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Holly G. Prigerson

Holly G. Prigerson

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Best Female Scientists
2025

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Best Female Scientists

D-Index
109
Citations
49970
World Ranking
928
National Ranking
564

Medicine

D-Index
112
Citations
53194
World Ranking
5102
National Ranking
2759

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award

Overview

Holly G. Prigerson is affiliated with Cornell University in the United States and has contributed extensively to the fields of medicine and psychology. Their research primarily focuses on clinical psychology, public health, environmental and occupational health, as well as general health professions. Specific attention has been given to topics such as palliative care and end-of-life issues, grief, bereavement, and mental health, migration, health and trauma, family and patient care in intensive care units, patient dignity and privacy, childhood cancer survivors' quality of life, and homelessness and social issues.

Key recent papers authored or co-authored by Holly G. Prigerson include:

  • Validation of the new DSM-5-TR criteria for prolonged grief disorder and the PG-13-Revised (PG-13-R) scale, 2021, published in World Psychiatry
  • History and Status of Prolonged Grief Disorder as a Psychiatric Diagnosis, 2021, published in Annual Review of Clinical Psychology
  • The neurobiological reward system in Prolonged Grief Disorder (PGD): A systematic review, 2020, published in Psychiatry Research Neuroimaging
  • A micro-sociological theory of adjustment to loss, 2021, published in Current Opinion in Psychology
  • Are deaths from COVID-19 associated with higher rates of prolonged grief disorder (PGD) than deaths from other causes?, 2022, published in Death Studies

Holly G. Prigerson's frequent co-authors include:

  • Paul K. Maciejewski
  • Wendy G. Lichtenthal
  • Fur-Hsing Wen
  • Wen-Chi Chou
  • Siew Tzuh Tang

The scientist's work is commonly published in venues such as:

  • Journal of Pain and Symptom Management
  • Palliative & Supportive Care
  • Psycho-Oncology
  • American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry
  • Journal of Clinical Oncology

Best Publications

  • Associations between end-of-life discussions, patient mental health, medical care near death, and caregiver bereavement adjustment.

    Alexi A. Wright;Baohui Zhang;Alaka Ray;Jennifer W. Mack

  • Prolonged Grief Disorder: Psychometric Validation of Criteria Proposed for DSM-V and ICD-11

    Holly G Prigerson;Holly G Prigerson;Mardi J. Horowitz;Selby C. Jacobs;Colin M. Parkes

  • Inventory of Complicated Grief: A scale to measure maladaptive symptoms of loss

    Holly G. Prigerson;Paul K. Maciejewski;Charles F. Reynolds;Andrew J. Bierhals

  • The Clinical Course of Advanced Dementia

    Susan L. Mitchell;Joan M. Teno;Dan K. Kiely;Michele L. Shaffer

  • Religiousness and Spiritual Support Among Advanced Cancer Patients and Associations With End-of-Life Treatment Preferences and Quality of Life

    Tracy A. Balboni;Lauren C. Vanderwerker;Susan D. Block;M. Elizabeth Paulk

  • Health Care Costs in the Last Week of Life Associations With End-of-Life Conversations

    Baohui Zhang;Alexi A. Wright;Haiden A. Huskamp;Matthew E. Nilsson

  • Traumatic grief as a risk factor for mental and physical morbidity.

    Holly G. Prigerson;Andrew J. Bierhals;Stanislav V. Kasl;Charles F. Reynolds

  • Complicated grief and bereavement-related depression as distinct disorders : preliminary empirical validation in elderly bereaved spouses

    Holly G. Prigerson;Ellen Frank;Stanislav V. Kasl;Charles F. Reynolds

  • An empirical examination of the stage theory of grief.

    Paul K. Maciejewski;Baohui Zhang;Susan D. Block;Holly G. Prigerson

  • Consensus criteria for traumatic grief: A preliminary empirical test

    Holly G. Prigerson;M. K. Shear;S. C. Jacobs;C. F. Reynolds

  • Place of Death: Correlations With Quality of Life of Patients With Cancer and Predictors of Bereaved Caregivers' Mental Health

    Alexi A. Wright;Nancy L. Keating;Tracy A. Balboni;Ursula A. Matulonis

  • End-of-life discussions, goal attainment, and distress at the end of life: predictors and outcomes of receipt of care consistent with preferences.

    Jennifer W. Mack;Jane C. Weeks;Alexi A. Wright;Susan D. Block

  • Mourning and Meaning

    Robert A. Neimeyer;Holly G. Prigerson;Betty Davies

  • Provision of Spiritual Care to Patients With Advanced Cancer: Associations With Medical Care and Quality of Life Near Death

    Tracy Anne Balboni;Mary Elizabeth Paulk;Michael J. Balboni;Andrea C. Phelps

  • Chemotherapy Use, Performance Status, and Quality of Life at the End of Life

    Holly G. Prigerson;Yuhua Bao;Manish A. Shah;M. Elizabeth Paulk

  • Religious coping and use of intensive life-prolonging care near death in patients with advanced cancer

    Andrea C. Phelps;Paul K. Maciejewski;Paul K. Maciejewski;Matthew Nilsson;Tracy A. Balboni

  • Suicidality and bereavement: complicated grief as psychiatric disorder presenting greatest risk for suicidality.

    Amy E. Latham;Holly G. Prigerson

  • A case for establishing complicated grief as a distinct mental disorder in DSM-V.

    Wendy G. Lichtenthal;Dean G. Cruess;Holly G. Prigerson

  • Complicated grief as a disorder distinct from bereavement-related depression and anxiety: a replication study.

    H G Prigerson;A J Bierhals;S V Kasl;C F Reynolds rd

  • Religious coping is associated with the quality of life of patients with advanced cancer.

    Nalini Tarakeshwar;Lauren C. Vanderwerker;Elizabeth Paulk;Michelle J. Pearce

Frequent Co-Authors

Susan D. Block
Susan D. Block Harvard Medical School
Charles F. Reynolds
Charles F. Reynolds University of Pittsburgh
Stanislav V. Kasl
Stanislav V. Kasl Yale University
Paul R. Duberstein
Paul R. Duberstein Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
William Breitbart
William Breitbart Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Ronald M. Epstein
Ronald M. Epstein University of Rochester Medical Center
Ellen Frank
Ellen Frank University of Pittsburgh
David W. Kissane
David W. Kissane University of Notre Dame Australia
Colin Murray Parkes
Colin Murray Parkes St Christopher's Hospice
David J. Kupfer
David J. Kupfer University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

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