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Dr. Andrew Roth

Emeritus Attending Psychiatrist, Professor Emeritus of Clinical Psychiatry
Memorial Hospital for Cancer and Allied Diseases, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC), Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, New York Presbyterian Hospital Department of Psychiatry, and Weill Cornell Medical College
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Dr. Roth is an Emeritus Attending Psychiatrist at Memorial Hospital for Cancer and Allied Diseases, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC), Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences and New York Presbyterian Hospital Department of Psychiatry and Professor Emeritus of Clinical Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College, Cornell University after serving on the faculty of both for about three decades. 

Dr. Roth served as Fellowship Training Program Director and for MSKCC/NYPH/WCMC Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences’ ACGME accredited fellowship in Psychosomatic Medicine/Psycho-oncology through 2019. Dr. Roth helped train close to 150 Psychiatrists in the subspecialty of Psycho-oncology receiving awards for Clinical and Teaching Excellence.   

Dr. Roth also served as the Psychiatry liaison to the Prostate Cancer and Genitourinary Medical Oncology/Urology Program at MSKCC for over 28 years.  His research includes the development of the Distress Thermometer; the creation of the Memorial Anxiety Scale for Prostate Cancer (MAX-PC); a National Cancer Institute funded double blind randomized control trial using methylphenidate for fatigue in men with prostate cancer; and most recently testing a novel psychotherapy designed specifically for older cancer patients.  He also helped start the Psychiatry Clinical Service at the Westchester Division of MSKCC.

He has published extensively on various topics in Psycho-Oncology and is the author of Managing Prostate Cancer: A Guide for Living Better (Oxford University Press, 2015) and Psychopharmacology in Cancer Care: A Guide for Non-Prescribers and Prescribers (Oxford University Press, 2020).

Dr. Roth was honored with Lifetime Achievement Awards by the Society of Liaison Psychiatry and the American Psychosocial Oncology Society.

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