- Yale Cancer CenterYale New Haven Hospital20 York Street, Ste North Pavilion 4New Haven, CT 06510
Jennifer Kapo, MD
Biography
Jennifer Kapo, MD, director of Yale Cancer Center’s Palliative Care Program at Smilow Cancer Hospital, dedicates her life to helping people diagnosed with serious illnesses. Through careful listening, she provides comforting care, always keeping the individual’s life goals in mind.
She enjoys being part of a team that provides the support patients and families need when experiencing a serious illness—from diagnosis through end of life. Dr. Kapo helps ease pain, suffering and stress through medical interventions and by providing access to psycho-social support, parenting help, spiritual services and financial counseling as needed (and on a case-by-case basis) because every cancer patient’s needs and experience are unique.
“What we also try to do in palliative medicine is to the support the oncologist, patient and their family in having difficult conversations about the medical condition in a gentle, informative way so that patients actually feel more supported after having these conversations,” Dr. Kapo says.
Research shows that patients and families desire all information—both good and bad—about their condition, says Dr. Kapo, who is also an associate professor of geriatrics at Yale School of Medicine. She makes it her mission to provide this information accurately and in such a way that families can still access what they need most during a trying time: hope.
Titles
- Sherwin B. Nuland and Michael K. Vlock Associate Professor of Palliative Medicine
- Chief, Palliative Medicine, Palliative Care Program
Education & Training
- Associate ProfessorYale University School of Medicine (2020)
- Associate Professor of Clinical MedicineUniversity of Pennsylvania (2012)
- Assistant Professor of Clinical MedicineUniversity of Pennsylvania (2011)
- InstructorUniversity of Pennsylvania (2005)
- FellowshipUniversity of Pennsylvania (2003)
- FellowshipUniversity of Pennsylvania (2002)
- Chief ResidentUniversity of Colorado (2001)
- ResidencyUniverstiy of Colorado (2000)
- InternUniversity of Colorado (1998)
- MDUniversity of Pennsylvania Medical School, MD (1997)
- BAMoravian College, Pre-Medicine (1993)
Additional Information
- Connecticut Coalition To Improve End of Life Care 2021 Presidents Award: Connecticut Coalition To Improve End of Life (2021)
- The Second Century of Women at Yale: Emerging Leaders in Internal Medicine Award: Yale University (2020)
- Ribbon of Distinction: American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine National Meeting (2007)
- Francis T. Sterling Educational Excellence Award: Veteran's Administration Medical Center Philadelphia (2007)
- Outstanding Committee Member Service Award: American Geriatrics Society Ethics Committee (2005)
- First Place Poster Award, Quality of Life Category: American Geriatrics Society (2004)
- First Place Poster Award: American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Care National Meeting (2003)
- Hartford Foundation Geriatric Academic Fellowship Award: Hartford Foundation Geriatric (2002)
- Chief Residency Internal Medicine: University of Colorado (2001)
- First Place Poster Award: National American College of Physicians Abstract Contest (2000)
- AB of Internal Medicine, Geriatric Medicine (2003, recertified: 2013)
- Yale School of Medicine Retention Working Group (2021 - Present): Committee Member
- Yale School of Medicine Department of Medicine Diversity Committee (2021 - Present): Department of Medicine Diversity Committee
- Smilow YCC Clinical Council (2021 - Present): Committee Member
- Yale School of Medicine (2020): 2020 Thesis Advisor, PA Master Thesis. Meg Schultheiss, Consider Palliative Care: A Decision Aid to Improve Palliative Care Knowledge, Yale School of Medicine
- Yale School of Medicine (2020): 2020 Presenter Medical Grand Rounds “Caring in the Time of COVID: Building Support for Patients, Their Families and Ourselves”
- Yale New Haven Health System Mortality Review Committee Ad Hoc Member (2018 - 2022): Ad-hoc Member
- Smilow Mortality Review Committee Member (2018 - 2022): Committee Member
- Dynamed Palliative Care (2018 - 2022): Editor
- Yale School of Medicine Deans Faculty Standards Nominating Committee (2018): Committee Member
- Yale School of Medicine Yale Internal Medicine Intern Selection Committee (2016 - 2022): Committee Member
- Olson K, Fogelman N, Maturo L, Alvarado J, Ball S, Forray A, Hu M, Ivy M, Kapo J, Krystal J, Mayes L, Rohrbaugh R, Southwick S, Tebes J, Wassel B, Sinha R. COVID-19 Traumatic Disaster Appraisal and Stress Symptoms Among Healthcare Workers: Insights from the Yale Stress Self-Assessment (YSSA). Journal Of Occupational And Environmental Medicine / American College Of Occupational And Environmental Medicine 2022 PMID: 35959912, DOI: 10.1097/JOM.0000000000002673.
- Fitzgerald Jones K, Khodyakov D, Arnold R, Bulls H, Dao E, Kapo J, Meier D, Paice J, Liebschutz J, Ritchie C, Merlin J. Consensus-Based Guidance on Opioid Management in Individuals With Advanced Cancer-Related Pain and Opioid Misuse or Use Disorder. JAMA Oncology 2022, 8: 1107-1114. PMID: 35771550, PMCID: PMC9247858, DOI: 10.1001/jamaoncol.2022.2191.
- Fitzgerald Jones K, Ho JJ, Merlin JS, Weimer M, Sager Z, Kapo J, Childers J. The X Waiver to Prescribe Buprenorphine: The Why and How. Journal Of Palliative Medicine 2022, 25: 1021-1023. PMID: 35775892, DOI: 10.1089/jpm.2022.0170.
- Schulman-Green D, Linsky S, Blatt L, Jeuland J, Kapo J, Jeon S. Improving Breast Cancer Family Caregivers' Palliative Care Literacy: A Pilot Randomized Trial. Journal Of Family Nursing 2022, 10748407221099541. PMID: 35670155, DOI: 10.1177/10748407221099541.
- Schulman-Green D, Linsky S, Jeon S, Holland ML, Kapo J, Blatt L, Adams C, Chagpar AB. Integrating Palliative Care Into Self-management of Breast Cancer: A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial. Cancer Nursing 2022 PMID: 35353749, DOI: 10.1097/NCC.0000000000001078.
- Brickey J, Flannery M, Cuthel A, Cho J, Grudzen CR, EMPallA Investigators.. Barriers to recruitment into emergency department-initiated palliative care: a sub-study of a multi-site, randomized controlled trial. BMC Palliat Care 2022, 21: 22. PMID: 35168622, DOI: 10.1186/s12904-021-00899-9.
- Merlin JS, Khodyakov D, Arnold R, Bulls HW, Dao E, Kapo J, King C, Meier D, Paice J, Ritchie C, Liebschutz JM. Expert Panel Consensus on Management of Advanced Cancer-Related Pain in Individuals With Opioid Use Disorder. JAMA Network Open 2021, 4: e2139968. PMID: 34962565, DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.39968.
- Dans M, Kutner JS, Agarwal R, Baker JN, Bauman JR, Beck AC, Campbell TC, Carey EC, Case AA, Dalal S, Doberman DJ, Epstein AS, Fecher L, Jones J, Kapo J, Lee RT, Loggers ET, McCammon S, Mitchell W, Ogunseitan AB, Portman DG, Ramchandran K, Sutton L, Temel J, Teply ML, Terauchi SY, Thomas J, Walling AM, Zachariah F, Bergman MA, Ogba N, Campbell M. NCCN Guidelines® Insights: Palliative Care, Version 2.2021. Journal Of The National Comprehensive Cancer Network : JNCCN 2021, 19: 780-788. PMID: 34340208, DOI: 10.6004/jnccn.2021.0033.
- Ouellet JA, Prsic EH, Spear RA, Blatt L, Kukulka S, Cronin-Ozyck R, Kapo JM, Lai JM. An observational case series of targeted virtual geriatric medicine and palliative care consults for hospitalized older adults with COVID-19. Annals Of Palliative Medicine 2021, 10: 6297-6306. PMID: 34154358, DOI: 10.21037/apm-21-117.
- King C, Arnold R, Dao E, Kapo J, Liebschutz J, Meier D, Paice J, Ritchie C, Czajkowski K, Khodyakov D, Merlin J. Consensus-based approach to managing opioids, including opioid misuse and opioid use disorder, in patients with serious illness: protocol for a modified Delphi process. BMJ Open 2021, 11: e045402. PMID: 34011593, PMCID: PMC8137210, DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2020-045402.
- Feder SL, Canavan ME, Wang S, Kent EE, Kapo J, Presley CJ, Ross J, Davidoff AJ. Patterns of Opioid Prescribing among Medicare Advantage Beneficiaries with Pain and Cardiopulmonary Conditions. Journal Of Palliative Medicine 2021, 24: 195-204. PMID: 32673139, PMCID: PMC7840305, DOI: 10.1089/jpm.2020.0193.
- Krystal JH, Alvarado J, Ball SA, Fortunati FG, Hu M, Ivy ME, Kapo J, Olson KD, Rohrbaugh RM, Sinha R, Tebes JK, Vender RJ, Yonkers KA, Mayes LC. Mobilizing an institutional supportive response for healthcare workers and other staff in the context of COVID-19: The Yale experience. General Hospital Psychiatry 2021, 68: 12-18. PMID: 33254081, PMCID: PMC7680059, DOI: 10.1016/j.genhosppsych.2020.11.005.
- Expert panel consensus on management of advanced cancer-related pain in individuals with opioid use disorderMerlin JS, Khodyakov D, Arnold RA, Bulls HW, Dao E, Kapo J, King C, Meier D, Paice J, Ritchie CS, Liebschutz JM. Expert panel consensus on management of advanced cancer-related pain in individuals with opioid use disorder. JAMA Netw Open, in press.
- Tolchin B, Latham SR, Bruce L, Ferrante LE, Kraschel K, Jubanyik K, Hull SC, Herbst JL, Kapo J, Moritz ED, Hughes J, Siegel MD, Mercurio MR. Reflections on New Evidence on Crisis Standards of Care in the COVID-19 Pandemic. The Journal Of Clinical Ethics 2021, 32: 358-360. PMID: 34928864.
- Davidoff AJ, Canavan ME, Feder S, Wang S, Sheinfeld E, Kent EE, Kapo J, Presley CJ. Patterns of pain medication use associated with reported pain interference in older adults with and without cancer. Supportive Care In Cancer : Official Journal Of The Multinational Association Of Supportive Care In Cancer 2020, 28: 3061-3072. PMID: 31637515, PMCID: PMC7338979, DOI: 10.1007/s00520-019-05074-8.
- Presley CJ, Canavan M, Wang SY, Feder SL, Kapo J, Saphire ML, Sheinfeld E, Kent EE, Davidoff AJ. Severe functional limitation due to pain & emotional distress and subsequent receipt of prescription medications among older adults with cancer. Journal Of Geriatric Oncology 2020, 11: 960-968. PMID: 32169548, PMCID: PMC7346676, DOI: 10.1016/j.jgo.2020.02.006.
- Tolchin B, Latham SR, Bruce L, Ferrante LE, Kraschel K, Jubanyik K, Hull SC, Herbst JL, Kapo J, Moritz ED, Hughes J, Siegel MD, Mercurio MR. Developing a Triage Protocol for the COVID-19 Pandemic: Allocating Scarce Medical Resources in a Public Health Emergency. The Journal Of Clinical Ethics 2020, 31: 303-317. PMID: 32991327.
- Grudzen CR, Schmucker AM, Shim DJ, Ibikunle A, Cho J, Chung FR, Cohen SE, EMPallA Outpatient Investigators.. Development of an Outpatient Palliative Care Protocol to Monitor Fidelity in the Emergency Medicine Palliative Care Access Trial. J Palliat Med 2019, 22:66-71.
- Grudzen CR, Shim DJ, Schmucker AM, Cho J, Goldfeld KS, EMPallA Investigators.. Emergency Medicine Palliative Care Access (EMPallA): protocol for a multicentre randomised controlled trial comparing the effectiveness of specialty outpatient versus nurse-led telephonic palliative care of older adults with advanced illness. BMJ Open 2019, 9:e025692.
- Merlin JS, Patel K, Thompson N, Kapo J, Keefe F, Liebschutz J, Paice J, Somers T, Starrels J, Childers J, Schenker Y, Ritchie CS. Managing Chronic Pain in Cancer Survivors Prescribed Long-Term Opioid Therapy: A National Survey of Ambulatory Palliative Care Providers. Journal Of Pain And Symptom Management 2019, 57: 20-27. PMID: 30342243, DOI: 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2018.10.493.
- deLima Thomas J, Sanchez-Reilly S, Bernacki R, O'Neill L, Morrison LJ, Kapo J, Periyakoil VS, Carey EC. Advance Care Planning in Cognitively Impaired Older Adults. Journal Of The American Geriatrics Society 2018, 66: 1469-1474. PMID: 30277566, DOI: 10.1111/jgs.15471.
- Langberg KM, Kapo JM, Taddei TH. Palliative care in decompensated cirrhosis: A review. Liver International : Official Journal Of The International Association For The Study Of The Liver 2018, 38: 768-775. PMID: 29112338, DOI: 10.1111/liv.13620.
- Dans M, Smith T, Back A, Baker JN, Bauman JR, Beck AC, Block S, Campbell T, Case AA, Dalal S, Edwards H, Fitch TR, Kapo J, Kutner JS, Kvale E, Miller C, Misra S, Mitchell W, Portman DG, Spiegel D, Sutton L, Szmuilowicz E, Temel J, Tickoo R, Urba SG, Weinstein E, Zachariah F, Bergman MA, Scavone JL. NCCN Guidelines Insights: Palliative Care, Version 2.2017. Journal Of The National Comprehensive Cancer Network : JNCCN 2017, 15: 989-997. PMID: 28784860, DOI: 10.6004/jnccn.2017.0132.
- Jeuland J, Fitchett G, Schulman-Green D, Kapo J. Chaplains Working in Palliative Care: Who They Are and What They Do. Journal Of Palliative Medicine 2017, 20: 502-508. PMID: 28146647, DOI: 10.1089/jpm.2016.0308.
- NCCN Guidelines Insights: Palliative Care, Version 2Kapo, JM
- Schulman-Green D, Linsky S, Jeon S, Kapo J, Blatt L, Chagpar A. Integrating palliative care into self-management of breast cancer: Protocol for a pilot randomized controlled trial. Contemporary Clinical Trials 2016, 48: 133-8. PMID: 27107680, PMCID: PMC4937876, DOI: 10.1016/j.cct.2016.04.009.
- Levy M, Smith T, Alvarez-Perez A, Back A, Baker JN, Beck AC, Block S, Dalal S, Dans M, Fitch TR, Kapo J, Kutner JS, Kvale E, Misra S, Mitchell W, Portman DG, Sauer TM, Spiegel D, Sutton L, Szmuilowicz E, Taylor RM, Temel J, Tickoo R, Urba SG, Weinstein E, Zachariah F, Bergman MA, Scavone JL. Palliative Care Version 1.2016. Journal Of The National Comprehensive Cancer Network : JNCCN 2016, 14: 82-113. PMID: 26733557, DOI: 10.6004/jnccn.2016.0009.
- Akgün KM, Kapo JM, Siegel MD. Critical Care at the End of Life. Seminars In Respiratory And Critical Care Medicine 2015, 36: 921-33. PMID: 26600274, DOI: 10.1055/s-0035-1565254.
- Kapo JM, Akgün KM. Integrating Palliative Care Into the Care of Patients With Advanced Lung Cancer. Cancer Journal (Sudbury, Mass.) 2015, 21: 434-9. PMID: 26389769, DOI: 10.1097/PPO.0000000000000149.
- Kapo J. From the guest editor: the search for sleep and energy: addressing the needs of cancer patients who suffer from insomnia and fatigue. Cancer Journal (Sudbury, Mass.) 2014, 20: 297-8. PMID: 25299137, DOI: 10.1097/PPO.0000000000000073.
- Kapo J, Siegel MD. Penguins and palliative care: facilitating cultural change in the ICU. Critical Care Medicine 2013, 41: 2443-4. PMID: 24060776, DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e31829136f3.
- Sanchez-Reilly S, Morrison LJ, Carey E, Bernacki R, O'Neill L, Kapo J, Periyakoil VS, Thomas Jde L. Caring for oneself to care for others: physicians and their self-care. The Journal Of Supportive Oncology 2013, 11: 75-81. PMID: 23967495, PMCID: PMC3974630, DOI: 10.12788/j.suponc.0003.
- Kozin E, Straton J, Kapo J. Tracheostomy care #250. Journal Of Palliative Medicine 2012, 15: 359-60. PMID: 22401358, DOI: 10.1089/jpm.2012.9603.
- Kozin E, Kapo J, Straton J, Rosielle DA. Carotid blowout management #251. Journal Of Palliative Medicine 2012, 15: 360-1. PMID: 22401359, DOI: 10.1089/jpm.2012.9604.
- Bauman J, Kapo J. Vital communication skills at the end of life. Current Problems In Cancer 2011, 35: 310-6. PMID: 22136704, DOI: 10.1016/j.currproblcancer.2011.10.005.
- Hirschman KB, Corcoran AM, Straton JB, Kapo JM. Advance care planning and hospice enrollment: who really makes the decision to enroll? Journal Of Palliative Medicine 2010, 13: 519-23. PMID: 20201667, DOI: 10.1089/jpm.2009.0370.
- Hirschman KB, Kapo JM, Karlawish JH. Identifying the factors that facilitate or hinder advance planning by persons with dementia. Alzheimer Disease And Associated Disorders 2008, 22: 293-8. PMID: 18580595, PMCID: PMC2666935, DOI: 10.1097/WAD.0b013e318169d669.
- EPEC for Vets Curriculum Veteran's Administration and Robert Wood Johnson FoundationKapo, JM
- Kapo J, Morrison LJ, Liao S. Palliative care for the older adult. Journal Of Palliative Medicine 2007, 10: 185-209. PMID: 17298269, DOI: 10.1089/jpm.2006.9989.
- Hirschman KB, Kapo JM, Karlawish JH. Why doesn't a family member of a person with advanced dementia use a substituted judgment when making a decision for that person? The American Journal Of Geriatric Psychiatry : Official Journal Of The American Association For Geriatric Psychiatry 2006, 14: 659-67. PMID: 16861370, DOI: 10.1097/01.JGP.0000203179.94036.69.
- Prognosis in Chronic Disease. Annals of Long Term Care 2006; 14(2):Kapo J, Casarett D
- Casarett D, Kapo J, Caplan A. Appropriate use of artificial nutrition and hydration--fundamental principles and recommendations. The New England Journal Of Medicine 2005, 353: 2607-12. PMID: 16354899, DOI: 10.1056/NEJMsb052907.
- Harrold J, Rickerson E, Carroll JT, McGrath J, Morales K, Kapo J, Casarett D. Is the palliative performance scale a useful predictor of mortality in a heterogeneous hospice population? Journal Of Palliative Medicine 2005, 8: 503-9. PMID: 15992191, DOI: 10.1089/jpm.2005.8.503.
- Kapo J, MacMoran H, Casarett D. "Lost to follow-up": ethnic disparities in continuity of hospice care at the end of life. Journal Of Palliative Medicine 2005, 8: 603-8. PMID: 15992202, DOI: 10.1089/jpm.2005.8.603.
- Kapo J, Harrold J, Carroll JT, Rickerson E, Casarett D. Are we referring patients to hospice too late? Patients' and families' opinions. Journal Of Palliative Medicine 2005, 8: 521-7. PMID: 15992193, DOI: 10.1089/jpm.2005.8.521.
- Rickerson E, Harrold J, Kapo J, Carroll JT, Casarett D. Timing of hospice referral and families' perceptions of services: are earlier hospice referrals better? Journal Of The American Geriatrics Society 2005, 53: 819-23. PMID: 15877557, DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2005.53259.x.
- Hospice in Longterm Care Annals of Long Term CareHirschman, K, Jennifer Kapo, Joseph Straton, Neville Strumpf, and David Casarett.2005; 13(10): 25-29
- Kapo J, Casarett D. Working to improve palliative care trials. Journal Of Palliative Medicine 2004, 7: 395-7. PMID: 15265345, DOI: 10.1089/1096621041349400.
- Kapo J, Casarett D. Palliative care in phase 1 trials: an ethical obligation or undue inducement? Journal Of Palliative Medicine 2002, 5: 661-5. PMID: 12572963, DOI: 10.1089/109662102320880462.
- Yale Cancer CenterYale New Haven Hospital20 York Street, Ste North Pavilion 4New Haven, CT 06510
Biography
Jennifer Kapo, MD, director of Yale Cancer Center’s Palliative Care Program at Smilow Cancer Hospital, dedicates her life to helping people diagnosed with serious illnesses. Through careful listening, she provides comforting care, always keeping the individual’s life goals in mind.
She enjoys being part of a team that provides the support patients and families need when experiencing a serious illness—from diagnosis through end of life. Dr. Kapo helps ease pain, suffering and stress through medical interventions and by providing access to psycho-social support, parenting help, spiritual services and financial counseling as needed (and on a case-by-case basis) because every cancer patient’s needs and experience are unique.
“What we also try to do in palliative medicine is to the support the oncologist, patient and their family in having difficult conversations about the medical condition in a gentle, informative way so that patients actually feel more supported after having these conversations,” Dr. Kapo says.
Research shows that patients and families desire all information—both good and bad—about their condition, says Dr. Kapo, who is also an associate professor of geriatrics at Yale School of Medicine. She makes it her mission to provide this information accurately and in such a way that families can still access what they need most during a trying time: hope.
Titles
- Sherwin B. Nuland and Michael K. Vlock Associate Professor of Palliative Medicine
- Chief, Palliative Medicine, Palliative Care Program
Education & Training
- Associate ProfessorYale University School of Medicine (2020)
- Associate Professor of Clinical MedicineUniversity of Pennsylvania (2012)
- Assistant Professor of Clinical MedicineUniversity of Pennsylvania (2011)
- InstructorUniversity of Pennsylvania (2005)
- FellowshipUniversity of Pennsylvania (2003)
- FellowshipUniversity of Pennsylvania (2002)
- Chief ResidentUniversity of Colorado (2001)
- ResidencyUniverstiy of Colorado (2000)
- InternUniversity of Colorado (1998)
- MDUniversity of Pennsylvania Medical School, MD (1997)
- BAMoravian College, Pre-Medicine (1993)
Additional Information
- Connecticut Coalition To Improve End of Life Care 2021 Presidents Award: Connecticut Coalition To Improve End of Life (2021)
- The Second Century of Women at Yale: Emerging Leaders in Internal Medicine Award: Yale University (2020)
- Ribbon of Distinction: American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine National Meeting (2007)
- Francis T. Sterling Educational Excellence Award: Veteran's Administration Medical Center Philadelphia (2007)
- Outstanding Committee Member Service Award: American Geriatrics Society Ethics Committee (2005)
- First Place Poster Award, Quality of Life Category: American Geriatrics Society (2004)
- First Place Poster Award: American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Care National Meeting (2003)
- Hartford Foundation Geriatric Academic Fellowship Award: Hartford Foundation Geriatric (2002)
- Chief Residency Internal Medicine: University of Colorado (2001)
- First Place Poster Award: National American College of Physicians Abstract Contest (2000)
- AB of Internal Medicine, Geriatric Medicine (2003, recertified: 2013)
- Yale School of Medicine Retention Working Group (2021 - Present): Committee Member
- Yale School of Medicine Department of Medicine Diversity Committee (2021 - Present): Department of Medicine Diversity Committee
- Smilow YCC Clinical Council (2021 - Present): Committee Member
- Yale School of Medicine (2020): 2020 Thesis Advisor, PA Master Thesis. Meg Schultheiss, Consider Palliative Care: A Decision Aid to Improve Palliative Care Knowledge, Yale School of Medicine
- Yale School of Medicine (2020): 2020 Presenter Medical Grand Rounds “Caring in the Time of COVID: Building Support for Patients, Their Families and Ourselves”
- Yale New Haven Health System Mortality Review Committee Ad Hoc Member (2018 - 2022): Ad-hoc Member
- Smilow Mortality Review Committee Member (2018 - 2022): Committee Member
- Dynamed Palliative Care (2018 - 2022): Editor
- Yale School of Medicine Deans Faculty Standards Nominating Committee (2018): Committee Member
- Yale School of Medicine Yale Internal Medicine Intern Selection Committee (2016 - 2022): Committee Member
- Olson K, Fogelman N, Maturo L, Alvarado J, Ball S, Forray A, Hu M, Ivy M, Kapo J, Krystal J, Mayes L, Rohrbaugh R, Southwick S, Tebes J, Wassel B, Sinha R. COVID-19 Traumatic Disaster Appraisal and Stress Symptoms Among Healthcare Workers: Insights from the Yale Stress Self-Assessment (YSSA). Journal Of Occupational And Environmental Medicine / American College Of Occupational And Environmental Medicine 2022 PMID: 35959912, DOI: 10.1097/JOM.0000000000002673.
- Fitzgerald Jones K, Khodyakov D, Arnold R, Bulls H, Dao E, Kapo J, Meier D, Paice J, Liebschutz J, Ritchie C, Merlin J. Consensus-Based Guidance on Opioid Management in Individuals With Advanced Cancer-Related Pain and Opioid Misuse or Use Disorder. JAMA Oncology 2022, 8: 1107-1114. PMID: 35771550, PMCID: PMC9247858, DOI: 10.1001/jamaoncol.2022.2191.
- Fitzgerald Jones K, Ho JJ, Merlin JS, Weimer M, Sager Z, Kapo J, Childers J. The X Waiver to Prescribe Buprenorphine: The Why and How. Journal Of Palliative Medicine 2022, 25: 1021-1023. PMID: 35775892, DOI: 10.1089/jpm.2022.0170.
- Schulman-Green D, Linsky S, Blatt L, Jeuland J, Kapo J, Jeon S. Improving Breast Cancer Family Caregivers' Palliative Care Literacy: A Pilot Randomized Trial. Journal Of Family Nursing 2022, 10748407221099541. PMID: 35670155, DOI: 10.1177/10748407221099541.
- Schulman-Green D, Linsky S, Jeon S, Holland ML, Kapo J, Blatt L, Adams C, Chagpar AB. Integrating Palliative Care Into Self-management of Breast Cancer: A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial. Cancer Nursing 2022 PMID: 35353749, DOI: 10.1097/NCC.0000000000001078.
- Brickey J, Flannery M, Cuthel A, Cho J, Grudzen CR, EMPallA Investigators.. Barriers to recruitment into emergency department-initiated palliative care: a sub-study of a multi-site, randomized controlled trial. BMC Palliat Care 2022, 21: 22. PMID: 35168622, DOI: 10.1186/s12904-021-00899-9.
- Merlin JS, Khodyakov D, Arnold R, Bulls HW, Dao E, Kapo J, King C, Meier D, Paice J, Ritchie C, Liebschutz JM. Expert Panel Consensus on Management of Advanced Cancer-Related Pain in Individuals With Opioid Use Disorder. JAMA Network Open 2021, 4: e2139968. PMID: 34962565, DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.39968.
- Dans M, Kutner JS, Agarwal R, Baker JN, Bauman JR, Beck AC, Campbell TC, Carey EC, Case AA, Dalal S, Doberman DJ, Epstein AS, Fecher L, Jones J, Kapo J, Lee RT, Loggers ET, McCammon S, Mitchell W, Ogunseitan AB, Portman DG, Ramchandran K, Sutton L, Temel J, Teply ML, Terauchi SY, Thomas J, Walling AM, Zachariah F, Bergman MA, Ogba N, Campbell M. NCCN Guidelines® Insights: Palliative Care, Version 2.2021. Journal Of The National Comprehensive Cancer Network : JNCCN 2021, 19: 780-788. PMID: 34340208, DOI: 10.6004/jnccn.2021.0033.
- Ouellet JA, Prsic EH, Spear RA, Blatt L, Kukulka S, Cronin-Ozyck R, Kapo JM, Lai JM. An observational case series of targeted virtual geriatric medicine and palliative care consults for hospitalized older adults with COVID-19. Annals Of Palliative Medicine 2021, 10: 6297-6306. PMID: 34154358, DOI: 10.21037/apm-21-117.
- King C, Arnold R, Dao E, Kapo J, Liebschutz J, Meier D, Paice J, Ritchie C, Czajkowski K, Khodyakov D, Merlin J. Consensus-based approach to managing opioids, including opioid misuse and opioid use disorder, in patients with serious illness: protocol for a modified Delphi process. BMJ Open 2021, 11: e045402. PMID: 34011593, PMCID: PMC8137210, DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2020-045402.
- Feder SL, Canavan ME, Wang S, Kent EE, Kapo J, Presley CJ, Ross J, Davidoff AJ. Patterns of Opioid Prescribing among Medicare Advantage Beneficiaries with Pain and Cardiopulmonary Conditions. Journal Of Palliative Medicine 2021, 24: 195-204. PMID: 32673139, PMCID: PMC7840305, DOI: 10.1089/jpm.2020.0193.
- Krystal JH, Alvarado J, Ball SA, Fortunati FG, Hu M, Ivy ME, Kapo J, Olson KD, Rohrbaugh RM, Sinha R, Tebes JK, Vender RJ, Yonkers KA, Mayes LC. Mobilizing an institutional supportive response for healthcare workers and other staff in the context of COVID-19: The Yale experience. General Hospital Psychiatry 2021, 68: 12-18. PMID: 33254081, PMCID: PMC7680059, DOI: 10.1016/j.genhosppsych.2020.11.005.
- Expert panel consensus on management of advanced cancer-related pain in individuals with opioid use disorderMerlin JS, Khodyakov D, Arnold RA, Bulls HW, Dao E, Kapo J, King C, Meier D, Paice J, Ritchie CS, Liebschutz JM. Expert panel consensus on management of advanced cancer-related pain in individuals with opioid use disorder. JAMA Netw Open, in press.
- Tolchin B, Latham SR, Bruce L, Ferrante LE, Kraschel K, Jubanyik K, Hull SC, Herbst JL, Kapo J, Moritz ED, Hughes J, Siegel MD, Mercurio MR. Reflections on New Evidence on Crisis Standards of Care in the COVID-19 Pandemic. The Journal Of Clinical Ethics 2021, 32: 358-360. PMID: 34928864.
- Davidoff AJ, Canavan ME, Feder S, Wang S, Sheinfeld E, Kent EE, Kapo J, Presley CJ. Patterns of pain medication use associated with reported pain interference in older adults with and without cancer. Supportive Care In Cancer : Official Journal Of The Multinational Association Of Supportive Care In Cancer 2020, 28: 3061-3072. PMID: 31637515, PMCID: PMC7338979, DOI: 10.1007/s00520-019-05074-8.
- Presley CJ, Canavan M, Wang SY, Feder SL, Kapo J, Saphire ML, Sheinfeld E, Kent EE, Davidoff AJ. Severe functional limitation due to pain & emotional distress and subsequent receipt of prescription medications among older adults with cancer. Journal Of Geriatric Oncology 2020, 11: 960-968. PMID: 32169548, PMCID: PMC7346676, DOI: 10.1016/j.jgo.2020.02.006.
- Tolchin B, Latham SR, Bruce L, Ferrante LE, Kraschel K, Jubanyik K, Hull SC, Herbst JL, Kapo J, Moritz ED, Hughes J, Siegel MD, Mercurio MR. Developing a Triage Protocol for the COVID-19 Pandemic: Allocating Scarce Medical Resources in a Public Health Emergency. The Journal Of Clinical Ethics 2020, 31: 303-317. PMID: 32991327.
- Grudzen CR, Schmucker AM, Shim DJ, Ibikunle A, Cho J, Chung FR, Cohen SE, EMPallA Outpatient Investigators.. Development of an Outpatient Palliative Care Protocol to Monitor Fidelity in the Emergency Medicine Palliative Care Access Trial. J Palliat Med 2019, 22:66-71.
- Grudzen CR, Shim DJ, Schmucker AM, Cho J, Goldfeld KS, EMPallA Investigators.. Emergency Medicine Palliative Care Access (EMPallA): protocol for a multicentre randomised controlled trial comparing the effectiveness of specialty outpatient versus nurse-led telephonic palliative care of older adults with advanced illness. BMJ Open 2019, 9:e025692.
- Merlin JS, Patel K, Thompson N, Kapo J, Keefe F, Liebschutz J, Paice J, Somers T, Starrels J, Childers J, Schenker Y, Ritchie CS. Managing Chronic Pain in Cancer Survivors Prescribed Long-Term Opioid Therapy: A National Survey of Ambulatory Palliative Care Providers. Journal Of Pain And Symptom Management 2019, 57: 20-27. PMID: 30342243, DOI: 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2018.10.493.
- deLima Thomas J, Sanchez-Reilly S, Bernacki R, O'Neill L, Morrison LJ, Kapo J, Periyakoil VS, Carey EC. Advance Care Planning in Cognitively Impaired Older Adults. Journal Of The American Geriatrics Society 2018, 66: 1469-1474. PMID: 30277566, DOI: 10.1111/jgs.15471.
- Langberg KM, Kapo JM, Taddei TH. Palliative care in decompensated cirrhosis: A review. Liver International : Official Journal Of The International Association For The Study Of The Liver 2018, 38: 768-775. PMID: 29112338, DOI: 10.1111/liv.13620.
- Dans M, Smith T, Back A, Baker JN, Bauman JR, Beck AC, Block S, Campbell T, Case AA, Dalal S, Edwards H, Fitch TR, Kapo J, Kutner JS, Kvale E, Miller C, Misra S, Mitchell W, Portman DG, Spiegel D, Sutton L, Szmuilowicz E, Temel J, Tickoo R, Urba SG, Weinstein E, Zachariah F, Bergman MA, Scavone JL. NCCN Guidelines Insights: Palliative Care, Version 2.2017. Journal Of The National Comprehensive Cancer Network : JNCCN 2017, 15: 989-997. PMID: 28784860, DOI: 10.6004/jnccn.2017.0132.
- Jeuland J, Fitchett G, Schulman-Green D, Kapo J. Chaplains Working in Palliative Care: Who They Are and What They Do. Journal Of Palliative Medicine 2017, 20: 502-508. PMID: 28146647, DOI: 10.1089/jpm.2016.0308.
- NCCN Guidelines Insights: Palliative Care, Version 2Kapo, JM
- Schulman-Green D, Linsky S, Jeon S, Kapo J, Blatt L, Chagpar A. Integrating palliative care into self-management of breast cancer: Protocol for a pilot randomized controlled trial. Contemporary Clinical Trials 2016, 48: 133-8. PMID: 27107680, PMCID: PMC4937876, DOI: 10.1016/j.cct.2016.04.009.
- Levy M, Smith T, Alvarez-Perez A, Back A, Baker JN, Beck AC, Block S, Dalal S, Dans M, Fitch TR, Kapo J, Kutner JS, Kvale E, Misra S, Mitchell W, Portman DG, Sauer TM, Spiegel D, Sutton L, Szmuilowicz E, Taylor RM, Temel J, Tickoo R, Urba SG, Weinstein E, Zachariah F, Bergman MA, Scavone JL. Palliative Care Version 1.2016. Journal Of The National Comprehensive Cancer Network : JNCCN 2016, 14: 82-113. PMID: 26733557, DOI: 10.6004/jnccn.2016.0009.
- Akgün KM, Kapo JM, Siegel MD. Critical Care at the End of Life. Seminars In Respiratory And Critical Care Medicine 2015, 36: 921-33. PMID: 26600274, DOI: 10.1055/s-0035-1565254.
- Kapo JM, Akgün KM. Integrating Palliative Care Into the Care of Patients With Advanced Lung Cancer. Cancer Journal (Sudbury, Mass.) 2015, 21: 434-9. PMID: 26389769, DOI: 10.1097/PPO.0000000000000149.
- Kapo J. From the guest editor: the search for sleep and energy: addressing the needs of cancer patients who suffer from insomnia and fatigue. Cancer Journal (Sudbury, Mass.) 2014, 20: 297-8. PMID: 25299137, DOI: 10.1097/PPO.0000000000000073.
- Kapo J, Siegel MD. Penguins and palliative care: facilitating cultural change in the ICU. Critical Care Medicine 2013, 41: 2443-4. PMID: 24060776, DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e31829136f3.
- Sanchez-Reilly S, Morrison LJ, Carey E, Bernacki R, O'Neill L, Kapo J, Periyakoil VS, Thomas Jde L. Caring for oneself to care for others: physicians and their self-care. The Journal Of Supportive Oncology 2013, 11: 75-81. PMID: 23967495, PMCID: PMC3974630, DOI: 10.12788/j.suponc.0003.
- Kozin E, Straton J, Kapo J. Tracheostomy care #250. Journal Of Palliative Medicine 2012, 15: 359-60. PMID: 22401358, DOI: 10.1089/jpm.2012.9603.
- Kozin E, Kapo J, Straton J, Rosielle DA. Carotid blowout management #251. Journal Of Palliative Medicine 2012, 15: 360-1. PMID: 22401359, DOI: 10.1089/jpm.2012.9604.
- Bauman J, Kapo J. Vital communication skills at the end of life. Current Problems In Cancer 2011, 35: 310-6. PMID: 22136704, DOI: 10.1016/j.currproblcancer.2011.10.005.
- Hirschman KB, Corcoran AM, Straton JB, Kapo JM. Advance care planning and hospice enrollment: who really makes the decision to enroll? Journal Of Palliative Medicine 2010, 13: 519-23. PMID: 20201667, DOI: 10.1089/jpm.2009.0370.
- Hirschman KB, Kapo JM, Karlawish JH. Identifying the factors that facilitate or hinder advance planning by persons with dementia. Alzheimer Disease And Associated Disorders 2008, 22: 293-8. PMID: 18580595, PMCID: PMC2666935, DOI: 10.1097/WAD.0b013e318169d669.
- EPEC for Vets Curriculum Veteran's Administration and Robert Wood Johnson FoundationKapo, JM
- Kapo J, Morrison LJ, Liao S. Palliative care for the older adult. Journal Of Palliative Medicine 2007, 10: 185-209. PMID: 17298269, DOI: 10.1089/jpm.2006.9989.
- Hirschman KB, Kapo JM, Karlawish JH. Why doesn't a family member of a person with advanced dementia use a substituted judgment when making a decision for that person? The American Journal Of Geriatric Psychiatry : Official Journal Of The American Association For Geriatric Psychiatry 2006, 14: 659-67. PMID: 16861370, DOI: 10.1097/01.JGP.0000203179.94036.69.
- Prognosis in Chronic Disease. Annals of Long Term Care 2006; 14(2):Kapo J, Casarett D
- Casarett D, Kapo J, Caplan A. Appropriate use of artificial nutrition and hydration--fundamental principles and recommendations. The New England Journal Of Medicine 2005, 353: 2607-12. PMID: 16354899, DOI: 10.1056/NEJMsb052907.
- Harrold J, Rickerson E, Carroll JT, McGrath J, Morales K, Kapo J, Casarett D. Is the palliative performance scale a useful predictor of mortality in a heterogeneous hospice population? Journal Of Palliative Medicine 2005, 8: 503-9. PMID: 15992191, DOI: 10.1089/jpm.2005.8.503.
- Kapo J, MacMoran H, Casarett D. "Lost to follow-up": ethnic disparities in continuity of hospice care at the end of life. Journal Of Palliative Medicine 2005, 8: 603-8. PMID: 15992202, DOI: 10.1089/jpm.2005.8.603.
- Kapo J, Harrold J, Carroll JT, Rickerson E, Casarett D. Are we referring patients to hospice too late? Patients' and families' opinions. Journal Of Palliative Medicine 2005, 8: 521-7. PMID: 15992193, DOI: 10.1089/jpm.2005.8.521.
- Rickerson E, Harrold J, Kapo J, Carroll JT, Casarett D. Timing of hospice referral and families' perceptions of services: are earlier hospice referrals better? Journal Of The American Geriatrics Society 2005, 53: 819-23. PMID: 15877557, DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2005.53259.x.
- Hospice in Longterm Care Annals of Long Term CareHirschman, K, Jennifer Kapo, Joseph Straton, Neville Strumpf, and David Casarett.2005; 13(10): 25-29
- Kapo J, Casarett D. Working to improve palliative care trials. Journal Of Palliative Medicine 2004, 7: 395-7. PMID: 15265345, DOI: 10.1089/1096621041349400.
- Kapo J, Casarett D. Palliative care in phase 1 trials: an ethical obligation or undue inducement? Journal Of Palliative Medicine 2002, 5: 661-5. PMID: 12572963, DOI: 10.1089/109662102320880462.
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