Kimberly Sherell Johnson
Associate Professor of Medicine
Current Appointments & Affiliations
- Associate Professor of Medicine, Medicine, Geriatrics, Medicine 2016
- Senior Fellow in the Center for the Study of Aging and Human Development, Center for the Study of Aging and Human Development, Institutes and Centers 2002
- Member of the Duke Cancer Institute, Duke Cancer Institute, Institutes and Centers 2017
Contact Information
- 3502 Hosp South, Durham, NC 27710
- Duke Box 3003, Durham, NC 27710
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johns196@mc.duke.edu
(919) 660-7506
- Background
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Education, Training, & Certifications
- Fellow in Geriatrics, Medicine, Duke University 2001 - 2002
- Chief Medical Resident-Ambulatory Services, Medicine, Duke University 2000 - 2001
- Medical Resident, Me Dicine, Duke University 1997 - 2000
- M.D., Johns Hopkins University 1997
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Duke Appointment History
- Associate Professor of Medicine, Medicine, Geriatrics, Medicine 2013 - 2016
- Assistant Professor of Medicine, Medicine, Geriatrics, Medicine 2007 - 2013
- Associate in the Department of Medicine, Medicine, Geriatrics, Medicine 2002 - 2007
- Associate in the Department of Medicine, Medicine, General Internal Medicine, Medicine 2000 - 2001
- Recognition
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In the News
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JAN 8, 2018 Duke Health News -
AUG 21, 2015 The New York Times -
MAY 6, 2015 PBS NewsHour
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- Research
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Selected Grants
- Reducing Disparities in the Quality of Palliative Care for Older African Americans Through Improved Advance Care Planning awarded by Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute 2017 - 2022
- Duke Health Disparities Research Center awarded by National Institutes of Health 2017 - 2022
- Bridging the Gap to Enhance Clinical Research Program (BIGGER) awarded by National Institutes of Health 2016 - 2021
- Behavioral and Physiology in Aging awarded by National Institutes of Health 2015 - 2020
- IPA-Kimberly Johnson awarded by Durham Veterans Affairs Medical Center 2018 - 2020
- Implementing Best Practice in Palliative Care awarded by Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality 2013 - 2018
- Duke CTSA (UL1) awarded by National Institutes of Health 2013 - 2018
- Toward Policies that Accommodate the Concerns of African Americans' in Resolving Disputes about the Use of Life Sustaini awarded by Greenwall Foundation 2015 - 2017
- Palliative Care in Heart Failure (PAL-HF) awarded by National Institutes of Health 2011 - 2016
- Behavior And Physiology In Aging awarded by National Institutes of Health 1999 - 2015
- Increasing Access to Hospice Care for Older African Americans: A National Study awarded by National Institutes of Health 2012 - 2015
- IPA - Kimberly Johnson awarded by Durham Veterans Affairs Medical Center 2013 - 2014
- IPA - Kimberly Johnson awarded by Durham Veterans Affairs Medical Center 2011 - 2013
- Organizational Variability and Racial Disparities in Hospice Use awarded by National Institutes of Health 2007 - 2013
- Publications & Artistic Works
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Selected Publications
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Conference Papers
- Horton, JR, Johnson, KS, Dionne-Odom, N, and Smith, C. "State of the Science: Update in Hospice and Palliative Care (103)." February 2015. Full Text
- Horton, JR, and Johnson, KS. "State of the Science: Update in Hospice and Palliative Care (103)." February 2014. Full Text
- Anderson, WG, Horton, JR, and Johnson, KS. "State of the Science: Update in Hospice and Palliative Care." February 2013. Full Text Link to Item
- Hastings, SN, Johnson, KS, Sloane, R, Landerman, LR, Horney, C, and Whitson, HE. "From the Wellderly to the Sickest Elderly: Classifying Older ED Patients According to Patterns of Health Service Use." April 2012. Link to Item
- Johnson, KS, Kuchibhatla, MN, and Tulsky, JA. "What are Hospice Providers Doing to Reach African Americans .. and what works?." April 2012. Link to Item
- Johnson, KS, Kuchibhatla, M, and Tulsky, JA. "P24 Encore Presentation Race and Residence: County-level Variation in Black-White Disparities in Hospice Use." April 2011. Link to Item
- Unroe, K, Melissa, G, Johnson, KS, Curtis, L, and Setoguchi, S. "Racial Differences in Hospice Use and End of Life Care Among Medicare Beneficiaries with Heart Failure." April 2011. Link to Item
- Johnson, KS, Kuchibhatla, MN, and Tulsky, JA. "Intercounty Variability in Hospice Use: Does Race Matter?." April 2010. Link to Item
- Hastings, SN, Whitson, HE, Purser, J, Sloane, RJ, and Johnson, KS. "Variability in Adverse Outcomes According to Emergency Department Discharge Diagnosis." March 2009. Link to Item
- Hastings, SN, Purser, J, Johnson, KS, Sloane, RJ, and Whitson, HE. "A frailty index predicts some but not all subsequent health service use in older adults discharged from the emergency department." April 2008. Link to Item
- Johnson, KS, Kuchibhatla, M, and Tulsky, JA. "What explains racial differences in the completion of advance directives?." April 2008. Link to Item
- Johnson, KS, Kuchibhatla, M, and Tulsky, JA. "Racial differences in location prior to hospice enrollment and association with hospice length of stay." March 2008. Link to Item
- Elbert-Avila, K, and Johnson, KS. "Cause of death certification: Do physicians at an academic medical center meet guidelines for death certificate completion?." April 2007. Link to Item
- Johnson, KS, Kuchibhatla, M, Tanis, D, and Tulsky, JA. "Racial differences in survival after hospice revocation to pursue aggressive care." April 2006. Link to Item
- Elbert-Avila, KI, Johnson, KS, Kuchibhatla, M, Tanis, D, and Tulsky, JA. "Predictors of extended prognosis in hospice patients with dementia." April 2005. Link to Item
- Elbert-Avila, KI, Johnson, KS, Pieper, C, Tanis, D, and Tulsky, JA. "How do dementia and cancer patients enrolled in hospice differ?." April 2005. Link to Item
- Johnson, KS, Pieper, CF, Elbert-Avila, K, Tanis, D, and Tulsky, JA. "Who revokes hospice? Differences by race." April 2005. Link to Item
- Johnson, KS, Sloane, R, Galanos, AN, and Tulsky, JA. "Place of death among elderly hospice users: Differences by race." April 2004. Link to Item
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Journal Articles
- Boucher, NA, Johnson, KS, and LeBlanc, TW. "Acute Leukemia Patients' Needs: Qualitative Findings and Opportunities for Early Palliative Care." Journal of pain and symptom management 55, no. 2 (February 2018): 433-439. Full Text
- Balboni, TA, Fitchett, G, Handzo, GF, Johnson, KS, Koenig, HG, Pargament, KI, Puchalski, CM, Sinclair, S, Taylor, EJ, and Steinhauser, KE. "State of the Science of Spirituality and Palliative Care Research Part II: Screening, Assessment, and Interventions." Journal of pain and symptom management 54, no. 3 (September 2017): 441-453. Full Text
- Steinhauser, KE, Fitchett, G, Handzo, GF, Johnson, KS, Koenig, HG, Pargament, KI, Puchalski, CM, Sinclair, S, Taylor, EJ, and Balboni, TA. "State of the Science of Spirituality and Palliative Care Research Part I: Definitions, Measurement, and Outcomes." Journal of pain and symptom management 54, no. 3 (September 2017): 428-440. Full Text
- Johnson, KS, Thomas, KL, Pinheiro, SO, and Svetkey, LP. "Design and Evaluation of an Interdisciplinary Health Disparities Research Curriculum." Journal of the National Medical Association (August 2017). Full Text
- Rogers, JG, Patel, CB, Mentz, RJ, Granger, BB, Steinhauser, KE, Fiuzat, M, Adams, PA, Speck, A, Johnson, KS, Krishnamoorthy, A, Yang, H, Anstrom, KJ, Dodson, GC, Jr, TDH, Kirchner, JL, Mark, DB, O'Connor, CM, and Tulsky, JA. "Palliative Care in Heart Failure The PAL-HF Randomized, Controlled Clinical Trial." JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF CARDIOLOGY 70, no. 3 (July 18, 2017): 332-341. Link to Item
- Rogers, JG, Patel, CB, Mentz, RJ, Granger, BB, Steinhauser, KE, Fiuzat, M, Adams, PA, Speck, A, Johnson, KS, Krishnamoorthy, A, Yang, H, Anstrom, KJ, Dodson, GC, Taylor, DH, Kirchner, JL, Mark, DB, O'Connor, CM, and Tulsky, JA. "Palliative Care in Heart Failure: The PAL-HF Randomized, Controlled Clinical Trial." Journal of the American College of Cardiology 70, no. 3 (July 2017): 331-341. Full Text
- Bostwick, D, Wolf, S, Samsa, G, Bull, J, Taylor, DH, Johnson, KS, and Kamal, AH. "Comparing the Palliative Care Needs of Those With Cancer to Those With Common Non-Cancer Serious Illness." Journal of pain and symptom management 53, no. 6 (June 2017): 1079-1084.e1. Full Text
- Boucher, NA, Kuchibhatla, M, and Johnson, KS. "Meeting Basic Needs: Social Supports and Services Provided by Hospice." Journal of palliative medicine 20, no. 6 (June 2017): 642-646. Full Text
- Kamal, AH, Bull, J, Wolf, SP, Portman, D, Strand, J, and Johnson, KS. "Unmet Needs of African Americans and Whites at the Time of Palliative Care Consultation." The American journal of hospice & palliative care 34, no. 5 (June 2017): 461-465. Full Text
- Gray, NA, Boucher, NA, Kuchibhatla, M, and Johnson, KS. "Hospice Access for Undocumented Immigrants." JAMA internal medicine 177, no. 4 (April 2017): 579-580. Full Text
- LeBlanc, TW, Ritchie, CS, Friedman, F, Bull, J, Kutner, JS, Johnson, KS, Kamal, AH, and AAHPM Research Committee Writing Group, . "Adherence to Measuring What Matters Items When Caring for Patients With Hematologic Malignancies Versus Solid Tumors." Journal of pain and symptom management 52, no. 6 (December 2016): 775-782. Full Text
- Rogers, J, Patel, C, Mentz, R, Steinhauser, K, Granger, B, Fiuzat, M, Adams, P, Speck, A, Johnson, K, Krishnamoorthy, A, Yang, H, Anstrom, K, Dodson, G, O'Connor, C, and Tulsky, J. "Palliative Care in Heart Failure: Results of a Randomized, Controlled Clinical Trial." Journal of Cardiac Failure 22, no. 11 (November 2016): 940-940. Full Text
- Steinhauser, KE, Olsen, A, Johnson, KS, Sanders, LL, Olsen, M, Ammarell, N, and Grossoehme, D. "The feasibility and acceptability of a chaplain-led intervention for caregivers of seriously ill patients: A Caregiver Outlook pilot study." Palliative & supportive care 14, no. 5 (October 2016): 456-467. Full Text
- Whitson, HE, Johnson, KS, Sloane, R, Cigolle, CT, Pieper, CF, Landerman, L, and Hastings, SN. "Identifying Patterns of Multimorbidity in Older Americans: Application of Latent Class Analysis." Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 64, no. 8 (August 2016): 1668-1673. Full Text
- Gray, NA, Horton, JR, Dionne-Odom, JN, Smith, CB, and Johnson, KS. "Update in Hospice and Palliative Care." Journal of palliative medicine 19, no. 5 (May 2016): 559-565. Full Text
- Johnson, KS, Payne, R, Kuchibhatla, MN, and Tulsky, JA. "Are Hospice Admission Practices Associated With Hospice Enrollment for Older African Americans and Whites?." Journal of pain and symptom management 51, no. 4 (April 2016): 697-705. Full Text
- Boucher, NA, Raghavan, M, Smith, A, Arnold, R, and Johnson, KS. "Palliative Care in the African American Community #204." Journal of palliative medicine 19, no. 2 (February 2016): 228-230. Full Text
- Hendricks Sloan, D, Peters, T, Johnson, KS, Bowie, JV, Ting, Y, and Aslakson, R. "Church-Based Health Promotion Focused on Advance Care Planning and End-of-Life Care at Black Baptist Churches: A Cross-Sectional Survey." Journal of palliative medicine 19, no. 2 (February 2016): 190-194. Full Text
- Johnson, KS, Payne, R, and Kuchibhatla, MN. "What are Hospice Providers in the Carolinas Doing to Reach African Americans in Their Service Area?." Journal of palliative medicine 19, no. 2 (February 2016): 183-189. Full Text
- Webb, JA, Horton, JR, and Johnson, K. "Update in hospice and palliative care." Journal of palliative medicine 18, no. 6 (June 2015): 545-551. (Review) Full Text
- Mentz, RJ, Tulsky, JA, Granger, BB, Anstrom, KJ, Adams, PA, Dodson, GC, Fiuzat, M, Johnson, KS, Patel, CB, Steinhauser, KE, Taylor, DH, O'Connor, CM, and Rogers, JG. "The palliative care in heart failure trial: rationale and design." American heart journal 168, no. 5 (November 2014): 645-651.e1. Full Text
- Sautter, JM, Tulsky, JA, Johnson, KS, Olsen, MK, Burton-Chase, AM, Lindquist, JH, Zimmerman, S, and Steinhauser, KE. "Caregiver experience during advanced chronic illness and last year of life." Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 62, no. 6 (June 2014): 1082-1090. Full Text
- Hastings, SN, Whitson, HE, Sloane, R, Landerman, LR, Horney, C, and Johnson, KS. "Using the past to predict the future: latent class analysis of patterns of health service use of older adults in the emergency department." Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 62, no. 4 (April 2014): 711-715. Full Text
- Johnson, KS. "The changing face of the hospice industry: what really matters?." JAMA internal medicine 174, no. 4 (April 2014): 507-508. Full Text
- Roza, KA, Horton, JR, Johnson, K, and Anderson, WG. "Update in Hospice and Palliative Care." Journal of Palliative Medicine 17, no. 3 (March 2014): 351-357. Full Text
- Hastings, SN, Whitson, HE, Sloane, R, Landerman, LR, Horney, C, and Johnson, KS. "Using the past to predict the future: Latent class analysis of patterns of health service use of older adults in the emergency department." Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 62, no. 4 (January 1, 2014): 711-715. Full Text
- Mentz, RJ, Tulsky, JA, Granger, BB, Anstrom, KJ, Adams, PA, Dodson, GC, Fiuzat, M, Johnson, KS, Patel, CB, Steinhauser, KE, Taylor, DH, O'Connor, CM, and Rogers, JG. "The palliative care in heart failure trial: Rationale and design." American Heart Journal 168, no. 5 (January 1, 2014): 645-651.e1. Full Text
- Johnson, KS, Kuchibhatla, M, Payne, R, and Tulsky, JA. "Race and residence: intercounty variation in black-white differences in hospice use." J Pain Symptom Manage 46, no. 5 (November 2013): 681-690. Full Text Link to Item
- Johnson, KS, Kuchibhatla, M, Payne, R, and Tulsky, JA. "Race and residence: Intercounty variation in black-white differences in hospice use." Journal of Pain and Symptom Management 46, no. 5 (November 1, 2013): 681-690. Full Text
- Johnson, KS. "Racial and ethnic disparities in palliative care." J Palliat Med 16, no. 11 (November 2013): 1329-1334. Full Text Link to Item
- Barclay, JS, Kuchibhatla, M, Tulsky, JA, and Johnson, KS. "Association of hospice patients' income and care level with place of death." JAMA Intern Med 173, no. 6 (March 25, 2013): 450-456. Full Text Link to Item
- Anderson, WG, Flint, LA, Horton, JR, Johnson, K, Mourad, M, and Sharpe, BA. "Update in hospital palliative care." Journal of Hospital Medicine (2013). Full Text
- Anderson, WG, Flint, LA, Horton, JR, Johnson, K, Mourad, M, and Sharpe, BA. "Update in hospital palliative care." Journal of Hospital Medicine 8, no. 12 (2013): 715-720. Full Text
- Anderson, WG, Horton, JR, Johnson, K, and Goldstein, NE. "Update in hospice and palliative care." Journal of Palliative Medicine 16, no. 3 (2013): 314-319. Full Text
- Morris, DA, Johnson, KS, Ammarell, N, Arnold, RM, Tulsky, JA, and Steinhauser, KE. "What is your understanding of your illness? A communication tool to explore patients' perspectives of living with advanced illness." J Gen Intern Med 27, no. 11 (November 2012): 1460-1466. Full Text Link to Item
- Johnson, KS, Elbert-Avila, K, Kuchibhatla, M, and Tulsky, JA. "Characteristics and outcomes of hospice enrollees with dementia discharged alive." J Am Geriatr Soc 60, no. 9 (September 2012): 1638-1644. Full Text Link to Item
- Unroe, KT, Greiner, MA, Johnson, KS, Curtis, LH, and Setoguchi, S. "Racial differences in hospice use and patterns of care after enrollment in hospice among Medicare beneficiaries with heart failure." Am Heart J 163, no. 6 (June 2012): 987-993.e3. Full Text Link to Item
- Johnson, KS, Hastings, SN, Purser, JL, and Whitson, HE. "The Junior Faculty Laboratory: an innovative model of peer mentoring." Acad Med 86, no. 12 (December 2011): 1577-1582. Full Text Link to Item
- Johnson, KS, Tulsky, JA, Hays, JC, Arnold, RM, Olsen, MK, Lindquist, JH, and Steinhauser, KE. "Which domains of spirituality are associated with anxiety and depression in patients with advanced illness?." J Gen Intern Med 26, no. 7 (July 2011): 751-758. Full Text Link to Item
- Whitson, HE, Hastings, SN, Landerman, LR, Fillenbaum, GG, Cohen, HJ, and Johnson, KS. "Black-white disparity in disability: the role of medical conditions." J Am Geriatr Soc 59, no. 5 (May 2011): 844-850. Full Text Link to Item
- Johnson, KS, Kuchibhatla, M, and Tulsky, JA. "Racial differences in location before hospice enrollment and association with hospice length of stay." J Am Geriatr Soc 59, no. 4 (April 2011): 732-737. Full Text Link to Item
- Hastings, SN, Whitson, HE, Purser, JL, Sloane, RJ, and Johnson, KS. "Emergency department discharge diagnosis and adverse health outcomes in older adults." J Am Geriatr Soc 57, no. 10 (October 2009): 1856-1861. Full Text Link to Item
- Johnson, KS, Kuchibhatla, M, and Tulsky, JA. "Racial differences in self-reported exposure to information about hospice care." J Palliat Med 12, no. 10 (October 2009): 921-927. Full Text Link to Item
- Johnson, KS, Kuchibhatla, M, and Tulsky, JA. "Racial Differences in Self-Reported Exposure to Hospice Information." JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN GERIATRICS SOCIETY 57 (March 2009): S90-S91. Link to Item
- Johnson, KS, Kuchibhatla, M, and Tulsky, JA. "What explains racial differences in the use of advance directives and attitudes toward hospice care?." J Am Geriatr Soc 56, no. 10 (October 2008): 1953-1958. Full Text Link to Item
- Hastings, SN, Purser, JL, Johnson, KS, Sloane, RJ, and Whitson, HE. "Frailty predicts some but not all adverse outcomes in older adults discharged from the emergency department." J Am Geriatr Soc 56, no. 9 (September 2008): 1651-1657. Full Text Link to Item
- Johnson, KS, Kuchibhatla, M, Tanis, D, and Tulsky, JA. "Racial differences in hospice revocation to pursue aggressive care." Arch Intern Med 168, no. 2 (January 28, 2008): 218-224. Full Text Link to Item
- Johnson, KS, Kuchibhatla, M, Tanis, D, and Tulsky, JA. "Racial differences in the growth of noncancer diagnoses among hospice enrollees." J Pain Symptom Manage 34, no. 3 (September 2007): 286-293. Full Text Link to Item
- Johnson, KS, Elbert-Avila, K, Kuchibhatla, M, and Tulsky, JA. "Racial differences in next-of-kin participation in an ongoing survey of satisfaction with end-of-life care: a study of a study." J Palliat Med 9, no. 5 (October 2006): 1076-1085. Full Text Link to Item
- Johnson, KS. ""You just do your part. God will do the rest.": spirituality and culture in the medical encounter." South Med J 99, no. 10 (October 2006): 1163-. Link to Item
- Johnson, KS, Kuchibhatala, M, Sloane, RJ, Tanis, D, Galanos, AN, and Tulsky, JA. "Ethnic differences in the place of death of elderly hospice enrollees." J Am Geriatr Soc 53, no. 12 (December 2005): 2209-2215. Full Text Link to Item
- Johnson, KS, Elbert-Avila, KI, and Tulsky, JA. "The influence of spiritual beliefs and practices on the treatment preferences of African Americans: a review of the literature." J Am Geriatr Soc 53, no. 4 (April 2005): 711-719. (Review) Full Text Link to Item
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