Marcia Glass, MD

Title(s)Professor, Medicine
SchoolSchool of Medicine
Address521 Parnassus Avenue, #001
San Francisco CA 94117
Phone415-502-1414
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    Tulane2023Tulane SOM Award in the category Women in Medicine
    British Medical Association2021First Place in the category Anaesthesia, Critical Care, and Emergency Medicine in the BMA awards
    AAHPM2019AAHPM Emerging Learder nomination
    Fulbright2018Fulbright-Nehru Specialist Award
    Links, Inc.2018Champion of Change Award for Links, Inc.
    UCSF2017UCSF Mentor Award from Pathways to Discovery
    UCSF2016UCSF Distinction in Mentoring Award nomination
    SHM2015SHM Best Research Poster
    UCSF2014UCSF Core Clerkship Teaching Award
    SGIM2014Recognition at California-Hawaitt SGIM conference for Outstanding Research Abstract
    Tulane University School of Medicine2012Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society nomination
    Tulane University School of Medicine2012Owl Club Internal Medicine Teaching Award nomination
    Tulane University School of Medicine2011C. Thorpe Ray Internal Medicine Educator Award
    Tulane University School of Medicine2011Owl Club Teaching Award nomination
    Tulane University School of Medicine2010Arnold P. Gold Humanism in Medicine Award nomination
    Tulane University School of Medicine2011Dean's Office Top Five Medical Faculty by Student Evaluations
    Yale University and Stanford University2010Yale/Stanford Johnson and Johnson Global Health Fellowship
    Tulane University School of Medicine2008Best Inpatient Attending
    Tulane University School of Medicine2008Owl club Internal Medicine Teaching Award nomination
    Tulane University School of Medicine2006Faculty-Elected Outstanding PGY-3 Resident

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    Marcia Glass originally joined the faculty of UCSF in August of 2012. She received a BA from
    The University of Chicago in 1998 and an MD from Georgetown University in 2003. After completing a residency in internal medicine at Tulane University, she joined the Tulane faculty in 2006. Later that year, she worked in Liberia with Doctors without Borders. She returned to Liberia in 2009 to work as a hospitalist for the Liberian government. In 2010, she worked in Uganda as a fellow with the Yale/Stanford Johnson and Johnson Global Health Scholars Program. In 2011, she volunteered again with Doctors without Borders in Colombia and also worked in Ghana with the Sidharte program through Columbia University. She returned to Tulane from 2017-2024 and founded the first palliative care fellowship in the state of Louisiana. She was Vice Chair of the Tulane General Medical Faculty from 2021-2022. During her return to Tulane, she worked in India as a Fulbright scholar, volunteered in Navajo Nation during the pandemic, and performed medical forensic interviews in Spanish, English, and French to help imprisoned asylum seekers in Louisiana. Her most recent global-health work has been an ongoing palliative care collaboration in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

    Marcia has testified in front of Louisiana State Legislature twice in support of the rights of imprisoned people and those suffering from substance use disorders. In 2021, she was appointed to a commission to study the Louisiana Department of Safety and Corrections processes for medical parole. And, In 2022, she testified against Angola Prison in Louisiana.

    Marcia has presented in multiple SGIM and SSGIM conferences and served as a peer advisor during the New Orleans 2008 SSGIM meeting. She was also the faculty sponsor for the Tulane Medical Student Outreach Clinic at Ozanam Inn from 2010-2012 and a member of Physicians for Social Responsibility, Physicians for Human Rights, Amnesty International, and Doctors without Borders. At Tulane Medical School, she served on the Institutional Review Board from 2009-2012 and the Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee from 2007-2012. She was a faculty advisor for internal medicine residents through the Concierge Mentoring Service from 2010-2012 and ran a procedure training course for medicine residents at Tulane's simulation center from 2010-2012.

    Dr. Glass has received numerous teaching awards, including the Tulane Medicine Best Inpatient Attending Award, the Tulane C. Thorpe Ray Internal Medicine Educator Award, the UCSF Core Clerkship Teaching Award, and the UCSF Pathways to Discovery Mentor Award. She received a Champion of Change Award from Links, Inc. and was a Tulane Studio in the Woods scholarship recipient in 2018. In 2021, one of her pieces won first place in the prose and poetry section of the annual HCA Art Contest. In 2023, she won the Tulane SOM Women in Medicine award.

    Her continued medical education includes the Stanford Faculty Development Program, the Harvard University Medical Detectives Course, MD Anderson Intensive Board Review in Hospice and Palliative Medicine, the MDI Physiology on the Fly course organized by Harvard Beth Israel faculty, the ASAM Review Course in Addiction Medicine, and psychedelic-assisted therapy training through CPTR.

    Her grant-supported research has produced several peer-reviewed articles, along with multiple national and international presentations. Her research awards include the 2015 SHM Best Research Poster, the 2014 California-Hawaii SGIM Outstanding Research Abstract, and 2nd place in the 2011 AMSA Annual Convention in the Community Development and Service Category. Her work has been published in Annals of Internal Medicine, The Lancet, NEJM, and The Washington Post. She co-edited and published the Oxford Field Manual for Palliative Care in Humanitarian Crises in 2019, which won a first-place award in the 2021 British Medical Association Medical Book Awards. Her most recent book, The Oxford Guide to Psychedelics in Palliative Care, will be out in late 2024.

    Certification:
    -Board certification in internal medicine (2006)
    -Board certification in palliative medicine (2012)
    -Certification as UCSF bilingual physician (2014)
    -Board certification in addiction medicine (2022)
    -Certification in MDMA-assisted therapy (2024)
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    1. Heartbeat. N Engl J Med. 2024 Jan 25; 390(4):298-299. Glass M. PMID: 38251789.
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    2. A Case Report of Treatment-Resistant Agitation in Dementia With Lewy Bodies: Medical Marijuana as an Alternative to Antipsychotics. J Palliat Med. 2023 05; 26(5):737-740. Ramm RM, Lerner ZI, Levy-Meeks GS, Burke RV, Raven MC, Song A, Glass MH. PMID: 36576970.
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    3. Interdisciplinary Approaches to Resilience Training in the Care of Underrepresented Populations (VT100). Journal of Pain and Symptom Management. 2022 May 1; 63(5):835-836. Humphreys HJ, Glass GM, Stoltenberg SM, Joseph JD, Namukwaya NE. .
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    4. The Nurse with the Purple Hair. Journal of Palliative Medicine. 2021 Feb 16; 24(3):472-473. Leigh LA, Burke BR, Amedee AM, Constanza CK, Rome RR, Parkinson PC, Glass GM, Lambert LD, Marion MA. .
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    5. A Case Report of COVID-19 in New Orleans, Louisiana: Highlighting the Complexities of Prognostication in a Critically Ill Patient. Palliat Med Rep. 2020; 1(1):227-231. Lerner ZI, Burke RV, McCall J, Leigh A, Glass M. PMID: 34223481; PMCID: PMC8241379.
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    6. Cleveland Clinic. Ann Intern Med. 2020 Sep 01; 173(5):341. Glass M. PMID: 32866404.
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    7. Global Palliative Care Education in the Time of COVID-19. J Pain Symptom Manage. 2020 10; 60(4):e14-e19. Glass M, Rana S, Coghlan R, Lerner ZI, Harrison JD, Stoltenberg M, Namukwaya E, Humphreys J. PMID: 32717367; PMCID: PMC7380234.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions: 9     Fields:    Translation:HumansCellsPHPublic Health
    8. Ethics Simulation in Global Health Training (ESIGHT). MedEdPORTAL. 2017 Jun 07; 13:10590. Asao S, Lewis B, Harrison JD, Glass M, Brock TP, Dandu M, Le P. PMID: 30800792; PMCID: PMC6338194.
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    9. Standardized Attending Rounds to Improve the Patient Experience: A Pragmatic Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial. J Hosp Med. 2017 03; 12(3):143-149. Monash B, Najafi N, Mourad M, Rajkomar A, Ranji SR, Fang MC, Glass M, Milev D, Ding Y, Shen A, Sharpe BA, Harrison JD. PMID: 28272589.
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    10. What Are the Ethical Issues Facing Global-Health Trainees Working Overseas? A Multi-Professional Qualitative Study. Healthcare (Basel). 2016 Jul 13; 4(3). Harrison JD, Logar T, Le P, Glass M. PMID: 27417631; PMCID: PMC5041044.
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    11. Breakdown. J Hosp Med. 2016 Feb; 11(2):126-9. Zhu JM, Hamel D, Dhaliwal G, Glass M, Sharpe B, Kim B, Monash B. PMID: 26800656.
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    12. Improving attending rounds: Qualitative reflections from multidisciplinary providers. Hosp Pract (1995). 2015; 43(3):186-90. Najafi N, Monash B, Mourad M, Ding Y, Glass M, Burrell GJ, Harrison JD. PMID: 25936415.
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    13. Teaching corner: "first do no harm": teaching global health ethics to medical trainees through experiential learning. J Bioeth Inq. 2015 Mar; 12(1):69-78. Logar T, Le P, Harrison JD, Glass M. PMID: 25648122.
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    14. Teaching global health ethics using simulation: interprofessional training. The Lancet Global Health. 2014 May 1; 2:s5. Shoeb SM, Logar LT, Glass GM, Harrison HJ, Brock BT, James-Ryan JS, Barajas BS, Le LP. .
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    15. Alcohol withdrawal. South Med J. 2012 Nov; 105(11):607-12. Manasco A, Chang S, Larriviere J, Hamm LL, Glass M. PMID: 23128805.
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    16. Neisseria; In Wiese, J., Auerbach, A., Glasheen, J., and Li, J. Clinical Decision Support. Decision Support in Medicine, LLC. In Press. Glass, M.
    17. Hypopituitarism; In Wiese, J., Auerbach, A., Glasheen, J., and Li, J. Clinical Decision Support. Decision Support in Medicine, LLC. In press. Larriviere, J., and Glass, M.
    18. Bullous pemphigoid and pemphigus vulgaris; In Wiese, J., Auerbach, A., Glasheen, J., and Li, J. Clinical Decision Support. Decision Support in Medicine, LLC. In press. Kura, K., and Glass, M.
    19. The Road to Ozanam Inn: A Place to Teach, Learn, and Heal. The International Public Health Journal. In Press. Rebholz, C., Khan, T., and Glass, M.
    20. Large Bowel Obstruction; In Wiese, J., Auerbach, A., Glasheen, J., and Li, J. Clinical Decision Support. Decision Support in Medicine, LLC. In press. Chang, S., and Glass, M.
    21. Hyper-homocysteinemia; In Wiese, J., Auerbach, A., Glasheen, J., and Li, J. Clinical Decision Support. Decision Support in Medicine, LLC. In press. Johnson, A., and Glass, M.
    22. Dengue Fever; In Ebell, MH., Ferenchick, G., Smith, M., Barry, H., Slawson, D., Shaughnessy, A., Forsch, R., Li, S., Wilkes, M., Usatine, R. (Eds.): Essential Evidence. John Wiley & Sons, 2009. Glass, M.
    23. Pride and Pericardiocentesis. Pride and Pericardiocentesis. New World. 2012 Spring. Glass, M. View Publication.
    24. The Road to Ozanam Inn: A Place to Teach, Learn, and Heal; In Caron, R., and Merrick, J., (Eds.): Building Community Capacity: Case Examples from around the World. Nova Science. In press. Rebholz, C., Khan., T. and Glass, M.
    25. Bloody Diamonds. SGIM Forum. 2012 Oct. 10(35):10. Glass, M.
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