Eric Isaacs, MD
Professor
Emergency Medicine
School of Medicine

Education & Training

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• Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training University of California 2019
• Emergency Medicine UCLA/Olive-View UCLA Medical Center 06/1994
• Transitional Internship Harbor-UCLA Medical Center 06/1991
• MD Medicine Northwestern University School of Medicine 06/1990
• AB Organismal Biology University of California 06/1986

Interests

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• Clinical Ethics
• Palliative Care
• Emergency Medicine

Websites

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• Profile at emergency.ucsf.edu (emergency.ucsf.edu)

Publications (21)

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Transitional CareStakeholder ParticipationEmergency Service, HospitalPsychomotor AgitationPalliative CareRestraint, PhysicalProblem-Based LearningResuscitation OrdersChorionic Gonadotropin, beta Subunit, HumanPregnancy Tests, ImmunologicHydatidiform MoleAdvance Care PlanningViolenceEmergency Medical TechniciansEmergency Medicine

• Advancing patient-centered research practices in a pragmatic patient-level randomized clinical trial: A thematic analysis of stakeholder engagement in Emergency Medicine Palliative Care Access (EMPallA).
  Research involvement and engagement 2024 Zhao N, Cuthel AM, Storms O, Zhang R, Yamarik RL, Hill J, Kaur R, Van Allen K, Flannery M, Chang A, Chung F, Randhawa S, Alvarez IC, Young-Brinn A, Kizzie-Gillett CL, Rosini D, Isaacs ED, Hopkins E, …
• What's in This For You? What's in This For Me?: A Win-Win Perspective of Involving Study Advisory Committee Members in Palliative Care Research.
  Journal of patient experience 2024 Booker-Vaughns J, Rosini D, Batra R, Chan GK, Dunn P, Galvin R, Hopkins E, Isaacs E, Kizzie-Gillett CL, Maguire M, Navarro M, Reddy Pidatala N, Vaughan W, Welsh S, Williams P, Young-Brinn A, Van Allen…
• Quality measures for palliative care in the emergency department.
  Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine 2022 Goett R, Isaacs ED, Chan GK, Wang D, Aberger K, Pearl R, Rosenberg M, Loffredo AJ, Lamba S
• Paramedic use of the Physician Order for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST) for medical intervention and transportation decisions.
  BMC emergency medicine 2022 Breyre AM, Sporer KA, Davenport G, Isaacs E, Glomb NW
• Palliative care models for patients living with advanced cancer: a narrative review for the emergency department clinician.
  Emergency Cancer Care 2022 Grudzen CR, Barker PC, Bischof JJ, Cuthel AM, Isaacs ED, Southerland LT, Yamarik RL

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• Emergency Department Communication in Persons Living With Dementia and Care Partners: A Scoping Review.
  Journal of the American Medical Directors Association 2022 Carpenter CR, Leggett J, Bellolio F, Betz M, Carnahan RM, Carr D, Doering M, Hansen JC, Isaacs ED, Jobe D, Kelly K, Morrow-Howell N, Prusaczyk B, Savage B, Suyama J, Vann AS, Rising KL, Hwang U, Shah …
• Developing a decision instrument to guide abdominal-pelvic imaging of blunt trauma patients: Methodology and protocol of the NEXUS abdominal-pelvic imaging study.
  PloS one 2022 Raja AS, Rodriguez RM, Gupta M, Isaacs ED, Kornblith LZ, Prabhakar A, Saillant N, Schmit PJ, Wei SH, Mower WR
• Mapping the future for research in emergency medicine palliative care: A research roadmap.
  Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine 2022 Aaronson EL, Wright RJ, Ritchie CS, Grudzen CR, Ankuda CK, Bowman JK, Kuntz JG, Ouchi K, George N, Jubanyik K, Bright LE, Bickel K, Isaacs E, Petrillo LA, Carpenter C, Goett R, LaPointe L, Owens D, …
• Lessons From Learners: Adapting Medical Student Education During and Post COVID-19.
  Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges 2021 Castro MRH, Calthorpe LM, Fogh SE, McAllister S, Johnson CL, Isaacs ED, Ishizaki A, Kozas A, Lo D, Rennke S, Davis J, Chang A
• United States Best Practice Guidelines for Primary Palliative Care in the Emergency Department.
  Annals of emergency medicine 2021 Loffredo AJ, Chan GK, Wang DH, Goett R, Isaacs ED, Pearl R, Rosenberg M, Aberger K, Lamba S
• Pragmatic Considerations in Incorporating Stakeholder Engagement Into a Palliative Care Transitions Study.
  Medical care 2021 de Forcrand C, Flannery M, Cho J, Reddy Pidatala N, Batra R, Booker-Vaughns J, Chan GK, Dunn P, Galvin R, Hopkins E, Isaacs ED, Kizzie-Gillett CL, Maguire M, Navarro M, Rosini D, Vaughan W, Welsh S, …
• Safety-Net Hospitals as Community Anchors in COVID-19.
  Journal of patient experience 2020 Calthorpe L, Isaacs E, Chang A
• Sonographic Findings in Necrotizing Fasciitis: Two Ends of the Spectrum.
  Journal of ultrasound in medicine : official journal of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine 2016 Shyy W, Knight RS, Goldstein R, Isaacs ED, Teismann NA
• Emergency Physicians' Experience with Advance Care Planning Documentation in the Electronic Medical Record: Useful, Needed, and Elusive.
  Journal of palliative medicine 2016 Lakin JR, Isaacs E, Sullivan E, Harris HA, McMahan RD, Sudore RL
• EM Talk: communication skills training for emergency medicine patients with serious illness.
  BMJ supportive & palliative care 2016 Grudzen CR, Emlet LL, Kuntz J, Shreves A, Zimny E, Gang M, Schaulis M, Schmidt S, Isaacs E, Arnold R
• Ethical Decision-making in the Emergency Department.
  Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine 2015 McGreevy J, Isaacs E, Marill K, Venkat A, Society for Academic Emergency Medicine Ethics Committee
• An ethical framework for the management of pain in the emergency department.
  Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine 2013 Venkat A, Fromm C, Isaacs E, Ibarra J, SAEM Ethics Committee
• The violent or agitated patient.
  Emergency medicine clinics of North America 2010 Rossi J, Swan MC, Isaacs ED
• A false negative pregnancy test in a patient with a hydatidiform molar pregnancy.
  The New England journal of medicine 2003 Tabas JA, Strehlow M, Isaacs E
• Ability of laypersons to estimate short time intervals in cardiac arrest.
  Annals of emergency medicine 2000 Isaacs E, Callaham ML
• Do not resuscitate, but do not forget comfort.
  The American journal of emergency medicine 1995 van Stralen D, Perkin RM, Isaacs E