Holly G. Prigerson, PhD, holds the Endowed Professorship of Diagnostics in Radiology, is Professor of Sociology in Radiology and Medicine, and Director of the Cornell Center for Research on End-of-Life Care. She was approved for tenure at Yale, Harvard, and Cornell, and has served as PI on numerous NIH investigations, including primary research justifying the inclusion of Prolonged Grief Disorder in ICD-11 and DSM-5-TR and studies examining psychosocial influences on and outcomes of end-of-life care. She received the Harvard Medical School’s (HMS) Clifford Barger Excellence in Mentoring Award, was a founding member of the HMS Council of Mentors, was the 2012 NHPCO’s Distinguished Researcher Award, the NCI’s R35 Outstanding Investigator Award, and the 2018 AAHPM award for excellence in scientific research in palliative medicine. In 2022 her NCI Outstanding Investigator Award was renewed for another 7-year period. This award supports her research program on end-of-life cancer care. It also supports her development of psychosocial and behavioral resources and interventions to reduce suffering among patients confronting life-threatening illnesses and death as well as for those who care most for, and ultimately, survive them. In 2024 she received the Debra Sivesind Career Award for Outstanding Contributions to Palliative Care from MD Anderson Cancer Center.  As of January 2024, she has published over 454 articles in peer-reviewed journal and an H-Index is 121, is a scientific advisor for multiple centers and programs and studies both nationally and internationally. She has mentored approximately 100 trainees to successful careers in medicine and healthcare research and served as PI on over 139 grants from the NIH and developing a research program highlighting and targeting the role of social connectedness in end-of-life care and bereavement adjustment.