Elena Lister M.D.

Elena Lister, MD, is associate professor of clinical psychiatry at New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center and senior consulting analyst for grief at Columbia Psychoanalytic Center. She treats adults and children facing all life issues, specializes in grief, and is a frequently sought-out expert on dealing with loss in schools across the country. Dr. Lister is the coauthor of I Will Remember You: A Guidebook Through Grief for Teens.

My work in this area arises out of our experience of the illness and then death of our 6 year old daughter from leukemia 25 years ago. Since then, I have devoted much of my professional life to helping people of all ages not feel alone facing illness and loss as well as other life challenges.