[1] In 1977, she worked with two colleagues to establish a full-time psychiatric service at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.

Holland was chief of the Psychiatry Service, which she helped create, for New York's Memorial Sloan-Kettering (MSK) Cancer Center from 1977 to 1996.

[3] She became a Professor of Psychiatry at the Weill Cornell Medical College, and held the Wayne E. Chapman Chair of Psychiatric Oncology at MSK.

She was elected a Fellow in the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences in 1995, and received the Presidential Commendation from the American Psychiatric Association in 2000, among many other awards.

Dr. Holland not only has had a huge influence in her research of Psycho-Oncology, but she has also written a book named, "The Human Side of Cancer".