At this month’s Speaking of Science we were joined by Dr. Allison Applebaum, Founding Director of the Caregivers Clinic at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, the first program of its kind to provide comprehensive psychosocial care to family and friend caregivers of MSK patients.

About Allison Applebaum

Dr. Allison Applebaum is an Associate Attending Psychologist in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK), and an Associate Professor of Psychology at Weill Cornell Medicine. She is the Founding Director of the Caregivers Clinic at MSK, the first program of its kind to provide comprehensive psychosocial care to family and friend caregivers of MSK patients.

Dr. Applebaum’s program of research focuses broadly on the development and dissemination of supportive services for family caregivers. She has published over 100 articles, reviews, and book chapters on caregiving, 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).