William Breitbart

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William S. Breitbart, FAPM (born 1951), is an American psychiatrist in Psychosomatic Medicine, Psycho-oncology, and Palliative Care. He is the Jimmie C Holland Chair in Psychiatric Oncology, and the Chief of the Psychiatry Service, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (New York, NY),^[1] He is a Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at Weill Medical College of Cornell University.^[2] He was president of the Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine,^[3] and the Editor-in-Chief of Palliative and Supportive Care.

He is an attending psychiatrist in the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, the Palliative Care Service of the Department of Medicine at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and at the New York Presbyterian Hospital.

Breitbart was a founding board member of the American Psycho-Oncology Society (APOS) and the International Psycho-Oncology Society (IPOS)^[4] and a president. [1].