"Putting Research into Action to Help Those Coping with Serious Illness"

The Center for Research on End-of-Life Care combines innovation, practicality, and compassion to advance research in the care of seriously ill patients and their caregivers.
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Grief Intensity Scale

The Grief Intensity Scale assesses common thoughts, feelings, and behaviors of people who have lost someone important to them. The scale is meant to capture the grieving respondent's intensity of his or her reaction to the loss

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We are a transdisciplinary team of clinicians, faculty, and students working to generate new knowledge in the field of end-of-life care

Holly Prigerson
Co-Director of the Center
Irving Sherwood Wright
Professor in Geriatrics
Professor of Sociology in Medicine
Paul Maciejewski
Associate Professor
of Biostatistics in Radiology
Department of Radiology
Weill Cornell Medicine

Research

Current Research
at Weill Cornell

Browse innovative end-of-life research studies from our faculty and staff. Investigators explore issues relating to the aging and ill population, with subjects ranging from patient cancer care to physician communication.
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Current Research
External Collaborations

Our center offers many opportunities for collaboration with other prestigious medical and academic institutions. Our partnerships address treatments and care for the terminally ill.
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3rd National Ukrainian Forum on Grief and Trauma

3rd National Ukrainian Forum on Grief & Trauma

Thursday, Oct 16, 2025 | Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine
Hybrid participation (in-person & online)

Holly G. Prigerson, PhD — Featured Speaker

“A Social Theory of Adjustment & Targeting Social Deprivations of Mourners.”

The Forum “Grief Therapy. Psychological Health as the Foundation of Ukraine’s Future” convenes Ukrainian and international experts to share knowledge and practical tools for supporting people living with grief amid war and mass loss. Sessions focus on social adaptation theory, support for bereaved families, bodily memory of loss, generational trauma, wartime bereavement, and post-traumatic growth.

Why participate?

  • Lectures, reports, and professional discussions (live & online)
  • Access to recordings/materials after the event
  • Certificate from the International Association of Psychologists for Grief & Bereavement

Register here: Forum Registration

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Finding My Way

We all feel a bit lost sometimes, but in the aftermath of a significant loss some of us feel painfully adrift and struggle to find our way. Leveraging proven scientific, evidence-based techniques, we have developed an online web application to help people find their way forward through difficult times. We begin with an assessment of intra-personal and inter-personal needs, and then map an itinerary to address your personalized needs. We are in the development and testing phase of building Finding My Way (FMW). We welcome and appreciate your feedback as it is essential to making FMW as user-friendly and impactful as possible. If you are willing to take a “test drive” of FMW, we would be very grateful and want to learn from you how to make it better. If interested, please send us an email at eolstudysupport@med.cornell.edu or click here to help us evaluate/”beta test” the FMW web app. Thank you!

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Join our "Together While Apart" COVID-19 grief resources site

Together While Apart

Connect with people who have experienced similar types of loss in the COVID-19 pandemic, share your stories, hear their stories, provide/receive hugs, and stay connected to support each other.

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Harlem health and wellness fair

Welcome Lili Tang, MD, the director of the Dept., of Psycho-Oncology Beijing Cancer Hospital, Peking University

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