Christopher Jones
Associate Professor of Medicine
Current Appointments & Affiliations
- Associate Professor of Medicine, Medicine, General Internal Medicine, Medicine 2021
Contact Information
- DUMC 3688; Blue Zone Rm 0527, 40 Duke Medicine Circle, Durham, NC 27710
- DUMC Box 2706, Durham, NC 27710
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christopher.jones@duke.edu
(919) 668-7215
- Background
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Education, Training, & Certifications
- Fellow in Hospice and Palliative Medicine, Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine 2010 - 2011
- Fellow in Geriatrics Medicine, Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine 2009 - 2010
- Residency, Medicine, Brown University 2006 - 2009
- M.D., Thomas Jefferson University 2006
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Previous Appointments & Affiliations
- Instructor in the Department of Medicine, Medicine, General Internal Medicine, Medicine 2020 - 2021
- Assistant Professor of Medicine, Medicine, Geriatrics, Medicine 2011 - 2015
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Leadership & Clinical Positions at Duke
- Director of Outpatient Palliative Care, Duke Health
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Academic Positions Outside Duke
- Assistant/Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. 2016 - 2020
- Research
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Selected Grants
- Informing Decisions in Chronic Critical Illness: An RCT awarded by Mount Sinai School of Medicine 2010 - 2016
- Publications & Artistic Works
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Selected Publications
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Academic Articles
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Neale, Kyle J., Melissa B. Weimer, Mellar P. Davis, Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Justin G. Kullgren, Sachin S. Kale, Julie Childers, et al. “Top Ten Tips Palliative Care Clinicians Should Know About Buprenorphine.” J Palliat Med 26, no. 1 (January 2023): 120–30. https://doi.org/10.1089/jpm.2022.0399.Full Text Link to Item
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Moore, Caitlyn M., Cynthia X. Pan, Karin Roseman, Mary M. Stephens, Casey Bien-Aime, Ann C. Morgan, Wendy Ross, et al. “Top Ten Tips Palliative Care Clinicians Should Know About Navigating the Needs of Adults with Intellectual Disabilities.” J Palliat Med 25, no. 12 (December 2022): 1857–64. https://doi.org/10.1089/jpm.2022.0384.Full Text Link to Item
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Steinberg, Alexis, Christine Hudoba, David Y. Hwang, Neha M. Kramer, Ambereen K. Mehta, Susanne Muehlschlegel, Christopher A. Jones, and Jessica Besbris. “Top Ten Tips Palliative Care Clinicians Should Know About Disorders of Consciousness: A Focus on Traumatic and Anoxic Brain Injury.” J Palliat Med 25, no. 10 (October 2022): 1571–78. https://doi.org/10.1089/jpm.2022.0202.Full Text Link to Item
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Murakami, Naoka, Nathan D. Baggett, Margaret L. Schwarze, Keren Ladin, Andrew M. Courtwright, Hilary J. Goldberg, Eric P. Nolley, et al. “Top Ten Tips Palliative Care Clinicians Should Know About Solid Organ Transplantation.” J Palliat Med 25, no. 7 (July 2022): 1136–42. https://doi.org/10.1089/jpm.2022.0013.Full Text Link to Item
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Whitsett, Maureen P., Nneka N. Ufere, Arpan Patel, Judy A. Shea, Christopher A. Jones, Oren K. Fix, and Marina Serper. “Palliative care experience and perceived gaps in training among transplant hepatology fellows: A national survey.” Hepatol Commun 6, no. 7 (July 2022): 1680–88. https://doi.org/10.1002/hep4.1939.Full Text Link to Item
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Jones, Katie Fitzgerald, Esther Laury, Justin J. Sanders, Lauren T. Starr, William E. Rosa, Staja Q. Booker, Melissa Wachterman, et al. “Top Ten Tips Palliative Care Clinicians Should Know About Delivering Antiracist Care to Black Americans.” J Palliat Med 25, no. 3 (March 2022): 479–87. https://doi.org/10.1089/jpm.2021.0502.Full Text Link to Item
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Jones, Katie Fitzgerald, Esther Laury, Justin Sanders, Lauren T. Starr, William E. Rosa, Staja Q. Booker, Melissa Wachterman, et al. “Author Response to Reader's Comments to Fitzgerald Jones et al., Top Ten Tips Palliative Care Clinicians Should Know About Delivering Antiracist Care to Black Americans (DOI: 10.1089/jpm.2021.0502).” J Palliat Med 25, no. 3 (March 2022): 347–48. https://doi.org/10.1089/jpm.2021.0673.Full Text Link to Item
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Srolovitz, Melissa, Jennifer Borgwardt, Moreen Burkart, Amy Clements-Cortes, Johanna Czamanski-Cohen, Mabel Ortiz Guzman, Molly G. Hicks, et al. “Top Ten Tips Palliative Care Clinicians Should Know About Music Therapy and Art Therapy.” J Palliat Med 25, no. 1 (January 2022): 135–44. https://doi.org/10.1089/jpm.2021.0481.Full Text Link to Item
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Schlögl, Mathias, Katrin Singler, Nicolas Martinez-Velilla, Schildmann Jan, Heike A. Bischoff-Ferrari, Regina Elisabeth Roller-Wirnsberger, Jadwiga Attier-Zmudka, Christopher A. Jones, Stéphanie Miot, and Adam L. Gordon. “Communication during the COVID-19 pandemic: evaluation study on self-perceived competences and views of health care professionals.” Eur Geriatr Med 12, no. 6 (December 2021): 1181–90. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41999-021-00532-1.Full Text Link to Item
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Siegel, Cara L., Jessica Besbris, Elyse A. Everett, Elana S. Lavi, Ambereen K. Mehta, Christopher A. Jones, Claire J. Creutzfeldt, and Neha M. Kramer. “Top Ten Tips Palliative Care Clinicians Should Know About Strokes.” J Palliat Med 24, no. 12 (December 2021): 1877–83. https://doi.org/10.1089/jpm.2021.0449.Full Text Link to Item
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Bergstraesser, Eva, Rachel Thienprayoon, Lynda A. Brook, Lorna K. Fraser, Jenny L. Hynson, Abby R. Rosenberg, Jennifer M. Snaman, et al. “Top Ten Tips Palliative Care Clinicians Should Know About Prognostication in Children.” J Palliat Med 24, no. 11 (November 2021): 1725–31. https://doi.org/10.1089/jpm.2021.0439.Full Text Link to Item
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Sagin, Alana, Matthew S. Ellman, Ruhi R. Shariff, Christopher A. Jones, Kate Tindall, and Caitlin H. Siropaides. “A Multicenter Qualitative Analysis of Medical Student Narratives After a Palliative Care Elective.” Am J Hosp Palliat Care 38, no. 9 (September 2021): 1126–34. https://doi.org/10.1177/1049909120971565.Full Text Link to Item
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Schlögl, Mathias, Anand S. Iyer, Florian Riese, David Blum, Lanier O’Hare, Tejaswini Kulkarni, Sophie Pautex, et al. “Top Ten Tips Palliative Care Clinicians Should Know About Prognostication in Oncology, Dementia, Frailty, and Pulmonary Diseases.” J Palliat Med 24, no. 9 (September 2021): 1391–97. https://doi.org/10.1089/jpm.2021.0327.Full Text Link to Item
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Schlögl, Mathias, Esther S. Pak, Amar D. Bansal, Jane O. Schell, Sabha Ganai, Arif H. Kamal, Keith M. Swetz, et al. “Top Ten Tips Palliative Care Clinicians Should Know About Prognostication in Critical Illness and Heart, Kidney, and Liver Diseases.” J Palliat Med 24, no. 10 (September 2021): 1561–67. https://doi.org/10.1089/jpm.2021.0330.Full Text Link to Item
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Haines, Lindsay K., Allyson C. Cook, Justin S. Hatchimonji, Vanessa P. Ho, Elle L. Kalbfell, Kathleen M. O’Connell, Jacinta C. Robenstine, et al. “Top Ten Tips Palliative Care Clinicians Should Know About Trauma and Emergency Surgery.” J Palliat Med 24, no. 7 (July 2021): 1072–77. https://doi.org/10.1089/jpm.2021.0158.Full Text Link to Item
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Waterman, Brittany L., Sinthana U. Ramsey, Maureen P. Whitsett, Arpan A. Patel, Jacob A. Radcliff, Drew L. Kotler, Adam C. Winters, et al. “Top Ten Tips Palliative Care Clinicians Should Know About End-Stage Liver Disease.” J Palliat Med 24, no. 6 (June 2021): 924–31. https://doi.org/10.1089/jpm.2021.0097.Full Text Link to Item
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Sharma, Akanksha, Jessica M. Besbris, Neha M. Kramer, Farrah N. Daly, Divya Singhal, Christopher A. Jones, and Ambereen K. Mehta. “Top Ten Tips Palliative Care Clinicians Should Know About Seizures at the End of Life.” J Palliat Med 24, no. 5 (May 2021): 760–66. https://doi.org/10.1089/jpm.2021.0096.Full Text Link to Item
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Ehrman, Sarah E., Kavitha P. Norton, David E. Karol, Meaghann S. Weaver, Bethany Lockwood, Abigail Latimer, Erin Scott, Christopher A. Jones, and Robert Macauley. “Top Ten Tips Palliative Care Clinicians Should Know About Medical Decision-Making Capacity Assessment.” J Palliat Med 24, no. 4 (April 2021): 599–604. https://doi.org/10.1089/jpm.2021.0022.Full Text Link to Item
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Jones, Christopher A., and Arif H. Kamal. “From Alleviating Suffering to Avoiding Addiction: A Call to Action to Evaluate and Mitigate Risk in Outpatient Specialty Palliative Care.” J Palliat Med 24, no. 3 (March 2021): 316–17. https://doi.org/10.1089/jpm.2021.0008.Full Text Link to Item
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Campbell, Emily Young, Theresa Gunter Lawson, Sophia Urban, Leigh Vaughan, Arif H. Kamal, Christopher A. Jones, and Elizabeth A. Higgins. “Top Ten Tips Palliative Care Clinicians Should Know About Teaching Trainees How to Conduct a Family Meeting.” J Palliat Med 24, no. 2 (February 2021): 267–72. https://doi.org/10.1089/jpm.2020.0687.Full Text Link to Item
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Rosenberg, Leah B., Eric R. Goodlev, Rabbi Shulamit E. Izen, Samantha L. Gelfand, Cantor Lauren Goodlev, Rabbi Benjamin Lanckton, Lara M. Skarf, Andrea Wershof Schwartz, Christopher A. Jones, and James A. Tulsky. “Top Ten Tips Palliative Care Clinicians Should Know About Caring for Jewish Patients.” J Palliat Med 23, no. 12 (December 2020): 1658–61. https://doi.org/10.1089/jpm.2020.0601.Full Text Link to Item
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Schlögl, Mathias, Florian Riese, Milta O. Little, David Blum, Ralf J. Jox, Lynn O’Neill, Sophie Pautex, Ruth Piers, Deborah Way, and Christopher A. Jones. “Top Ten Tips Palliative Care Clinicians Should Know About Cognitive Impairment and Institutional Care.” J Palliat Med 23, no. 11 (November 2020): 1525–31. https://doi.org/10.1089/jpm.2020.0552.Full Text Link to Item
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Chou, Claudia Z., Thomas J. Hopkins, Ignacio Badiola, Halena M. Gazelka, Sharmil Gohil, Arthur Kitt, Whitney R. Luke, Christina L. Vaughan, Christopher A. Jones, and Narayana Varhabhatla. “Top Ten Tips Palliative Care Clinicians Should Know About Interventional Pain and Procedures.” J Palliat Med 23, no. 10 (October 2020): 1386–91. https://doi.org/10.1089/jpm.2020.0487.Full Text Link to Item
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Riordan, Paul A., Meghan Price, Gregg A. Robbins-Welty, Victoria Leff, Christopher A. Jones, Holly G. Prigerson, and Anthony Galanos. “Top Ten Tips Palliative Care Clinicians Should Know About Bereavement and Grief.” J Palliat Med 23, no. 8 (August 2020): 1098–1103. https://doi.org/10.1089/jpm.2020.0341.Full Text Link to Item
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Buckingham, Lindsey, Matthew Janssen, Emily M. Ray, Katherine Tucker, Brittany A. Davidson, Joshua Arenth, Carolyn Lefkowits, Joshua A. Jones, Paola Gehrig, and Christopher A. Jones. “Top Ten Tips Palliative Care Clinicians Should Know About Caring for Serious Illness in Pregnancy.” J Palliat Med 23, no. 5 (May 2020): 712–18. https://doi.org/10.1089/jpm.2019.0651.Full Text Link to Item
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Farabelli, Jill P., Sharon M. Kimberly, Terry Altilio, Shirley Otis-Green, Heather Dale, Dana Dombrowski, J Russell Kieffer, et al. “Top Ten Tips Palliative Care Clinicians Should Know About Psychosocial and Family Support.” J Palliat Med 23, no. 2 (February 2020): 280–86. https://doi.org/10.1089/jpm.2019.0506.Full Text Link to Item
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Webb, Jason A., Anessa M. Foxwell, Christopher A. Jones, Areej El-Jawahri, Arif H. Kamal, Neha Kayastha, Eric J. Roeland, and Thomas W. LeBlanc. “Top Ten Tips Palliative Care Clinicians Should Know About Caring for Patients with Hematologic Malignancies.” J Palliat Med 22, no. 11 (November 2019): 1449–54. https://doi.org/10.1089/jpm.2019.0332.Full Text Link to Item
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Jones, C. A., K. Elbert-Avila, and T. T. Suh. “Palliative care in advanced cancer in older adults: Management of pain, fatigue, and gastrointestinal symptoms.” Clinical Geriatrics 19, no. 11 (November 1, 2011): 23–29.
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Conference Papers
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Hadler, Rachel, Christopher Jones, and Rachel Klinedinst. “A Tale of Two "P"s: Palliative Care and Pain Management Approaches to Aberrant Drug and Opioid-Related Behavior in Patients with Life-Limiting Illness.” In Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, 63:927–28, 2022.Link to Item
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Jones, Christopher, Kirstin Manges, Teresa Tran, and Casey Whitman. “Moving "OurCareWishes" to the Bedside: A Step-Wedge Pragmatic Trial.” In Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, 63:1077–1077, 2022.Link to Item
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Jones, Christopher, and Phillip Rodgers. “Not Your Granddaddy's Billing and Coding Rules: Changes in 2022 and Beyond.” In Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, 63:776–77, 2022.Link to Item
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