PUBLICATIONS

RESEARCH SUPPORT & AWARDS

The Life Tapes Project
Awarded grant support through UCSF / Mount Zion Health Fund-related funding sources, including the Stuart Foundation, Ernest Rosenbaum Cancer Research Fund of the Mount Zion Health Fund, El Dorado Fund, and Mount Zion Health Fund support.

PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS

Publications listed under prior name: Alison L. Siegel

1.      Rosenbaum E, Garlan RW, Hirschberger N, Siegel AL, Butler LD, Spiegel D. The Life Tape Project: Increasing Family Social Support and Symbolic Immortality with a Brief Existential Intervention for Cancer Patients and Their Families. OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying. 2006;53(4):321-339. doi:10.2190/F143-5363-3442-5163.

2.      Garlan RW, Butler LD, Rosenbaum E, Siegel A, Spiegel D. Perceived benefits and psychosocial outcomes of a brief existential family intervention for cancer patients/survivors. Omega (Westport). 2010;62(3):243-268. doi:10.2190/OM.62.3.C.

PUBLISHED ABSTRACTS

1.      Rosenbaum EH, Garlan RW, Siegel AL, Henderson S, et al. The Life Tape Project, an existential intervention for cancer patients: A report on perceived benefits and changes in quality of life. Journal of Clinical Oncology. 2006;24(18 Suppl):8604. doi:10.1200/JCO.2006.24.18_suppl.8604.

PRESENTATIONS

1.      Siegel AL, Rosenbaum EH, Garlan RW, Butler LD, Hirschberger N, Spiegel D. Symbolic Immortality: An Existential Intervention for Cancer Patients.

2.      National presentations and poster presentations related to The Life Tapes Project.

Omega Journal

http://www.cancersupportivecare.com/lifetapes.html

UCSF: University of California- San Francisco 2003-2007Director: Patient -Doctor Liason-Taught bedside manner (emotional intelligence) to Phys
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http://www.cancersupportivecare.com/lifetapes.html
*Co-researched, developed and implemented a variety of questionnaires used in the study. (Approved by the Committee on Human Research). 
*Presented results nationwide to medical conventions and local hospitals.

http://cancer.osu.edu/Pages/index.aspx

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http://meeting.ascopubs.org/cgi/content/abstract/24/18_suppl/8604

http://cancer.osu.edu/Pages/index.aspx

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

• American Psychological Association

• California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists

• The Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality

• Pain Psychology Special Interest Group, Division 38 (Health Psychology)

• Northern California Society of Psychoanalytic Psychology

• San Francisco Psychological Association

• California Psychological Association

• American Association of Pain Psychology