Danielle Chammas, MD
Associate Professor
Medicine
School of Medicine

Her academic interests center on integrating psychotherapeutic frameworks into serious illness communication, with the goal of helping clinicians more effectively support patients and families facing complex medical circumstances.

She is also engaged in medical humanities–based education and programming through the UCSF MERI Center for Humanity in Healthcare, including the development of initiatives that use narrative and poetry to foster reflection, connection, and resilience among clinicians and patients.

• Do No Harm.
  Journal of pain and symptom management 2025 Chammas D
• Top Ten Tips Palliative Care Clinicians Should Know About Supporting Coping in Serious Illness.
  Journal of palliative medicine 2025 Chammas D, Moment A, Leff V, Buxton D, Rosa WE, Brenner K
• Integrating Psychotherapeutic Concepts to Enhance Serious Illness Communication: Assessment of a Model Curriculum.
  Journal of palliative medicine 2025 Chammas D, Brenner K, Moment A, Byrne-Martelli SE, Rosenberg LB, Shalev D
• One Size Fits … Some.
  The New England journal of medicine 2025 Chammas D
• Wishing for a No-Show.
  Annals of internal medicine 2025 Chammas D
• Top Ten Tips Palliative Care Clinicians Should Know About Addressing Patient Sexuality and Intimacy in Serious Illness.
  Journal of palliative medicine 2024 Chammas D, Shindel AW, Rowen TS, Schanche K, Wittmann D, Shalev D, D'Addario J, Wisniewski R, Scheel T, Nelson CJ, Ratner ES, Rosa WE, Rabow MW
• Facing Illness Together: Understanding the Role of the Couple in Palliative Care.
  The American journal of hospice & palliative care 2024 Chammas D, Fishel A, Cramer M, Brenner KO, Rosenberg LB
• Formulation in Palliative Care: Elevating Our Potential for Therapeutic Communication.
  The American journal of hospice & palliative care 2024 Chammas D, Moment A, Rosenberg L, Shalev D, Brenner KO
• Shades of Loneliness.
  Journal of pain and symptom management 2024 Chammas D
• Dancing with Dyads: Supporting Relationships Through Serious Illness.
  Journal of palliative medicine 2024 Chammas D
• Top Ten Tips Palliative Care Clinicians Should Know About Applying Key Psychotherapy Concepts in Practice.
  Journal of palliative medicine 2024 Chammas D, Williamson B, Scheel T, Goyal N, Rosenberg LB, Shalev D, Gamble A, Polisso M, Rosa WE, Brenner KO
• Should I Laugh at That? Coping in the Setting of Serious Illness.
  The New England journal of medicine 2024 Chammas D
• There Is No Floor: The Myth of Certainty.
  Journal of pain and symptom management 2024 Chammas D
• Top Ten Tips Palliative Care Clinicians Should Know About the Psychological Aspects of Palliative Care Encounters.
  Journal of palliative medicine 2023 Chammas D, Brenner KO, Gamble A, Buxton D, Byrne-Martelli S, Polisso M, Shalev D, Rosenberg LB
• The Stories We Tell Ourselves.
  JAMA 2023 Chammas D
• Different Than Me.
  Journal of pain and symptom management 2023 Chammas D
• Speaking the Unspoken.
  Journal of pain and symptom management 2023 Chammas D
• Seeing With My Ears.
  Journal of pain and symptom management 2020 Chammas D