Obituary: Raymond K. Mulhern (1949–2005)

Abstract

With the premature death of Raymond K. Mulhern, pediatric psychology has lost one of its most accomplished scientist- practitioners in the field of psychosocial oncology. Ray was born in Des Moines, Iowa on January 10,1949; he died on July 2, 2005 in Memphis, Tennessee after battling renal cell carcinoma. Ray accomplished seminal work in the field of psychosocial oncology that included over 165 published reports and book chapters devoted to important and cutting-edge issues in pediatric oncology including the cognitive toxicities associated with chemotherapy and radiation treatment, quality of life among pediatric cancer survivors, important work in neuroimaging, and the association between the psychological markers of cognitive functioning and the assessment of important structural impairments in the brains of children and adolescents who were cancer survivors. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)