Innovations in End-of-Life Care
an international journal of leaders in end-of-life care

Robert A. Neimeyer holds a Dunavant University Professorship in the Department of Psychology, University of Memphis, where he also maintains an active clinical practice. Since completing his doctoral training at the University of Nebraska in 1982, he has conducted extensive research on the topics of death, grief, loss, and suicide intervention.

Neimeyer has published 17 books, including Meaning Reconstruction and the Experience of Loss (American Psychological Association), Lessons of Loss: A Guide to Coping (McGraw-Hill), and Dying: Facing the Facts, and is editor of Treatment of Suicidal People (both with Taylor & Francis). The author of over 200 articles and book chapters, he is currently working to advance a more adequate theory of grieving as a meaning-making process.

Neimeyer is the Editor of the respected international journal, Death Studies and served as President of the Association for Death Education and Counseling (1996-1997). In recognition of his scholarly contributions, he has been granted both the Distinguished Research Award (1990) and the Distinguished Teaching Award (1999) by the University of Memphis, elected to the International Work Group on Death, Dying, and Bereavement (1993), designated Psychologist of the Year by the Tennessee Psychological Association (1996), made a Fellow of the Clinical Psychology Division of the American Psychological Association (1997), and given the Research Recognition Award by the Association for Death Education and Counseling (1999). He currently serves on the Committee on End-of-Life Issues of the American Psychological Association, the Scientific Advisory Board of the Center for the Advancement of Health's Grief Research Project, and the Evaluations and Outcomes Committee of Last Acts, funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

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