Lea Baider
Lea Baider, is a professor of medical psychology, and considered one of the founders of psycho-oncology. She is the director of psycho-oncology at the Sharsheret Institute of Oncology at the Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem. Baider is also a member of the Middle East Cancer Consortium. Baider runs workshops in psycho-oncology to expand the field.
Education
Baider was born and raised in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She graduated with a B.A in education 1957 from the University of Buenos Aires. In 1963, she graduated from with a M.A in clinical psychology from the University of Buenos Aires. Between 1967 and 1968, she was a research fellow at Tufts University and at Harvard University. In 1973, she earned her Ph.D. from Brandeis University, where she wrote her dissertation: Family Structure and the Process of Dying: A Study of Cancer Patients and their Family Interaction.Career
Baider started her career as a consulting psychologist in at Boston University Medical Center. She then became a clinical psychologist in the oncology department of Shattuck Hospital, while running group therapy for drug-addiction at Boston University Medical Center. She then became the supervisor for Boston University Medical Center's "family therapy training program". She then moved to Israel and became a postdoctoral fellow at the Tel Aviv University Medical Center in Family Medicine.Psycho-oncology
In 1982, Baider built the psycho-oncology department at the Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem. In 2012, she established the psycho-oncology department in Assuta Medical Center located in Tel Aviv. She is a past president of the international psycho-oncology society. In May 2015, Baider participated in a workshop teaching doctors about psycho-oncology at the Sacred Heart training center. In 2018, she ran another workshop at Babes University. She continues to practice psycho-oncology by giving support to women support through treatment and recovery of breast cancer.As of February 2018, Baider continues to run workshops about psycho-oncology, training others to practice it as well.