Biographies: Barrie Cassileth, Ph.D.

Barrie R. Cassileth, Ph.D.
Laurance S. Rockefeller Chair of Integrative medicine
Chief, Integrative Medicine Service
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

As a researcher, educator and planner, Dr. Cassileth has worked in alternative and complementary (integrative) medicine and psychosocial aspects of cancer care for over twenty years. She has published extensively on these issues, and has been invited to lecture on these topics throughout North and South America, Europe, and Asia.

Dr. Cassileth developed prototypic programs in patient and family support, medical education, homecare and hospice, and research in integrative medicine while a faculty member in Medicine and Associate Director of the Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.

She is Editor of the new Journal of Integrative oncology and founding president of the international Society for Integrative Oncology; associate editor or advisory board member of eleven medical journals internationally and serves as reviewer for most major medical journals and grant reviewer for government agencies in the United States and other countries. She was a founding member of the Advisory Council to the National Institutes of Health Office of Alternative Medicine. She was on the national Board of Directors and is now on the Eastern Board of the American Cancer Society and is a member of ACS committees on complementary medicine, quality of life and health promotions, and serves on ASCO Committees as well as on many NIH and other federal and national panels and committees.

Her publications include 124 original papers in the medical literature and 48 books and chapters for physicians, patients and families. She has prepared and was filmed for numerous audio and audiovisual programs for patients and physicians. She received her Ph.D. in medical sociology from the University of Pennsylvania and completed all but dissertation toward a Ph.D. in psychology at Albert Einstein University in New York. She is a sought-after lecturer and has given numerous radio, television and print media interviews. She is Principal Investigator of one of five NIH-supported "Botanical Research Centers;" her Center at MSKCC will address the study of Immunomodulators.

Recent books: "The Alternative Medicine Handbook: The Complete Guide to Alternative and Complementary Therapies," was published by WW Norton in 1998. She is an editor of the American Cancer Society 2003 publication, "Eating Well, Staying Well During and After Cancer." Cassileth and Lucarelli, "Herb-Drug Interactions in Oncology," was published by BC Decker in 2003. Cassileth et al. "Integrative Oncology: Complementary therapies in cancer care" to be published by BC Decker, Spring, 2005.