Dr. Timothy Pearman is Professor in the departments of Medical Social Sciences and Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. He is a board certified clinical health psychologist, a Fellow of the American Academy of Clinical Health Psychology (ACHP) and Director of the Supportive Oncology program at the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center. Dr. Pearman has served on the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Health Disparities and Equity Promotion (HDEP) subcommittee, as well as the National Cancer Institute (NCI) Subcommittee G (Education). He served on the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN)’s distress management expert panel. He is the disease section leader for quality of life for the Scientific Review Committee of the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center. He is a member of the Institute for Public Health and Medicine at Northwestern University, and is a member of the Northwestern Medicine Cancer Committee. He has been a clinical associate professor in the Department of Psychiatry & Neurology at the Tulane University School of Medicine since 2000 and was the Director of the Tulane Cancer Center in New Orleans, LA from 2008-2011.