Jimmie C. Holland, MD — psychiatry
Courtesy Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Dr. Jimmie C. Holland’s (1928–2017) work in psychiatry has been central to the establishment of psycho-oncology as a subspecialty. She conducted some of the first epidemiologic studies of the psychological impact of cancer on individuals and their families and its affect on survival. When she began her work in the 1960s, there was a philosophy that if a patient survived cancer, they should be happy to be alive and simply not worry about it. Thanks to the work of Holland and other proponents of psycho-oncology, cancer diagnosis and therapy are now better understood and more sensitively treated.
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