Joanna Sharpless, MD
Assistant Professor
Medicine
School of Medicine

Education & Training

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• Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training University of California 2021
• Hospice and Palliative Medicine Fellowship Massachusetts General Hospital and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute 2019
• Family and Social Medicine Residency Montefiore Medical Center 2018
• MD Medicine Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University 2015
• BA English Literature Brown University 2010

Publications (12)

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GriefNarrationStudents, MedicalTransients and MigrantsFertilityClinical MedicineDental CariesSelf ConceptAwards and PrizesBereavementNeoplasmsPhysician's RoleTerminal CareSocial IdentificationHumanism

• A Validated Electronic Medical Record-Based Algorithm to Identify Hospitalized Patients with Serious Illness.
  Journal of palliative medicine 2024 Schoenherr LA, Goto Y, Sharpless J, O'Riordan DL, Pantilat SZ
• 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 Sharpless J, Dell A
• Navigating the Challenges of Fertility and Reproductive Planning for Terminal Cancer Patients.
  Journal of pain and symptom management 2021 Sharpless J, Ryley D, Byrne-Martelli S, Daubman BR
• Grieving Lessons.
  Journal of pain and symptom management 2020 Sharpless J
• The pandemic is changing how we die – and not just for COVID-19 patients
  TIME Magazine 2020 Pria Anand and Joanna Sharpless

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• Fertility Planning for Patients with Advanced Cancer #385.
  Journal of palliative medicine 2020 Sharpless J, Daubman BR
• Review of You Can Stop Humming Now: A Doctor’s Stories of Life, Death, and in Between, by Daniela Lamas
  J Palliat Med 2018 Joanna Sharpless and Bethany-Rose Daubman
• My Immigrant Patients
  Pulse 2018 Joanna Sharpless
• Staring Down a Sanitation Worker
  New York Times 2016 Joanna Sharpless
• The Gold-Hope Tang, MD 2015 Humanism in Medicine Essay Contest: First Place: Being the Narrator.
  Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges 2015 Sharpless J
• The becoming: students' reflections on the process of professional identity formation in medical education.
  Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges 2015 Sharpless J, Baldwin N, Cook R, Kofman A, Morley-Fletcher A, Slotkin R, Wald HS
• Open wide.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2013 Sharpless J