Scholars@Duke

• 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
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  External Relationships

  • Acevedo Consulting
  • Four Seasons Consulting Group
  • Solomon and Relihan
• Publications & Artistic Works
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  Selected Publications

  • Academic Articles

    • 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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