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Joanna Sharpless, MD

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Title(s)Associate Professor, Medicine
SchoolSchool of Medicine
Address521 Parnassus Avenue, #001
San Francisco CA 94117
Emailjoanna.sharpless@ucsf.edu
PronounsShe/Her/Hers
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    Brown University, Providence, RIBA2010English Literature
    Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, RIMD2015Medicine
    Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY2018Family and Social Medicine Residency
    Massachusetts General Hospital and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA2019Hospice and Palliative Medicine Fellowship
    University of California, San Francisco, CA2021Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training

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    1. A Validated Electronic Medical Record-Based Algorithm to Identify Hospitalized Patients with Serious Illness. J Palliat Med. 2025 Feb; 28(2):201-206. Schoenherr LA, Goto Y, Sharpless J, O'Riordan DL, Pantilat SZ. PMID: 39607739.
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    2. Covid-19 and Social Determinants of Health: Wicked Issues and Relationalism, edited by Adrian Bonner. Case Study 7.1 Racism and Xenophobia: America's Deadly Pre-Existing Conditions during the Covid-19 Pandemic's First Year. 2023; 114-125. Sharpless J, Dell A.
    3. Navigating the Challenges of Fertility and Reproductive Planning for Terminal Cancer Patients. J Pain Symptom Manage. 2021 10; 62(4):843-847. Sharpless J, Ryley D, Byrne-Martelli S, Daubman BR. PMID: 33636282.
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    4. Grieving Lessons. J Pain Symptom Manage. 2021 09; 62(3):668-670. Sharpless J. PMID: 32758510.
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    5. The pandemic is changing how we die – and not just for COVID-19 patients. TIME Magazine. 2020; 19(195):23. Pria Anand and Joanna Sharpless. . View Publication.
    6. Fertility Planning for Patients with Advanced Cancer #385. J Palliat Med. 2020 01; 23(1):139-140. Sharpless J, Daubman BR. PMID: 31905084.
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    7. Review of You Can Stop Humming Now: A Doctor’s Stories of Life, Death, and in Between, by Daniela Lamas. J Palliat Med. 2018; 11(21):1674. Joanna Sharpless and Bethany-Rose Daubman. .
    8. My Immigrant Patients. Pulse. 2018. Joanna Sharpless. . View Publication.
    9. Staring Down a Sanitation Worker. New York Times. 2016. Joanna Sharpless. . View Publication.
    10. The Gold-Hope Tang, MD 2015 Humanism in Medicine Essay Contest: First Place: Being the Narrator. Acad Med. 2015 Dec; 90(12):1634-5. Sharpless J. PMID: 26599857.
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    11. The becoming: students' reflections on the process of professional identity formation in medical education. Acad Med. 2015 Jun; 90(6):713-7. Sharpless J, Baldwin N, Cook R, Kofman A, Morley-Fletcher A, Slotkin R, Wald HS. PMID: 25881650.
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    12. Open wide. J Gen Intern Med. 2013 Jun; 28(6):857-8. Sharpless J. PMID: 23161354; PMCID: PMC3663940.
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