Jimmie C. Holland

Jimmie C. Holland (b 1928) is a founder of the field of psycho-oncology.[1] In 1977, she worked with two colleagues to establish a full-time psychiatric service at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.[2] The program was one of the first of its kind in cancer treatment, and trained its psychologists to specialize in issues specific to people with cancer.[2]

Biography

Born in Nevada, Texas in 1928, Holland earned her medical degree from Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, in 1952, and received her board certification in psychiatry in 1966. She taught and practiced at the State University of New York, Buffalo, and Montefiore Hospital of Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City. Holland was chief of the Psychiatry Service, which she helped create, for New York's Memorial Sloan-Kettering (MSK) Cancer Center from 1977 to 1996. Holland held a named chair at MSK, the Wayne E. Chapman Chair in Psychiatric Oncology.[3] During her years at MSK, Holland created the nation's largest training and research program in psycho-oncology. In 1984, she produced for Sloan-Kettering the first syllabus on psycho-oncology and, in 1989, was senior editor of the first textbook on the subject.[1]

Holland founded the American Psychosocial Oncology Society (formerly known as the American Society of Psychosocial and Behavioral Oncology/AIDS) in 1980, and co-founded the International Psycho-Oncology Society (IPOS) in 1984. She is also credited with putting psychosocial and behavioral research on the agenda of the American Cancer Society (ACS) in the early 1980s.[1] She is a co-editor-in-chief of the journal Psycho-Oncology.[4]

The ACS awarded her its Medal of Honor for Clinical Research in 1994. She was elected a Fellow in both the Institute of Medicine and the National Academy of Sciences in 1995, and received the Presidential Commendation from the American Psychiatric Association in 2000, among many other awards.[1]

Her husband, James F. Holland, was an oncologist and an important figure in the early development of cancer chemotherapy.[5] Her interest in the field of psycho-oncology arose in part from discussions with her husband about the patients he treated, and the understanding that arose from those discussions that little was known about the experiences of people with cancer and that little was being done to help people with cancer manage the experience.[2]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 National Library of Medicine, Changing the Face of Medicine. Dr. Jimmie C. Holland Page accessed March 28, 2016
  2. 1 2 3 Rosenthal, Elizabeth (20 Jul 1997). "Scientist at Work: Jimmie Holland; Listening to the Emotional Needs of Cancer Patients". New York Times. Retrieved 22 March 2016.
  3. ↑ "Jimmie C. Holland, MD". Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Retrieved March 28, 2016.
  4. ↑ "Psycho-Oncology". John Wiley & Sons. Retrieved March 28, 2016.
  5. ↑ Piana, Ronald (June 10, 2015). "A tribute to James F. Holland, MD, in celebration of his 90th birthday". American Society of Clinical Oncology. Retrieved March 28, 2016.

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