Lea Baider (born 1939), is a professor of medical psychology,[1] and considered one of the founders of psycho-oncology.
[2] She is the director of psycho-oncology at the Sharsheret Institute of Oncology at the Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem.
[5] She then became a clinical psychologist in the oncology department of Shattuck Hospital, while running group therapy for drug-addiction at Boston University Medical Center.
[5] She then moved to Israel and became a postdoctoral fellow at the Tel Aviv University Medical Center in Family Medicine.
[1] In 2012, she established the psycho-oncology department in Assuta Medical Center located in Tel Aviv.
[3] In May 2015, Baider participated in a workshop teaching doctors about psycho-oncology at the Sacred Heart training center.