Wendy Anderson, MD
Clinical Professor
Medicine
School of Medicine

She currently leads a California Health Care Foundation funded mentored implementation program that supports specialist palliative care teams in nine California public health care systems to integrate palliative care into the usual care provided in partner service lines. Past projects include work with hospitalist physicians (https://www.hospitalmedicine.org/clinical-topics/palliative-care/) and ICU bedside nurses and (IMPACT-ICU, http://vitaltalk.org/resources/impact-icu/). Clinically, Dr. Anderson attends on the Supportive & Palliative Care Service at San Francisco General Hospital & Trauma Center.

• Clinician-Family Communication About Patients' Values and Preferences in Intensive Care Units.
  JAMA internal medicine 2019 Scheunemann LP, Ernecoff NC, Buddadhumaruk P, Carson SS, Hough CL, Curtis JR, Anderson WG, Steingrub J, Lo B, Matthay M, Arnold RM, White DB
• The contagion of optimism: The relationship between patient optimism and palliative care clinician overestimation of survival among hospitalized patients with advanced cancer.
  Psycho-oncology 2019 Ingersoll LT, Alexander SC, Ladwig S, Anderson W, Norton SA, Gramling R
• End-of-Life Nursing and Education Consortium Communication Curriculum for Interdisciplinary Palliative Care Teams.
  Journal of palliative medicine 2019 Ferrell B, Buller H, Paice J, Anderson W, Donesky D
• Palliative Oncologic Care Curricula for Providers in Resource-Limited and Underserved Communities: a Systematic Review.
  Journal of cancer education : the official journal of the American Association for Cancer Education 2019 Xu MJ, Su D, Deboer R, Garcia M, Tahir P, Anderson W, Kinderman A, Braunstein S, Sherertz T
• Patient stakeholder engagement in research: A narrative review to describe foundational principles and best practice activities.
  Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy 2019 Harrison JD, Auerbach AD, Anderson W, Fagan M, Carnie M, Hanson C, Banta J, Symczak G, Robinson E, Schnipper J, Wong C, Weiss R
• Racial/ethnic differences in prognosis communication during initial inpatient palliative care consultations among people with advanced cancer.
  Patient education and counseling 2019 Ingersoll LT, Alexander SC, Priest J, Ladwig S, Anderson W, Fiscella K, Epstein RM, Norton SA, Gramling R
• End-of-Life Preferences, Length-of-Life Conversations, and Hospice Enrollment in Palliative Care: A Direct Observation Cohort Study among People with Advanced Cancer.
  Journal of palliative medicine 2018 Gramling R, Ingersoll LT, Anderson W, Priest J, Berns S, Cheung K, Norton SA, Alexander SC
• Palliative Care Clinician Overestimation of Survival in Advanced Cancer: Disparities and Association With End-of-Life Care.
  Journal of pain and symptom management 2018 Gramling R, Gajary-Coots E, Cimino J, Fiscella K, Epstein R, Ladwig S, Anderson W, Alexander SC, Han PK, Gramling D, Norton SA
• Patient and Family Advisory Councils (PFACs): Identifying Challenges and Solutions to Support Engagement in Research.
  The patient 2018 Harrison JD, Anderson WG, Fagan M, Robinson E, Schnipper J, Symczak G, Hanson C, Carnie MB, Banta J, Chen S, Duong J, Wong C, Auerbach AD
• A psychometric study of the decisional conflict scale in surrogate decision makers.
  Patient education and counseling 2018 Pecanac KE, Brown RL, Steingrub J, Anderson W, Matthay MA, White DB
• Using Implementation Science to Adapt a Training Program to Assist Surgeons with High-Stakes Communication.
  Journal of surgical education 2018 Taylor LJ, Adkins S, Hoel AW, Hauser J, Suwanabol P, Wood G, Anderson W, Branson C, Skube S, Johnson SK, Zelenski A, Tucholka JL, Campbell TC, Schwarze ML
• Feeling Heard and Understood in the Hospital Environment: Benchmarking Communication Quality Among Patients With Advanced Cancer Before and After Palliative Care Consultation.
  Journal of pain and symptom management 2018 Ingersoll LT, Saeed F, Ladwig S, Norton SA, Anderson W, Alexander SC, Gramling R
• Measuring patient respect in the intensive care unit: Validation of the ICU-RESPECT instrument.
  Journal of critical care 2018 Geller G, Schell-Chaple H, Turner K, Anderson WG, Beach MC
• Associations of Physician Empathy with Patient Anxiety and Ratings of Communication in Hospital Admission Encounters.
  Journal of hospital medicine 2017 Weiss R, Vittinghoff E, Fang MC, Cimino JEW, Chasteen KA, Arnold RM, Auerbach AD, Anderson WG
• A Video Is Worth a Thousand Words.
  Journal of hospital medicine 2017 Bischoff K, Anderson W, Pantilat SZ
• Palliative Care Professional Development for Critical Care Nurses: A Multicenter Program.
  American journal of critical care : an official publication, American Association of Critical-Care Nurses 2017 Anderson WG, Puntillo K, Cimino J, Noort J, Pearson D, Boyle D, Grywalski M, Meyer J, O'Neil-Page E, Cain J, Herman H, Barbour S, Turner K, Moore E, Liao S, Ferrell B, Mitchell W, Edmonds K, Fairman N…
• Preventing Harm in the ICU-Building a Culture of Safety and Engaging Patients and Families.
  Critical care medicine 2017 Thornton KC, Schwarz JJ, Gross AK, Anderson WG, Liu KD, Romig MC, Schell-Chaple H, Pronovost PJ, Sapirstein A, Gropper MA, Lipshutz AKM, Project Emerge Collaborators
• Physicians Rarely Elicit Critically Ill Patients' Previously Expressed Treatment Preferences in Intensive Care Units.
  American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine 2017 Chiarchiaro J, Ernecoff NC, Scheunemann LP, Hough CL, Carson SS, Peterson MW, Anderson WG, Steingrub JS, Arnold RM, White DB
• Confidence with and Barriers to Serious Illness Communication: A National Survey of Hospitalists.
  Journal of palliative medicine 2017 Rosenberg LB, Greenwald J, Caponi B, Doshi A, Epstein H, Frank J, Lindenberger E, Marzano N, Mills LM, Razzak R, Risser J, Anderson WG
• Palliative Care Didactic Course for Radiation Oncology Residents.
  International journal of radiation oncology, biology, physics 2017 Garcia MA, Braunstein SE, Anderson WG
• The Cambia Sojourns Scholars Leadership Program: Project Summaries from the Inaugural Scholar Cohort.
  Journal of palliative medicine 2016 Kamal AH, Anderson WG, Boss RD, Brody AA, Campbell TC, Creutzfeldt CJ, Hurd CJ, Kinderman AL, Lindenberger EC, Reinke LF
• Key stakeholders' perceptions of the acceptability and usefulness of a tablet-based tool to improve communication and shared decision making in ICUs.
  Journal of critical care 2016 Ernecoff NC, Witteman HO, Chon K, Chen YI, Buddadhumaruk P, Chiarchiaro J, Shotsberger KJ, Shields AM, Myers BA, Hough CL, Carson SS, Lo B, Matthay MA, Anderson WG, Peterson MW, Steingrub JS, Arnold …
• ICU Bedside Nurses' Involvement in Palliative Care Communication: A Multicenter Survey.
  Journal of pain and symptom management 2015 Anderson WG, Puntillo K, Boyle D, Barbour S, Turner K, Cimino J, Moore E, Noort J, MacMillan J, Pearson D, Grywalski M, Liao S, Ferrell B, Meyer J, O'Neil-Page E, Cain J, Herman H, Mitchell W, …
• Communicating with Patients' Families and Physicians About Prognosis and Goals of Care.
  American journal of critical care : an official publication, American Association of Critical-Care Nurses 2015 Milic MM, Puntillo K, Turner K, Joseph D, Peters N, Ryan R, Schuster C, Winfree H, Cimino J, Anderson WG
• Quantifying the value of palliative care and advance care planning.
  Critical care medicine 2015 Anderson WG
• Understanding how institutional culture affects attending physicians' and trainees' resuscitation discussions.
  JAMA internal medicine 2015 Mills L, Anderson W
• A multicenter study of key stakeholders' perspectives on communicating with surrogates about prognosis in intensive care units.
  Annals of the American Thoracic Society 2015 Anderson WG, Cimino JW, Ernecoff NC, Ungar A, Shotsberger KJ, Pollice LA, Buddadhumaruk P, Carson SS, Curtis JR, Hough CL, Lo B, Matthay MA, Peterson MW, Steingrub JS, White DB
• Update in hospice and palliative care.
  Journal of palliative medicine 2014 Roza KA, Horton JR, Johnson K, Anderson WG
• Update in hospital palliative care.
  Journal of hospital medicine 2013 Anderson WG, Flint LA, Horton JR, Johnson K, Mourad M, Sharpe BA
• Incentivizing residents to document inpatient advance care planning.
  JAMA internal medicine 2013 Lakin JR, Le E, Mourad M, Hollander H, Anderson WG
• Seriously ill hospitalized patients' perspectives on the benefits and harms of two models of hospital CPR discussions.
  Patient education and counseling 2013 Anderson WG, Cimino JW, Lo B
• An evaluation of interactive web-based curricula for teaching code status discussions.
  Journal of palliative medicine 2013 Chittenden EH, Anderson WG, Lai CJ, O'Sullivan P
• Dancing around death: hospitalist-patient communication about serious illness.
  Qualitative health research 2012 Anderson WG, Kools S, Lyndon A
• Why should I talk about emotion? Communication patterns associated with physician discussion of patient expressions of negative emotion in hospital admission encounters.
  Patient education and counseling 2012 Adams K, Cimino JE, Arnold RM, Anderson WG
• Update in hospice and palliative care.
  Journal of palliative medicine 2012 Anderson WG, Goldstein NE
• Patient concerns at hospital admission.
  Archives of internal medicine 2011 Anderson WG, Winters K, Auerbach AD
• Code status discussions between attending hospitalist physicians and medical patients at hospital admission.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2010 Anderson WG, Chase R, Pantilat SZ, Tulsky JA, Auerbach AD
• Code status discussions at hospital admission are not associated with patient and surrogate satisfaction with hospital care: results from the multicenter hospitalist study.
  The American journal of hospice & palliative care 2010 Anderson WG, Pantilat SZ, Meltzer D, Schnipper J, Kaboli P, Wetterneck TB, Gonzales D, Arora V, Zhang J, Auerbach AD
• "I'm sitting here by myself ...": experiences of patients with serious illness at an Urban Public Hospital.
  Journal of palliative medicine 2010 Dzul-Church V, Cimino JW, Adler SR, Wong P, Anderson WG
• Studying physician-patient communication in the acute care setting: the hospitalist rapport study.
  Patient education and counseling 2010 Anderson WG, Winters K, Arnold RM, Puntillo KA, White DB, Auerbach AD
• Update in hospice and palliative care.
  Journal of palliative medicine 2010 Anderson WG, Goldstein NE
• Systematic reviews and meta-analyses.
  Journal of palliative medicine 2009 Anderson WG, McNamara MC, Arnold RM
• Exposure to death is associated with positive attitudes and higher knowledge about end-of-life care in graduating medical students.
  Journal of palliative medicine 2008 Anderson WG, Williams JE, Bost JE, Barnard D
• Communication about cancer near the end of life.
  Cancer 2008 Back AL, Anderson WG, Bunch L, Marr LA, Wallace JA, Yang HB, Arnold RM
• Posttraumatic stress and complicated grief in family members of patients in the intensive care unit.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2008 Anderson WG, Arnold RM, Angus DC, Bryce CL
• Passive decision-making preference is associated with anxiety and depression in relatives of patients in the intensive care unit.
  Journal of critical care 2008 Anderson WG, Arnold RM, Angus DC, Bryce CL
• "What concerns me is..." Expression of emotion by advanced cancer patients during outpatient visits.
  Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer 2007 Anderson WG, Alexander SC, Rodriguez KL, Jeffreys AS, Olsen MK, Pollak KI, Tulsky JA, Arnold RM
• Communication at times of transitions: how to help patients cope with loss and re-define hope.
  Cancer journal (Sudbury, Mass.) 2006 Evans WG, Tulsky JA, Back AL, Arnold RM
• Is there no place like home? Caregivers recall reasons for and experience upon transfer from home hospice to inpatient facilities.
  Journal of palliative medicine 2006 Evans WG, Cutson TM, Steinhauser KE, Tulsky JA
• Improving knowledge in palliative medicine with a required hospice rotation for third-year medical students.
  Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges 2004 Porter-Williamson K, von Gunten CF, Garman K, Herbst L, Bluestein HG, Evans W