an international palliative care journal published by Cambridge University Press entitled Palliative and Supportive Care.