Allyson Chapman, MD, FACS
Assistant Professor
Medicine
School of Medicine

Dr. Chapman completed her general surgery training at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and her Critical Care and Palliative Medicine training at Stanford University.

She joined the UCSF Division of Palliative Medicine in 2019 and her clinical focus is on inpatient palliative care and surgical critical care. Her research and education interests focus on the intersection of surgery, critical care, and palliative medicine as well as the integration of palliative care principles into the training and practice of surgeons and critical care clinicians.

• Effect of Perioperative Palliative Care on Health-Related Quality of Life Among Patients Undergoing Surgery for Cancer: A Randomized Clinical Trial.
  JAMA network open 2023 Aslakson RA, Rickerson E, Fahy B, Waterman B, Siden R, Colborn K, Smith S, Verano M, Lira I, Hollahan C, Siddiqi A, Johnson K, Chandrashekaran S, Harris E, Nudotor R, Baker J, Heidari SN, Poultsides G…
• Utilization and Delivery of Specialty Palliative Care in the ICU: Insights from the Palliative Care Quality Network.
  Journal of pain and symptom management 2022 Chapman AC, Lin JA, Cobert J, Marks A, Lin J, O'Riordan DL, Pantilat SZ
• Comment & Response: Vasopressin and Methylprednisolone vs Placebo and Return of Spontaneous Circulation in Patients With In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest. JAMA
  Comment & Response: Vasopressin and Methylprednisolone vs Placebo and Return of Spontaneous Circulation in Patients With In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest. JAMA 2022 Julien Cobert, MD; Allyson Chapman, MD; Alexander Smith, MD, MS, MPH
• Trends in Geriatric Conditions Among Older Adults Admitted to US ICUs Between 1998 and 2015.
  Chest 2022 Cobert J, Jeon SY, Boscardin J, Chapman AC, Ferrante LE, Lee S, Smith AK
• Surgical Palliative Care: Considerations for Career Development in Surgery and Hospice and Palliative Medicine
  RISE: Resources in Surgical Education, American College of Surgeons Division of Education 2021 Halle B. Ellison, MD, FACS; Lee Ann Lau, MD, FACS; Allyson C. Cook, MD; Red Hoffman, MD, ND, FACS; Ana Berlin, MD, MPH, FACS
• The surgical resident experience in serious illness communication: A qualitative needs assessment with proposed solutions.
  American journal of surgery 2021 Lin JA, Im CJ, O'Sullivan P, Kirkwood KS, Cook AC
• Trends in Palliative Care Consultations in Critically Ill Patient Populations, 2013-2019.
  Journal of pain and symptom management 2021 Cobert J, Cook AC, Lin JA, O'Riordan DL, Pantilat SZ
• Top Ten Tips Palliative Care Clinicians Should Know About Trauma and Emergency Surgery.
  Journal of palliative medicine 2021 Haines LK, Cook AC, Hatchimonji JS, Ho VP, Kalbfell EL, O'Connell KM, Robenstine JC, Schlögl M, Toevs CC, Jones CA, Krouse RS, Martin ND
• Surgical, Interventional, and Medical Palliation of Portal Hypertension.
  The American surgeon 2020 Lin JA, Gardner JM, Kolli KP, Cook AC
• A Surgeon’s Review for Difficult Conversations
  Current Surgery Reports 2020 Lin, JA; Cook, AC
• Surgery and Palliative Care: A Shared History and Integrated Future.
  Joint Commission journal on quality and patient safety 2020 Cook AC, Stein DM, Pantilat SZ
• Proactive Identification of Palliative Care Needs Among Patients With COVID-19 in the ICU.
  Journal of pain and symptom management 2020 Schoenherr LA, Cook A, Peck S, Humphreys J, Goto Y, Saks NT, Huddleston L, Elia G, Pantilat SZ
• Decision analysis and reinforcement learning in surgical decision-making.
  Surgery 2020 Loftus TJ, Filiberto AC, Li Y, Balch J, Cook AC, Tighe PJ, Efron PA, Upchurch GR, Rashidi P, Li X, Bihorac A
• Opportunities for Palliative Care in Patients With Burn Injury-A Systematic Review.
  Journal of pain and symptom management 2019 Cook AC, Langston JA, Jaramillo JD, Edwards KE, Wong HN, Aslakson RA, American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine Research Committee Writing Group
• Validation of a Geriatric Trauma Prognosis Calculator: A P.A.L.Li.A.T.E. Consortium Study.
  Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2017 Cook AC, Joseph B, Mohler MJ, Inaba K, Bruns BR, Nakonezny PA, Kerby JD, Brasel KJ, Wolf SE, Cuschieri J, Paulk ME, Rhodes RL, Brakenridge SC, Ekeh AP, Phelan HA
• Predicting In-Hospital and 1-Year Mortality in Geriatric Trauma Patients Using Geriatric Trauma Outcome Score.
  Journal of the American College of Surgeons 2016 Ahl R, Phelan HA, Dogan S, Cao Y, Cook AC, Mohseni S
• Multicenter external validation of the Geriatric Trauma Outcome Score: A study by the Prognostic Assessment of Life and Limitations After Trauma in the Elderly (PALLIATE) consortium.
  The journal of trauma and acute care surgery 2016 Cook AC, Joseph B, Inaba K, Nakonezny PA, Bruns BR, Kerby JD, Brasel KJ, Wolf SE, Cuschieri J, Paulk ME, Rhodes RL, Brakenridge SC, Phelan HA