Allison J. Applebaum, PhD, is an associate attending psychologist and director of the Caregivers Clinic in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York, New York. The Caregivers Clinic is the first of its kind and provides comprehensive psychosocial care to family members and friends of patients who experience significant distress and burden because of their caregiving role. Dr. Applebaum is also an Associate Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College.
Dr. Applebaum’s research focuses on the development and dissemination of psychosocial interventions for cancer caregivers, as well as understanding the impact of caregiver psychosocial wellbeing, prognostic awareness, and communication skills on advanced care planning. 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, the American Cancer Society, the T.J. Martell Foundation, and the van Ameringen Foundation.
Dr. Applebaum earned a doctoral degree in clinical psychology from Boston University in Boston, Massachusetts, and a bachelor’s degree in psychology from New York University in New York, New York.