Staff Profile - Iris Cohen Fineberg
Lecturer in End of Life Care
Iris Cohen Fineberg
Iris Cohen Fineberg is our new lecturer in End of Life Care and Director of the annual Observatory Summer School. She is an oncology social work researcher and sociologist who brings a background in clinical work, research, and education. Her research focus is on improving end-of-life care, with specific attention to interdisciplinary collaboration, family conferencing, and clinical ethics. She is a recipient of a Project on Death in America (PDIA) Social Work Leadership Award grant from the Soros Foundation.
Iris recently arrived from Los Angeles, California, where she was a Visiting Assistant Researcher at the University of California Los Angeles’ (UCLA) Department of Medicine’s Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research. Prior to joining the Department of Medicine, she completed a two-year post-doctoral fellowship in the Division of Cancer Prevention and Control Research. Iris earned her Ph.D. in Social Work and Sociology from Boston University and her Master’s in Social Work (M.S.W.) degree from New York University. She has a Bachelor of Science in Human Development and Family Studies from Cornell University. She began her oncology social work career at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York and continued at City of Hope National Medical Center in Duarte, California, where she developed her clinical specialization in working with patients and families facing bone marrow and stem cell transplantation. Iris later practiced at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts, serving as the social worker for the Bone Marrow Transplant Service and the Palliative Care Service. In addition to educating health care practitioners, she has taught on the undergraduate and graduate levels in the fields of social work, sociology, and medical practice.
Projects
Exploring Wishes and Preferences for End of Life Care: An Analysis of Responses to Key Questions in the Preferred Place of Care (PPC) Tool
Evaluation of Preferred Place of Care (PPC): Towards quality improvement
Pilot Study for an Evaluation Research Programme of "Preferred Place of Care" (PPC)
Journal Articles
Fineberg IC, Grant M, Aziz NM, Payne R, Kagawa-Singer M, Dunn GP, Kinzbrunner BM, Palos G, Shinagawa SM, Krouse RS (2007) Prospective Integration of Cultural Consideration in Biomedical Research for Patients with Advanced Cancer: Recommendations from an International Conference on Malignant Bowel Obstruction in Palliative Care Journal of Pain and Symptom Management 34(1 Suppl 1): 28-39
Fineberg IC, Wenger NS, Brown-Saltzman K(2006) Unrestricted Opiate Administration for Pain and Suffering at the End of Life: Knowledge and Attitudes as Barriers to Care Journal of Palliative Medicine 9(4): 873-83
Fineberg IC(2005) Preparing professionals for family conferences in palliative care: Evaluation results of an interdisciplinary approach Journal of Palliative Medicine 8(4): 857-66
Fineberg IC(2005) [Review of the book Caring for the dying: Critical issues at the edge of life] Journal of Gerontological Social Work 46(2): 117-120
Fineberg IC, Wenger NS, Forrow L(2004) Interdisciplinary education: Evaluation of palliative care training for pre-professionals Academic Medicine 79(8): 769-76
UCLA Medical Center Ethics Committee & UCLA Renal Transplant Program: Brown-Saltzman K, Diamant A, Fineberg IC, Gritsch HA, Keane M, Korenman S et al(2004) Surrogate consent for living related organ donation Journal of the American Medical Association 291(6): 728-31
Fineberg IC(2004) [Review of the book After breast cancer - A common-sense guide to life after treatment] Psycho-Oncology 13(2): 140-1
Lundgren L, Cohen I(1999) The new skills mismatch? An examination of urban employers' perceptions about public job training participants as prospective employees Journal of Social Service Research 25(1/2): 109-124
Steketee G, Frost RO, Cohen I(1998) Beliefs in obsessive-compulsive disorder Journal of Anxiety Disorders 12(6): 525-37
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Books
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Book Chapters
Altilio T, Otis-Green S, Hedlund S, Fineberg IC(2006) Pain management and palliative care. In S. Gehlert & T. A. Brown (Eds.), Handbook of Health Social Work (pp. 635-672). New York: John Wiley & Sons:
Fineberg IC(2006) Working with other professionals, organizations, and communities. In D. Wedding & M. Stuber (Eds.), Behavior and Medicine (4th Edition) (pp. 175-185). Seattle: Hogrefe & Huber Publishers:
Fineberg IC(2004) Hematopoietic cell transplantation and end-of-life care. In J. Berzoff & P. R. Silverman (Eds.), Living with dying: A handbook for end-of-life healthcare practitioners (pp.675-695). New York: Columbia University Press:
Cohen I, Steketee GS(1998) Obsessive compulsive disorder. In B. A. Thyer & J. S. Wodarski (Eds.), Handbook of empirical social work practice: Mental disorders (Vol. 1, pp. 343 363). New York: John Wiley & Sons:
Steketee G, Van Noppen B, Cohen I, Clary L(1998) Psychopathology of anxiety disorders. In J. B. W. Williams & K. Ell (Eds.), Recent advances in mental health research (pp. 118-156). Washington, DC: NASW Press:
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Reports
Altilio T, Sormanti M, Fineberg IC(2005) Reasserting our expertise in health care settings Health Section Connection: The Newsletter of the National Association of Social Workers Section on Health
Cohen I(1999) Bone marrow transplantation: A medical treatment steeped in social processes Medical Sociology Towards the Millenium: Continuity and Change in Health and Medicine Conference Proceedings. Egham, England: Royal Holloway, University of London
Peebles-Wilkins W, Veeder NW (with Clay C, Cohen I, Coplon J, Dillon C, Geron S, Steketee G)(1996) Research needs in managed behavioral health care in Massachusetts. A paper prepared for the National Institute of Mental Health Boston: Boston University, School of Social Work
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