Joanna Sharpless, MD | Palliative Medicine

Assistant Professor

Education

2021 - Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training, University of California

2019 - Hospice and Palliative Medicine Fellowship, Massachusetts General Hospital and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

2018 - Family and Social Medicine Residency, Montefiore Medical Center

MD, 2015 - Medicine, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University

BA, 2010 - English Literature, Brown University

Publications

Schoenherr LA, Goto Y, Sharpless J, O'Riordan DL, Pantilat SZ. A Validated Electronic Medical Record-Based Algorithm to Identify Hospitalized Patients with Serious Illness. 2024. PMID: 39607739
Sharpless J, Dell A. Covid-19 and Social Determinants of Health: Wicked Issues and Relationalism, edited by Adrian Bonner 2023. PMID:
Sharpless J, Ryley D, Byrne-Martelli S, Daubman BR. Navigating the Challenges of Fertility and Reproductive Planning for Terminal Cancer Patients. 2021. PMID: 33636282
Sharpless J. Grieving Lessons. 2020. PMID: 32758510
Pria Anand and Joanna Sharpless. The pandemic is changing how we die – and not just for COVID-19 patients 2020. PMID:
Sharpless J, Daubman BR. Fertility Planning for Patients with Advanced Cancer #385. Volume 23 of Issue 1. 2020. PMID: 31905084
Joanna Sharpless and Bethany-Rose Daubman. Review of You Can Stop Humming Now: A Doctor’s Stories of Life, Death, and in Between, by Daniela Lamas 2018. PMID:
Joanna Sharpless. My Immigrant Patients 2018. PMID:
Joanna Sharpless. Staring Down a Sanitation Worker 2016. PMID:
Sharpless J. The Gold-Hope Tang, MD 2015 Humanism in Medicine Essay Contest: First Place: Being the Narrator. Volume 90 of Issue 12. 2015. PMID: 26599857
Sharpless J, Baldwin N, Cook R, Kofman A, Morley-Fletcher A, Slotkin R, Wald HS. The becoming: students' reflections on the process of professional identity formation in medical education. Volume 90 of Issue 6. 2015. PMID: 25881650
Sharpless J. Open wide. Volume 28 of Issue 6. 2013. PMID: 23161354