Dr. Applebaum is a Professor and Director of the Steven S. Elbaum Family Center for Caregiving in the Brookdale Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Previously, she was the Founding Director of the Caregivers Clinic at Memorial Sloan Kettering Center. The Caregivers Clinic was the first of its kind in any NCCN Comprehensive Cancer Center in the United States and provides psychosocial care to family members and friends of patients who experience significant distress and burden as a result of their caregiving role. She works with healthcare systems worldwide to develop similar support programs for caregivers, to draw attention to the unique needs of caregivers across various illnesses and care settings, and to implement system-level changes that facilitate support and integrate caregivers more formally into the healthcare team.
Allison J. Applebaum, PhD
