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Publications
  1. 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


  2. Sharpless J, Dell A. Covid-19 and Social Determinants of Health: Wicked Issues and Relationalism, edited by Adrian Bonner 2023. PMID:


  3. Sharpless J, Ryley D, Byrne-Martelli S, Daubman BR. Navigating the Challenges of Fertility and Reproductive Planning for Terminal Cancer Patients. 2021. PMID: 33636282


  4. Sharpless J. Grieving Lessons. 2020. PMID: 32758510


  5. Pria Anand and Joanna Sharpless. The pandemic is changing how we die – and not just for COVID-19 patients 2020. PMID:


  6. Sharpless J, Daubman BR. Fertility Planning for Patients with Advanced Cancer #385. Volume 23 of Issue 1. 2020. PMID: 31905084


  7. 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:


  8. Joanna Sharpless. My Immigrant Patients 2018. PMID:


  9. Joanna Sharpless. Staring Down a Sanitation Worker 2016. PMID:


  10. 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


  11. 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


  12. Sharpless J. Open wide. Volume 28 of Issue 6. 2013. PMID: 23161354


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