Steven D. Passik PhD, MS, BS

Dr. Steven Passik received his doctorate in clinical psychology from the New School for Social Research in New York City, and was chief fellow in the psychiatry service at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. Currently he is professor of psychiatry and anesthesiology at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee.

In 1999, Dr. Passik was a faculty scholar for the SOROS Foundation’s Project on Death in America. He has served on the editorial board of the Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, and has been a reviewer for the Journal of Pharmaceutical Care in Pain and Symptom Control, Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, Psycho-Oncology, Agency for Health Care Policy and Research Cancer Pain Guidelines, Cancer Investigation, and Oncology. Dr. Passik has served as the president of the Indiana Cancer and AIDS Pain Initiative and as editor in chief of the National Cancer Institute’s PDQ Supportive Care Editorial Board.