Depression and Cancer

David W. Kissane is an academic consultation-liaisonpsychiatrist, psycho-oncologist and psychotherapy researcher incancer and palliative care. He is the incumbent in the Jimmie C.Holland Chair in Psycho-Oncology, attending Psychiatrist at TheMemorial Hospital for Cancer and Allied Diseases, and Professor ofPsychiatry at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University. Heis a past President of the International Psycho-Oncology Society(2000-03) and recipient of their Arthur Sutherland Award forLifetime Achievement in Psycho-oncology in 2008. He is the authorof over 150 publications, including two books, Family FocusedGrief Therapy (2002) and Handbook of Communication in Oncology andPalliative Care (2009). At Memorial Sloan-Kettering CancerCenter's Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, he hasestablished a state-of-the-art Communication Skills Training andResearch Laboratory and a Psychotherapy Research Laboratory. Mario Maj is Professor of Psychiatry at the University ofNaples, Italy. President of the World Psychiatric Association.Formerly President of the Italian Psychiatric Association;President of the Italian Society of Biological Psychiatry (since1990); Secretary-General of the Association of EuropeanPsychiatrists (2001-2002); President of the Association of EuropeanPsychiatrists (2002). He is the Italian psychiatrist with thehighest number of citations in indexed journals in the period1981-2008. Norman Sartorius, Association for the Improvement ofMental Health Programmes, Geneva, Switzerland. Professor Sartoriusis President of the International Association for the Promotion ofMental Health Programmes. Honorary Fellow of the Royal College ofPsychiatrists, of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College ofPsychiatrists and of the American College of Psychiatry;Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association.Member of the WHO Expert Advisory Panel on Mental Health. Member ofWPA Council.